Charlie and the chocolate factory

Directed by: Tim Burton

Produced by: Brad Grey, Richard D. Zanuck

Written by: Screenplay

John August

Novel

Raold Dauhl

Narrated by: Geoffry Holder

Starring: Freddie Highmore

Johnny depp

David Kelly

Helen Bonham Carter

Music by: Danny Elfman

Cinematography: Phillippe Rouselot

Editing: Chris Lebenzon

Studio: Warner Bros.

Village Roadshow Pictures

The Zanuk Company

Plan B Entertainment

Distributed by: Warner Bros.

Release dates: Untied states: 15th July 2005

United Kingdom: 29th July 2005

Australia: 1st September 2005

MY CHOSEN FILM!!!!

My chose film is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, it was either this, Edward Scissor hands or Big Fish. I hated Big Fish and I thought that Edward Scissorhands has been done before and theres so much on it so I wanted to do something a bit different. In the film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory it looks into the childhood of Willy Wonker, which shows you that he had a difficult relationship with his father and runs away from home. This is a classic move from Tim Burton to have the star (Johnny Depp) have a troubled childhood, which mirrors his.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is one of my favorite films so I'm hoping because of that reason I wont have that much trouble with it!

Tim Burton's childhood

Timothy William Burton was born on 25th August 1958 (age 51) Burbank, California, U.S.

Occupation: Director, Producer, Writer

It is no secret that Tim Burton had a troubled childhood as he portrays through his films.


Tim Burton grew up in Burbank in Los Angeles and says that he gets shivers just thinking of the place. Burton's bedroom windows looked over "the lawn" and for some reason he doesn't know still to this day his parents bricked them up and just left a little slit at the top of each of them and that was his windows, so he used to have to climb up on his desk just to see out of them. He calls it his "windowless childhood".

my new question..

To what extent is Tim Burton's childhood experiences significant in defining his auteur signature?

A close study of Tim Burton exploring the extent to which his childhood experiences are significant in defining his auteur signature.

I found out that me and ruby couldn't actually work together so I've changed my question to the one above, I think I will find this one more interesting and Ialso think it suits me more to do something like this.
I will still look into child psychology and dysfunctional families but base my research on Tim Burton instead of dysfunctional families in general.