Presentation Script Structure

THE GOTHIC SYLE CREATED BY THE COLLABORATION OF DIRECTOR, TIM BURTON AND ACTOR, JOHNNY DEPP.

[Audience Seated; lights dim]

[Spotlight on presenter]

Presenter: Tim Burton and Johnny Depp have collaborated on many films. Their working relationship has spanned two decades, starting in 1991 with Edward Scissorhands.

[Lights out; Screen on]

Clip from Edward Scissorhands plays to audience.

DVD extras

Sleepy Hollow - The Making of

Tim Burton Interview/Commentary (edward scissorhands)

Annotated Catalogue

Area of Investigation: I investigated the gothic style created by the collaboration of actor, Johnny Depp, and director, Tim Burton.

Films

Item 1 – Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton, 1991). This is a very useful film in my investigation. This was Burton’s first big film, on which he had free creative reign. It was also the debut collaboration of the iconic director/actor team.

Item 2 – Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton, 1999)

Item 3 – Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton, 2010)

DVD Extras

Item 4 – Sleepy Hollow: The Making Of..

Item 5 – Directors Commentary: Edward Scissorhands

Books

Item 6 – A-Z of Cult Film-Makers (Steven Paul Davies)

Item 7 – Tim Burtons Work

Magazine/Newspaper Articles

Item 8 – Tim Burton CV (Empire Magazine, September 2005)

Item 9 – Review of Alice in Wonderland (Total Film, March 2010)

Websites

Item 10 – Senses Of Cinema (www.sensesofcinema.com)

Item 11 – Cinema Roll (www.cinemaroll.com)

TV/Radio

Item 12 – Friday Night With Jonathon Ross: Interview with Tim Burton and Johnny Depp

Item 13 – Johnny Depp and Tim Burton Interview/ Alice in Wonderland Promo (BBC Radio One)

Rejected Items

Websites

nj.com

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2010/03/johnny_depp_and_tim_burtons_pa.html

Burton's "Edward Scissorhands." Nearly unrecognizable in the latter with the disfigured pale visage, jet-black mad-scientist coif and fetishistic leather garb, he instantly made us forget about Tom Hanson from "21 Jump Street."

A key to the duo's successful partnership is the fact that it has evolved over time.

Depp was gradually establishing himself as a bankable leading man. With "Sleepy Hollow," the pair tackled Washington Irving's American Gothic classic.

CinemaRoll

This website discusses Burton's style as an auter. It also includes aspects he has brought to my focus film, 'Edward Scissorhands

Senses Of Cinema

information on themes and back life of burton

Books

A-Z of Cult Film-Makers. Steven Paul Davies

'Completely anarchic and grotesque ..'

'..Burton could easily have opted for a life of big-budget Hollywood blockbusters but instead he carried on as a maverick, making the surreal christmas fable Edward Scissorhands, full of mythic fairy-tale romance with deeply moving performances by Johnny Depp and Dianne West.'

'Depp then featured in Burton's Sleepy Hollow...'

'...Burton has, up until now, always made the films that pleased him and not Hollywood financers and it's this that pleases his faithful audience.'

Articles

Empire Magazine Article - Tim Burton CV September 2005

1990 - Edward Scissorhands:
'The story of a loveable freak that would bring the director together for the first time with his regular partner, Johnny Depp...'
Tim Burton says; 'They wanted to cast Tom Cruise. I met him and he was very interesting, but Johnny was my choice.' .. 'They think he's a good actor but they are also a little worried because he likes to transform himself.'

1999 - Sleepy Hollow:
'Burton switched his attention to an adaptation of Washington Irving's Gothic classic..'
Tim Burton says;' I would choose Sleepy Hollow as the film to show my son when he's a little older because thats the type of movie that I enjoyed watching on TV' .. 'Obviously, I'm a big Hammer Horror fan so this has obvious nods to that.'

Total Film Review of Burton's Alice in Wonderland

BY: Kevin Harley Mar 5th 2010

As lopped heads bob in the Red Queen’s (Helena Bonham Carter, shouty) moat and the White Queen (Anne Hathaway, wispy) mixes potions from old fingers, the theoretically perfect fit of Tim Burton to Lewis Carroll’s skewed surrealism seems perfect in practice, too. As Burton “re-imaginings” go, it’s no stinking Apes. It’s closer to Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, touting sweet scoff for the eyes but struggling to provide a story with the intended emotional weight.
Linda Woolverton’s script aims to put sense into Carroll’s ‘uncommon nonsense’. This Alice (Mia Wasikowska) is 19, quick, clever. Escaping a public, unwanted marriage proposal, she tails our frisky rabbit down to the ‘Underland’ (ouch!) of her childhood dreams. The bulbous-bonced Red now rules, psychotically. Alice must face the despot’s beastly Jabberwocky and Find Her True Destiny. And yes, that is the old cheese of self-discovery subtexts you can smell.
But Burton isn’t one to fret over story when there’s eye-candy to cook. That’s Alice’s USP. Charging round his latest alt-world with the fervour of a “frumious Bandersnatch”, Burton potently tethers hallucinogenic 3D detail to lunging action. Cheshire Cat’s vapour-trails, Blue Caterpillar’s fuzz and light-refracting mushrooms blossom; in motion, a beastie’s rampage makes the undergrowth explode, a dog-ride dizzies the senses and the March Hare’s table-trashing has you ducking. The screen screams “EAT ME”.
Impressively, the cast hold their own. Bonham Carter gives good brat, Matt Lucas is decently deadpan as both Tweedles and Wasikowska’s every-girl registers likeably. Top spot-the-voice presences include Babs Windsor (paint-stripping Dormouse shriek) and Alan Rickman (out-of-his-gourd Caterpillar). As for Burton’s wing-man, Johnny Depp flares vividly as a carrot-topped Hatter, colours undulating to his moods like a DayGlo Rorschach test. Formulaic closing battle and plot-frame aside, this mad menagerie is freakishly fun to escape to.

Verdict:

A new plot swaps Carroll’s madness for Hollywood requisites but the visuals, wit, full-pelt pacing and game casting compensate.

TV/Radio

Johnny Depp - Sleepy Hollow

Tim Burton/Johnny Depp interview on 'Friday Night with Jonathon Ross

BBC Radio 1