Edward Scissorhands

Edward Scissorhands is a romantic dark fantasy film about an inventor who creates an artificial man called Edward. The inventor sadly dies before he finished making Edward, leaving him with scissors for hands. Edward is later found by Peg Boggs who takes him in to her suburban family. He soon falls in love with Peg’s teenage daughter, but little does he know that this would cause so much drama and upset for himself and the people he became to love. The film was made in 1990 by the director Tim…

Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands. In these films, Burton uses long shots, low angles, and low key lighting to create a juxtaposition between what the audience assumes about the main characters and what is proved later on to not be true. These cinematic techniques are used in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands to suggest that no one person should have to change who he or she is to conform to society’s expectations. Tim Burton, in Edward Scissorhands, uses low key…

Tim Burton’s beautifully haunting production of ‘Edward Scissorhands’ introduces our protagonist, represented by Johnny Depp, and explores the fictional story of this solitary boy with an unfortunate seemingly threatening oddity, being thrust into a world where he is glaringly blatant in the midst of the suburbs. Despite his intimidating exterior, it is almost immediately exposed that Edward is just an innocent, childlike soul, intent on serving others. The purpose of this film was to delve into…

outcast protagonists and fantastical settings to convey the idea that society wrongly teaches people to fear the unknown. One way that Burton shows this is through the outcast protagonists he introduces. For example, Burton introduces Edward in Edward Scissorhands showing him as a clueless, oblivious individual that was locked away high up in the very top floor of the mansion. The mansion is secluded…

Edward Scissorhands is a film which focuses on the story of a man named Edward, who is actually a creation designed by an inventor. This inventor passes away before finishing this creation, leaving Edward almost complete, yet lacking hands. Instead, his hands are composed of various scissors. After the passing of his inventor, Edward is left in isolation, until an Avon sales representative Peggy Boggs, stumbles upon him during her sale route. Seeing Edward has no one, Peggy brings him home to…

Factory and Edward Scissorhands, uses a variety of cinematic techniques to create powerful, emotion filled, and memorable scenes. Some of the more effective techniques he utilized were the lighting, proper camera angles/movement, and music. All of these techniques that Mr. Burton has mastered has given him an iconic style that can be identified by almost anyone. One of the best defined and well used of the cinematic techniques would be the impressive lighting. In the film Edward Scissorhands,…

Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands tells the story of a young man named Edward, an inventor’s unfinished creation with scissors for hands. After a long period of isolation, this “uncommonly gentle man” faces the challenges of living in society and falls in love with a beautiful teenage girl, Kim. When analyzing the movie, it can be argued that Edward Scissorhands is in fact a modern take on the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. The main themes in Beauty and the Beast are that of loneliness,…

Edward Scissorhands parallels De Beaumont’s tale in more ways than one as Burton adopts the same characterization and fundamental plot elements of the fairytale genre and subgenera of “Beauty and the Beast” all set in a modern, suburban neighborhood. The Beauty character is portrayed by Kim, a beautiful, popular teenage girl who is the daughter of the woman who takes Edward in. The role of the beast, is manifested in Edward but takes on a contemporary twist as…

Frankenstein from 1831 and Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands are both extraordinary works of art with over a century between them. Both the book and film have a very strong similar theme between them that goes deeper than the plot and characters. Frankenstein and Edward Scissorhands have the same theme that the creatures aren’t always the monsters, humans can be the real monsters, they are not accepting of beings who are different. Frankenstein’s monster and Edward were both created in very…

Both Tim Burton, director of ‘Edward Scissorhands’ and the anonymous writer of ‘About School’ examine the complications that people face living in a society that is not willing to accept difference. In ‘Edward Scissorhands’ Burton creates a character whose physical deformity and isolated up brining make it impossible for him to fit into ‘normal’ society. The anonymous poet of ‘About School’ describes someone who doesn’t fit in but seems happy in his own world. Society however, requires…