Why do Tim Burton and Johnny Depp work so well in their movies together? Is it the style, the characters, or could it even be the movie? Tim Burton is known for creating a twisted, unique style in his movies. He always seems to please the audiences with his different and eerie style. In the movies Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands Tim Burton uses the two stylistic techniques, mysterious tone, and a twisted mood to help convey mysterious aspects of the characters.
The Juxtaposition Between Normalcy and Uniqueness in Fargo Joel and Ethan Coen are famous for making postmodern films that are wrought with juxtapositions. Perhaps it is their ability to create dichotomous characters, situations, and scenes that truly makes them postmodern filmmakers. Nevertheless, Fargo, is a prime example of how the Coen brothers combine elements that are seemingly opposites in order to not only provide texture and depth, but also create the basic intrigue that captures their audience. The main juxtaposition in Fargo is between the untraditional and the traditional. The Coen brothers’ characters are, when all is said and done, quite unique.
The non-diegetic sounds that were used in the movie were sounds that signify that someone has feelings for another and/or are falling in love with them. Non-diegetic sounds were a main part of adding to the romance feeling of Edward Scissorhands. A few of the many non-diegetic sounds were used during the snow scene while Edward was making an ice sculpture of Kim during the season of Christmas. When Kim saw the "snow" that was falling from making Warner 2 from the ice sculpture, she had noticed how special Edward was to her. She admired the little amount of snow that Edward was making that she was dancing around in it.
Douglas Sirk focused on getting the audience to feel the emotional turmoil of the characters lives. The portrayal of characters that are caught up in their feelings of anxiety and denial was a recurrent theme. According to Kolker (1999, p119) Sirk was known for enhancing or exaggerating these aspects of melodrama through “already exaggerated characters and mise-en-scene”. Sirk uses mise-en-scene to echo, represent or exaggerate a characters life, feelings, thoughts or personality. His stylistic features aid us in making meaning or responding to the films and the characters.
Spike Lee’s films, deal with different aspects of the black experience, they are innovative and controversial even within the black community. Spike Lee refuses to be satisfied with presenting blacks in their acceptable stereotypes. His characters are three-dimensional and often vulnerable to moral criticism. Lee’s collection of films with the theme racism, stood out for me because he is more interested in subverting the status quo of black history, so it isn’t just typical films which show racism. I also liked Lee’s intimate describing of his experience, and how some of his films had interesting elements to them because he was part of the black society.
“Puss in Boots serves solely as light relief amidst an otherwise grim set of tales”. Discuss in relation to at least two other texts in the collection Angela Carters Puss in Boots can be seen as just light relief against her other “grim tales”, with her comic anecdotes and lack of gothic language. However it can be argued that Puss in Boots has a much deeper message with Carters reference to how women are treated and how love is perceived. Puss in Boots has many comic elements within its tale; this does give light relief for the reader against Carters more gothic and darker tales. The main character a ginger tom cat is the most comic character within this tale.
Lars Von Trier Lars Von Trier, an important and prominent Danish Auteur director once said in an interview that “for (him), stealing from the cinema is like using letters of the alphabet when you write”. The films of Lars von Trier show that he has had many influences in crafting and producing his films. The given quote helps to understand his approach to film and how he adapts film language, and even creates his own, in order to delivery an intended message to the audience. To be able to understand what is impressive able von Trier’s approach to films and what makes him an Autuer director, we need to be able to understand his influences, which are wide and extensive, so as to be able to comprehend their impact on his style of directing and the structural, technological and thematic explorations in his films. Von Trier was known to be more consistent as a director than he was with his visual style.
Topic: “It is the style of ‘On the Waterfront’ that gives the film its power. Discuss The dark and gloomy “On the Waterfront” is a film revered for its raw power. Though narratively and structurally exceptional, this power should be most accredited to the stylistic nature of its making. Director Elia Kazan employs various techniques encompassing the disciplines of mise-en-scene, film noir, and naturalism that deliver an authentic and gritty work of art. The actors equipped with the newly found, ‘method acting’ disciplines, most notably Marlon Brando, further showcase an honesty and precision of the feelings felt and predicaments overcome by their characters.
“All Directors have their own unique style”. Tim Burton is a great director and like most great directors, Burton has his own unique style. His style is unusual, strange, and gothic. Tim Burton like’s to explore the living and the dead in a lot of his moves and he also likes to explore reality vs madness in his film through different personalities, gothic themes, colour and symbolism. Colour is used very well in Tim Burton’s films for example in sleepy hollow (1999) it is a very dark film, not just in terms of themes but also in the images and shots themselves.
Learning Gender from Toys and Clothes I visited Wal-Mart Thursday, 4/19/2012 and observed the toy aisle. The toys were segregated based on gender. You can’t really tell which items are intended for boys/girls. I want to touch on an episode of Wipe Swap that I watched on television. There was a 9 year old Caucasian boy whose favorite color was pink, and he enjoyed playing with Barbie dolls.