Movies directed by Tim Burton

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory:

• Actor Johnny Depp & Helena Bonham- Carter
• Opening sequence visually captivating 
• Music and score by Danny Elfman ( used in a lot of Burton's movies) 
• Factory and town  is dark mostly black and grey 
• Visual features of Burton's movies 

The Chocolate Factory

• Family is not rich very poor
•  Weird character: Charlie's grand aunt, going off topic " I love grapes" when talking about Willy Wonka 
• Flashback ( technique used in Burton movies): Factory is colourful 
• Costume colours at the factory are bright 
• Voice of Willy Wonka ( Depp) sounds odd- girlish 
• Chocolate place melts 
• Flipping from bright/ colourful to dark and dull to evoke mystery ( Burton)- camera shots are slightly canted and low angle 

Type of Shots mainly used in Burton Films: 

Similiar shots 

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• The character Willy Wonka becomes a mysterious man ( Burton) 
• Uses the word " mystery" in the line " it certainly is a mystery" 
• Set/ Props: The dining table is a bedroom with a bed in which the grandparents sleep in: both grandparents sleep on the same bed directly facing each other 

• " Nothing's impossible Charlie" 
• Town at night is eerie and spooky 
• Costume are a mix of black, brown, dark brown, dark purple & stripes

Burton costume stripes: 

• Set in London ( his films are either set in London or America) 
• Fat kid Augustus: just like how in Alice in Wonderland Tweedledum and TweedleDee are referred to as "Fat Boys", Burton includes as Fat kid eating chocolate 

Fat characters Burton film: 

•  Burton often uses autopsy in his movies: the furthest he could get to use this in a children's movie is in the form us raw meat like sausages  
• Choreographic movements in sync with music 
• Heads of animals are seen on the walls of the Salt's house
• Stripes are used as this is a part of Burton costumes style signature: it is seen when Mr. Salt is dressed in a suite 

• " That was worse than the Fat Boy" referencing to Alice in Wonderland " Fat Boys" TweedleDum/Dee
• Sense of Hope when Charlie is opening the wrapper 
• All extremely different characters and all together weird: Veruca Salt, Violet B, Augustus, Mike

• Grandpa Joe is very weird; dancing 
• Charlie is very intelligent 
•  Although set in England there is no time period and in the Golden ticket is says " Be at the factory by 10am" but there is no address or city 

• Colourful display in the factory opening in contrast to the dull city
• Wonka ( Depp) character is unique and eccentric costume is futuristic

• Wonka ( Depp) high pitch voice, pale face and bob hair 
• Burton's main characters such as Willy Wonka and other main characters in his movies often don't have parents in his films this is a common theme throughout : Wonka misses his parents in particular his dad saying " Dad? Papa?" Almost going through a flashback but doesn't 
• Set design inside the chocolate factory different size trees and weirdly shaped and seize trees

• As an auteur Burton has a hand with the scripts and because of his fascinating with the police department, modern technology, fingerprints and autopsy, he references cannibalism in the line " Everything in this room is edible, even I am edible but that is called cannibalism and is in fact frowned upon in most societies" 
• Oompa Lumpa short people that look identical to each other: Lumpa Land " I teach geography.... There is no such pla-" " Well then you'll know all about it and know what a terrible country it is." 
•  Lumpa Land made up world ( Burton) 
• Oompa Lumpa are even more weird and eccentric : dances around with a cocao bean on their head

• Oompa Lumpa singing either oddly high or low there is no in-between 
• '' are wearing stripes sleeves which again is incorporated in every Burton Movie
• Wonka ( Depp) is extremely sarcastic to the point of funny   
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