Will's A2 Film Studies

In the 1995 film 'La Haine', poverty is displayed between the three main characters, 'Saïd' 'Hubert' and 'Vinz'. This can be displayed in the cinema scene with Vinz. The opening shot of this scene features a mid shot of Vinz sat down, reacting to the movie. Due to the camera lacking movement, this creates a sense of realism, we can see Vinz' true/raw reactions. This sense of realism is something the director wanted to convey to show the real problems of poverty and living in the projects in France back in the 80's/90's. The diegetic sounds from the film Vinz is watching are screams and violence. The shot focuses on Vinz and his reactions alone, but he doesn't seem affected by the violence. This portrays how violence has been desensitised in Vinz's culture and how a life, living in poverty makes violence become everyday life, and nothing out of the ordanary. This ideology is again backed up and displayed with a non moving shot, focus

TIM BURTON: The Outsider Theme: All contain characters that are perceived as 'weird' by the outside world. They try to adapt themselves to 'normality' only to realise they will never fit in- extreme surreal and unlikeable characters in the 'normal' world. -Alice in Wonderland Gothicism & Expressionism: Distinct visual style. Strange worlds influenced by German expressionists films of the 1930's (sharp contrasts between light and dark, stylised, a love of things dark and bizarre). Autobiographical: Films that directly relate to his personality. His main characters are often a representation of Burton himself.  -Charlie and Chocolate Factory (Reflection on his childhood). Recurring Iconography: Such as death, children, cows, circus, dogs, checks, stripes, dots, use of same actors (i.e. Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham-Carter) Question: How does Tim Burton's recurring iconography and expressionism make him considered to be an Auteur