Tim Burton Research Paper

“One's person’s craziness is another man's reality.” Tim Burton is a world renowned film director, that makes spectacular and entertaining movies that generally please everyone. Each one has a lesson, morality, and a message.This is why he is so recognized, his uses of cinematic techniques take us on a psychological journey. In the movies Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward ScissorHands and Corpse Bride, Tim Burton uses color and lighting in order to project isolation and to communicate a theme of separation from society and the real world. Burton uses a whole arsenal of cinematic techniques that make us feel, and react in different ways. The most obvious would be color uses that he is so famous for. In all the movies he makes it clear that there is some sort of separation and isolation between one place and another. For example, in Edward ScissorHands, Edwards house is black, while the ones below are colorful. He uses this to create the feeling of separation …show more content…
The uses of cinematic techniques that engulf his movies make them bizarre, in a good way. The use of low key lighting is exquisite and makes us feel, what the characters are feeling. For example, in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, when Charlie is in the house, it always is dark, creating an empty and cold feeling for the viewer. We can really feel the pain of Charlie's family. In the Corpse Bride when the victor is practicing, its spooky and dark, letting us know that something is going to happen and giving the viewer an empty feeling of isolation and separation. Or when in Edward Scissor hands, the house is dark and Edward is hiding in the corner giving us the feeling of isolation that Edward has felt for years. Tim Burton is known for this and makes sure the viewers notice it. Without these feelings and emotions the movies would never truly hit our