A Good Number Of Films Produced By Tim Burton Prompt Similar Themes Of Dark Satire And Grisly Outcomes

Indisputably, Tim Burton has one of the world’s most distinct styles when regarding film directing. His tone, mood, diction, imagery, organization, syntax, and point of view within his films sets him apart from other renowned directors. Burton’s style can be easily depicted in two of his most highly esteemed and critically acclaimed films, Edward Scissorhands and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Burton ingeniously incorporates effective cinematic techniques to convey a poignant underlying message to the audience. Such cinematic techniques are in the lighting and editing technique categories. High key and low key relationships plus editing variations evinces the director’s elaborate style. He utilizes these cinematic techniques to

Tim Burton is one of the most unusual and unique directors of our time. He brings characters to life by putting them in a habitat they don’t belong. His movies “Alice in Wonderland”, “The Corpse Bride”, “Charlie and the chocolate factory”, and “Edward Scissorhands” all demonstrate how one of a kind his movies are. Using cinematic techniques, Tim Burton points out the misfit character and shows how different they are then everyone else. His use of camera angles, lighting, and sound give the viewers a different perspective on the movies, and help pick out the individual character.

The well-respected and established director Tim Burton has always been credited for the uniqueness of his many films. In one of his most popular movies, Alice in Wonderland (2010), he reveals his true potential as a filmmaker and a modern allegorical poet. Within Alice in Wonderland (2010) and many more of his works, Burton uses a wide variety of stylistic techniques, including setting, point of view, narratemes and archetypes. Carl Jung’s archetypes contribute vitally towards the development of a well written story and greatly contribute toward the success of Tim Burton’s films. Tim used this technique to his advantage, in a way which some would call genius.

Sweeney Todd is composed by the spectacular Stephen Sondheim, and this production was directed by John Doyle in 2005. This Musical is about a barber Benjamin Barker/Sweeney Todd who’s sent away by Judge Turpin because he wanted Todd’s wife. Todd is told by his friend Mrs. Lovett that his wife died and his daughter Johanna is being kept by Turpin who is planning to marry her. Todd vows that he will take revenge on The Judge. As Sweeney awaits his revenge, he works as a barber and kills his clients while Mrs. Lovett runs a meat pie shop and uses the people Todd kills for the pies. I will be discussing the performances and the way the pieces are written. Therefore, I will not be able to talk about each track.

The main problem that Todd faces is the struggle to maintain a sense of self-confidence as a result of living under his older brother’s shadow of success. Instead of becoming a lawyer like what his father expects, he has a passion for writing which contradicts with his father’s anticipation. However, unlike Neil, he keeps these thoughts and ideas to himself and dares not to speak them out loud to his parents. He remains obedient whether or not his opinions match theirs. There were various obstacles that prevented him from delivering his thoughts and he was often labeled as shy or timid. He was unable to present the well-prepared poem he wrote in front of the entire class due to these traits and the lack of self-confidence but Mr. Keating recognizes his strengths as well as his potential to do something marvelous. By using unusual techniques, Mr. Keating was able to bring out his potential and he receives one of the first applauses which was the beginning of his emerging confidence. It was evident that he debates against himself and requires a lot more courage to get up in front of everyone simply because he did not see the value in both himself and the work. The overall conflict is man vs. self and man vs. man. Most of the time he was bothered by himself for being pessimism and the fact that others have huge expectations on him due to his brother’s outstanding achievements.

Edward Scissorhands, written by Tim Burton, tells the tale of a young man who is lovable, childlike and sensitive, bewildered by the humanity around him, yet is terrifying- someone who has scissors, the deadly weaponry, for hands. Many viewers may read this film as a “Tim Burton” type of fairytale which includes both an alternative aspect and romance. However, through the presentation of mise-en-scene in this film, Burton drives in a much more serious subject of social criticism by establishing two different understandings of life in the movie.

Todd is dealing with insecurity and the courage to stand up for himself. On the other hand, Neil is under the pressure of his strict father. Both of them didn’t dare to make a change. However, Mr.Keating taught them ‘carpe diem’ which then changes their perspectives. In the beginning, Neil handles the idea far quicker than Todd which he later rebels his father by joining the play, but Todd was still insecure about the poem he wrote for class.

