Tim Burton Archetypes

Tim Burton has directed movies like Charlie and the chocolate factory, Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, and many more. He is known for his unique style which is dark humor. He uses many techniques to create different moods or feelings you wouldn't usually feel .Tim Burton uses flashback, shot'reverse'shot, and camera movements to create different types of mood.

The creation of Tim Burton's style is more complex than what meets the eye. There are many components within each film that help develop his style. In one case, Burton uses many different cinematic techniques throughout his films to create his dark, eerie style.

Since society judges people based on how they are on the outside, people often feel that to be happy, they have to conform to society’s standards. There are people who are affected by the rules of society, and there are those who are not. Tim Burton is one of these people, because he went against the grain, and decided that he didn’t need to go along with society to be happy. Burton uses imagery, long shot, and juxtaposition in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands to show that people don’t have to conform to society’s standards to be content.

Strange, grim, and unlikely is what most people would describe Tim Burton’s style of writing and his movies. Tim Burton grew up fascinated with fairy tales and the supernatural. He presents a darker version of children stories. He has written books such as “James and the Giant Peach” that were a hit but he also makes movies which use a variety of cinematic techniques in every movie. Tim Burton effectively uses variety of cinematic techniques to evoke emotion in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, and Edward Scissorhands.

Inspired by Roald Dahl and Vincent Price, director Tim Burton is easily one of the most remarkable and creative directors of his generation. Burton has a unique and individual way of challenging the minds of viewers and attracting individuals to his films, and has been using this technique for over 30 years. His ways persuade the audience to change the mood they have toward the film. In the films Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, and Big Fish Director Tim Burton uses cinematic and editing techniques such as lighting, sound, and flashbacks in order to enhance the mood and feelings of viewers.

Unearthly, inspiring, mystifying, childlike, unbelievable, these adjectives describes director Tim Burton’s use cinematic style. Tim Burton is an innovative and imaginative director which as directed movies such as Edward Scissor Hands, Big Fish, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Tim Burton has been mesmerizing viewers of his films with his unique stylistic techniques. Many can agree Tim Burton has an extraordinary and bizarre gift in the directing business, which makes the viewers emotions twist and creates a feeling that wouldn’t normally be created by the film. In many Tim Burton’s films, Tim Burton uses lighting, music and sound, and shots to create a mix emotions for the viewer to have.

Tim Burton is a famed director known for his notorious, dark and adventurous movies. His films reflect the nature of unfortunate people and their stories, revealing their experiences— creating complex yet commonly known morals. Some of Tim Burton’s movies include, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, and Big Fish. These fast pace movies have similar types of styles in which Burton manipulates and incorporates multiple times. His techniques of storytelling in these 3 films are developed with editing, lighting, and camera angles, to captivate the audience, and to express his own distinctive style of deep and eerie.

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.

He breaks the rule of using only one point of view without clear transitioning. The radical contrast in his settings is also an example of how he uses unexpected techniques in his films. His use of reoccurring motifs, either subliminal or relevant to the story itself, is another example of how his unorthodox techniques are so effective. Because of these techniques, audiences know what to expect from a Tim Burton movie—a masterpiece. Burton’s films show the viewers a glimpse of who he is by acknowledging the weirdness of his characters; even the strangest of characters are and can still be human. It is not the witty lines or the dark comedy of it all that makes his films memorable but the fact that he shares his soul, his personal imaginative mind with the rest of the world. Burton’s films are like a time capsule of his life; they define his life. Every generation needs someone to lead the weirdly eccentric… misfits of society. The 1960’s had Andy Warhol and this generation has Tim

Many themes are explored when reading Lewis Carrol’s, Alice in Wonderland. Themes of childhood innocence, child abuse, dream, and others. Reading the story, it was quite clear to see one particular theme portrayed through out the book: child to adult progression. Alice in Wonderland is full of experiences that lead Alice to becoming more of herself and that help her grow up. It’s a story of trial, confusion, understanding, and success. And more confusion. Though others might argue that the story was distinctly made for children just to get joy out of funny words, and odd circumstances, the tale has obvious dynamics that confirm the fact of it being a coming of age story.

“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.

Issues concerning her size, identity, and her social exchanges with both Wonderland and its creatures spur and characterize Alice’s development towards becoming a young woman.

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.

Do you ever notice in stories, the female characters tend to be weak and sometimes have a mentor to guide them? Alice Adventures in Wonderland turned the tables on this type of character and made a strong, lively character Alice. Carroll disregarded the traditional plot lines and development of characters of his time by creating an empowered Alice, who overcomes the challenges in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Not only does Alice face different challenges through the story she also faces her pre-teen years of emotional and developmental stages. We can argue that Carroll disobeyed the normal childhood innocence by taking away Alice’s innocence because she had to go through Wonderland, facing different challenges that made her a strong

Based on the children’s literary work written by Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland is a fictional film that was directed by Tim Burton.  The film is set in Wonderland inside of Alice’s dream, so viewers are able to recognize the lack of order and the fantasies of children.  One of the major themes seen in the movie is childhood, specifically the development into adulthood, which is depicted in other characters besides Alice.  Alice, however, is used as the primary symbol for what children in the Victorian Age should not ideally act like, since they were expected to dress properly and attain a certain level of education.  Furthermore, Sigmund Freud’s dream theory and tripartite give further insight into the characters and what they represented during the Victorian Age. The id, ego, and the superego are applied to the unconscious and conscious mind states, and how the unconscious state is still somewhat available during a conscious state.  In Alice in Wonderland, psychoanalysis is used to portray the Red Queen as the id, the Absolem