A importância do filme Vincent, de Tim Burton: influência e recepção.

Abstract

Recognised for his unique style of making cinema, known as Burtonesque by the critics, Tim Burton, the famous and excentric contemporary director, uses the intertextuality of his cinematographic, literary and stylistic references and influences in his own work, reinventing it without ever appearing repetitive in each new production. In the present work, we seek to investigate the reception of Vincent, the first professional work with the director’s signature, through the analysis of academic texts and articles of Frierson (2009), Cánepa (2010), Majczak (2011) and Fernandes (2015), since these texts utilize Vincent to review the essence of the burtonesque style, giving the form as it represents the intertextual elements of his references in this film that is considered as the embrio of Tim Burton’s work as it is recognized today. Vincent brings with it the multiplicity of personal references of the director, that through the intertextuality conducts a dialogue with the director’s own works, resulting in a unique piece recognized by almost everyone who has already had access to some films of Burton, emphasizing the importance of this short film for the understanding of his productions. As theoretical support, we use as a base the ideas and theories of authors as Jauss (1979) and Iser (1999) about the aesthetic of reception, Bakhtin (2002) and dialogism, Hutcheon and the use of pastiche, Todorov (2008) and the fantastic associated with expressionism as understood by Eisner (1985) and Cardinal (1988), showing us how the dark and the gothic relate to expressionism and result in the burtonesque style.