Todd has taken a step closer to entering manhood, and the knife has taken a step of having less power in his eyes. When Aaron is telling Todd to kill him, Viola takes the knife and kills him, “And gravity takes his body and he slumps sideways. Away from the pulpit. And over the edge. And disappears under the wall of water. Taking the knife with him” (Ness, 463). As soon as the knife and Aaron hit the ground, all of Todd’s superiority and power is lost and he becomes a man. Todd has humbled himself and that is the real definition of a man, and Todd has to learn that.

Keating forces him to create a poem on the spot in front of the class, although he is well-aware of Todd’s resistance to speak in front of others, after he write a poem on his own as requested. Mr. Keating questions Todd and installs him with a sense of confidence in his own abilities, “Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing. Isn't that right, Todd? Isn't that your worst fear? Well, I think you're wrong. I think you have something inside of you that is worth a great deal”. Mr. Keating teaches Todd to think freely for himself and that these thoughts and opinions he has are valued. In the end, Todd becomes self-reliant, confident in himself and his ideas and beliefs. He does not conform to society and distinguishes himself amongst the rest, maintaining his own voice, and he overcomes his previous shy and isolated self, becoming a leader, when introduced to these ideas of individualism and

The character Sweeney Todd is introduced at the beginning of the movie sailing into a port located in London, England. In the opening scenes, an accompanying character is bright and cheery, which is met by Mr. Todd with anger and frustration. It is worth mentioning at this point that the entirety of the film is observed through a gray lens; skies are dark and colors are muted, portraying a depressed atmosphere. We learn later in the film that this depressive state is as result of past events, specifically that

Effective diction has played a huge role by developing Todd's mood, the environment and his feelings towards Manchee. Literary devices have played a big part by advancing the events that took place near the swamp, and structural devices have played a part refining the passage with repetition, a run on sentence and a sentence fragment. This passage has been modified and adjusted by effective diction, literary devices and structural devices. This passage enhances one of the major themes in this book which is loss of innocence. Todd has slowly been losing his innocence throughout the book. This passage represents the theme of loss of innocence because you hear Todd say the eff word as it is referred to, as he gets smacked by Aaron. Another example of when he represented the loss of innocence was when he gets so mad and just starts revealing his true feelings and says he hates everybody. This is not an act of

The play Sweeney Todd has been performed on numerous stages since 1979. The 1982 version of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, was directed by Harold Prince. Unfortunately, I watched a recoded production of the play; the recoding took place in 1982 but was based off the 1979 production. Over all my impression of Sweeney Todd, is that the play has a bitter-sweet tone that supports all the killing, lying, and deceiving that goes on in the play just so that Sweeney Todd could get his so called revenge.

In the Sweeny Todd, we find Todd, to have murdered a barber whom he considered being a rival. He did this after he was threatened to be revealed. As the way, Mrs. Lovett puts it, that they turned the dead man's frame into something which was edible. At that same moment, there is a young Todd’s shipment which was also a rescuer who had fallen in love with Jayne Wisner, who was the barber's daughter. Todd had tried to do away with the turn through the chance which he got when Anthony entered but when he failed he decided to take out his rage on the numerous other gentlemen hence providing the meat for Mrs. Lovett’s booming pie business. In the process, the young couples conspire on the way that will escape.

Many people want to be different from others, but in reality, only some people stand out in the real world. Tim Burton was one of those people, he was not normal compared to his classmates and the children around him, which made him unique. Burton’s upbringing helped create his own style of directing. In his movies, by using characterization and visualization helps convey that the abnormal is preferable to the status quo.

In the words of Tim Burton, “One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.” This is the truth for the magical movies he has put together. Burton grew up different from others; he was an outcast from the people around him. Enjoying B movies, he would watch them a great deal. Out of all the characters, Burton preferred the monsters or strange creatures. Some inspirations to him are Edgar Allen Poe, Roald Dahl, and Vincent Price. He frowns upon conformity, for he prefers individuality. What is normal to Burton could be completely wild to another. In Tim Burton’s distinctive films, he uses symbolism and the comparison of individuality and conformity to emphasize the purity of an outsider.