Techniques In Tim Burton's Film The Flashback

As once said by a famous film directer named John Lee Hancock who said that directing a film whilst integrating your own personal touch is as if it is more of your signature than a mere piece of writing. “When you direct a film, that’s more of your signature than writing” John Lee Hancock. This quote made by the film director John Lee Hancock introduces the idea that a film is a part of a person just as a signature indicates someones identity and that it is a part of them, this philosophical idea points out that directing a film is like a signature which shows individualism of a person, just like a fingerprint. Tim Burton is a film director that excels at his own whacky and gothic style; due to these distinct features he has made his own clear cut imprint onto the film world attracting many curious people towards his
This technique is precisely presented to the audience in Burtons films to entail the protagonist’s pain filled past and rich backstory so that the eager onlookers may develop a better understanding of the main character and why or how he/she came to be as they currently are in the present. Multiple flashbacks are seen throughout the film, ‘Edward Scissorhands’, which exposes the misunderstood characters past. As the film came close to an end a flashback revealed that Edward’s creator died in front of him which immediately caused the protagonist to blame himself for the sudden death, locking himself away from the surreal society known as Suburbia. The start of the use of “The Flashback” can be traced to one of his most early pieces of work “Vincent” where the main character Vincent Malloy thinks back to his imaginary dead wife. The Flashback is used to convey extra background information about the main characters painful past which furthers the audiences understanding of the film and character