What film techniques did the director use to create meaning in the movie “edward scissorhands”?
”Burton’s masterful storytelling skills intertwined with his artistically unique style make this a stylised vision of the ”outsider” story. Using a similar idea to Frankenstein, taking the ”outsider” into a new community and creating havoc, director Tim Burton creates a new outlook on this story by adding his own style and vision. This film can be classified as a fantasy, yet it is also a comedy, and a drama, and a romance. Many threads are thrown into this film, with an overall feel of a fable – something that screenplay author Caroline Thompson says should be understood, but not necessarily believed. So many elements work so well together in this film, starting with Tim Burton’s artistically stylistic mind. Burton has the talent to come forward with his unique, different vision and create film after film with his alternatively artistic ideas. In Beetlejuice a warped sense of reality can be seen, then in Sleepy Hollow his unique vision emerges with the comically black Headless Ho
