Edward Scissorhands Comparison

For me, cinema is a grand art form that comprises elements from all other arts, including literature, photography, music, theatre and many more. When watching a film you can mute the audio and still view it as an artform. The opposite is also true; the screen can be turned off and the art itself purely listened to but not just the score. The dialogue can be listened to as well, much like an audiobook or an adaptation from a screenplay. Cinema is one of the most internationally mainstream forms of entertainment. The visionary artist and filmmaker Georges Méliès (1861-1938) changed the way films were perceived, focussing on telling fictional stories and creating visual effects by means of illusionistic technical achievements, which undermined

The motives and reliability of the storyteller are automatically in question.”

Looking at narrative in cinema the aim of this essay will be to examine and define the treatment of the past and present in different narrative art forms. I will be comparing the film “Edward Scissorhands” (1990) directed by Tim Burton, the advertisement for the Metz schnapps-based alcoholic drink by Bacardi, “The Judderman" (2000) and the videogame “The Darkness” (2007) developed by Starbreeze Studios and published by 2K. The events have already 'happened' so to speak. Someone is telling the story about the past but it is playing out in front of the audience in the present. One of the earliest examples of the story within a story concept in cinema dates from 1952 with the American musical comedy film Singin’ in the Rain directed by Gene Kelly. Singin’ in the Rain is about a group of actors learning to cope with the rise of the “talkies”, which was the first step incorporating synchronized dialogue in film, also known as talking pictures. Don Lockwood rises to stardom