Tim Daly

Tim Burton is a very famous director that has many exceptional works. Some of his greatest include: Beetlejuice, The Nightmare before Christmas, Alice in Wonderland, Charlie’s Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, (most all of them have Johnny Depp in them). There is a lot of talk going on right now about Tim Burton’s new movie, “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”. Tim Burton is an incredible director with award winning films, so what makes this one any different? Burton’s newest movie

In Gothic narratives and films they involve a desire to grapple with the terrifying unknown and, for Tim Burton, this dark abyss lies beneath the neat lawns and painted bungalows of ‘normal’ suburban life. Tim Burton, in Edward Scissorhands uses shot reverse shot to demonstrate the inventor and edward talking. For example, the shot reverse shot of him showing edward the hands creates an uncomfortable feeling for him. The scene where edward killed the inventor on accident actually shows the hands

Tim Horton in Albania I would give this advice to Tim Hortons that they should open the store in Albania. The country is an upper-middle income economy. Also, the main demographic of Albania is 25-54 years which would enjoy coffee. Tim Horton adds more competition to the local coffee shops and help boost the local economy. There the Tim Hortons could gain access to different customers, better suppliers, stronger capital and local labour. The company would have to learn about the culture, and time

Big Fish is a film that jumps between past and present to relay the fantastical stories and adventures of Edward Bloom. This film presents these stories through various flashbacks as his son, Will Bloom, tries to piece together the man his father claims to be. As the flashbacks unfold, stunning cinematography, lighting and colours are used to create beautiful and enchanting scenes that really complete the movie. The sequence I chose to analyse is the town scene in which Edward comes to the realisation

Edward Scissorhands (1990) is Tim Burton’s cheesy twisted recreation of Frankenstein set in the sixties. The main character, Edward – played by Johnny Depp, was a creation of an old lonely inventor who lived in a dark castle on a hill, overshadowing a small colourful suburb. The inventor died of a heart attack before he could complete Edward, leaving his ‘son’ alone in a world he knows only by tattered newspaper clippings. When Peg Boggs – played by Diane West, finds him alone in the castle, she

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,

Tim Burton is a director who takes pride into his precious work. Burton’s films, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, and Alice in Wonderland, use cinematic techniques that show his personal style. His style is joyful as in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when Charlie wins the ticket, funny like Edward Scissorhands in the scene when Edward is greeted in the new town and he does not know how to act normal for the people, and a bit unusual in Alice in Wonderland when Alice had

Edward Scissorhands, directed by Tim Burton is a story about a monster (or outsider) who enters into the so called peaceful neighbourhood and disturbs the calm. the message of isolation and alienation is shown through the colour, costume/makeup and setting that are used through the film. The costume and make-up in “Edward Scissorhands” is used generate feeling and emotions in the audience. There are major differences in what Edward wears and looks like and what the humans wear and look like. The

books and stories are made into motion pictures. Tim Burton, well distinguished for his playful and nightmarish style on stories, uses sound, lighting, and camera movement in his films to connect his audience to the characters and to understand the mood in each scene. Sound communicates the mood, and cues characters or the next scene and the emotion that would be experienced by the characters. The use of non-diegetic sound in each scene of Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory conveys

In “Big Fish”, Daniel Wallace utilizes water as a recurring theme to reveal that Edward Bloom truly represents the book's title. The story of Big Fish has had a great deal of meaning in my life because I was just in the First Stage production last spring which was a retelling of the 1998 tale. The novel Big Fish revolves around Edward Bloom, a well known teller of tales, and his middle-aged son William, a pessimistic businessman who is out on a quest to find the true meaning of his father's massive