蒂姆·波顿作为当代一位风格鲜明的电影导演，以其啧啧称奇的天马行空的想象力和怪诞夸张的人物类型深受观众喜爱，他独树一帜的哥特风格更是收获一大批忠实的拥趸。波顿并不是一个为了主流审美去迎合大众口味的导演，他的灵感多来源于童年的经历，并不美满的家庭和孤独乖僻的性格令他对事物的认知与感受更为深刻，而幼年的经历伴随他的成长映射在其影片中，我们可以在每部片子中里看到波顿自己身上或多或少的影子。不过这并未改变他那颗真善美的心灵，即便使用灰暗阴冷的色调去描绘环境，但其故事内核无不透露着对童真、自由、善良的向往。无论在人物塑造上，还是影片主题把握上，波顿用影像化的语言来表达对真情的追求、对人性的反思、对成人世界规则的批判。他利用奇幻境域，来编织成人世界的童话。

蒂姆·波顿虽然出身好莱坞，但他仍是一位游走于作者电影与类型电影之间的导演，对艺术的敬畏心使他一直不懈追求个人风格的完善。虽然不认同好莱坞工业体系下的模式化影片生产，他的影片中也常常伴随着对权威、规则的讽刺，但他仍尊重商业化发展的规律，毕竟没有绝对的艺术，电影从诞生就具备商品化的属性，因此波顿也在努力去达到艺术与市场之间的平衡。

本文结合叙事学理论，将从叙事的空间、结构、人物模式三个方向去研究蒂姆·波顿导演的电影，找到电影中的共性部分加以概括，总结其创作风格和模式，再从电影中的个性部分来细致的探寻波顿对于不同情境下塑造人物、表达主题的差别，提炼出蒂姆·波顿影片创作中的精华，希望可以为中国电影创作者们在奇幻片的拍摄上提供借鉴。

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Although Tim Burton was born in Hollywood, he is still a director who walks between author films and genre films. His reverence for art makes him constantly pursue the perfection of his personal style. Although disagree with Hollywood film production industrial system modeled, his films are often accompanied by the irony, rules for authority, but he still respect the rules of the development of commercial, after all, there is no art film has the property of commercialization right from birth, so Mr. Burton also in efforts to achieve a balance between art and market.

Combining the theory of narratology, this article from the narrative mode of space, structure, character three directions to study director Tim burton's film, find the common part in the movie to generalize and summarize its style and pattern, and from the character in the movie section to careful search for Burtonfor creating characters under different situation, the difference of expression of theme, The essence of Tim Burton's film creation is extracted in the hope of providing reference for Chinese film creators in the shooting of fantasy films.