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Basic information回目录

Edward Scissorhands(剪刀手爱德华)is a 1990 comedy drama film directed by Tim Burton. Burton conceived the idea for Edward Scissorhands from his childhood upbringing in suburban Burbank, California. Edward's scissor hands were created and designed by Stan Winston. The film is also the fourth feature collaboration between Burton and film score composer Danny Elfman. Edward Scissorhands was released with positive feedback from critics, and was a financial success. The film received numerous nominations and awards Both Burton and Elfman consider Edward Scissorhands their most personal and favorite work.

Directed by: Tim Burton

Produced by: Tim Burton Denise Di Novi

Written by: Caroline Thompson Tim Burton

Music by: Danny Elfman

Cinematography: Stefan Czapsky

Editing by: Colleen and Richard Halsey

Distributed by: 20th Century Fox

Release dates:

United States: December 7, 1990
Australia: March 21, 1991
United Kingdom: July 26, 1991

Running time: 105 minutes

Country: United States

Language: English

Genre: Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance

Cast回目录

Johnny Depp as Edward Scissorhands

Winona Ryder as Kim Boggs

Dianne Wiest as Peg Boggs

Anthony Michael Hall as Jim

Alan Arkin as Bill Boggs

Vincent Price as The Inventor

Kathy Baker as Joyce Monroe

Robert Oliveri as Kevin Boggs

Conchata Ferrell as Helen

Caroline Aaron as Marge

Bee Albano as Rich Widow, TV

Carmen J. Alexander as Reporter

Susan Blommaert as Tinka

Brian Larkin as Max

Tricia Lloyd as Teenage Girl

Aaron Lustig as Psychologist

Marc Macaulay as Reporter

John McMahon as Denny

Plot回目录

The film begins with an elderly Kim telling her granddaughter the story of Edward Scissorhands.

When local Avon seller Peg Boggs(Dianne Wiest)fails to make any profits in her neighborhood, she, on the strength of a whim, visits a pseudo-medieval mansion located on a hill above the town. There, she finds Edward, who is an artificial man created by the late owner of the house. This man, a eccentric inventor, died while trying to place a long-delayed pair of hands on his creation, leaving him with many long, metal, scissor-like blades instead. Then, Peg brings him home to her family. Edward thus must adjust to life in the suburbs. He falls in love with Peg's teenage daughter Kim(Winona Ryder), who is frightened by Edward at first, but grows to love him through successive acts of compassion on her part. Kim's conformist neighbors, while initially thrilled at his skills at hedge clipping and haircutting, grow to distrust Edward because of his dangerous condition. Two of these, a Christian fanatic called Esmeralda and Kim's sweetheart Jim, dislike him from the start. Eventually, Jim attempts to implicate Edward in theft. Edward is arrested, but is released when a psychological examination reveals that his isolation had allowed him to live without a traditional sense of ethics.

Peg's husband Bill Boggs asks Edward about what to do if he finds a briefcase full of money. Edward selflessly declares that he would give all of the money to loved ones. Later, neighbor Joyce suggests that Edward open a haircutting salon with her. When examining a proposed site, she attempts to seduce him. Edward, partly confused, flees the room.

Kim's boyfriend attempts to gain insurance money on his own family . He uses Edward, who can easily unlock doors to gain entrance but the alarm is set off and Edward is abandoned to face the police. This capture turns the neighborhood against him, along with Joyce's lies of Edward's attempted rape and Esmerelda's preachings. While the family decorates the house for Christmas, Edward uses his blades to carve an angel out of a large block of ice. The ice shavings fall to the ground, creating an effect of snow, which was unknown in the area before. Kim comes outside to dance in it, creating a joyful experience for herself. Jim calls her by name. At this, both she and Edward turn around suddenly. Edward's hand accidentally gives Kim a shallow cut. Jim sees this and tries to use this as an excuse to turn the town against Edward. He succeeds in this to a large extent. Edward is hunted back to his creator's mansion, where the police deceive the mob following him into assuming that he is dead.

Kim, refusing to believe this, or anything bad of Edward, hastens to enter the mansion. There, she reunites with Edward. Jim follows them and attempts to kill his rival. Though beaten initially, Edward reacts to Jim's ill-treatment and beating of Kim by pushing him violently through the old mansion window. Kim kisses Edward, then goes downstairs and tells the townspeople that both of her suitors are dead. To prove this, she holds up a scissored implement which she has taken from the late inventor's laboratory.

The elderly woman from the beginning reappears, as she finishes telling her granddaughter the story. It is revealed that Edward is still alive, The elderly woman reveals to her granddaughter that she is, in fact, Kim. She chooses not to visit Edward because she wants Edward to remember her the way she was in her youth.

Production回目录

When it came to cast the lead role of Edward, Fox was persistent to have Burton meet with Tom Cruise. Burton remembered, "He certainly wasn't my ideal, but I talked to him." Michael Jackson then lobbied hard for the part, but was unsuccessful. Tom Hanks turned it down in favor of The Bonfire of the Vanities. William Hurt, and Robert Downey, Jr. also all expressed interest, and were considered.Although Burton was unfamiliar with Johnny Depp's then popular performance in 21 Jump Street, the actor had always been Burton's first choice.

