10 Weird Secrets Behind Tim Burton Movies

4. Unhappily Ever After

The colours throughout his masterpiece Beetlejuice and through many of his other productions have been used symbolically to denote different things.

For example, when Barbara and Adam fall into Saturn with the Sand Worms, the predominant colour is yellow, which you’d usually think is a happy colour no? Well the main reason yellow is used here is because it traditionally represents more cynical images: disease, death, alienation, and madness! Also, when Beetlejuice acts like a circus attraction towards the end, yellow is behind him. Further representing these images.

We see the colour symbolism further in Lydia's wedding dress, which is in fact a nod towards an old wife's tale.

The costume department chose to make her dress red in order to reference an old poem. This informs brides what will happen to them after their big day, depending on the colour dress they wore.

According to the poem, the only acceptable colours to wear on your big day are white and blue, and the worst colours are green, yellow, pink, and red. The poem reads, “married in red you will wish yourself dead”, which she did... crafty costumers.