Does Tim Burton Use Cinematic Techniques In Edward Scissorhands

Style, In Burton’s Eyes “You find worlds that come completely out of his imagination.”(“Hollywood Outsider Tim Burton”). Film critic Roger Ebert explains his view of director Tim Burton’s style. He considers it so very unique, that it would only appear in Burton’s mind. He is the only one that would be able to create it on-screen. In Tim Burton’s movie, Edward Scissorhands, Edward, who has scissors for hands, is brought into the colorful town. At first the neighbors and other citizens welcome him, but through gossip and multiple unfortunate events, they turn against him. Poor Edward flees back to his lonely mansion, realizing he could never belong there. Tim Burton uses the cinematic techniques of lighting, camera movement, and sound to portray the literary elements of mood, foreshadowing, and characterization. To begin, Tim Burton uses different lighting techniques to achieve create the mood. In the movie, Peg decides to go from her bright neighborhood up to Edward’s dark mansion. She was desperate for an Avon customer. When Peg goes inside his mansion, it is a huge contrast from her town. His mansion is dark, achieved through low-key lighting, and her town is colorful and bright, achieved through high-key lighting. …show more content…
In the movie, Edward is in Peg’s backyard cutting an angel out of an ice block. Kim walks out to find Edward delicately cutting the ice angel. As he shaves it just so, little bits of ice float down and give the appearance of snow falling. Burton plays non-diegetic music in the background, and Kim dances to it. The purpose of Kim dancing in the “snow” combined with “heavenly” music is to give her the appearance of an angel. It helps characterizes Kim as pure and joyful at heart, even though it might not seem like that on the surface. This scene ties in because it implies that Kim’s feelings toward Edward are no longer disgust, but wonder and