Tim Burton Cinematic Techniques Essay

Tim Burton’s movies give a glimpse into the mind of a demented man, and some of Burton’s role models, ghastly as they may be. Although Burton made movies for Disney, Burton’s stories were not child appropriate. Burton’s dark and grisly stories include the tale of the man without hands, the candy factory where those who go in may never return, and the marriage between the dead and alive. To manipulate the audience’s emotions to feel for the odd, peculiar and even unfortunate situations and characters of his films, Burton uses cinematic techniques such as lighting, angles, flashbacks, and music.
In his film Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton uses lighting to cause his character Edward to appear either very powerful and scary or vulnerable and frightened. …show more content…
Flashbacks are used to cause the audience to feel pity for the character Edward Scissorhands and well as frightened for Edward. An example of this is in one of the flashbacks used, when Edward’s inventor gave Edward a pair of hands the inventor made. After letting Edward touch the hands, the inventor suddenly died, leaving Edward alone. Trying to help, Edward accidentally breaks the hands and cuts the dead inventor with his scissors for hands. The audience is made to feel bad for Edward, as well as a sense of horror for Edward who is now left …show more content…
Burton clearly intended to prick the audience’s hearts with his gloomy and gruesome movies including the story of the serial killer groom, the disappearing act in the chocolate factory, and the discovering of a dangerous and queer machine man. It is surprising to find that the bleak and somber film maker of so many films has indeed worked for Disney, the supposed “happy ever after” birthplace. Viewers are given a look into the depths of the dark abyss that the minds such as Burton and his morbid role models such as Dr. Seuss and Grimm’s Fairy