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Tim Burton

Tim Burton is an American film director, producer, artist, writer, and animator.

Tim Burton would be considered as an auteur because his films all have a similar aspect to them. He is known for his dark, gothic, macabre, and quirky horror and fantasy films.

He has done films such as the horror comedy fantasy Beetlejuice (1988), the romantic dark fantasy Edward Scissorhands (1990), the musical fantasy-thriller The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), the comedy-drama biopic Ed Wood (1994), the fantasy adventure Sleepy Hollow (1999), the animated fantasy Corpse Bride (2005), the musical horror film Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), the horror comedy Dark Shadows (2012) and the animated horror comedy Frankenweenie (2012).

Tim Burton has worked repeatedly with Johnny Depp, who has become a close friend of Burton since their first film together. He has also worked with musician Danny Elfman, who has composed scores for all but two of the films Burton has directed. Actress Helena Bonham Carter, Burton's former domestic partner, has appeared in many of his films.

Tim Burton says that he was influenced by the works of such childhood heroes as Dr. Seuss and Roald Dahl.

As a student in CalArts, Burton made the shorts Stalk of the Celery Monster and King and Octopus. He graduated in 1979. Stalk of the Celery Monster attracted the attention of Walt Disney Productions' animation department, which offered Burton an animator's apprenticeship at the studio. He worked as an animator, storyboard artist and concept artist on films such as The Fox and the Hound (1981), The Black Cauldron and Tron.^[7] However, Burton's personal style clashed with Disney's standards, and he longed to work on solo projects.

Tim Burton uses the same types of colours for all of his films. He uses a lot of dark colours such as blacks, greys, reds, and other dull colours. However, he does use brighter colours but darker colours are one of his signature things.

Charlie and the chocolate factory:

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) is an adaptation of the book of the same name by Roald Dahl. Starring Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka, Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket and Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Bucket, the film generally took a more faithful approach to the source material than the 1971 adaptation, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, although some liberties were taken, such as adding Wonka's issue with his father (played by Christopher Lee). ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ was later nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. The film made over $207 million domestically. Filming proved difficult as Burton, Depp, and Danny Elfman had to work on this and Burton's Corpse Bride at the same time.

This film might be one of the only films that he has done with the most colours, even though there is a section when he has flashbacks to his childhood and those scenes are in grey dull tonal colours.

Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street:

It is an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning 1979 musical of the same name and re-tells the Victorian melodramatic tale of Sweeney Todd, an English barber and serial killer who murders his customers with a straight razor and, with the help of his accomplice, Mrs. Lovett, processes their corpses into meat pies.