Charlie Chan

Decent Essays
Improved Essays
Superior Essays
Great Essays
Brilliant Essays
    Page 20 of 23 - About 228 Essays
  • Improved Essays

    style, which you can easily identify in any of his films. The style is portrayed in films such as Edward Scissorhands and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Through the use of lighting and camera angles, Burton gives a message of hope to these outcasts by portraying that they should be appreciated and not ignored for their creative efforts and views of the world. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Burton uses high angles to help identify Mr. Willy Wonka as the misfit. When using a high…

    • 801 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Movies can be inspired by inspirational, horrifying and comical real life events, and no one can combine the elements of distorted humor, fantasy and tragedy in movies better than producer, director and screenwriter Tim Burton. Tim Burton is known for dozens of films such as the acclaimed dark romantic fantasy film, Edward Scissorhands (1990), Beetlejuice (1987), Batman (1989) just to name a few. Growing up, Tim Burton felt different from other kids so art became his escape, drawing characters…

    • 1026 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Twenty-one wins and sixty-three nominations. That’s the total amount of awards accomplished film director and producer Tim Burton has won. Tim Burton uses a wide variety of cinematic elements in his movies. These cinematic elements range from how bright the light is, to the angle of the camera. Though, the cinematic elements he uses always comes together to make his movies great. Tim Burton uses various cinematic techniques to show his style in his movies. Everyone that has watched a Tim Burton…

    • 983 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    to represent certain points in his films. Such as in Big Fish when the father was telling stories to his son there was always different types of music and sound that went along with the feel of that exact story. An example of diegetic sound is in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory when everyone was standing by the chocolate river and the the oompa loompas started to sing their song, everytime a child misbehaved the oompa loompas would sing a song about the that certain child. That is diegetic…

    • 1085 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    argue that this reflects Burton himself. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissor Hands directed by Tim Burton, the use of a wishful protagonist and exaggerated characters conveys that no one should change who you are to meet society 's expectations. In Burton’s films, he uses a wishful protagonist to show that even though the character is a social outcast, they won’t change the way they are and what they believe…

    • 760 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Feeling as though you don’t belong in an a certain place or that everyone is staring at you as though you have done something wrong, but really you’re just being yourself. This is something Tim Burton knows all too well on how to portray in his films. Burton has a way of giving off a pitiful, scared, or uneasy feeling toward a character that will later on be the “good guy.” Burton has always had a love for childlike stories and films, and now in almost all of his movies a child, teen, or someone…

    • 810 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Renowned for his ongoing series “Salad Fingers”, David Firth delivers yet another mind-twisting short film, “Cream.” The majority of the film is written, acted, and animated by the talent of Firth himself. However, for this project he is joined by musician Steven Ellison, whose artist name is Flying Lotus. Ellison contributed parts of the soundtrack and a few lines of background characters. This partnership yielded a nightmarish yet mesmerizing product that is sure to send viewers on a…

    • 976 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me” - Tim Burton. In Tim Burton’s films Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edwards Scissorhands, and Alice in Wonderland he uses low key lighting, high key lighting, and non-diegetic sounds to create suspense and suspicion, bright and open looking scenes, and happy or spooky moods. For people to feel the suspense and suspicion in the movies, Tim Burton uses low key lighting in the scenes to create a spooky mood. For example, In the…

    • 796 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    all his movies some of his main techniques are non-diegetic sound, long shot and lighting. These techniques help him create his unique cinematic style. If you have watched a tim burton movies all of those techniques are seen in his films such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands has theses techniques. Tim Burton uses these techniques to creates a different effect if you have seen Tim Burton’s films at some point in each movie you will feel a little disturbed and feel the…

    • 916 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In this article, Brock Bastain, explores how the sensation of pain is a good thing and how it builds up the sensation of pleasure. Another aspect this article includes is that endless pleasure may actually lead to dystopian societies as deliberated in Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel “Brave New World.” The author states that, “We need pain to provide a contrast for pleasure; without pain, life becomes dull, boring and downright undesirable.” The author uses the example of “a chocoholic in a chocolate…

    • 401 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Page 1 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23