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Comparing Tim Burton's Film Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

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“What makes you feel better when you feel terrible,” questions Willy Wonka, a middle-aged adult who hasn’t seen his father in many years one of the main characters of Tim Burton’s film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. “My family,” answers young Charlie Bucket. Tim Burton has directed many movies, included here are Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish, and Edward Scissorhands, and they all include some struggle with love. This commonality is not surprising, as Tim Burton has just recently struggled in a relationship with Helena Boneham Carter, which ended in 2014. She, along with two other women have been romantically involved with Tim, but the relationships never lasted. His personal hurt and experiences have leaked into his film directing, …show more content…

The scene where this greatly stands out is when Edward who receives an illness, is lying in bed, grey and weak, and Will stands over him, so Tim Burton has Edward set in a high angle shot. Will then discusses why he could never speak to his father after the night of the argument. Tim Burton displays Edward as weak and frail through the high angle shot to finally allow for Will to come and see that he no longer is that “center of the universe,” and that Will feels comfortable rekindling that broken father-son relationship. Once Burton felt the film finally got to a point where Will had accepted his father who was about to die, this moment showed that needed vulnerability to build trust again. Burton kindled this trust back into a loving, nice relationship so that both were satisfied with the refound love they had for each other before Edward’s death. Ultimately in all films, Tim uses these low to high angles to reveal the growing love as people make strides to connect with outcasts such as Edward Scissorhands, Willy Wonka, and even Edward Bloom, and they start to build bonds with each

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