“My dearest friend, if you don’t mind, I’d like to join you by your side, where we can gaze into the stars and sit together, now and forever. For it is plain to see, we’re simply meant to see.”-Tim Burton. This quote is by a famous movie director. His name is Tim Burton. This quote is from a movie he created The Nightmare Before Christmas. This movie brings a lot of traditions to a lot of families. Tim Burton created movies, he had a fear of chimpanzees, and persisted through the way and made wonderful and dark movies.
Tim Burton is a movie director or a movie maker. He makes some dark movie like The Nightmare Before Christmas and the Corpse Bride. He also, worked with the Walt Disney Studios. He created his own version of Frankenweenie. He failed a lot with making the movies. For an example, The
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Nightmare Before Christmas the clay had to work with the take. It took him about ten weeks to just to make all of the different faces. So Tim Burton's life was devoted to making movies and working hard. Tim Burton was afraid of chimpanzees.
So to overcome his fear he made a movie called Planet of the Apes. He is so amazing that he made a movie of his fear. That movie helped him come over his fear. Tim Burton also, had really bad anxiety problems. So he made movies to relax him. Tim Burton's anxiety was so bad he has had multiple mental break-downs. He also, suffers from bipolar disorder, but that helps him make his wild movies like Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, and The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Tim Burton brings us movies like, Dark Shadows and Alice in Wonderland. he brings us happiness and joy. He used the habit of mind, Persisting. He always tried and never gave up. in his movies he had some failures but he had to overcome them. like in planet of the apes he overcame kind of overcame his fear of chimpanzees. his movies are important to the world because families like to enjoy his movies.
“One person's crazyness is another person's reality.” - Tim Burton. Tim burton is an inspiring person. He has made a lot of movies including The Nightmare Before Christmas, Dark Shadows, and Alice In Wonderland. He is a wonderful movie director and producer. Tim
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Tim Burton: Exuberant, unique, witty, with his movies bring smiles to faces all around, young and old. The talents this man has are numerous; the films directed flawlessly.
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 establish tone mood, and imagery in the films.
Tim Burton is a creative director when he directs gothic movies. This essay talks about the cinematic techniques that Burton uses in the movies, Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Alice in Wonderland. Tim Burton uses shots and framing, sound, and lighting, to make a dark and gothic movies. He tries to make you feel a special way, in a certain scene, in his movies, by his different techniques.
Good Morning Teachers and students. Today I will be exploring Tim Burton’s creative world, and how he looks closely at the outsider character to deepen our understanding of the world. You might wonder why it is that Burton so consistently portrays outsider characters in his films. As an Auteur, he strives to show us the outsider in a more familiar and close up way, and comments on the way that conformity can often lead to unhappiness. Burton chooses to show the outsider to us using a mixture of Gothic and German Expressionistic elements, such as the
Tim Burton’s films depict his lashing back from a tortured childhood. Somehow, his movies tell his story. His first big budget movie, Batman, was a huge hit. He then chose to make Edward Scissorhands, his most personal film. Despite the fact that Batman was a hit, movie executives were reluctant to give Burton authorization. His use of cinematic techniques displays his unique style.
in the story his plot varied from the one in the written version. Burton was successful in
Tim Burton directed many of the famous movie like “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” or “Edward Scissorhands” as a director. He uses many of the cinematic techniques to establish moods and tones. The moods and tones of his movies are dark and sometimes interesting because of his experience and influence from Walt Disney and Dr.Seuss. Tim Burton uses lighting, sound and zoom to establish his own unique gothic style.
... Here, the prospect of future families is portrayed as despicable, warning the audience to avoid education as such. Tim Burton extensively uses clothes, music, camera angles, and others to convey to the audience a theme of family, reflecting his personal, unique, avant-garde style. Leading one of the newest and most sought-after genres of filmmaking, Tim Burton has created a collection of movies and films, all full to the brim with his avant-garde touch. Using exaggeration in cinematic techniques and repetition of particular themes, Burton shows how “Burton” he is to the rest of the world.
