Actually, I think he looks rather like Elijah Wood in that picture.
Tim Burton is a genre unto himself. The look and sound of his projects are consistent with each other, but the stories are different and distinct.
Why does he keep doing this to the lovely Johnny Depp? Him as the Chocolate Factory guy turns my stomach.
I must go watch something with him as beautiful to get these images out of my head.
It’s no worse than what he does to Helena Bonham Carter, his SO, in his movies. The only roles in Burton movies where she’s looked at least somewhat normal (i.e., not buried under latex) were **Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ** and Sweeney Todd. Considering she began her career playing corseted English Roses, her career turn is a bit surprising.
You’re not the only one.
A check’s a check. I doubt she chose to enter this particular area of movie styling, but ultimately while as Burton can decide what films he wants to do, I don’t think HBC has quite that clout in Hollywood.
Her style is pretty quirky IRL too…
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With regards to those last two photos, the last time I was at Seattle’s Pike Street Market, I saw a lot of 20 and 30-something aged women dressed like that. If placed there, HBC would blend right in with them–which, I suspect, is probably one reason why she dresses like that IRL. (Incidentally, not to turn this into a thread about her, but Helena Bonham Carter is from a very affluent family with an interesting background.)
Getting back to Burton, much is said about his style being “dark” but I think it’s best described as “lite dark.” Things may look morbid on the surface but it doesn’t take much effort to find out that they’re obviously not meant to be taken seriously. In contrast, a “dark dark” movie may or may not have all the murky atmospherics of a typical Tim Burton movie but will deal with grim and disturbing subject matter in a manner that, in the end, will likely leave you feeling a little less positive about humanity and/or the universe in general (e.g., movies like Se7en, Unforgiven and Chinatown). The only Tim Burton movies I think that were truly dark (or “dark dark”) were Sleepy Hollow (and even that was a homage to the over-the-top bloody campiness of the Hammer horror films) and Sweeney Todd.
No matter how hard Jack Skellington tried, he couldn’t help but twist Christmas into something dark and macabre.
Compare with Tim Burton.
No matter what story you give him, he turns it into a Gothic fairy tale. That’s just his way. Best to give him something that can take that. Though Roald Dahl is a good match for him, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory probably wasn’t the best choice. Instead he probably should’ve looked to one of his Tales Of The Unexpected.
I wonder what Burton would do if they gave him Good Omens.
Or possibly Witches?
e Though preferrably not with Danny Elfman on the soundtrack.
Dunno, that looks more like a “grab whatever’s on top of the heap” sort of thing than a style.
Mia Wasikowska played the part of a patient on HBOs In Treatment last year, and from what I saw she was very good. I don’t usually like most child actors, but she was quite impressive. She also looks very young for her age, so I could buy her playing a 13-14 year old Alice.
The traileris out.
When we were at the theater this past weekend to see Harry Potter, we saw a pair of big posters for this film…one showing Depp, the other Carter. They both looked utterly insane. 
And the Disney company already took it down.
LOL. So clueless. God forbid someone give them free advertising.
I saw it before it got taken down and it actually didn’t look as bad as the posters suggest. Still unnecessary IMO, though. I mean, I’ve seen and read Alice a million times in a thousand different mediums. Do I really want to pay to go to the cinema to see it again? No. This is about as necessary as a new Christmas Carol movie (which they’re making :rolleyes:.) And I wish Tim Burton would make another movie that didn’t SCREAM Tim Burton. It worked out very nicely with Ed Wood.
Damn, that was fast. You can still see it here, but probably not for much longer.
It would be hard for anyone to make an Alice movie today without being Tim Burtonesque. So naturally his take will be Burtonesque.
I was enthused about this until I saw pics of Depp as the Hatter. At first I confused it with the Caterpillar. While both aliceish and burtonesque, it certainly doesn’t look like the Hatter!
Darnit I want to see this trailer.
Can someone explain to me why Disney is so determined to make sure I don’t see an advertisement for their movie?
And yet, there really hasn’t been a good Alice movie. I can’t wait for Burton’s take.