Tim Burton, born August 1958, is a film director and famous writer. Throughout many of his films and stories, Burton commonly makes is protagonists an “outsider”. His characters are usually outside of societies normality’s and don’t fit in either physically or mentally. This is shown through the protagonists in Burton’s films: Edward Scissorhands, Vincent and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Tim Burton uses the protagonist Edward, in the 1990 feature film Edward Scissorhands to evoke compassion amongst audience members as Edward embodies the ancient primal need to be both loved and belong to a loving family. Burton achieves this through utilising multiple film techniques such as Edwards’s dialogue, costume and meek personality. …show more content…
“Vincent Malloy is 7 years old. He’s always polite and does what he’s told,” these first two lines from Burton’s poem Vincent are used to orientate his audience and introduce Vincent. Through the use of this dialogue, the audience’s first impression of Vincent is that he is a normal 7 year old boy. This impression is backed up by the fact that when Vincent is first seen, he is dressed in a simple black and white shirt with his hair neat. However, as the narration continues the audience discover that Vincent is not at all normal, as he “wants to be just like Vincent Price,” a horror movie star. This clues the audience that Vincent has a wild imagination as when this line is spoken, he transforms into Vincent Price, with his cat hissing at him first cluing the audience that Vincent’s personal world is not accepted. Vincent’s wild, darker imagination begins to evoke a sense of empathy from the audience, as they can relate to a child’s vivid imagination and creativity. Whilst deep in his imagination, Vincent believes that his “beautiful wife ha been buried alive,” and then begins to dig out her grave to “make sure she was dead.” However, it is discovered that he dug out his mother’s flowerbed. Enraged, his mother sent him to his room, which Vincent perceives as “the tower of doom.” This begins to evoke compassion from Burton’s younger audience as they can relate to having fun but getting in trouble for it. Burton continues to evoke compassion in his audience when Vincent’s mother dismisses and rejects his world full of imagination and creativity, with a close up on her finger and the narrator’s harsh voice she says, “You’re not possessed, and you’re not almost dead. These games you play are all in your head. You’re not Vincent Price, you’re Vincent Malloy. You’re even years old
Tim Burton uses the protagonist Edward, in the 1990 feature film Edward Scissorhands to evoke compassion amongst audience members as Edward embodies the ancient primal need to be both loved and belong to a loving family. Burton achieves this through utilising multiple film techniques such as Edwards’s dialogue, costume and meek personality. …show more content…
“Vincent Malloy is 7 years old. He’s always polite and does what he’s told,” these first two lines from Burton’s poem Vincent are used to orientate his audience and introduce Vincent. Through the use of this dialogue, the audience’s first impression of Vincent is that he is a normal 7 year old boy. This impression is backed up by the fact that when Vincent is first seen, he is dressed in a simple black and white shirt with his hair neat. However, as the narration continues the audience discover that Vincent is not at all normal, as he “wants to be just like Vincent Price,” a horror movie star. This clues the audience that Vincent has a wild imagination as when this line is spoken, he transforms into Vincent Price, with his cat hissing at him first cluing the audience that Vincent’s personal world is not accepted. Vincent’s wild, darker imagination begins to evoke a sense of empathy from the audience, as they can relate to a child’s vivid imagination and creativity. Whilst deep in his imagination, Vincent believes that his “beautiful wife ha been buried alive,” and then begins to dig out her grave to “make sure she was dead.” However, it is discovered that he dug out his mother’s flowerbed. Enraged, his mother sent him to his room, which Vincent perceives as “the tower of doom.” This begins to evoke compassion from Burton’s younger audience as they can relate to having fun but getting in trouble for it. Burton continues to evoke compassion in his audience when Vincent’s mother dismisses and rejects his world full of imagination and creativity, with a close up on her finger and the narrator’s harsh voice she says, “You’re not possessed, and you’re not almost dead. These games you play are all in your head. You’re not Vincent Price, you’re Vincent Malloy. You’re even years old