Tim Burton has altered the state of film and has brought the audience into his gothic, eccentric, dark and light world, of misunderstood characters.
From a young age Tim Burton fell in love with the art of horror …show more content…
The people in authority and those who are accepted by society, oftentimes are the real monsters. The anti-heroes and strange-looking characters are the ones that deserve to be accepted. Such an outcast is Edward Scissorhands, who is misunderstood and more frightened than frightening. Edward is kind and longs to be loved and accepted by society. Burton’s outcasts evoke pity rather than fear within the audience. He sends across a message that people should not be defined by what the look like on the exterior. Burton oftentimes uses high angled tracking shots to accentuate the wildly exaggerated sets and décor. The film technique is especially used in opening credit sequences. Examples include Batman, Beetlejuice and Ed Wood.
Tim Burton employs the use of sharp contrasts between light and dark. In Edward Scissorhands for instance, the town consists of exaggerated pastel colours. Dark colours however are used to dramatize Edward’s castle with no sunlight ever reaching it. In the film Corpse Bride, dark colours are used when the author is alive and colourful ones when he is dead. He used low-key lighting to display eerie images and high-key lighting to display