The, The Inner World Of The Outcast

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.

In usual fairytale movies, filmmakers intend to make films that give happy endings with simple miraculous entertainments. However, in the fable movie, Edward Scissorhand, the director, Tim Burton, positions the viewers to understand the significant meaning of particular issues. “E.S” is can be seen as a story of stereotypical suburbia with social criticism. In this essay, starting from analysing this film and providing dominant discourse, the use of characters will be discussed followed by debate of technical and symbolic codes which help to put up the discourse. In particular, this essay will consider the technical code of camera angle and symbolic codes of colour which emphasize the dominant discourse.

Clarkston, Georgia is a small town on the outskirts of Atlanta, home to many refugees from around the world. These refugees all migrated to Clarkston for many different reasons including war and diseases. For about the last twenty years Clarkston’s refugees have expanded to roughly one third of its population. This migration has caused many cultural differences as well as struggling businesses and racial discrimination. Author Warren Saint John discusses many challenges due to this migration through the Fugees, a soccer team of refugee boys. Outcasts United is a story showing that in order for a community of very different cultures to coexist there must be acceptance and compromises made by both the natives and the refugees so that they can all live in peace.

“One person’s crazyness is another person’s reality” was once said by the famous director, author, inspirer, Tim Burton. He creates films that have surprised many of his supporters. Most of the films he has directed have had elements of horror and modernness. Tim Burton uses cinematic techniques such as flashbacks, high key lighting, and dolly/tracking to express his style natural creepiness throughout his movies.

Tim Burtons gothically themes fairytale like story of an uncommonly gentle man in the film Edward Scissorhands, allows, through the eyes of Edward himself, the audience’s unconscious to live his emotions vicariously, allowing the exploration of our own society and anxieties. To analyse the heart of this film it must be looked at Edward’s own childhood misfortunes and consequences, the system of the society that deems him an unholy monster, and typical American relationships of the 1950’s.

The film ‘Edward Scissorhands’ by Tim Burton, is a modern day fairy tale which follows the story of Edward, a young man that is taken out of isolation and introduced into a new way of life. Although the film is for entertainment, that is not its sole purpose. The film has deep and rich themes, which convey many important messages to the audience. Some themes of the film include; conformity, appearances versus reality and individuality.

Tim Burton is the director behind a lot of well-known movies in the cinema. Most of it have a special effect of dark, mysterious, complicated feeling for the audience that linger for a long time. After Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, and Big Fish, it is proven how talented Mr. Burton is in driven the audience mood anywhere possible and impossible without any notices. Tim Burton movies have a unique style because he uses elements that both contrast and complement each other like fairy tales, dark and grotesque elements.

Tim Burton is a film director who has created many movies including Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Beetlejuice. These movies are all dark fantasies that use sounds, cinematic techniques, and camera movements to create mood throughout the text. The moods created help reveal the duality throughout Burton’s movies in order to ask the most important question, what makes something “human”? Throughout all of Tim Burton’s movies, diegetic and non-diegetic sounds create or enhance the feelings of the viewer.

Many fans and critics have praised Tim Burton for his cinematic works. Many would credit his fan base and success to his different and twisted sense of reality which stemmed from a childhood obsession with monster movies. However I would argue that his success stems from his masterful use of cinematic elements and techniques such as lighting sound along with camera movement and angles. Cinematic elements work side by side with literary elements to create emotion in a motion pictures audience. Evidence of Tim Burton’s mastery of these elements can be found in any of his works such as Batman, and Planet of the Apes, however some of the best examples are Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, and Corpse Bride.

In the 3 movies that we had watched over the last few weeks, I have learned a lot. Such as how Tim Burton uses sound, lighting, and editing to make his movies better and more interesting to the audience. In this essay, I will be telling you how Tim Burton has used these three cinematic techniques to describe scenes otherwise not able to in a book. The first technique that Tim Burton used was sound.

In this essay, I will analyze the use of cinematography and mise-en-scene in a five-minute extract from Tim Burton’s 1990’s dark fantasy film Edward Scissorhands. The film is set in 1990 and follows a young man named Edward, an unfinished creation exploring the world for the first time. In the scene I have chosen, the audience establishes difference between the suburban street and the gothic mansion and does it through the use of colour, deep focus and the use of props such as the dead branches or the gargoyles.

In my essay I am going to reference two films, Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Vincent (1982), directed by Tim Burton. Edward Scissorhands, is Tim Burton’s take on the Frankenstein story. We can clearly see the influences that have appealed to Tim Burton in the classic Frankenstein (1931) was not the character’s monstrousness appeal but the sense of sad sorrow that audiences sympathized to in Boris Karloff’s performance. Whereas in Tim Burton’s vision, we see a “Special” character as the Frankenstein Monster, in the similar way that we call people with disabilities Special. And then we have Vincent, a short stop-motion animation. The short film itself is an entertaining aspect of a suburban boy named Vincent who recites Edgar Ellen Poe and categorizes with Horror film star, Vincent Price. With similarities to Edward Scissorhands, the main character is a chance for Tim Burton to represent himself on the screen as a tortured boy, outsider and artist. I am going to discuss how cultural and psychological concerns are represented through characterization, art direction, cinematography, and sound. I will support my discussion by analyzing a reflection on both the similarities and differences between the two films, and whether a distinctive “Burton” signature (aesthetics, cultural and psychological concerns) is evident.

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.