Outlier Essay: Tim Burton From an introverted child who likes to draw cartoons and watching old movies to becoming one of the most famous creative minds in the world has turned his passion and hobby into his career. Tim Burton is blessed with artistic abilities‚ a passion for movies‚ and a wild imagination. He is a film director‚ producer‚ writer‚ and artist. Tim Burton has worked his way up from being an animator for Disney to being one of the most well-known directors and producers in the film
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classified as mystery‚ supernatural and monster horror movies. Mystery horror movies are often woven around some unsolved puzzles and murders cases. These movies have plot twists in the middle of the story and twist endings. The movie “Sleepy Hollow” (1999) is a horror/mystery movie in which a police constable is sent from New York to solve the mystery of series of murders by a mysterious headless horseman. In “The
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Americans did not always celebrate Christmas. In the 1800s the Christmas was not considered a holiday in America. Americans wanted to distance themselves from Washington Irving and Clement Clarke Moore are considered the founders of the modern American Christmas. Through their literature Washington Irving and Clement Clarke Moore popularized Christmas and shape many of our Christmas traditions today. First‚ Washington Irving brought European Christmas traditions to America and helped shape St. Nicolas
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Mountains -and that’s saying something. Spring is in full bloom here at Humpback Hollow‚ and there’s even more to come before the summer months are in full swing. Spring showers are doing their part as the perennial caterers of the new energy and nutrition that feeds the blooms and lights up the trees. In between the showers‚ the sky is electric blue. The color alone calls the nature lover out from under the sleepy blanket of last month’s snow. Crisp‚ fresh
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wore the same pair of blue sneakers that had a blood stain on the toe from when Big Billy Benson punched him in the nose‚ causing it to bleed. Poor Sammy was always bullied because‚ he was just a little bit different than the rest of the kids at Sleepy Hollow Middle School. Sammy would always walk the long way home from school to avoid Billy and his gang who would throw rocks at him. He walked this way because it was past a large old house‚ and all of the other kids were scared of it. The House was
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painting was done‚ the world was consumed with astrology and astronomy‚ with people like Jules Verne writing about travelling to the moon. There were also other that claim that this painting depicts some sort of alienation and mental illness that van Gogh was experiencing at the time. The sleepy village represents the rest of the world‚ unaware of whatever uncontrolled passions and distress Van Gogh was experiencing through during this time. This maybe the reason the houses seem to be so far away even
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man striving against societal pressure‚ man crumbling in the face of said pressure. Within these pessimistic accounts‚ society ultimately prevails or remains untouchable against the efforts of these individuals. The social decay‚ self destruction‚ alienation and death are all results of the ever present darkness of the society that eventually drives the society into ashes of corruption. Death is not the only product that societal pressure is capable of producing. The struggle between “conformity” and
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to experience Otherness‚ and within both film and novel it is absurdity and the Absurd which drives Mersault and Bateman towards their respective social alienations. However‚ despite the inextricable link between the Absurd and Otherness within the texts‚ the means by which the Absurd interacts with each text‚ and‚ in turn results in alienation is unique. Within Camus’s novel‚ the world itself is portrayed as being oppressive‚ with harsh landscapes and indifferent characters leaving Mersault feeling
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1988 Tim Burton worked on Beetlejuice. It was a supernatural comedy that fit perfectly into Burton’s dark‚ gothic style. From there Tim Burton worked on Batman‚ Edward Scissorhands‚ Batman Returns‚ The Nightmare Before Christmas‚ Batman Forever‚ Sleepy Hollow‚ Planet of the Apes‚ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‚ Corpse Bride‚ Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street‚ 9‚ Alice In Wonderland‚ Dark Shadows‚ Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter‚ Frankenweenie‚ and Big
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Introduction American literature‚ to my eyes‚ like American history‚ although short‚ however‚ still full of glories and shining masterpieces and writers. Those American writers‚ while conquering this wild America‚ also had conquered the great field of American literature. From its first imitative activities to innovative attempts nowadays‚ American literature gradually gains its unique style‚ theme and form‚ and I¡¯m always excited to see their works are more and more America in its true sense.
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