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September 21st 2006 04:07
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Few other directors these days have as unique a look to their films as Tim Burton. 'Edward Scissorhands' is the quintessential Burton film, a gothic fairytale (even in the way that it's told in flashback) that is as quirky and odd as it is moving and heartwarming. We open on a nameless all-American suburb... a soulless, colourful 1950s consumerism ad, full of garish pastels and plastic emptiness. Watching over the town is a black and forbidding haunted house/castle, once home to a mad (yet kindly) professor (Vincent Price, in one of his last roles) and now inhabited by his last, unfinished project... a man with scissors for hands (Johnny Depp).
It's all very bizarre sounding, and Johnny Depp creates a memorable and one-of-a-kind character in Edward. The supporting cast is filled with a great array of character actors (Kathy Baker, Alan Arkin, Dianne Weist), each one adding to the film immensely with their own performance. The themes central to the film are like those of a fairytale; Edward wants nothing more than love, but he is used by the townspeople like a fad and they eventually turn on him when he can no longer give them what they want. It's sad and magical, like a childhood bedtime story, and Burton plays it exactly like that.
'Edward Scissorhands' is a visually wonderful film, full of imaginative bizarre imagery and backed by a beautiful score. It's the kind of story that only Tim Burton tells, and the clash of genre conventions (the fairytale and the modern film) makes for a unique and enjoyable story.
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