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Nathalie Ramprashad July, 28, 2015 Bayside High school English Summer Reading Assignment The Chocolate War, written by Robert Cormier is essentially about Jerry Renault, a freshman at Trinity all boys’ school who was assigned to sell chocolates at the school sale by the Vigils, a secret organization at Trinity that keeps everything in the school “under control”. Jerry refuses to sell them because of what the Vigils are doing to harass the other students, giving the Vigils…

“I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words” (Burton). Tim Burton had a different life than other kids’. He never got to be close with his parents, he loved horror movies, and he hated growing up in the suburbs. Tim Burton likes to make dark movies that always involve somebody being an…

Style Analysis In Tim Burton's movies he has a specific style that he portrays in everyone of them. Tim Burton's style can be viewed as uniquely horrific. The movies that he directs has one character that usually stands out from the rest. An outsider and how that outsider will never fit into society. He uses cinematic elements to portray his style, like lighting, diegetic and nondiegetic sound, and camera movement. Lighting is a good element used in movies, it can show that someone is happy,…

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…

when we choose to live with purpose. He mentioned the story of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Specifically, the end part of the story when Charlie returns the everlasting gobstopper that he was going to steal and give to Wonka’s competition. He returns it to Wonka and that humbling act granted Charlie the keys to own the Chocolate Factory. Charlie mad that big of an impact of Wonka by simply taking a piece of candy out of his pocket. The same can be said in my life. Everyday I wake up…

mood while also maintaining a childlike innocence. Burton also doesn't hold back on using his imagination in his films; you can see his films tend to lean toward fantasy and fiction rather than being realistic. His style can be seen in Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Edward Scissorhands. To begin, in Burton’s film “Big Fish” we see Burton using flashbacks, long shot, cut, low key lighting, non-diegetic sounds, eye level, and high angle;…

With Crime Comes Punishment Although the movies Tim Burton directs have various plots, they all have one thing in common, their theme. In the movies, Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Beetlejuice, Burton uses music and sound, costuming, editing, and props to emphasize the theme of crime and punishment. Burton portrays that if one does something they know they shouldn’t do or are told not to do, their actions have consequences. Burton uses numerous other cinematic…

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban uses principles of sound, cinematography and elements of Mis En Scene to immerse the audience in the dark and mysterious wizarding world. Sound is a powerful film technique, especially one such as Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, where sound and sound effects help to shape the understanding of the wizarding world (Bordwell and Thompson, 267). Generally, there are two different types of sound, diegetic and non-diegetic. According to Film…

If you give a mouse a cookie is a children’s book written by Laura Numeroff, it was published on November 20, 1985. The book is rated to be a 5 star book that has humor but yet teaches responsibility at the same time. The book is more animated than words to grab the children’s attention. The story is about a young boy that decides the give a mouse a cookie, but he never imagined what would come out of that decision. Once the boy gave the mouse the cookie he starts to get other responsibilities…

a apprentice animator, and when they moved him the designing the original characters for new movie, Disney didn’t like the result. The general unhappiness caused Tim Burton to start his own projects. These movie he created, some of which include Charlie and Chocolate factory, Edward scissorhands, and Corpse Bride, were fully his own ideas, and these went over much better with critics and moviegoers. In his movies, it easy to see how he put his ideas into all of them in any subject matter. Tim…