Charlie Korsmo

“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…

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…

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…

basic pastel color and all the houses are the exact same except Edwards’s dark colored mansion. The contrast in colors shows immediately that Edward is going to be different from all the other people before his character is even introduced. In Charlie in the Chocolate Factory there is a distinct contrast between Willy Wonka’s appearance and the way everyone else looked. Willy Wonka wore a tall black hat and long dark coat while the other people wore ordinary clothing clothes. This contrast…

considered an outcast and brings this theme forward in many of his award winning films including Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands. In these films, Burton uses long shots, low angles, and low key lighting to create a juxtaposition between what the audience assumes about the main characters and what is proved later on to not be true. These cinematic techniques are used in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands to suggest that no one person should have…

Burton has shown this in innumerable short films and movies through his character in, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and, Alice in Wonderland. Burton exaggerates the characters' identities to suggest that no one person should have to change who they are to conform to society's standards. Colors are used in both movies to show how the protagonist characters don’t need to conform to the rest of society. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory bright colors and high-key lighting is used…

For example within Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, there is a large amount of positive and upbeat mood running throughout the story. In comparison to this, in The Suitcase Kid, the mood running throughout has more of a negative tone, with the emphasis on suffering. The jokey…

At first glance, one might assume that Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is a feel-good story. Charlie is a likable, well behaved, optimistic and kind child with a rags to riches story. The setting is a fantastical and whimsical sugary paradise, the stuff a childhood paradise might be made from. Everything neatly wrapped up with a moralistic bow of the good little boy gets the candy. If one looks deeper, they can pull much darker messages and undertones from the movie. Full of symbolism…

The ghastly images and music grant the sense that something is awry. Something has happened and now the inventor is dead. The music provides a heads up that there is a problem of some kind. Burton also utilizes diegetic sound to create mood. In “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” the Oompa-Lumpas sing every time a rotten child is taken away. This is an extraordinary way to tell the viewer that something is astray with the child. It makes somewhat lifeless facts appear to be interesting. Sound…

lighting to achieve the effects of mood, tone, and a sense of fantasy. First of all, Burton’s use of music, mainly diegetic, in his films help the audience to be engaged and understand the emotions within the characters. For example, in his film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, there were several songs sung by the Oompa-loompas during the scenes where one of the children were in trouble for misbehaving and disobeying the rules that Willy Wonka has set for his factory. As the Oompa-loompas…