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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Stage 1 English Specialist Mrs Brindal‚ 2007 Jacqueline Bonsell‚ 1101 Word Count: 1‚397 Compare the ways in which the authors of two texts explore how society treats people who are different. The texts Edward Scissorhands - directed by Tim Burton - and To Kill a Mockingbird - a controversial novel written by Harper Lee - both explore the ways in which society treats people who are not like them whether it is because they look or act different. Both texts demonstrate how a misunderstood character
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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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appearance of these characters gives them the extravagant characteristics. The movie Edward Scissorhands shows an eerie
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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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being a Christ figure. As a result of the mistakes and sins of others‚ a Grotesque character is the one who is blamed and sacrificed. For all these reasons‚ a viewer feels sympathy for the Grotesque character. In the films‚ Frankenstein and Edward Scissorhands‚ both main characters are considered Grotesque‚ having both a good nature and an uninviting visage‚ making a viewer feel compasion as well as repulsion. The term “grotesque” was first used to describe literary genre by Michel de Montaigne
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film techniques reveal a mysterious character and mood within the beginning 20 minutes of the movie. This suggests/foreshadows to the viewers/audience that this character may have a dark/negative impact on the story as a whole (in particular Edward Scissorhands). T - TECHNIQUE E - EXAMPLE E – EFFECT T - TECHNIQUE E - EXAMPLE E - EFFECT Group 1 One technique used in this scene to set the atmosphere or create tension is a close-up. Example ( An example of this is when the two main
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work as a director and producer of several popular movie’s including Edward Scissorhands‚ the Nightmare Before Christmas‚ and Alice and Wonderland (2010). His style is often described as dark and gothic‚ but also with a hint of comedy. Tim burton achieves this mood by using music‚ long shots‚ and lighting to give a scene and setting a dark or mysterious feeling. Music‚ specifically non-diegetic music‚ is used in Edward Scissorhands mostly to give scenes a more mysterious or heinous feel. But‚ in one
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remarkable films. From Edward Scissorhands‚ where the main character has scissors for hands instead of real hands‚ to Alice in Wonderland‚ where the main character is thrown into a strange land with gruesome creatures and maniac queens‚ Burton’s unique talent of twisting innocent stories into darker‚ more sinister versions‚ is evident. To do so‚ He often incorporates the use of specific cinematic techniques that help
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outsider. Tim Burton’s films fall under the outcast category. His films are unusually unique. In his films Alice in Wonderland and Edward Scissorhands Burton takes an original idea from his childhood and a common fairytale and pulls out the grim side of the story‚ yet still keeps the film’s child-like feeling. Alice‚ from Alice in Wonderland‚ and Edward from‚ Edward Scissorhands‚ are both characters that are treated as social pariahs and also see the world differently. Tim Burton uses multiple cinematic
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