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Tim Burton's Outcast In Film

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“Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?” - (Tim Burton) Burton was a very creative director, making odd and different movies to give a eerie and suspenseful mood towards his audience. Along with the mood brought with it, he always created an outsider to his movies to indicate a certain theme. Tim Burton’s style powerfully indicates the importance of how society's outcast can bring the community together.

When Tim Burton uses Low angles he is showing the changes in the society’s community. In The Corpse Bride Burton uses a low angle looking upon two of the main characters, Victor and Emily when they announce to the dead community they are officially going to get married. Having a low angle on this specific …show more content…

In Charlie and The Chocolate Factory he has these visions or flashbacks of willy wonka's childhood in the past. We learn about his childhood and how he got to the place he is in in recent times. The way his childhood plays out is he described as an outsider and different than all the other kids, possibly indicating something in Tim Burton's past was maybe somehow connected to his flashbacks. The flashbacks indicate a part of childhood or youth, and then when you flash back to reality there is a change shown somehow, and used in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory we see now instead of bringing the outsider no one liked to someone who was a person of interest across the world. With the technique of extreme close ups we can visually see the differences in the character's appearance or how they view things differently, letting us know how or what attracted the society to be drawn to them. In the movie The Corpse Bride, Burton used extreme close ups, an abundant amount of times on Emily (the corpse bride), giving us an insight on the feelings of the outsider

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