Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 film directed by Tim Burton and co-written by
Burton and screenwriter Caroline Thompson. It stars Johnny Depp as Edward
Scissorhands,Winona Ryder as Kim Boggs, and Dianne Wiest as Peg Boggs.
Vincent Price also has a role in the film; his last performance before his death.
The film centers Peg Boggs who meets a young, shy, quirky and bizarre looking
man named Edward - with hands made of scissors - and adopts him into her
own 'typical American' family.
The movie is a fable set in an exaggeratedly stereotypical vision of American
suburbia that intentionally combines clichés from both the 1950s and the late
1980s. It also has a central theme of the isolated, misunderstood major
character, a theme that recurs in much of Burton's work. Further, many of the
motifs and themes of the 1931 film Frankenstein are referenced in Edward
Scissorhands.
MAIN CHARACTER
Edward Scissorhands
Edward is an artificial man whose inventor
died before being able to put hands on his
creation. Instead Edward has many long metal
scissor-blades for hands.
Incomplete and all alone is the line used to
describe Edward at the beginning of the
movie, but he finds true love and is genuinely
happy even if for only a short time. Sadly, he
and his love are separated and he lives the
rest of his life alone.
Edward was created by an
old man that lived only with
his machines,eventually he
felt lonely and and made a
machine that could feel.
Edward’s creator died
and left him alone and
unfinished.
After Edward was left alone
in the castle he was found
by an Avon lady that
bought him to a quiet
neighborhood .
Edward’s new home was
very different from the castle
and he had problems
adapting when he was
exposed to society.
He falls in love with Kim,
who is frightened by Edward
at first, but grows to love him
Kimme”
”Hold
Edward-
”I
Everybody else in the neighborhood
grows to distrust him because of his
dangerous condition, especially her
jealous boyfriend Jim, with whom
she breaks up after he abandons
Edward when they are almost
caught stealing from Jim's own
father.
Jim(Kim's boyfriend) tries to shoot and kill Edward, but Kim grabs the gun still in
Jim's hands and it is fired into the air, bringing part of the roof down on Edward.
Jim then begins to beat Edward in the back with a long metal rod and Kim once
again comes to Edward's aid. Jim hits Kim and kicks her off, sending her flying.
This enrages Edward, who stabs Jim in the stomach, pushing him toward a window.
He then pulls his hands from Jim, sending Jim falling to his death. Kim manages to
keep the townspeople out of the castle by telling them the roof fell in the attic and
killed Edward. To prove this she holds up another scissor-hand she took from the
laboratory.
Even though Kim and Edward go their separate
ways, a love remains between them.