Tim Burton's Movies: Every Story Has A Dark Side

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Every Story Has A Dark Side Tim Burton suplies movies that are fun and enjoyable for children, with just the hint of darkness to keep everyone interested. In most of his movies Burton uses similar techniques, such as low key lighting and dark colors, these elements help to create the dark, eerie mood for which Burton’s movies are famous. Burton uses mysterious/creepy music, low/ key lighting, and long shots in many of his films to show that every story has a dark side.
In many of his films Burton uses mysterious or creepy music to set a dark mood. For example, in Edward Scisorhands when Peg can’t get anyone to buy her makeup products and she looks to the old mansion on the mountain in desperation. When she reaches the top and enters the mansion, there is mysterious music. This sets the mood of creepiness and mysteriousness.
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one example of where a longshot is used in one of burton’s movies is in the movie Edward Scisorhands. in the movie Peg got discouraged because there was no one in her neighborhood who wanted to buy her makeup products. so in desperation she drove up to the mansion on the mountain in order to see if anyone lived there. and when she enters the mansion there is a longshot. the longshot makes Peg seem small or helpless. so we are worried for her, because we are unsure if she will be okay.
Another thing that Burton uses in his films is, low key lighting. This low key lighting is used in Charlie And The Chocolate Factory to show things as dark, such as in Willy Wonka’s flashback about him finding the umpalumpas. Wonka talks about how terrible of a place it was where the umpalumpas lived, and the low key lighting helped show the darkness of the

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