Edward Scissorhands

"It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new weird way,” says Burton and that is just what he does with his films. Tim Burton adds a dark innocent mix in his morals that he feels the viewers should know and follow. Tim burton uses the cinematic techniques to form his warm and dark twist in his films. For example he uses non diegetic sound to create this mysterious feeling in the scenes and to make it warm this forms the feeling of the films. The low key lighting helps form…

Big Eyes and the second is Edward Scissorhands. Burton uses low and high key lighting and also flashbacks to show the outcast in society can be one of the most creative or talented individuals if given a chance. Even though these two movies are a lot different, Burton uses similar cinematic techniques in both of them, he uses high key lighting to heighten both of the main character’s talents. For example, in Big Eyes the main character,…

elements of gothic literature are used not only in written works, but in movies. Edward Scissorhands is a movie that incorporates gothic elements. Edward is a man that was created by a scientist, but the scientist dies before he is able to put human hands onto Edward. This leaves Edward to live with scissors as hands. A saleswoman, named Peg, finds him and takes him to her home. Although at first it seems that Edward is fitting in with the neighborhood, his abnormality begins to create fear in…

of American life conformed to such ideals. The films Pleasantville and Edward Scissorhands critique the 1950s and depict how the era was actually not an age of conformity. The films are similar in that they display the consistent lives of Americans by addressing their fear of the uncertain and the gender stereotypes during this era. The films differ in that Pleasantville mainly focuses on self-discovery, while Edward Scissorhands mainly focuses on prejudice and discrimination. The two films…

Mise-en-scene is used in many ways in the film Edward Scissorhands. The diachronic shot played a significant role during the film, it had a variety of focuses, and point of view. For instance, in the film there are two types of focuses that are often used which are; soft focus and rack focus. Soft focus is used in the film when Peg Bogg opens a canned good, it reflects back to Edward who then has a flashback to a bad memory of a machine that makes cookies. This scene relates back to the subtext…

A stranger is defined as someone who doesn’t know or not known in a particular place. In the movie, Edward Scissorhands by Tim Burton, the main character, Edward is viewed as a stranger amongst the 1950’s conventional town. Edward stands out due to the setting the town creates. It’s your typical suburbia, houses all in pastel colors exactly the same as one another, the men all leave and come home at the same time as each other in a car the same color as their house. Burton tried to express a…

Why are individuals so quick to judge people they do not know? In the movie Edward Scissorhands, intolerance is very abundant. The townspeople are very judgemental and inconsiderate of Edward. There are many scenes in the movie that show how different people see and perceive Edward. Intolerance is affected by different people’s beliefs and it is a very bipolar attitude and change on a dime and flares up at any time. Intolerance is very prevalent in the world we live in today. People like to…

has directed. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands Tim Burton uses characters that are outside of society and narration to convey the idea that torn parental relationships lead to social issues in the future. Burton’s use of characters that are outcasts contributes to the theme because many of the characters that are sort of outside of society have corrupted relationships with their parents. In Edward Scissorhands Burton uses a long shot of the mansion on the mountain…

CHARACTER ANALYSIS In the movie Edward Scissorhands, Edward, who is the protagonist, is an unusual and innocent man. He lives in a dark, gloomy and dreary castle by himself. He has a strange but interesting appearance with his white pale scar face and thin eyes. Edward is different to normal people because he has two sharp long dangerous scissor hands. His scissor hands were created by an old scientist, but unluckily the scientist had died before he finished Edward’s hands. This influences…

technique of lighting in another one of his films, Edward Scissorhands, to construct the distinction in the fact that Edward will always have that strange, innocent quality about him. For instance, there is high key lighting on the perfect houses in the perfect neighborhood, compared to Edward’s mansion on the hill. Enhancing the difference between Edward and everybody else. His house is dark, black, and gloomy which reflects on his personality as well. Edward doesn’t seem to speak as much as…