https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpo7nEc5FHg&feature=kp
This is a trailer for enchanted a film where a woman is looking for her to be husband and then realises she loves another man and then proceeds to marry him instead.

The Guardian - Friday October 2005 - 'Corpse Bride? It's just a love story with skeletons'

Alice In Wonderland fairy tale?

The feminist revisionism is clunky and very American. "This is my dream," Alice declares, "I'll decide where it goes from here" – which sounds less like a statement of empowerment than like a virtual-world gamer insisting on the right to plot her own interactive narrative. - http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/alice-in-wonderland-tim-burton-105-mins-pg-1917295.html

This review talks about the strong character of Alice how she isn't choosing what she wants to do but wants to 'plot her own interactive narrative' which women in real life cant do. This makes it more of a fairy tale story.

Dark shadows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3L8Mw_DrKY

This is a link to the scene in dark shadows where Barnabus and Angie meet again she seems a strong powerful witch, but she is only doing it so she and him can be together again, obsessing over it much like Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd.

role of women in Tim Burton films

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atSbk0vLuRw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10tee6Eff34

These are links to Helena Bonham Carter playing Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd. She is playing a women who in one link seems smart strong but in the second link she is talking about how she just wants to get married. Many of Tim Burtons female characters appear to be unique and quirky but want the same thing to get married, like in The Nightmare Before Christmas the character of Sally only tries to stop Jack from messy things up because she is in love with him.

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