Tim Burton

the two most important factors in a person’s life. It’s what makes one feel protected in a world where the abnormal ones are seen as unfit. Tim Burton, a famous filmmaker views those two factors as a necessity in life. Throughout his films, he expresses his viewpoint by using lighting and shots. In his films Edward Scissorhands and Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton uses lighting to show the connection between the broken and the parental figures who step up. Within one of his films, Edward…

Writer Vs Filmmaker Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809. He was well-known for writing dark horror stories and detective fiction stories. Tim Burton was born in August 1958, and he was a filmmaker and a director. He made successful films, like “Batman” and “Nightmare Before Christmas.” Writer, Poe, and filmmaker, Burton, both used similar storytelling styles, such as point of view, rhythm and mood. However, they differ in styles, such as plot, setting and characters. Edgar Allan Poe…

Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a prototype for the modern-day film. Although the story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, has an influence on today’s film there is some major difference between film presented to adult and children. Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow is an extreme example of this difference. In Burton’s telling of the story,…

or not known in a particular place. In the movie, Edward Scissorhands by Tim Burton, the main character, Edward is viewed as a stranger amongst the 1950’s conventional town. Edward stands out due to the setting the town creates. It’s your typical suburbia, houses all in pastel colors exactly the same as one another, the men all leave and come home at the same time as each other in a car the same color as their house. Burton tried to express a neighborhood that embodied the typical issues…

The story was inspired by the new era of time after the American Revolution (1765-1783) and how this varied with the times before and during this significant event. The film, Sleepy Hollow is an adaptation of the short story. It was directed by Tim Burton and published in 1999. It stars Jonny Depp as Ichabod Crane, Christina Ricci as Katrina Van Tassel and Christopher Walken as the Headless Horseman. Though there are some similarities, there are many differences between these two works. This…

"Welding with Children" by Tim Grauteaux is an easy read and has a humorous feel throughout, but also brings light to social issues, such as children being raised without fathers. Burton is father to four unwed daughters which have one child each. While babysitting his grandchildren one Tuesday afternoon, Burton notices the impact that not having both parents has on the children 's lives. Throughout his story, Gautreaux ties in the acting out of the children with being raised without their…

"Tell-Tale Heart" and "Sweeney Todd" Literary Analysis One of the many themes of "Tell-Tale Heart" is psychological obsession. This ties into the Tim Burton movie, “Sweeney Todd”. In "Tell-Tale Heart", the main character tries to convince the reader of his sanity after just killing an old man out of paranoia. He struggles with an internal conflict and obsession over the old man's blue- gray eye. He struggles with this fixation throughout the short story. Both stories are based…

When most people think of Tim Burton, the first thing that comes to mind is something of creepiness, or with a grim undertone to it. This is a widespread perception when taking into consideration the sense of wicked otherworldliness built up in his films. Many different stylistic characteristics contribute to this feeling through the use of different cinematic techniques. One common idea throughout Burton’s films is the misfit. The main personality is always considered strange and different from…

Tim Burton incorporates the technique of lighting in another one of his films, Edward Scissorhands, to construct the distinction in the fact that Edward will always have that strange, innocent quality about him. For instance, there is high key lighting on the perfect houses in the perfect neighborhood, compared to Edward’s mansion on the hill. Enhancing the difference between Edward and everybody else. His house is dark, black, and gloomy which reflects on his personality as well. Edward doesn’t…

increasing popularity by appearing in many features before re-joining with Burton in the lead role of Ed Wood (1994). In 1997 he played an undercover FBI agent in the fact-based film Donnie Brasco (1997), opposite Al Pacino; in 1998 he appeared in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), directed by Terry Gilliam; and then, in 1999, he appeared in the sci-fi/horror film El engendro (1999). The same year he teamed up again with Burton in La leyenda del jinete sin cabeza (1999), brilliantly…