Assignment 1: Analyzing through narrative - Tim Burton

The types of characters that usually appear in Tim Burton's films usually have a dark, mysterious side to them. The protagonist always appears to be an outsider while the rest of the characters tend to be the complete opposite; perky, happy and full of life. The happy characters tend to end up turning against the outsider but there is always one person that falls hopelessly in love with the one everyone else rejected. An example of this would be the film Edward ScissorHands  or Sleepy Hollow. The characters personality or looks don't always match up to their location, there are times when the dark characters are in the places where all the shallow, self centered people live which usually shows the different contrast in locations that Tim Burton decided to use. Burtons films usually only have two different locations that contrast with each other which is the Gothic, isolated location and the bright and happy location, having two very different obvious locations which helps the audience identify what the characters in that location are like.  The locations are not the only thing that help the audience get to know the character a bit more, The events that happen in the film also are big clues to what will happen in the end.