Tim Burton’s Many Memorable Films

Tim Burton was always obsessed with misfits and loners. He says in a quote “’I don’t know why but I always related to characters like Frankenstein. I think a lot of kids do; it’s easier to relate to the monster in the sense of he’s alone.” He also says in a quote ‘I was never scared of monster movies. I could happily watch a monster movie.” (Pringle)

Tim Burton is influenced by many unique people such as Edgar Allen Poe and Dr.

Seuss. He uses the styles of these inspirations to create many memorable films himself such as Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children The plain plot of the movie is that a constable named Ichabod Crane is sent to a Dutch community in the state of New York called Sleepy Hollow to investigate the deaths of a plethora of people found with their heads cut off.

The locals all say that the murders have been committed by the legendary Headless Horseman.

Ichabod starts hunting around for clues, along the way he meets Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter of the town’s richest man, and the young son of one of the victims, young Masbath. He ultimately realizes it was Katrina’s stepmother who summoned the Headless Horseman. The movie ends with Karina and Masbath coming to live with Ichabod. Lighting is a big element in Sleepy Hollow. One example is when Ichabod first arrives, you see a gloomy town, and then it cuts to a huge white church which is symbolism because it shows how important religion is.

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Another example is at the end of the movie when the evil is finally gone, and you can see the world brightening. It shows that purity (bright) wins over the evil (dark).

Music also is an element in Sleepy Hollow. The music in the forest scene creates the perfect feeling for the dark and scary woods, but it also manages to be creepy and humorous at the same time, so you don’t know whether to be scared or laugh.

The last element in the film is the symbolism of the color white/black which was predominant in Sleepy Hollow. An example of this is the bright white color of Katrina shows two things.

The first is that she is a good and noble character, who opposes the evil that is going on in Sleepy Hollow. This means that we the audience should feel the gloom of the darkness in the scene, but also see the shining brightness of Katrina and realize, how she fits into the movie.(i.e. the loner or misfit) The second thing the brightness of Katrina does is to show Ichabod’s feelings towards her. She is angelically white, pure, and lovely, especially in his eyes. After Ichabod realizes Katrina is there to help him because no one else would, he states, “I am now twice the man. It is your white magic.” There are film elements in this movie, lighting, music, and symbolism of black/white color and I have shown you these elements that are in this movie. In the end, Tim Burton made over $30,000,000 in Sleepy Hollow’s opening weekend which gave Burton a bonafide hit on his hands.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Film Review

Tim Burton is influenced by many unique people such as Edgar Allen Poe and Dr. Seuss. He used these styles to create many memorable films himself such as Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is the story of an ordinary boy named Charlie Bucket. He was an average boy, his family was not rich, powerful, or even well-connected, but he is the luckiest boy in the entire world, he just doesn’t know it yet.

15 years ago, Willy Wonka opened the largest chocolate factory in the world, but spies stole his recipes, so he closed the factory down and laid everyone off. Suddenly he decides to allow 5 children to visit the factory. The children must find one of the five golden tickets hidden beneath the wrapping paper of five ordinary Wonka bars. The winners are announced, and they are Augustus Gloop (a German chocoholic), Verruca Salt (a spoiled English brat), Violet Beauregard (junior bubblegum champion), Mike Teavee (who hates chocolate), and Charlie Bucket (the luckiest boy in the entire world). One of them will win a special prize at the end which is Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory because during Willy Wonka’s semi-annual haircut, in which he ends up finding grey hair and realizes he’d have to find an heir).

‘Accidents’ happen while on the guided tour. The greedy Augustus falls in the chocolate lake and gets accidentally sucked up and taken away to the room where they make the most delicious kind of strawberry-flavored chocolate-coated fudge. Violet, ignoring Wonka’s advice, tries some of his three-course dinner gum and swells up like a blueberry. Verruca tries to grab a squirrel and ends up falling down the garbage chute in the direction of the incinerator (which thankfully is broken so there is three weeks’ worth of rotten garbage to break her fall). Mike tries to use Wonka’s chocolate teleport machine and ends up being shrunk to about 6 inches high.

Charlie ends up winning the prize which is Willy Wonka’s factory. The only catch? Charlie would have to move into the factory and never see his family again. He declines this offer. However, after Wonka is encouraged by Charlie to contact his estranged father, he realizes how important family can be, so he ends up inviting Charlie’s entire family to move into the factory altogether.

One of the visual elements that Tim Burton uses to help create a story is color. It could be the color of the costumes, the color in the sets, and how the entire shot is tinted in editing. The lighting also is a factor that has a lot to do with how we see those colors. For example, the colors of the candy factory are incredibly bright and are juxtaposed against the basic and dreary scenes of Charlie’s environment.

Burton uses color in this scenario to show, just because a place is colorful, it does not mean that it is a livelier place. All the Wonka-related props and characters and scenes (except for the outside of the factory) is more saturated with color and is brighter than the rest of the movie. This could symbolize what Wonka represents, childhood innocence. It makes the relatively dim world of the film pleasurable. Tim Burton did not opt for the traditional colors in this movie. He used a combination of rudimentary and pastel colors that enhanced all the Wonka scenes. It made an impact visually for the audience.