Tim Burton's Gothic Imagination
Tim Burton's Gothic Imagination
Tim Burton's Gothic Imagination
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Discussion questions<br />
• Focusing on the idea of ‘the double’, choose a pair of characters from either of<br />
Burton’s Batman films and explain how they connect and contrast with each<br />
other.<br />
o How does this doubling contribute to the story the film is telling?<br />
o How might these characters be considered <strong>Gothic</strong>?<br />
• In the Batman films, the classic struggle between good and evil and life and<br />
death is complicated by a hero who has to fight the destructive impulses that<br />
exist within himself as well as in the outside world.<br />
o What other superhero figures experience a similar form of internal<br />
conflict?<br />
• At the end of each of the Batman films, the villains are defeated, but do we feel<br />
that order has been restored?<br />
o Discuss.<br />
<strong>Tim</strong> Burton is a director who externalises the internal struggles of his characters with<br />
his extreme imagery and use of costumes, makeup and masks. 40<br />
o Discuss this idea with reference to Batman.<br />
o What other <strong>Tim</strong> Burton films might this comment apply to?<br />
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