Edward scissor hands

Edward scissor hands one of Tim burtons defining films, is a breath of

fresh air a happy family film something you could watch with the whole
family with ease. This tends to be the case for this magical director, often
making worlds unlike any one else. He embroils his films with his own
touch and style, which may not always be to everyones taste but in this
story is right at home.
A reimagining of beauty and the beast or Frankenstein we are taken to small
colt sack in America where everything is the same except a cartoon like
gothic castle at the end of the street this clash of worlds and excellent
design is one of burtons most notable calling cards like in most of his films
production design is god and is handled so very well as the .
Production designer Bo Welch has fashioned sets that look like a garish
John Waters nightmare of Fifties suburbia with a Nineties twist. PETER
TRAVERS . (1990).
As Peter Travers says, this is a strange world with a slight identity crises which is easily ignored as a world like
this should be fought of as a magical fairy-tale world where things dont have to match up at the end of the day.
its not trying to be gritty and emotive film, not to
say that this film doesnt have emotional depths.
The film has two main plots the first is an
outsider Edward scissor hands whos name
gives away his main noticeable feature
played by a young Johnny Depp being found
in his gothic castle where he li ved with his
invent played by the legend Victor Price
who sadly dies before completing his
invention leaving Ed ward to sit and wait till
a lovely and kind hearted Avon Lady named
Peggy played by Dianne Wiest who comes across Edward and take immediate itty on this lost
creature point on would we are treated to casual slapstick humour and social commentary with
a bit of satire joke which are all brilliant in this plot we see Edward be looked upon as a
wonder
A new and interesting figure in this very
identically similar street but slightly but
character differently world the sets and
the characters all seem to fosse there
personalitys into all fascist of there life
from style to housing to their social
interactions.
This plot continues with their fascination
with the dark outsider then as he starts to
shows his creative flair as he starts to
touch all their lives in a real noticeable
way first with the bushes then there dogs and then there hair coming a creat ive sensation but
everything has its mo ment in the light whilst this is happening we have get the classic love
story which is the beauty and the beas t of this story.
Ms. Ryder plays Kim Boggs, the daughter of the Avon lady, Peg, a. As lovely as she is diffident, she makes an
enchanting Beauty to Mr. Depp's poignant, bashful Beast. JANET MASLIN. (1990)

This plot starts to show Edward as more of a human character who fells and responds to his emotions these two
plots eventually collide in classic Tim Burton style where the outcast who was the fascination of the world.
Then gets turned on showing the nasty side of people granted they werent very nice to begin with but this side
shows a phycotic side to the neighbour hood in the fact that none of them can see that there become the
monsters which they think Edward is.
Edward Scissorhands certainly has its flaws, dwelling too long on Edward's talent for scissorwork and leaving
a number of characters too thinly sketched for comfort. It remains, however, an ambitious and quite beautifully
conceived fairy tale. Jo Berry. (2001).

Because of this this film will always have place in the film archives as a marmite sort of film due to some
people lack of ability just to let the film take you to a world where not everything has to make sense or follow
the rules and wounderful film to watch.

Bibliography

PETER TRAVERS . (1990). Edward Scissorhands. Available:

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/edward-scissorhands-19901214. Last accessed 18 November
2014.

JANET MASLIN. (1990). Edward Scissorhands (1990) Review/Film; And So Handy Around The
Garden. Available: http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C0CE2D81338F934A35751C1A966958260.
Last accessed 18/11/2014.
Jo Berry. (2001). Edward Scissorhands. Available:
http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?DVDID=6549. Last accessed 18/11/2014.
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