Assignment 17-Elizabeth Ueland

The infamous director Tim Burton is renowned for his eccentric movies as he portrays striking differences in society through his fictional movies. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Burton compares rich and poor and good and bad as the bad children are punished for their actions and Charlie is rewarded. In Edward Scissor hands otherness is illustrated between the abnormally simple and identical town people and Edward. Both movies include extreme and unlikely situations to demonstrate major differences in real life. The movie Edward Scissor Hands illustrates the difference between the ideas of normal and otherness through color choices, camera angles, and lighting techniques. The dark features are not as extensively used by Burton in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as the movie also includes childish features an characters like the oompa loompas. While both movies are similar in their peculiar plot and characters, they differ in theme and purpose.