Tim Burton's Unique Directorial Style Explained

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In every movie, the director has some unique style to present to their audience, just as the writer has some technique to write a book. With each director displaying their own style pattern creates a more unique movie as they give the audience an enjoyable experience. The use of their own personal style helps the viewer connect to the director’s view and mood on his story. A director that has made a well known unique style to himself is Tim Burton; his directorial style comes with a specific makeup and custom, characters that deal with fear, and settings with a dark atmosphere. These styles all come together to create beautiful display of the horrific darkness underneath a childish innocence.
One thing that Tim Burton created that is diverse from other directors is his usual customs and makeup choices. In his short film Vincent, Vincent is a little boy who sees himself as an absurd scientist, and dressed up like his role model, Vincent Price. In reality Vincent dressed up like ordinary little boy, black stripe t-shirt and …show more content…

In his film Vincent the setting takes place in his enclosed dark room. From there Vincent’s imagination takes off and he ventures into his insane scientist lab. Which gives frightening and eerie feeling.From the film Edward Scissorhands, at the beginning of the movie. The setting was at the dark and creepy castle where Edward lived before Peg took him into a perfect society. The Castle was full of dust and elderly. Which displays a horrifying mood. Finally from the Corpse Bride. The living town where Victor live was full of black and white feature. The town showed no sign of life where everyone seem to be greedy and selfish. Whereas the deceased town was full of happiness, colorful, and lively. Where everyone was cheerful, and joyful. As seen from all of these films setting, Tim Burton decide to choose gothic setting to give the audience a mysterious feeling towards the

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