Burton Coliseum

Burton has a directorial career that spans 16 features in more than 30 years animating, directing, and producing films. Hes worked with film companies including Warner Brothers, Disney, and Touchstone, and has been awarded several different awards for his work in films. In case you're still unfamiliar with his genius, Burton is the filmmaker behind Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Alice in Wonderland, and Charlie…

Magical realism differs from other genres of fiction because it’s reality is based on the what an author might believe to be true or what he or she has experienced. Magical realism is often quite difficult to understand because it asks the reader to take what they know to be true in the real world and accept completely different truth. Magical realism is similar to other genres of fiction but separates itself by its basic assumptions of elements of reality. Ghosts, angels, mermaids, and giants…

Tim Burton: The Wickedly Innocent Director of his Time Society can often view others as “strange” or “unusual” from their own standards. Tim Burton, however, breaks those usual standards to represent the abnormal life of others. Instead, Burton would see and use those extraordinary people to incorporate them into his own films. Burton combines outcast protagonists and fantastical settings to convey the idea that society wrongly teaches people to fear the unknown. One way that Burton shows this…

Stalker (1979) is Tarkovsky’s last film made in the Soviet Union (154). An open-ended question is left by the film: what is the Zone? The Zone is a fictional location that contains elements of fantasy and mystery, such as the wish-granting Room. Nevertheless, the way Tarkovsky films this reflects an attitude of realism. This approach allows the audience to relate life to the themes of the film, salvation through the faith in God, dignity, and love. In the film, the Stalker describes the Zone as…

recognizable all over the world when it comes to many of his films. His films inlighten and reflect Tim Burtons personality.”One person's crazyness is another person's reality.” Growing up in Burbank California Tim Burton spend most of his childhood drawing cartoons, reading books and watching horror movies until 1979 the short film stalk of the celery monster led to getting an apprenticeship at disney. Tim Burton is a well-known American film director that has created dozens of brilliant dark…

Tim Burton uses cinematic techniques to portray feelings of joy, excitement, sadness etc.Some of the cinematic techniques that Tim Burton uses is music/sound,lighting,and flashbacks. The proper use of cinematic techniques can manipulate a viewers emotions and hook them to the characters and the story. However when you use cinematic techniques incorrectly the movie can be confusing and not so good. Cinematic techniques can either make or break a movie. One cinematic technique that Tim Burton…

years ago, Johnny Depp played the main role in one of the most critically acclaimed movies of the 20th century. Edward Scissorhands is a film directed by Tim Burton. It is a story about an artificial man named Edward-an unfinished creation who has scissors for hands. The main themes behind the film deal with self-discovery and isolation. Tim Burton uses a point-of-view shot which pans from the grandmother’s house and sweeps over the cookie cutter suburbs, ending with a new point of view from…

Tim Burton is very well known throughout the globe for his films. He has a way of portraying gothic, awkward, dark and ironic qualities in his creations. The art of Tim Burton makes you stop and think for a second, it is surprising what can be behind the idea of something so small, with so much meaning. He expresses these qualities in greater depth, with the cinematic techniques music/sound, lighting/color and framing/angles. Such as, in the films “Charlie and The Chocolate Factory” and…

Edward Scissorhands parallels De Beaumont’s tale in more ways than one as Burton adopts the same characterization and fundamental plot elements of the fairytale genre and subgenera of “Beauty and the Beast” all set in a modern, suburban neighborhood. The Beauty character is portrayed by Kim, a beautiful, popular teenage girl who…

Tim Burton films are very unique and one of a kind. He describes and creates a fantasy that only he can control. His films are very mysterious, and eerie. To make those effects possible he uses cinematic techniques. The techniques that are prominent in his films are the use of sinister and content music, low and high key lighting and lastly the use of flashbacks. He uses this to make his films very interesting and entertaining. This essay will talk about the many cinematic techniques that Tim…