Edward Scissorhands (1990) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The hands were simply the final piece left to make him "complete", but alas, The Inventor's untimely death left Edward stuck with the scissors he had used while he was still a machine. Kim is the stereotypical teenager , immature and unable to take responsability , who is in love with someone at the beginning of the movie , and in the end , she loves someone else.Her whole stupidity isn’t her fault , yet is her family’s (as her mother says “You can’t learn something in this family”). So much so, that he sent Price Vincent, the award-winning animated short he made eight years earlier about a seven-year-old who has delusions of being Vincent Price. Peg is the classic middle-worker , who can’t see more than her job and the Christmas party , and who thinks she made the right decision for everybody , when in fact she made the right decision exclusively for her. There are so many scenes when we see him cutting hair , and trees in a manner that is so beautiful that it could literally made my mother cry.Yet , nobody seems to notice.The way in which people treat Edward’s work is something like “Yeah , it’s nice , but OMG , did you see how bad his clothes look?”.And even from the beginning , the first thing that Peg does is to change Edward’s clothes , not necessarily because they looked bad , but because they looked so different , and it would have made him look repulsive in the eyes of her friends. He died before giving Edward any hands. Kill! The story seems tragic because is very realistic. Edward describes his visit to the salon with Joyce by saying "showing me the back room where she took all of her clothes off". But Depp really loved the role and really loved acting alongside his fiancee Winona Ryder, who played Edward's teenage love interest Kim. By virtue of his scissorhands he can touch others, but only through his art. Depp’s gothy look may seem derivative of that adopted by Scissorhands, but turning into the latter was a considerably arduous process. The movie was created and directed by Tim Burton and released in 1990. and Mudhoney, also briefly appears in the role of “retired man”. I channeled my melodrama into that, as opposed to suicide probably.”. We have to give Burton credit for the visuals and Depp for his performance. Here I am. For four months Depp spent two hours a day in make-up, to have his eyebrows covered and scars applied (in the DVD commentary, Burton jokes that some of the scars were real “because there was an adjustment period for the actor wearing scissors on his hand”) to his ghostly face. "Jim was such an asshole, he had to get his comeuppance. Edward Scissorhands is an imaginative and romantic film, appealing to the average moviegoer and the outsider as well. He dropped the idea, but went on to prove quite the master of musical films with Sweeney Todd. Burton didn’t want to film in his native Burbank, because he felt it had changed too much to provide the warped suburbia seen in the film. We see how society will try to change a man only for its own prosperity. But by watching (Price's) films, there was a catharsis for me. He told the New York Times that he had kept the costume – just in case: “I still have the leather suit, and the hands. First of all , we have Ed  , who is one of the sad artists without social skills who can’t promote their art because everybody else is so caught up in their mundane lives that nothing is more interesting than “the new haircut”. Then a hairdresser took a final hour to create Edward’s tousled mane. One possible reason for this is the fact that Edward got to know his creator a Let's start off by my own personal definition of a Christmas film. You're not just watching a low-budget Edgar Allan Poe movie, there's something else there that's not on the screen. Edward Scissorhands Trivia Questions & Answers : Movies D-G This category is for questions and answers and fun facts related to Edward Scissorhands ., as asked by users of FunTrivia.com. 2. After Kim appears into the story however , she is the one and only character who sees Ed as he really is : a gentle artist who will do anything for love.She discovers that Edward only wants love and happiness for everybody.And only after she finds this out she can enjoy Ed’s art. Overall , the movie is very , very good , with comical moments and deep messages behind it , in the same time having a very nice directing and a fantastic cast. He had a very minimalist script J ohnny Depp may have broken away from the teen heart-throb mould he had created in his TV career, but he did so with only 169 words as Edward Scissorhands. We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism. Burton met with Cruise on several occasions at Fox’s insistence. Edward Scissorhands is, by turns, delightful and heartbreaking, appealing to viewers of all ages. Edward Scissorhands quotes to make you think about how tough it can be to be different. Additional roles were played by Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker, Vinc… The main character is Edward, a humanoid puppet who has scissors instead of hands.He is left alone in a collapsing building after his creator died, and because he did not have any connections with the outside world, he didn’t see much of it.So when Peg comes to sell her useless products which nobody uses, she stumbles upon Edward, she feels like a good guy and takes Ed home because she thought he would … And Edward killed Edward was a decent person and wasn’t physically terrifying, where Victor’s creature was arguably not even human and was really scary and ugly. When I saw this film for the first time, my heart burst of love. Yee-ha! It was produced by Burton and Denise Di Novi, and written by Caroline Thompson from a story by her and Burton. Joyce is a housewife who has nothing special to offer , but who tries really hard to be special by flaunting herself to any man who could make her life a little bit less meaningless. ( Log Out /  "Edward had to kill Jim. Once again, Jim pushes her aside and goes after Edward until, in self-defense, Edward stabs him with a They’re light-weight steel armatures wrapped with chicken wire and stuffed with artificial greens. He had designed the hands and been ready to put them on permanently in the near future, but the hands were completely destroyed during his fatal heart attack. Vincent Price (Edward's creator) had a heart attack and died at the very same moment that he presented Edward with new hands. Esmeralda is that “one asshole in the group”.Nobody likes her because she is a religious fanatic , but somehow she manages to “be right” about Ed in the eyes of everybody. Instead, Burton worked with his career-long collaborator Danny Elfman on the score, but added three Tom Jones songs to the soundtrack: a nod to the pallid musical palette of his upbringing, where nobody listened to music, but everyone liked the efforts of the Welsh crooner.