In your daybooks, answer the following:
What are your feelings about genetic
engineering? Cloning? And/or stem cell
research?
If you do not know what one of the above is,
write about the others.
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Edward Scissorhands is a 1990
American fantasy film, written by Tim
Burton and Caroline Thompson, and
directed by Burton.
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The film is a comedy-drama set in an
exaggerated and highly stereotypical
vision of American suburbia and the
typical families that inhabit it. It
intentionally combines clichés and styles
from the 1950s, early 1960s and the late
1980s.
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The concept, and many of the motifs of
Edward Scissorhands can be compared
to the English Gothic novel Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley and the French legend
of Beauty and the Beast.
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The director cites Edward Scissorhands
as epitomizing his most personal work.
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Genesis of Edward Scissorhands came
from a childhood drawing of director Tim
Burton, which reflected his feelings of
isolation and being unable to
communicate to people around him such
as family and friends.
Influences
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein,
 Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera,
Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre
Dame,
 King Kong,
 and Creature From the Black Lagoon
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Cast and crew spent twelve weeks
filming in Florida, where they found an
occupied community to film in,
Carpenter's Run subdivision in Lutz,
Florida
 - painted all the houses in faded pastels,
and reducing the window sizes to make
it look a little more paranoid "[
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Sixty different houses were to be
repainted for Tim Burton's vision of
suburbia, all of them occupied, and only
changed for the garish exterior paint.
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Edward Swissorhands depicts in both
humourous ways and dark ones, how
life can be if you are different, with
Edward on the far end of the scale.
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Edward is looking for love and
understanding something that becomes
difficult if you are unusual and
something that you long for.
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It is also a story about someone who
cannot physically touch anything or
anyone without destroying the thing
itself through no fault of his own.
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The film is truly wonderful modern
fairytale, the gothic mansion is
hauntingly beautiful and scenes with
Kaye dancing in the snow from Edwards
Ice Sculpture's is mesmerizing.
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The story of snow is a rare jewel in
filmmaking.
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The dominant discourse of Edward
Scissorhand, namely conformity is
carefully constructed by Burton in order
to confront the viewer with an ironical
aspect of being fitted in society.
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The symbolic code of color and
technical code of camera angles are not
only used to support the dominant
discourse, but also to make a clear
aspect of Edward’s difference to the
society.
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Burton uses a technical code in which
the camera is shotted from the castle
windows showing all of houses look
same and insignificant.
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Use of color such as the repetition of all
the houses' yards as greenish color and
houses being in one color encourage
viewer with the conformity of the town.
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Furthermore, the bright color of suburbia
and dark and doomed image of Gothic
castle present how awkward the
individual can be seen in such town
Parallels to Frankenstein (the
novel)
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern
Prometheus, generally known as
Frankenstein, is a novel written by the
British author Mary Shelley. Shelley
wrote the novel when she was 19 years
old.
Frankenstein is
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considered the first fully realized science
fiction novel
Influence of Vincent Price on
Tim Burton
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Trade Mark
Often played in horror films with a sense of
black humour
Playing an anti-hero who wants revenge on
those who wronged him
Frequently played villains who died
screaming
Distinctive low-pitched voice and
atmospheric narration.
Often played imposing, menacing villains.
Vincent Price in “Edward
Scissorhands”
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His role in Edward Scissorhands (1990)
was intended to be much larger, but
since Price was very ill from
emphysema and Parkinson's disease he
was only able to appear in two scenes.
American Gothic
Michael Jackson’s Thriller
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtyJbI
OZjS8&feature=related
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"Frankenstein" original trailer
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"It's Alive" original movie(Frankenstein)
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Frankenstein clip- Innocence Lost
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“Edward Scissorhands” a film by Tim
Burton, trailer