The well-known director Tim Burton has been appealing audiences all around the world by creating creepy and mysterious feelings while also satisfying his audiences with fun childlike plot lines. Burtons style is shown throughout his many movies such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands and Corpse Bride. These movies and many more show the directors style as being creepy and mysterious, but also makes it enjoyable for children and families to watch. With the use of cinematic technique Tim Burton is able to create his spooky and addicting style. In the movies above, cinematic techniques are used through and through to portray that creepy, mysterious and dark style that Burton has conveyed through his many movies and Claymation's.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark When you were young and would to the library you would look for books that would give you an entraining story but yet you can learn from. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is one of the many books that the schools and the parents want to ban and protest against. With each story ranging from 1-3 pages each, the book includes all types of violence that is graphic and detailed causing kids reading this book to have nightmares and not being able to sleep at night. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark was published in 1981 by Alvin Schwartz but didn’t really become popular until the 90’s that’s when the parents and teachers picked up on stories included in the book. After coming out with 3 series in total, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark was the number one challenged book from 1990-1999 and was the 7th most challenged book from 2000-2009.
Walt Disney once said “I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should. Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality;” Rex and Mary Rose Walls lived by this quote.
When a person picks up a Horror Novel for the first time, they have no idea what is in store for them. Certainly they know the book will be quote unquote “scary”, but of course it will be scary. The sole purpose of that book is to scare the reader. Many horror books attempt but are unable to scare the reader, or if they do scare the reader, the book is not very well written. The three books that this essay is focusing on all do a brilliant job of not only terrifying the reader, but also using and exploiting many literary devices that make the book stick in the reader's memory.
“The truth is this: we all do battle with the darkness that is inside of us and outside of us. Stories that embody this truth offer great comfort because they tell us we do not do battle alone” (We Do Not, DiCamillo 9). Some people believe that children’s stories should not have darkness in them but Newberry Award Winner, Kate DiCamillo, believes the opposite. She believes that children, like ourselves need stories that reflect our personal experiences.
The first reason Stephen King’s article is agreeable is because all humans have some type of psychological problem. The human race may think they are flawless, but they are not. Humans enjoy watching horror films because it simply entertains them. Whether it is another person being chopped to death, drowned to death, or shot to death, people find these types of
What Should Society Really Fear? Reflecting on the human psyche, the monsters that make up nightmares consist of creatures like bloodsucking vampires, creepy clowns, and fiendish demons. These nightmares that children tend to have are typically when they are under high amplitudes of stress or change; not because the things they imagine are actually real. Although killer vampires are scary, the real thing children should fear is what they don’t know about themselves. Even though Beowulf and Lord of the Flies have a monster who terrorizes the characters throughout the novel, the real monsters they should fear are the ones inside themselves.
He found horror ‘terrifying, yet exhilarating” . King found scaring people enjoyable , yet “ socially acceptable because there were a lot of horror movies out there”(Green). No matter what caused King's infatuation with horror, King would go on to be one of the biggest influences on the horror genre as a whole. Instead of making horror an elusive topic, he put it right in front audience's faces with descriptive vocabulary and having his novels made into major motion pictures, a new concept for the time
The way Tim Burton makes his movies is very unique with the different types of techniques he does while filming. From the movies I watched he has filmed his mood/tones are a lot of confusion, dark, mystery, etc those type of moods. He thinks in a variously different way, for his children movies such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice in Wonderland, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, it is a horror and fantasy way for children. The way he creates these techniques and characters is very unique. He finds a way to make it scary but still appropriate and cheerful for little kids.
Disney and Dream-Works are some of the top movie choices for most children and parents, but what they do not realize is that it is
That’s why I say horror stories are bad for my age group. Another reason is one day a student probably have read the horror story that previous night and had a nightmare , and on that next day he came to school he thought everything and everybody was like the stuff in the horror story. Students wouldn’t know what to do after a horror story because they would be so freaked out. They’ll never want to read another horror story after the first one. That’s why I say horror stories are bad for you.
Fear plays a big part in everyone’s lives. While not everyone will admit it, everyone is scared of something. There is a lot that isn’t known about the world and everything in it. For some this is a tool that can be used to develop horror in literature as well as many other things. “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
“I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated in their own world,” said Tim Burton. In this quote it says how kids have a aura of isolation and still have an innocence that has yet to go because of believing they are the only ones alone. Tim Burton directed both, Edward Scissorhands, a drama fantasy, and Big Fish, a comedy drama. In both, they exhibit cinematic techniques to convey emotion, and the director does his job well if you feel anything while watching a movie. Tim Burton, in Edward Scissorhands and Big Fish, uses lighting, angles, and music to display the innocence of characters throughout the movies.
America’s education system has been an issue for quite awhile now, many students have complained on how they are taught on a daily basis. As a high school student who has been in three different American public schools, education is not what is going on inside. From students not even showing up to them showing up not caring can lead back to the way we are being taught. We are bored and tired of taking pointless tests with pointless information. We need to have excitement in education again and continuously having tests is not the way to do that.
Style Analysis Tim Burton’s unique style grabs many movie watchers attention. When he was a child he always enjoyed monsters because he always felt like an outsider. His early inspirations and influences were Vincent Price who played in many horror movies,and the author Roald Dahl. He displays his character and setting in non conventional way giving him a unique style. He gives off this unique unorthodox dark style and theme of everything is not what it seems,or don’t judge a book by it’s cover.
