THE CINEMATIC STYLE OF TIM BURTON Edward Scissor hands and Charlie and the chocolate factory are both great movies. Tim Burton makes intriguing and all around great movies. The costuming‚ colors‚ and setting structure are all very creative‚ also very unusual and the same time. Charlie and the chocolate factory‚ and Edward Scissor hands are the most intriguing in my opinion. First the costuming in Charlie and the chocolate factory is very dark. Charlie and his family wore black‚ brown‚ and
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Tim Burton’s Directorial style “One person’s craziness is another person’s reality‚” Tim Burton says. In addition‚ that is shown in his movies Corpse Bride‚ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‚ and Edward Scissorhands‚ as a gothic romance is portrayed. Tim Burton’s films show his unique and creative style in his stories‚ settings‚ and especially his characters. Film director Tim Burton utilizes close ups‚ low key lighting‚ and creepy non diegetic music in order to create a gloomy‚ and gothic effect
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in John Gardner’s Grendel serves as a mentor for the main character‚ Grendel. Grendel visits the Dragon in his underground lair in hopes of finding purpose and meaning to his life of killing humans. However‚ Grendel quickly discovers that the Dragon has a unique viewpoint on life. The Dragon tells Grendel that he has the ability to see into the future‚ and‚ as a result of this vast knowledge‚ life has no real purpose. The river of time can not be slowed or altered. He tells Grendel that his place in
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Meaning in a Meaningless Place In Grendel‚ by John Gardner‚ the character Grendel considers the world to be cyclical and ponders the meaning of existence. Throughout the novel‚ the Shaper sings songs which persuade listeners to think life and the universe is greater than it actually is. The Shaper represents the power of illusions to create meaning in a meaningless place. The affects he has on the characters‚ builds the themes and conflicts in the novel. The power to create illusions is based
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hero Beowulf. The first part of the story tells of Beowulf’s adventures in Denmark‚ where he battled the monstrous creature Grendel and his mother (also a creature) on behalf of King Hrothgar‚ the King of Danes. The second part of the story narrates his later life‚ including his fight with a fire-dragon while he reigned as King of Geatland. A translator of Beowulf‚ Burton Raffel‚ once remarked that "of all the many-sided excellences" of the poem‚ one of the most satisfying "is the poet’s insight into
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Authors often have to choose between concentrating on either plot or social commentary when writing their novels; in John Gardener’s Grendel‚ any notion of a plot is forgone in order for him to share his thoughts about late sixties-early seventies America and the world’s institutions as a whole. While Grendel’s exploits are nearly indecipherable and yawn inducing‚ they do provide the reader with the strong opinions the author carries. This existentialistic novel can be seen clearly as a narrative
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The Battle with Grendel Summary: As the Danes slumber‚ another sinister monster trudges toward Heorot. It is Grendel’s mother‚ who is also dammed to spend eternity in the dark moors. She has passed the day mourning for her dead son‚ and she comes to Heorot seeking vengeance for his death. When she bursts into Heorot‚ the warriors awake and grab their weapons. She is not as strong as her son is‚ but she still is strong enough to devour one warrior and snatch the arm down from its place on the
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emotions to life and the viewers get to experience it in the moment with visual motion pictures. Movies would not be great without great directors. Tim Burton is an American film director‚ producer‚ writer and animator. He is known for his dark humor and gothic films such as Edward Scissorhands‚ Charlie & the Chocolate Factory and Big Fish. Burton creates his great films by using cinematics techniques. He uses low key lighting‚ extreme close-ups‚ and non-diegetic sound to establish a dark and quirky
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Heaney’s translation of Beowulf depicts Grendel as a demon‚ a beast. The writer makes Grendel powerful‚ merciless‚ and a source of pure evil. The author shows this while describing Grendel and by making him commit heinous acts. The narrator takes away any sign of humanity in him. This makes the God-cursed brute one of the most evil villains in literature. The attributes that the author gives Grendel describes him as one of the most chaotic antagonist. When Grendel is introduced the author uses the words
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Anglo-Saxon period. This is a story of an epic hero who fights against the most sinister monsters known to man. Beowulf and Grendel are the main characters of this tale; they are the perfect example of good versus evil‚ light versus dark‚ and hero versus villain. Beowulf is the story all epic hero stories have followed; the Beowulf with his hero qualities goes head to head with Grendel. Heroes and villains share a lot of qualities but a number of key characteristics set them apart. Heroes as well as villains
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