Emotions In Tim Burton's Films

In the novella of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Stevenson uses the backdrop of utter darkness and fog in almost every scene to allude to the uncertainty, compulsiveness, and hidden mysterious that are in every aspect of human nature, demonstrated through the complex character that is Mr Hyde. The evilness that Stevenson believed every human possessed was thoroughly exemplified through Hydes actions in the story whether the reader noticed it or not. Symbolized through setting, the complete darkness was the uncertainty of Hydes physical appearance to who ever he encountered. Although his victims could feel his brutal cruelness through the vibe let out through those certain characters opposing senses besides sight. Fog was the uncertainty that goes

“And I, Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing.” Jack the Pumpkin King from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas is tired of his world being so repetitive; he was ready for something new, something exciting. Tim Burton creates movies that are new and exciting. His stories are never ordinary, and his use of cinematic elements is extraordinary. He expertly uses lighting, editing, camera angles, and sound and music to pull out a wide variety of emotions from joy, to sorrow, to curiosity from viewers in films such as: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, and Big Fish.

Reading this Essay May Give You Bad Luck Mark Twain uses Superstition in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to show how uneducated Huck and Jim are. Huck is uneducated because he is still a child, and Jim is uneducated because he is a slave. Huck is Superstitious because he doesn’t believe in religion, where as Jim is superstitious because he doesn’t know any better. Three superstitious symbols throughout the novel are the spider, the hairball, and the birds. All of these symbols changed the characters action throughout the novel.

In both Batman and the Dunkirk trailer Nolan forces us to think about who is the hero of the film and if they may also be the anti-hero. By having the British and French seemed trapped in every way it immediately makes them seem innocent. The trailer shows the enemy picking them off slowly but surely making the opposing side, Germans (the anti-heroes).However, saying that there is still no definite hero for Dunkirk. It is no longer possible, in the world created by Nolan, to have traditional heroes or villains. In many of Nolan’s films, a main character starts off with redeeming qualities only to be shown later as having evil qualities.

In the beginning, when Peg is walking through his mansion, the music is dark and mysterious, misleading you into thinking something bad is about to happen, but throughout the scene, the sound starts to take on a more quirky tone. This quirkiness helps you understand Edward and his disposition. The sound that Burton incorporates into his films is a very important part to understanding his movies and his personal

A young man named Tom suffers an act of hypnosis which leads him onto hallucinating a young woman and feeling excruciating pain. A movie is also based off of it, but it drastically differs from the original book. The plot holds a large difference,

He uses lighting and editing techniques in his scenes to give you movies that shed a new light on the way we perceive the characters and scenes. Mr.Burton uses lighting in all of his movies to really show you it’s his movies because the way he uses it adds a spin to how we view it. In Charlie in the Chocolate Factory he portrays Charlie’s house as a dark dilapidated building that looks abandon like no one could live there or something could be lurking there. When he then shows us the inside it is run down and sparsely lit but it has the most loving, wise, and caring characters. Protagonist characters are not usually displayed to be living in such rundown low conditions but Burton uses this to his advantage to depict his message of don’t judge a book by it’s cover.

The male antagonists throughout the evolution of Little Red Riding Hood interpret self-imbalance within a school-age child as well as the significance of a reverse gender role model during the stage. Stepping out the protection and all the restriction beneath the single female parental image, the presence of the opposite gender profoundly enchants preschool-age girls. Wolves, under Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s “Little Red Cap” written in 1857, reveal the naive bourgeois girl pays for her foolishness

Dorothy grew very angry and she picked up a bucket of water and "dashed" it over the witch. The Witch instantly melts away killing the last Evil Witch in the Land of Oz and fulfilling the Great Wizards

Tim Burton is known for his comical but suspenseful films. Some of his best known movies were Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, and Edward Scissorhands. Similar literature films can have less of meaning and surround around fantasy beliefs. Tim Burton uses the format of film to pull the spectator in and to teach some type of life lesson. In the two films Edward Scissorhands and Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, but relies on cinematic techniques such as editing and camera angles.

For Miriam, she used fear to control Mrs. Miller, especially when she slammed the vase to the floor when Mrs. Miller would not kiss her good-bye. All three of these children show a proclivity towards violence, that ends in a gruesome death for George and Lydia Hadley. The reader is unsure of Mrs. Miller’s fate, but if it is anything like the rest of the story, Mrs. Miller is in for more terror from Miriam. These children controlled the adults to get what they

Tim Burton uses his mysterious and creepy characteristics and expressed it through his film Edward Scissorhands Burton uses his unique style of editing that helps understand the main character’s, Edward’s, background. In comparison with the editing the sound helps understand the meaning of certain part such as the suspense of what would happen to Edward in the end. The costuming was a peculiar choice, it shows how in the town there was a lot of colors, but, Edward wore an all black steam punk like clothing showing how he was different. Therefore Tim Burton’s character, Edward, is a somewhat reflection of himself. Like Burton he has an imagination in order to create “art”, and the style of clothing is alike to that of Burton’s.

Burton has directed things like Edward Scissorhands, Alice in Wonderland, and Charlie in the Chocolate Factory. Tim Burton uses his films to show how when one overcomes his or her fears of being different they have the potential for success. Color contradictions are used in many of Burton’s films in order to make things stand out more than others. For example, in the movie Edward Scissorhands, Edward wears dark clothing and does not fit into the brightly tinted town. Burton does this to show how Edward is different from other people.

Tim Burton is a well renowned director, who has been contributing to the movie-making world since the 1980s. As a director, Tim Burton uses his twisted and creative mind to create these fantastical worlds with unique, larger-than-life characters that in a way reflect reality. Throughout his films, Tim Burton uses music and sound, editing techniques and shots and framing to control the audience’s emotions and make them relate reality to his outlandish movie universes. To start, Tim Burton uses music and sound to intensify the raw, emotional moments in his films. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, diegetic sound of the people talking about the last kid finding the golden ticket was used as Charlie was walking down the street.

Sinister, although it is a person or thing trying to bring harm or misfortune, sinister may get a bad rap considering a man who has made his career being sinister. Tim Burton is a director of many children movies, but the movie he makes aren’t exactly your average children’s movies. Burton is the master of making your average nice children’s movies into the most sinister children’s movies ever. Burton directed moves like Edward Scissorhands, Alice in Wonderland, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In a majority of these Burton films, Burton chooses to portray a common theme that embracing your unique attributes is the ultimate key to success.