What Role Does Tim Burton Play In Edward Scissorhands

dance to Harry Belafonte’s Banana Boat Song (Day O). It is peculiar and hilarious even though the entire idea is that a group of innocent people are being possessed.

Part of a director’s job is picking out the actors. Tim Burton has a few favorite actors that he works with fairly consistently. One of these actors is Winona Ryder. She plays the daughter of the new owners of the main character’s house in Beetlejuice. She also plays as the daughter of the family that takes in Edward Scissorhands and the eventual love interest of Edward Scissorhands. Another actor that Tim Burton favors is Johnny Depp. He played in Edward Scissorhands as Edward. He also played a role in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows as Barnabas Collins and he played as the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. As a director, Tim Burton has to pick actors that he believes will fill the role perfectly. He has found two actors that he has dubbed as being good actors and so he often puts them into his movies. Of course, even if he has favorite actors, if he believes they aren’t a good fit for a role, it is his duty to replace them with another actor that
will play the role well. Tim Burton has also cast well established actors for roles in his films such as Alec Baldwin. By using actors that are very prestigious, he can draw people to watch his films if they happen to be fans of the actor. It could be a business strategy to try and gain money, or it could be simply that they’re a good actor and fit the role well. As a director, Tim Burton must consider things such as profits, budgets, and limitations based on money. A director may be unable to make exactly what his vision portrays if his money supply isn’t great enough. The director must do the best that he can while under such limitations and try to recreate his vision to the best extent. Another limitation is technology. It is possible that computer modeling and special effects may not be advanced enough to create incredibly intricate things as the director may want. If it is not physically possible to add certain effects or models exactly as the director sees them looking, he must work around an obstacle like this by possibly using Claymation or something along those lines. The director also has to consider safety and if an idea is actually possible for the actors to do. Such complications could arise if a scene needs to be set in a dangerous location that could end up hurting the actors. The director must make sure that scenes are physically possible for actors. If an actor is expected to do complicated fighting moves, the director must take into consideration the either training of the actor or the use of a stunt double. All these decisions come down to the director.

A director’s role is a hard job, but many people, including Tim Burton, manage to control the situation and make an excellent movie.
A director must be a mixture of everything: he has to be a thinker to plan things out ahead of time, he must be an artist to creatively construct the movie, and he must be a leader, strong willed and focused with a clear idea of the end goal. The director is the one that calls the shots and makes all the decisions. He picks the actors, he then leads the actors through the movie, telling them how to act even, and he also has to think about the actor and his or hers limitations. Being a director is incredibly tough and rigorous, but even so, many people manage to pull it off and create movies following exactly what they
envisioned.

Bad Directors and Their Qualities- Sophia Wiliiams

When on the set of a movie, actors love a director who is a strong leader, knows what the want, and clearly conveys his vision. What an actor doesn’t want is a director who acts more like a dictator, or possibly worse, a director who has no idea what he is doing, such as directors who don’t understand camera angles, light positioning, and the number of takes, whether too little or too much. Many directors display the ‘dictator’ attitude while on set, showing excessive hostility and causing problems on set. This causes many of them to be very difficult to work with such as Michael Bay, Lars Von Trier, and Werner Herzog. Michael Bay is known for big explosions and action scenes in his movies. He often criticized for using the same techniques over and over again in his movies such as big explosions in slow motion, fast paced action scenes, and the camera continuously moving throughout the shots. His Transformers franchise, for instance, uses almost the same plot and effects in all four of the movies. All four have big explosions and fast paced action scenes, and shots of objects crashing towards the camera in slow motion, as well as using only one camera. Megan Fox, Shia LeBeouf, and Hugo Weaving, all actors who starred in the Transformers movies, were primarily the ones who told the public of Michael Bay’s attitude on set. He is described as being hostile, indifferent to his actors, and insane. Megan Fox even compares him to Napoleon and Hitler, which in the end got her fired by Bay from the Transformers franchise.

Some, such as Lars Von Trier, have such bad personalities that they’ve gained a nickname. Von Trier has gained the name ‘The Punisher’ because of his horrible attitude on set, especially towards women. He has a brutal director, a control freak, depressive, and will gladly put his actors through hell on set. Some actors, such as Nicole Kidman and Paul Bettany, have vowed to never to work with Von Trier again because of his cruel nature. Von Trier has also been accused of not being a story teller and not telling his story from the heart but telling it from his mind, and not making it personal and the character unbelievable. In his movie, Dogville, the main character, Grace, is accused of not being ‘a real human being, for no human being would behave as meekly as she-and her behavior seems even more preposterous in hindsight after we learn her “secret”.’

James Cameron is another director who exemplifies the ‘dictator’ attitude on set and is known to be a perfectionist to the extreme gaining him the nickname, ‘Iron Jim’ for making his crew do long hours of work with harsh criticism and tasks. Several actors, such as Kate Winslet and Sigourney Weaver, have described Cameron as being difficult to work with on set and that shooting the movie was really tough. Cameron does expect a lot out of his actors and will not stop until he gets the shot. When filming his movie, The Abyss, one of the actors, Ed Harris was driven to tears after he almost drowned in scene that Cameron forced him to do. One of his former wives, Linda Hamilton, who played in the Terminator 2, called Cameron controlling and said he didn’t treat his actors as human beings while filming.