Â. Find out more, The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. Frankenstein's monster or Frankenstein's creature, often erroneously referred to as simply "Frankenstein", is a fictional character who first appeared in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. He told the LA Times: “I can't tell you what (Price) meant to me growing up. Edward was only trying to protect himself and the girl that he loved. Edwards Scissorhands is the main character in the movie with the same name. Burton sent Price the film, and he appreciated it. He originally asked The Cure’s Robert Smith to score the film, but Smith was too busy working on the band’s eighth album, Disintegration. Bill is the political correctness.He stinks of it.He is the model of any  servile man , who tries to be good , to be respectful to the laws , because he thinks that political correctness is going to make him special in the eyes of the society , but in fact he is just a closed-minded dude. The moral of the movie is : you’ll get f*cked by the society regardless of your intentions. We designed them and then had them manufactured. Then one robin's-egg-colored day the Avon Lady comes calling. Depp was 27 at the time, and just embarking on a credible film career. News of the World, review: a grizzled Tom Hanks, in an old-school Western? After some times , he comes to the bank , were nobody seems to notice that he has scissors instead of hands but he is told that he has to buy a car in order to get money for a business (a business he didn’t need in the first place). For me Edward Scissorhands is in fact a Christmas movie. 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Even if the only thing he wanted was to bring happiness to his friends , this was not political correct. A Christmas movie for me has to take place on or around Christmas and needs to have the Christmas message of love and peace. At some point in the film we also see some pages and overlays It took another 45 minutes to sew Depp into his black latex bodysuit (parts of which came from Burton’s old sofa), which, along with the scissor hands, was created with the help of Pumpkinhead’s Oscar-winning special effects expert Stan Winston. “Who knows?”. ( Log Out /  The finished works, however, weren’t real, but the creation of the art department. Edward Scissorhands is about Edward, a Frankenstein-like creation with scissors for hands, who is left alone unfinished in his creator’s mansion. And for the trajectory of the tale, he needed to be left alone at the end," Thompson said. 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Accuracy: A team of editors takes feedback from our visitors to keep … He was the one who made and took care of Edward. Edward wouldn’t have existed in the first place if Burton hadn’t been a tremendous artist.His Gothic sketches inspired so many beautiful movies that were underrated for a long time. More Edward Scissorhands Wiki 0 The inventor 1 Jim Explore Wikis Universal Conquest Wiki Let's Go Luna! It’s going to be tough not to completely sound like I’m gushing through this retro, because along with Batman Returns , this is my favorite Burton film. Director Tim Burton had hardly seen any of Johnny Depp's previous work (he was known at the time for his role in TV series 21 Jump Street), but cast him because he was impressed with Depp's “ability to act with his eyes". Although all inhabitants eventually gave up their houses for the shoot, there was one man – who lived in the middle house – who only allowed the crew to use his at the last minute. Edward Scissorhands exists, in part, because of Dianne Wiest. The vast majority of houses were painted back afterwards, but some liked their Scissorhands makeovers. Helen is a metaphor for gossip , as she is present at any moment , but is maybe the most useless character for the story. He’s basically a nonverbal character. The King of Pop wanted to play Scissorhands, as did William Hurt and Robert Downey Jr, but the former was ignored and the latter two unsuccessful. He lives alone after the sudden death of his inventor-father, who died before being able to attach Edward's hands, so his imperfection Kill! Johnny Depp plays an artificial humanoid named Edward, an unfinished creation who has scissor blades instead of hands. Every character represents one of society’s problems. Edward Scissorhands Jim Source(s): https://shrinke.im/a8CwE 0 0 Anonymous 1 decade ago Yes. Johnny Depp may have broken away from the teen heart-throb mould he had created in his TV career, but he did so with only 169 words as Edward Scissorhands. The officer represents how law usually is.Why should we move a finger when they can kill themselves? Edward Scissorhands is his personal film that he ever put to film by his heart. They fall in love , they kiss , and then Ed has to hide himself because he did something unacceptable in the eyes of the society (he is found breaking into another house) , so love doesn’t always triumph.And this is realistic considering that our society wouldn’t accept a relationship between a woman and a man with scissors instead of hands.And this is the real tragedy , that our society is so closed minded that it will differentiate people because of their physical appearence. Nor can you see his face. 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