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Visual: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory contrasting to Journey, The North Coast
What ideas about discovery does this text convey and what techniques does the composer use to represent their view of Discovery?!
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Emotionally or Physically rediscovering something challenges an individuals perception preventing them to stimulate new ideas and speculate future possibilities. As rediscoveries are sudden and unexpected the ramifications differ for individuals and their worlds leading to powerful repercussions. These ideas are shown through Tim Burton’s film Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory as the protagonist, Willy Wonka, encounters a rediscovery of his unfortunate childhood whilst leading a tour around his very own chocolate factory. The close up shot of the salient image in scene one displays the idea that Willy Wonka is staring down, beginning to have flashbacks of his unfavourable past. This idea is further emphasised through the dark colour combinations of velvet red, black and brown highlighting that his childhood isn’t a pleasant memory. In the following scene, the full shot of Willy Wonker’s father passionately throwing a bowl of Candy into the fire conveys the idea of Willy living a strict and uniformed life as he was never allowed to eat Candy.
This idea is reinforced through the extreme close up of the candy burning in the fire, further highlighting the harsh memory Willy could remember from his childhood which was being restricted from all types of candies. These united scenes ultimately serve to demonstrate the ideas of the powerful repercussions that impact on individuals as they encounter a physical, emotional or spiritual rediscovery. !
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How is your related text different or similar to the prescribed text? !
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Tim Burton’s film Charlie and the chocolate factory displays the negative aspects of the protagonist
Willy Wonka rediscovering his childhood whilst the ideas are contrasted in Robert Gray’s poem
‘Journey, The North Coast’ as the persona
Visual: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory contrasting to Journey, The North Coast
What ideas about discovery does this text convey and what techniques does the composer use to represent their view of Discovery?!
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Emotionally or Physically rediscovering something challenges an individuals perception preventing them to stimulate new ideas and speculate future possibilities. As rediscoveries are sudden and unexpected the ramifications differ for individuals and their worlds leading to powerful repercussions. These ideas are shown through Tim Burton’s film Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory as the protagonist, Willy Wonka, encounters a rediscovery of his unfortunate childhood whilst leading a tour around his very own chocolate factory. The close up shot of the salient image in scene one displays the idea that Willy Wonka is staring down, beginning to have flashbacks of his unfavourable past. This idea is further emphasised through the dark colour combinations of velvet red, black and brown highlighting that his childhood isn’t a pleasant memory. In the following scene, the full shot of Willy Wonker’s father passionately throwing a bowl of Candy into the fire conveys the idea of Willy living a strict and uniformed life as he was never allowed to eat Candy.
This idea is reinforced through the extreme close up of the candy burning in the fire, further highlighting the harsh memory Willy could remember from his childhood which was being restricted from all types of candies. These united scenes ultimately serve to demonstrate the ideas of the powerful repercussions that impact on individuals as they encounter a physical, emotional or spiritual rediscovery. !
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How is your related text different or similar to the prescribed text? !
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Tim Burton’s film Charlie and the chocolate factory displays the negative aspects of the protagonist
Willy Wonka rediscovering his childhood whilst the ideas are contrasted in Robert Gray’s poem
‘Journey, The North Coast’ as the persona