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Style, In Burton’s Eyes “You find worlds that come completely out of his imagination.”(“Hollywood Outsider Tim Burton”). Film critic Roger Ebert explains his view of director Tim Burton’s style. He considers it so very unique, that it would only appear in Burton’s mind. He is the only one that would be able to create it on-screen. In Tim Burton’s movie, Edward Scissorhands, Edward, who has scissors for hands, is brought into the colorful town. At first the neighbors and other citizens welcome…

Wes Anderson and Tim Burton are both complex and unique characters in the filmmaking industry, with their own unmistakeable signatures. Although both of their technical approaches to filmmaking differ greatly, on a theoretical level they appear to agree on a number of aspects. One aspect of filmmaking that both directors seem to concur on is that films are composed in almost equal parts by all of the characters and creators involved in the production process, a process that includes the film's…

characters experience a common feeling of friendlessness that the majority of his viewers have been accustomed to. The relatable wretches make Burton’s work universal and exploit the true genius of his madness. Edward from Edward Scissorhands, Charlie from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Jack from The Nightmare before Christmas all truly demonstrate the worldwide truth that the loneliest people are often the most kindhearted through their hard experiences and fight to stay continually…

“I have got the golden ticket!” (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, 1971). The joyous tune that will flow from your mouth after seeing the greatest family movie in at least a decade, “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”. The film was produced by Emmy winning Mel Stuart, and, though a new genre for him to embark on, his excellence shines through as all the many aspects of the film come together to create a masterpiece. The novel and screenplay written by Roald Dahl truly takes on an image…

being normal. Tim Burton is an animator and film director that is influenced by Roald Dahl and E.A Poe. Burton is best known for his use of dark children’s stories and gothic fantasies in films like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie finds the last out of five golden tickets that Willy Wonka sent out for children to visit his chocolate factory. Edward Scissorhands is about the creation of a teen boy that has scissors for…

Think Before You Eat Chocolate “At 6 a.m., 10-year-old Emmanuel wakes and readies himself for a day of labor in the cocoa fields. Along the way, he watches as other kids walk in the opposite direction - toward school. He reaches the fields at sunrise and uses his machete to slice ripe cocoa pods from the tree. Later, he carries the cocoa pods he’s harvested from the field, hacks them open and gathers the beans, which will later be used to make chocolate.” Kids in Ghana have to wake up every day…

lighting in certain ways to change the feeling of the film at certain times, and moments. An example of the use of lighting can be shown in the three films, in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” there is dark lighting in the tunnel to the factory entrance, this gives a feel of underestimation to the viewer. Burton changes the…

showcased in order to better enhance meaning and emotions. Tim Burton uses sound, lighting, and camera point of views, to create suspense, joy, fear, and anger. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, and Corpse Bride, Tim Burton uses diegetic sound to foreshadow a negative event that may occur. For example,in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Augustus was given the opportunity to taste any thing in the chocolate factory garden his diegetic sound was much different from the…

The Multiple Styles of Tim Burton Tim Burton, a well known director of many unique movies, has always been able to express a certain tone by his many different stylistic techniques. When watching movies such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice in Wonderland, and Edward Scissorhands many stylistic techniques can be noticed. Tim burton uses stylistic techniques such as the sounds that are heard during the scene, the camera angle, and the lighting used to help portray the tone of the movie.…

After reading Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass I was sad. Wendy Mass is an author of young-adult and children's book author, she won (ALA) Schneider Family Book Award for Middle School in 2004. Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life is published by Little Brown and Company and was published in November of 2006. It is full of adventure and find it quite funny. The characters said and did a lot of funny thing like, hula-hooping in a fake grass skirt,while eating a banana, and…