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Tim Burton's Use Of Transitions In The Film Big Fish

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There are many transitions in the film Big Fish. A film transition is a switch between a setting, character, narrator, lighting, music, etc. that helps set the mood, view, and aspects of the film itself. Tim Burton does a phenomenal job of his use of transitions in this film, he is able to make the film well structured due to these. Thus a great transition is that of the swap of narrators throughout the entire film. Afterall it is these transitions that give us many different details of the story, emotions of each character, and struggles each go through, this is mainly showed by Will and Edwards narration showing their conflict. Furthermore another great transition is that of the music in Spectre. Near the end of Edward 's first visit to Spectre

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