Esta presentación forma parte del curso de UNEDCOMA "TICS para enseñar y aprender". La realicé durante la carrera de filología inglesa y es por eso que está en inglés.

1. Tim Burton

2. LIFE AND BACKGROUND
♠ Timothy William "Tim" Burton
♠ Dark films and cinema blockbusters
♠ Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter
and Danny Elfman
♠ Burbank, California, August 25, 1958
♠ He was a shy child who loved horror
and moster films and whose hero was
Vincent Price
♠ California Institute of the Arts 
Character Animation

3. FIRST WORKS
♠ Walt Disney Productions' animation studio
♠ Concept artist on The Fox and the Hound
(1981) and The Black Cauldron (1985) 
not a good experience
♠ First short  Vincent (1982), stop motion
♠ Frankenweenie (1984), live-action short
(he wants to make a feature film for 2011)

4. Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
♠ Burton left Disney
♠ Paul Reubens (Pee-Wee) offered him the job
♠ Small budget ($8 million)  grossed more
than $40 million
♠ Danny Elfman provided the music

5. Beetlejuice (1988)
♠ Burton was sent several scripts 
lack of imagination and originality
♠ Winona Ryder, Jeffrey Jones and
Michael Keaton
♠ He wanted a style similar to B-movies
♠ Financial and critical success
♠ An animated television series based
on the film

6. Batman (1989 )
♠ First big budget film
♠ Michael Keaton as Batman
♠ Biggest marketing and merchandising
campaign in film history at the time
♠ Won the Academy Award for Best
Art Direction
♠ One of the most influential Hollywood
movies of the last few decades

7. Edward Scissorhands (1990)
♠ Considered Burton’s best movie
♠ Seen as Burton's autobiography
of his own childhood ("Tim is Edward“)
♠ Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder and
Vincent Price
♠ Themes  self-discovery and isolation
♠ Gothic fiction
♠ Box office success and positive
feedback from critics

8. Batman Returns (1992)
♠ Sequel of Batman
♠ He was granted total control
♠ Michael Keaton repeats as Batman
♠ Darker and more personal
♠ Too scary, overt sexuality
♠ Financial success
♠ Last Batman film directed by Burton

9. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
♠ Written and produced by Burton,
but not directed (Henry Selick)
♠ Development deal with Disney
♠ Musical, stop-motion movie
♠ “Too dark and too scary” for kids
♠ Accused of rascism by some groups
♠ 3-D version in 2006
♠ Good reception (merchandising)

10. Ed Wood (1994)
♠ Film of smaller scale
♠ Based on director Ed Wood’s life 
“the worst director of all time”
♠ Starring Johnny Depp
♠ Homage to low-budget sci-fi and horror films
♠ “Plan 9: From outer space”
♠ Bad box office but critical acclaim

11. Mars Attacks! (1996)
♠ Indirect homage to Wood's films
♠ Based on a popular science fiction
trading card series
♠ Hybrid of 1950s science fiction and
1970s all-star disaster films
♠ All-star cast (Jack Nicholson, Pierce
Brosnan, Natalie Portman…)
♠ Spoof of the blockbuster, Independence
Day
♠ Mostly ignored by American audiences

12. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
♠Based on Washington Irvin’s “The Legend
of Sleepy Hollow”
♠ The story is completely different
♠ Homage to the horror movies of the
English company Hammer Films
♠ Academy Award for Best Art Direction
♠ Criticized for its amount of violence and
bloodshed

13. Planet of the Apes (2001)
♠ Radical change of style
♠ It isn’t a remake of the earlier film
♠ Considered inferior than the first one
♠ Financial success
♠ Helena Bonham Carter ( Burton’s
current partner)

14. Big Fish (2003)
♠ Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic
Proportions by Daniel Wallace
♠ Reconciliation of the father-son
relationship
♠ Burton’s parents had died recently
♠ Combination of an emotional drama
with exaggerated tall tales
♠ Starring Ewan McGregor

15. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
♠ Adaptation of the book by Roald Dahl
♠ It stays closer to the book than
1971’s adaptation
♠ Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter,
Danny Elfman
♠ Good reception and different critiques

16. Corpse Bride (2005)
♠ Burton's first full-length stop-motion
film as a director
♠ Set in the Victorian Era
♠ Marriage as a vehicle to wealth and
a higher social status
♠ Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter
♠ Land of the Living vs. Land of the Dead

17. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
♠ Musical thriller horror film
♠ Re-tells the Victorian melodramatic
tale of Sweeney Todd
♠ Macabre tone, gore, blood
♠ Favorable public reaction

18. Alice in Wonderland (2010)
♠ Based on Lewis Carroll’s tale
♠ Alice thirteen years later
♠ Victorian Era
♠ Live action and animation
♠ More like a story than a series
of events

19. The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
♠ 1997, children's poetry book written
and illustrated by Burton
♠ Black humour
♠ Stories about strange kids
SUE
“To avoid a law suit,
we'll just call her Sue
(or "that girl who likes
to sniff lots of glue").
The reason I know
that this is the case
is when she blow her nose,
kleenex sticks to her face.”

20. THE END