Tim Burton

Tim Burton, a director of many classical movies, is also a man that was always preoccupied with death and monsters. In his movies, his use of color and low angles invoke an unusual contrast between fear and excitement. This is important because the movies show that appearances and the things the we believe in can be deceiving. In many of his films, Burton uses color in order to achieve the contrasting effects between fear and excitement. For example in Corpse Bride, the World of the Living is…

The qualities of monstrosity can be described as revenge, fear, overall abnormality and illogical behavior. All factors that horror genre writers and directors include in their work, also all of which the audience can relate to. For example, Tim Burton the director of Sweeny Todd: The demon Barber of Fleet Street creates a complex character such as Benjamin Barker (Johnny Depp) experiencing the forces of revenge thus seeking revenge on judge Turpin (Alan Rickman) the thief of his wife and only…

another person's reality”-Tim Burton. All of his movies has some kind of outcome to the audience to make the stories amazing. Burton uses low key lighting and nondiegetic sound in order to create a feeling of reclusiveness from the main characters to the society in his viewers; this is important because Burton wants us to visualize that even when you are very isolated from everyone else, you can still have a joyous life to get other people to like you. In many of his movies, Burton uses low key…

about a horseman that lost his head and is headless. He rides his horse in search of the head he has lost attacking anyone who stands in his way and not stopping at anything to get it. “Sleepy Hollow” by Tim Burton is a movie that is based on “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving. Tim Burton took a creative license when he came up with the idea, and he transforms the legend into a completely new version that slightly represents the original version. “Sleepy Hollow” has a weak…

Alice in wonderland is a very well known story redone in many different ways. Examples of three different versions could be, the original by disney, a more modern remake by director, tim burton and lastly a production held by Grant Park High School of the play. Aspects compared between the three include story plot, Alice’s character and the reason why she is in wonderland and how she gets out. Although some revisions might share the same features, there are differences between them. Through the…

“normal” is what will aid them to blend in and be happy. Director Tim Burton, conversely, disagrees through the use of characterization and portrayal of the general public in his films. In his movies, by using precise settings, characters, and physical appearances, Tim Burton stresses that being or having atypical and abnormal qualities is more desirable equated to the black and white principles humanity pins on us. Director Burton uses physically abnormal characters to show that being bizarre-a…

In his best-selling book Burton on Burton, Tim Burton wrote on his style of animation: “I had seen other stop-motion animated features, and they were either not engaging or they're just too bizarre. There was one I liked when I was a kid called Mad Monster Party. People thought Nightmare was the first stop-motion animated monster musical, but that was.” Burton is best known for his frequency in using claymation, a form of stop-motion animation in which clay puppets are slightly altered from…

The movie Big Fish was written by Daniel Wallace and John August and directed by Tim Burton. This film tells the tale of father and son and their struggle to make amends from earlier events in their life. Will, the son, is upset with his father, Edward, because he is unable to establish which of his famous stories are fantasy and which are a reality. Nearing the end of the movie Will discovers that sometimes it does not always matter what is real or fake as long as the intentions behind it have…

novel got its title from the main character in the novel, Victor Frankenstein, which was inspired by Prometheus, a titan who stole the recipe to create life, but abandoned his creation, which resembles Victor’s behaviors towards the monster while Tim Burton stated that there is no big explanation to why he named the movie Frankenweenie other than the word…

Tim Burton is Lighting style during the film known as Edward Scissorhands is mostly a Low key approach to make it feel ominous and suspenseful. In the film’s, beginning we start with a with Low Key lighting while moving rapidly up the “haunted mansion” where the Body Tim Burton is Lighting style during the film known as Edward Scissorhands is mostly a Low key approach to make it feel ominous and suspenseful. In the film’s, beginning we start with a with Low Key lighting while moving rapidly…