audiences feel new emotions for over 3 decades. Burton has a way for making the audience feel a certain way about certain things in his films. He can make the audience feel attached to the dark characters in his films. Many of the main characters seem to be odd or different‚ such as Edward in Edward Scissorhands he does this by using many different cinematic techniques. Each technique adds to the main theme throughout his films. Tim Burton uses sound and music‚ lighting‚ and characterization types to
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rarely found atmosphere‚ making it unique. Director Tim Burton tends to use outlandish characters‚ low key lighting and dull colors to create a mysterious and creepy mood. In Director Tim Burton’s films‚ he uses outlandish characters to form the mood creepy and mysterious. More specifically‚ the outside appearance of these characters gives them the extravagant characteristics. The movie Edward Scissorhands shows an eerie
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The 1990 film Edward Scissorhands demonstrates many communication theories and concepts. This movie is an excellent example for many interpersonal communication concepts and theories because it focuses on Edward’s interpersonal communication with the other characters. This is interesting because for all of Edward’s life‚ he has only interacted with one person‚ leaving him with very weak communication skills. Having only communicated with his creator‚ an elderly inventor‚ Edward lacks interpersonal
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Edward Scissorhands The movie Edward Scissorhands emphasises how hard it is for a person out of the norm to actually be accepted by society. People judge others by their appearance before getting to know a person. When seeing someone or something to new‚ some sort of comment or reaction will come into a persons’ mind; whether it be good‚ bad‚ or just simply a thought. Many times if a negative impression is given off by a person that you are not well acquainted with‚ automatically you will feel a
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Marissa Mr. Fozouni English 015 11/21/13 The Great Gatsby 1. Is Gatsby an admirable character? Quote: “There’s the kind of man you’d like to take home and introduce to your mother and sister.” Yes in my opinion I do believe that Gatsby is an admirable character. Reason why is because he has changed his life from being dirt poor to filthy rich; all just to make his life better and to get the girl of his dreams‚ Daisy. He is very dedicated to what he wants in life and won’t take no for
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Edward Scissorhands essay 1 In today’s society we struggle as a race to accept differences. With our life being influenced by media and people in power it is easy to follow and believe what everyone else believes rather than standing out as an individual. In Edward scissorhands‚Edward never backs away from his differences he teaches people to tolerate him by being himself and showing that being different is acceptable. An important idea was how the townspeople lacked in empathy and were quick
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Ever since Edward was built‚ he was never going to fit into a normal lifestyle. Tim Burton’s film Edward Scissorhands‚ described as a ‘romantic‚ dark fantasy’‚ captures the effect of change in a monotonous American neighbourhood. Burton uses many different effects to portray that western society and lifestyle is very dull and full of carbon-copied people following the crowd. Through the use of colour contrast‚ stereotypes and an unusual visitor to the neighbourhood‚ Burton is able to convey his idea
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bizarre to the other characters. A Grotesque character induces disgust‚ caused by his villainous outlooks‚ as well as empathy‚ as his personality contrast his outside‚ in other words is very likeable and nice. Despite trying to fit in and feel normal‚ the society will not accept Grotesque characters‚ for they miss the society´s idea of what is normal to look like and act like. Furthermore‚ it is often just the society´s judgemental reactions that make the Grotesque character act like a monster‚ being
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Tim Burton in his film “Edward Scissor Hands” communicates the dominant perspective that forcing others to conform to societal norms is a negative‚ paticurly when the focus is on someone who is marginalised through no fault to his own. In this instance‚ Edward is the brain-child of a well meaning inventor‚ however the Frankenstein sub-genre of film provides intertextuality that is wrong and irresponsible to play god with creation of life. Therefore‚ from the start‚ Edward is constructed as an other
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perceived impairtment. I chose the movie Edward Scissorhands as my example for disabilities‚ and how it makes life so different from the “normal”. Edward Scissorhands is a movie that came out in 1990‚ and it is very popular. The movie portrays Edward as having a clear physical disability‚ and a mental disability that may not be as obvious. The movie starts out with a woman telling her granddaughter a bed time story of where snow comes from and a man named Edward who has scissors for hands. He was completely
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