Edward had an irresistible charm, but he wasn't quiet perfect.
Yes, it's Burton's sweet gothic fairy tale, Edward Scissorhands. He is a Frankenstein-like creature who has scissors instead of fingers.
The story begans with an old lady, played by Winona Ryder, telling her grandaughter the story of snow, and why it snows. She then looked through the window, to where Edward's gothic mansion lays at the top of a hill. And below his mansion there was a town looking very much like a nightmarish vision from the 1960s, where bright pink, green, yellow houses nest, neatly grouped together.
His inventor, a very old scientist with a good heart died of a heart attack just when he was about to give Edward a pair of hands. It was a sad moment seeing Edward staring at the pair of hands, stroking it with his scissor-ed hands. Poor Edward is then left with only scissors for hands. :(
Peggy, an Avon representative or Avon Lady as the people in the town might call her, visit the mansion on a hopeless task to sell her make up. When she saw poor Edward sitting all by himself at a dark corner in the attic, she was shocked to see him, but later she soon discovers that Edward is not at all harmless, and started giving him an advice on how to cover the imperfections on his face, which are the scars. She then decided to take Edward back home with her, bringing him to the town below and her family. Although with good intentions, she lacks the wisdom in her actions.
The movie is filled with humorous scenes yet within the humour there is always darker overtones. The neighbourhood soon accepts Edward in a perverse and freakish way. He became popular for his gift of cutting hedges into beautiful art. he even revolutionised the hair styles of the town residents by giving them a free hair cut, mostly to the housewives.
Edward himself has never asked to be created in the manner he was. He is an innocent young man, gentle and greatly gifted, he has a beauty and heart that is found rarely in life.
He adores Peggy's daughter, Kim and soon began to develop feelings for her. She makes fun of Edward and soon uses him unwillingly to break into her obnoxious boyfriend's house. Soon after this event she begins too see Edward's beauty and uniqueness in comparison to the people she is surrounded by every day. She reaches out to him with her love holding him close to her.
A member of the neighbourhood, Joyce, whom in my opinion a perverted old woman who desperately seeks out attention from men, started to get close with Edward and is attracted to him. From the film, we can see her getting an orgasm from Edward while he was cutting her hair. One day she brought Edward into a salon and tried to seduce him, and as we might expect, it failed and Edward ran away from her. Having been disappointed by Edward, she spread rumours telling everyone in town on how Edward tried to hurt her. B****.
The people residing in the neighbourhood attack Edward and chase after him through the streets in a similar vein to an early Frankenstein movie directed by James Whale. This happened after Edward tried to save Kevin, Kim's small brother from getting hit by a car, which was driven by one of Kim's boyfriend's drunk friend. Edward pushed Kevin from the sidewalk and he fell on top of Kevin. Edward tried to make sure Kevin was alright, but he made the situation a lot more worse as his scissorhands started to cut Kevin's face. Kim saves his life, telling everyone he has been killed. She leaves him to be happy on his own.
Edward Scissorhands depicts in both humorous ways and dark ones, how life can be if you are different, with Edward on the far ennd of the scale. It is a story about someone who cannot physically touch anything or anyone without destroying the thing itself through no fault of his own.
The film is a truely wonderful modern fairytale. The gothic mansion is hauntingly beautiful and scenes with Kim dancing in the snow from Edward's ice sculpture is mesmerising. The story of snow is a rare jewel in film making.
Edward here, is played by none other than Johnny Depp, the most versatile actor in the universe. His unique character and acting style makes him different and that's what separates him from everyone else. He stars in a lot of Tim Burton's productions btw. This movie was released way back in the 90s and I first watched the movie 8 years later. And I thought, this Edward has got to be the most good-looking, charming and creative robot ever invented by a human being. Back then, almost everything I see on television seems non-fiction to me in real life. I always thought that by drinking my own blood, I could turn into a vampire one day, and having lived in a community where they put on horror movie posters on their bedroom walls where I could see em straight everytime I pass the street after school, I kinda admired those immortal creatures eventhough I was terrified to look at em especially the bloody fangs. They were magical. And Edward Scissorhands is one of them.
Awww how cute is Edward??
I didn't manage to cry even after watching this movie for the 6th time. And I wonder why.
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