Charlie Bucket

Willy Wonka is always associated with the Chocolate factory where he is celebrated like royalty. All the children gather around him and worship Mr. Wonka as their candy king. Wonka’s candy rapidly gained popularity, that all the other chocolate makers became jealous of Mr. Wonka, they began sending spies in order to steal secret recipes. Wonka’s rivals produced the recipes they had stolen from Wonka: ice cream that would never melt, chewing gum that never lost its flavor, and candy balloons that…

want?’” Later Sam also states, “My mom wants one that looks like a Charlie brown tree. You know from the Charlie Brown Christmas Special” (Bertino 6). Sam and her mother go to buy a Christmas tree but her mother wants a rotten tree from the incinerator. Rotten tree symbolizes the reality of their family i.e. the burnt scarce remains of the value of their relationships with each other. Sam compares her mother’s choice of tree to a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree which symbolizes death in the family.…

When I was six years old, I read Lior’s Magic Glasses by Shula Modan, a children’s story about a boy who sees two pairs of glasses at the store: a pink pair and a black pair. When he puts on the black pair, he sees the world negatively. Yet with the pink pair, the world is filled with joy. However, when the worker at the store tells the boy that “not everything is black or pink, there are a lot of colors in between”, the boy realizes that he can’t wear the pink glasses all the time and needs to…

Directors use many cinematic elements and techniques to give their movies a mood or feeling but director Tim Burton does this especially well in his movies Edward Scissorhands and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Tim Burton uses many cinematic techniques in his films but the one technique that he does extraordinary in his films are camera angles. In his films, Tim Burton effectively uses the cinematic element of camera angles to create a sense of mood and feeling based on the type of camera he…

When most people think of Tim Burton, the first thing that comes to mind is something of creepiness, or with a grim undertone to it. This is a widespread perception when taking into consideration the sense of wicked otherworldliness built up in his films. Many different stylistic characteristics contribute to this feeling through the use of different cinematic techniques. One common idea throughout Burton’s films is the misfit. The main personality is always considered strange and different from…

style seem sad, or unhappy. One example of this is in the movie “Charlie and Chocolate Factory”. In this movie they used a sad, slow music/sound when they show Charlie’s house and his family squished in the small wood house. This shows a sad mood and tone of the movie. Another example is also from the same movie when they are…

disturbing and yet child-like movies, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands. Everyone of all ages can be able to enjoy his movie. Tim Burton’s style is kid-friendly at first, but then it takes a disturbing and twisted turn. One of Burton's cinematic technique he uses is music. Music is used to set the mood for a specific part in a scene. An example of this is from Charlie and the Chocolate factory when a Charlie was running home and the non…

and gave us a perspective of how it would feel or the experience through the characters as they traveled through the world of Tim Burton. He has expressed himself through The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice in Wonderland and many others. Through the film techniques Burton choose, he has revealed his fantasies and film expertise. The Nightmare Before Christmas and the Corpse Bride were both claymation masterpieces…

Because Tim Burton was influenced by fairy tales and children’s stories, Dr. Seuss, and Edgar Allen Poe, his films are characterized by a combination of childlike innocence and dark elements. These attributes are present in many of his films, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Alice in Wonderland (2010), and in his most recent film, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016). Burton’s first project was called Vincent (1982), and it showed some of the common themes and…

of 26, Burton achieved his goal by becoming a film director, and soon after started his career working for Disney. He then stroke out with his own film which was well received and soon after decided to leave Disney. Burtons famous films include “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 2005”, “Edward Scissorhands, 1990”, and “Corpse Bride, 2005”. Tim Burton's style would be described by most as creative. Tim Burton uses color/lighting, camera angles, and music/sound to give his audience a better…