Edward the Confessor

Tim Burton really loves to use establishing shot in Charlie and the chocolate factory , Edward scissorhand, and the Big Fish Charlie and the chocolate factory, when entering the factory. Seeing the waterfall of milk chocolate, grass you can eat and other things delicious, surprised and amazed the characters. Setting the mood as happy, cool, and mysterious. Edward Scissorhands, when Peg was walking into Edward’s house. Seeing the mysterious and spooky things in the house, not being fully…

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 him, but through gossip and multiple unfortunate events, they turn against him. Poor Edward flees back to his lonely mansion, realizing he could never belong there. Tim Burton uses the cinematic techniques of lighting,…

David Fincher’s cult classic film Fight Club (1999) is considered one of the best movies of all time by both critics and casual movie fans. The film follows an unnamed narrator suffering from insomnia. The narrator eventually becomes addicted to attending support groups for diseases he does not have as because they helps him sleep. Eventually however, the support groups are no longer help him sleep and it is at this point that the narrator encounters the charismatic Tyler Durden. Tyler and the…

Nighthawks by Edward Hopper is a very famous artwork that was made in 1942. The artwork features a bar on a street corner and appears to be the only store open at the time on the street. The bar is not busy at all, there are only 4 people featured in the artwork including the bartender. A man and a redheaded woman sit together on one side of the bar, while a man who is alone sits on the other side of the bar. The bartender is dressed in all white and is reaching for something behind the bar. The…

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…

FernGully is a tale of how humans destroy and release danger into the world and care nothing about it. Even though FernGully is a fictional movie, there are still a lot of real world points it brings up. There are many references to real world problems and actions throughout the movie mixed in with cartoon antics to mix fun into the movie as well. In FernGully, the first thing we hear about a human is through Batty. Batty is a bat who escaped the humans after he was tested on. The humans put…

Edward Scissorhands (1990) was directed/written by Tim Burton. The story is credited to Tim Burton and Caroline Thompson; Thompson is also the screenplay writer of Edward Scissorhands. Tim Burton came up with the idea of the movie from living in the suburbs of Burbank, California. While growing up Burton felt that he was being judged for how he looked and acted on the outside, but no one was really looking at what was on the inside. He felt that since people were only worried about what things…

The Power of Imperialism, Race and Gender “The smallest Woman in the world” is a short story telling a tale of a French explorer looking for the smallest pygmy in the world. Upon finding what he believes is the smallest woman in the world, the story’s concept of exploration transitions from innocent curiosity to exploitation. Through Clarice Lispector’s short story, “The Smallest Woman in the World”, the reader will be able to identify the story’s allegory of superior and inferior and will see…

Vaccination can save children’s life because, diseases killed thousands of children, polio was once Americas most feared disease, and thanks to vaccination there, are no signs of polio in the U.S. Vaccination should be mandatory for children because it’s easier for children because it’s easier for them to get sick. For example, a boy/girl that is sick coughs on his/her hand, shakes his/her best friend’s hand and his/her best friend eats with the same hand his/her sick friend shook. So now he/she…

Biography and Background Information Edward Bellamy was born on March 26, 1850, in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts as the son of a Baptist minister. Growing up in the Gilded Age from the end of the Civil War up to the late 19th century, he saw the rapid economic growth and corrupt business practices with the vast railroad expansions and industrialization and the poverty and inequality especially among the worker class and immigrants. He first realized the troubles of the urban poor while spending…