Dark Innocence In Tim Burton's Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

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American essayist, lecturer, and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson once said “ When it is dark enough, you can see stars. ” Tim Burton, American film director, producer, artist, writer, and animator uses his excellent film directing knowledge to merge his movies with the meaning of this quote. Incorporating his famous, and unique style of dark innocence, he creates corruptness in good, as well as good in the wicked. This unique style is seen through his work, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, as well as many other famous movies. Burton uses his expertise in directing by placing many cinematic techniques such as lighting, camera angles, and shots and framing to create the eerie feeling viewers get while watching Burton’s movies.

The movie, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, is a memory we will never forget. Five lucky kids gets the chance to meet Willy Wonka, creator of the famous wonka bar. After meeting him, they will receive a tour around the factory. It may sound like a children’s fantasy, but, this …show more content…
In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, during the scene when the five prize winners were about to enter the factory, Burton used low angle to show the door opening to show many dolls singing. Although seeming innocent, they start to burn and their voices started to become deeper and deeper until finally, they were all black and they seemed to talk like demons revealing the darkness in them. In addition to using camera angles in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Burton also uses cinematic techniques in Edward Scissorhands. During the scene when Edward cuts the bush into a dinosaur, Burton uses the camera angle, low angle, to show the giant dinosaur with Edward being in the middle. This represents that inside Edward, he’s mostly innocent, but there’s a slight evil in him, as Edward was small compared to the giant dinosaur
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