Tim Burton, a well respected director, made successful movies such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, and Alice in Wonderland because of the specific techniques he uses in the films. One of the keys to Burton’s success includes his mastery use of particular techniques such as lighting or sound at the right moment. This helps create Burton’s intended tone and mood for the audience. Throughout the course of his movies,Tim Burton uses a variety of different lighting, sound, and editing techniques to convey the common theme that taking risks can result in a beneficial change.
On August 25, 1958, Timothy Walter Burton was born (“Biography”). Burton had a painful childhood in which the relationship with his parents and brother was nonexistent (Morgenstern). Through his intense feeling of isolation, his visual talent began to develop. The comfort found in hobbies such as writing and drawing led him to attend the California Institute of the Arts which led him to his first job in any artistic field at the Disney Animation Studios (“Biography”). Burton has since been referred to as one of the most visually gifted writers, artists, and filmmakers that America has seen (Hanke). His short stories, poems, and film scripts are centered on an inner darkness which he has been slowly acquiring since his childhood. He throws himself into everything he writes and makes even the simplest characters have a deep, complex meaning. His famous darkness and symbolism is shown in his book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories. The book contains a collection of his short stories, poems, and illustrations about a variety of fictional characters that can be compared to Burton and his life. Tim Burton’s home life and previous hardships have made a significant impact on his work. In my paper, I will draw parallels to his life and work as well as prove that there is reasoning and beauty in the way he is.
Director Tim Burton has led an interesting life, dealing with fantasy, versus reality. Or, what is normal and abnormal. Burtons very unique style of directing has been put throughout his Hollywood produced movies using cinematic techniques such as sound/music, camera shots, and color. These techniques were used in Burtons popular movies such as “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, “Edward Scissorhands”, and “Alice in Wonderland”, “Nightmare before Christmas”, and many more.
“Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else’s dreams?” These are the words of Tim Burton, a renowned director who plays by his own rules when creating a story for the big screen. Growing up different from most kids, Burton was influenced by many unique people and movies such as Edgar Allen Poe, Dr. Seuss, and German Expressionist films. He used their styles to create many memorable films himself, such as Edward Scissorhands and Alice in Wonderland. In these recognizable blockbusters, like most of Burton’s movies, the use of satire and visual features are present to support the thematic concept of conformity vs. individuality.
Social outcasts and misfits are often overlooked in society in daily life, however, there are some who rise to glory. Movie director Tim Burton is one of those outcasts. While many people like him are shunned for their strange, and in Burton’s case, disturbing views and ideas, Burton rose to distinction with his creative ideas and movies. In Edward Scissorhands and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, some of the main characters have made strides to success, without standard social skills. In Edward Scissorhands and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Tim Burton uses high key lighting and long shots to show that while some people are affected by their isolation, some can emerge from it and become influential members of their
Director Tim Burton has directed many films. He started out working at Disney, but shortly after he decided to make his own films. He split away from Disney because they wouldn’t let him add the scariness and darkness he has in his films. After he left he created many great films and also developed his own style. He uses many cinematic techniques in his films for example he uses close-up camera angles on symbolic items, he uses music to show foreshadowing, and he uses lighting and color to show mood
Tim Burton said in an interview that when he was a kid he would watch all kind of monster movies. “My parents said I started watching those movies before I could even walk.”As a kid he loved horror movies and he liked drawing pictures. He said he did not care what people thought of his drawings and just drew them his own way. His drawings also show his love for horror because they are all unique and creepy looking. Some of his pictures are based on the movies he directed. He started directing at twenty years old. He was very interested in animation. One of his first films was Batman. Most of the films he directed have a gothic horror aspect. I believe since his childhood was all about horror movies, he gained an appreciation for those films and applied his passion in the films he directed. "Vincent Price, Edgar Allan Poe, those monster movies, those spoke to me. You see somebody going through that anguish and that torture –things you identify with –and it acts as a kind of therapy, a release. (Tim Burton 17).”Besides the fact that he watched horror movies, the place where he lived influenced him as well. The dark and light aspects of life have always fascinated Tim Burton, consistently arguing that one cannot exist without the other: ‘life is an incredible jumble of being funny and sad and dramatic and melodramatic and goofy and everything’. During his childhood in suburban Burbank, Burton found the