Auteur Theory
The meaning of auteur theory is the way a director has specific styles which the audience can identify or see in all of the director’s movies. The word ‘auteur’ is the French version of saying ‘author’ and this also highlights how the director will have a certain style, as authors own their own books and implement their own styles into their novels and stories. Therefore, it allows the audience to identify the director automatically because they have specific set themes, that are cyclical and appear in all of their movies. The specific director I will be writing about is Tim Burton, who has a gothic and mysterious theme in all of his movies.
Tim Burton has many mysterious themes, and he solely relies on storylines that could involve death, a fantasy movie or one which consists of weird or enigma characters that the audience must think hard about to identify. An example of one of his characters is from the movie ‘Edward Scissorhands’ in which the main character has scissorhands and he cuts women’s hair. This backs up his special style of mysterious themes, and he also implements themes which make the audiences’ imagination work and introduces more creativity. A good example of this is Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, which features idealistic settings which allow the audience to imagine many things and build on their creativity about the movie.
The composer for Tim Burton’s movies is Danny Elfman, who specialises in making music pieces that revolve around horror narratives and music that blends in with the mysterious style of Tim Burton. This is important, as the music must match the scenes and blend in; otherwise it will be off-key and will mislead the audience.