Essay On Edward Scissorhands

Tim Burton often makes major characters in his film an outcast of a society. Most of the people are isolated or live in outlying residences distant from where the “average” people are from. Burton creates this to show the social issues of accepting extraordinary people within the society. Tim Burton applied different types of lighting, camera framing, and camera movement in his movies to show that a character’s curiosity will resist them from loneliness and sorrow.
In “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, even though Willy Wonka is believed by many to be one of the most extraordinary chocolate maker, he is also considered a secretive and unusual man. In one scene where a camera viewed Charlie’s home along with other houses in the background,
Edward’s gloomy, old, and gothic home that overlooks the whole entire town shows that Edward feels dejected up in the castle alone. The gloomy color and lighting of his castle creates a depressing sorrow and lonesome tone while showing that he is a peculiar outsider. Burton supports this element by utilizing low-key lighting. On the other hand, Burton depicted the houses in the town as bright and colorful with high-key lighting to show how joyful and socialized the town’s people are when they are together. Even everyone around town dressed colorfully. At the shot where Peg glances right into the car mirror, it captures both the dark, gloomy, and gothic castle and the colorful town in the background at the same time. Burton does this to compare and contrast the mood felt between Edward’s home and the town’s people’s home. When Peg decided to bring Edward home, the lighting immediately transitioned from dark to light. On their way home in the car, there was a fixed close-up shot at Edward to show his exhilarated facial expression as he reacted on experiencing things in the town for the first time. Camera movements had also mimicked the car speed to create excitement. Burton use of lighting and framing emphasizes how Edward’s mood transitions from an isolated place to a sociable place and shows that Edward’s curiosity can overcome