The establishment of Gothic film style originates from Gothic literature and Gothic music. Gothic literature is closely related to European medieval culture, which has marked abstinence and death in people's hearts. Fundamentally speaking, the aesthetic value of death lies in how human beings transcend the fear and trouble of death with the spirit of freedom, and the horror of death can be transformed into beauty through artistic expression.
Gothic films are deeply influenced by this culture. Artists use various visual modeling languages such as color, light and shadow, structure, materials and props to show Gothic's pursuit of darkness suppression, death aesthetics, religious complex and aestheticism, and rise to the level of artistic concept and even value system.
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It was not until the 1990s that Gothic films really ushered in the golden age of development. During this period, Gothic films set off waves of upsurge, not only in Europe and America, but also all over the world.
From 65438 to 0990, a director named tim burton found an actor named Johnny Depp and co-produced a film called Edward Scissorhands. Since then, the curtain of the revival of Gothic films has been completely opened in Hollywood. As a contemporary landmark Gothic film, the significance of Edward Scissorhands cannot be overestimated.
This film has no vampire, witchcraft or religious background, but it also weaves a wonderful black Gothic picture about loneliness, death and pain ... The talented tim burton seamlessly integrates the ancient Gothic culture with the current background, injecting new vitality into the Gothic theme, thus fundamentally expanding the scope of Gothic films.
Tim burton has gradually become the greatest Gothic movie master of our time, and he and Johnny Depp, the golden partner, have also cooperated perfectly. Sleepless Valley (1999) is the crystallization of their cooperation again. This time, Burton unexpectedly began to paint a sad, bitter and unforgettable gothic elegy at the end of the century with witchcraft as the theme.