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    Crime Comes Punishment Although the movies Tim Burton directs have various plots, they all have one thing in common, their theme. In the movies, Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Beetlejuice, Burton uses music and sound, costuming, editing, and props to emphasize the theme of crime and punishment. Burton portrays that if one does something they know they shouldn’t do or are told not to do, their actions have consequences. Burton uses numerous other cinematic techniques…

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    Tim Burton uses lighting,sound,editing and camera angles to give off a desired effect of suspense,suspicion and curiosity. Working for Disney just wasn't cutting it for this freakishly amazing writer. Tim Burton uses the most basic cinematic methods but yet at the same time he turns the most typical into the most unique, colorful, vibrant and astonishing artistry that this world has come to known and love. Tim Burton has a very diverse style of film that makes everyone's jaw drop in awe.…

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    Tim Burton is a well known director that effectively uses cinematic techniques such as lighting, camera angle, and sound to create a unique and different mood and tone. Lighting in films gives people an important image that controls the way they feel about that moment of the movie. Tim Burton uses this cinematic technique in his films to control the mood. For instance in his film Edward Scissorhands he uses high key lighting when we are first seeing the neighborhood and the people…

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    Dead Sexist Fish Crap: A Film Review of Tim Burton’s Big Fish Big Fish shows Will (Billy Crudup) trying to discern whether his father’s fantastic stories are true, or if he was having an affair on his mother. Throughout Will’s life, his father, Edward Bloom (Ewan McGregor and Albert Finney) has told him absurd stories from his life. While Will was enchanted with these stories as a small child, he now holds an extreme amount of resentment towards his father and suspects him of having an affair…

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    Tim Burton has more experience as director rather than an author with setting the mood or tone. In the movies that he directs, such as, “Edward Scissorhands” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” he used his demented past to put a different spin on the setting and characters. Tim Burton uses camera angles, sound, and camera movement to make the scene or entire movie feel eerie. He does this to give viewers an experience they will not forget. Mr. Burton uses camera angles to make scenes more…

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    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…

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    screenwriter Tim Burton. Tim Burton is known for dozens of films such as the acclaimed dark romantic fantasy film, Edward Scissorhands (1990), Beetlejuice (1987), Batman (1989) just to name a few. Growing up, Tim Burton felt different from other kids so art became his escape, drawing characters that reflected his feelings of insecurities and awkwardness. Burton created characters that were misunderstood and socially awkward just like Edward Scissorhands and a reflection of his own youth. Tim…

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    Timothy Walter Burton more commonly known as Tim burton is a Painter, Screenwriter, Illustrator, Author, Director, and Producer. Born in 1958, in the city of Burbank, California, to parents Jean and Bill Burton. Burton had a painful childhood in which the relationship with his parents and brother was nonexistent. Through his perception of isolation, he began to develop his visual talents. The content Burton found in hobbies such as writing and drawing led him to attend the California Institute…

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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…

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    and even Edward Scissorhands Tim Burton has made films that have became huge hits across the country. When watching these movies, the audience may notice many different types of lighting, music and sounds, and camera angles, from cheery to gloomy then dismay. Tim Burton wants the audience to feel these feelings to have a connection with the character he’s made. To begin, Burton manipulates camera angles and framing to catch and connect the audience to the film. Burton clearly shows this…

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