At the time of his casting, Depp was wanting to break out of the teen idol status which his performance in 21 Jump Street had afforded him. When he was sent the script, Depp "wept like a newborn" and immediately found personal and emotional connections with the story. In preparation for the role, Depp watched many Charlie Chaplin films to study the idea of creating sympathy without dialogue. Fox studio executives were so worried about Edward's image, that they tried to keep pictures of Depp in full costume under wraps until release of the film.

Burton approached Ryder for the role of Kim Boggs based on their positive working experience in Beetlejuice.Drew Barrymore previously auditioned for the role. Crispin Glover auditioned for the role of Jim before Anthony Michael Hall was cast. Kathy Baker saw her part of Joyce, the neighbor who tries to seduce Edward, as a perfect chance to break into comedy. The role of The Inventor was written specifically for Vincent Price, and would ultimately be his final feature film role. Burton commonly watched Price's films as a child, and, after completing Vincent, the two became good friends.

The genesis of Edward Scissorhands came from a drawing by teenaged Tim Burton(director), which reflected his feelings of isolation and being unable to communicate to people around him in suburban Burbank, California. Burton stated that he was often alone, and had trouble retaining friendships.

During pre-production of Beetlejuice, Burton hired Caroline Thompson, then a young novelist, to write the Edward Scissorhands screenplay as a spec script. Burton was impressed with her short novel "First Born". Burton felt First Born had the same psychological elements he wanted to showcase in Edward Scissorhands.

Shortly after Thompson's hiring, Burton began to develop Edward Scissorhands at Warner Bros., with whom he worked with on Pee-wee's Big Adventure and Beetlejuice. However, within a couple of months, Warners sold the film rights to 20th Century Fox. Fox agreed to finance Thompson's screenplay while giving Burton complete creative control. At the time, the budget was projected to be around $8–9 million. Burton originally wanted to make Scissorhands as a musical, but later dropped the idea. Following the enormous success of Batman(蝙蝠侠), Burton arrived to the status of being an A-list director. He had the opportunity to do any film he wanted, ultimately Burton opted to make Edward Scissorhands for Fox.

Burbank, California was considered as a possible location for the suburban neighborhoods, but Lutz, Florida and the Southgate Shopping Center of Lakeland were chosen for a three month shooting schedule, partly because of Florida's frequent blue skies, but also because Burton believed the city had become too altered since his childhood. The neighborhood scenes in the film were shot in a section of the Carpenters Run development, where the residents of Tinsmith Circle were paid to have their homes altered, and later restored to their original condition. Rick Heinrichs worked as one of the art directors. The key element to unify the look of the neighborhood was Welch's decision to repaint each of the houses in one of four colors.

The facade of the Gothic mansion was built just outside of Dade City. Filming Edward Scissorhands in the Tampa Bay Area created hundreds of jobs and injected over $4 million into the local economy.

Production then moved to a Fox Studios sound stage in Century City, California, where interiors of the mansion were filmed.

To create Edward's scissor hands, Burton employed Stan Winston, who would later design Penguin's prosthetic makeup in Batman Returns. Depp's wardrobe and prosthetic makeup took one hour and 45 minutes to apply. The giant hedge sculptures that Edward creates in the film were made by wrapping metal skeletons in chicken wire, then weaving in thousands of small plastic plant springs.

Theme回目录

Self-discovery and isolation are themes of the film. Edward is found living alone in the attic of a Gothic castle. Edward is an unfinished creation of his inventor who dies before he can complete the job. He is removed from his lonely existence in a hilltop castle by Avon lady Peg Boggs and finds himself living with her family in a pastel-colored version of suburbia. He becomes the source of fantasy, gossip, resentment, adoration and lust for the neighbors, whom he wins over with his outlandish haircuts and elaborate sculptures. Kim leaves her jock boyfriend to be with Edward, an event that many have postulated as Burton's revenge against jocks he encountered as a teenager. Jim is subsequently killed, a scene that shocked a number of observers who felt the whole tone of the film had been radically altered.

With Edward finally unable to consummate his love for Kim because of his appearance, the film can also be seen as being influenced by Beauty and the Beast. Edward Scissorhands is a fairy tale bookended by a prologue and an epilogue. The film also evokes typical German Expressionism and Gothic fiction archetypes.

Release回目录

Mistakes回目录

At the time of the break-in at Jim's house, Edward is wearing dark clothes and a cap unlike what he can be seen wearing at other times throughout the film. He has previously demonstrated an inability to dress himself, and with this in mind it is strange that everybody assumes that he committed the burglary by himself.

When all the dogs are waiting in line to be groomed, Edward has Joyce's dog sitting on a single, long table. The only table visible before Joyce's dog is groomed. When Edward begins to groom Joyce's dog, a small, square table can be seen next to the table that Joyce's dog is supposedly sitting on. The longer table disappears. After Joyce's dog is groomed, the smaller table disappears, replaced with the longer table that Joyce's dog was originally sitting on.

Near the end, when Kim is running up the stairs in the mansion, a crew member can be seem ducking down at the bottom of the huge window on the left.

Reception回目录

"Edward Scissorhands isn't perfect. It's something better: pure magic."

—Peter Travers, writing in Rolling Stone magazine

"Burton invests awe-inspiring ingenuity into the process of reinventing something very small. In the case of Edward Scissorhands is a tale of misunderstood gentleness and stifled creativity, of civilization's power to corrupt innocence, of a heedless beauty and a kindhearted beast. The film, if scratched with something much less sharp than Edward's fingers, reveals proudly adolescent lessons for us all."

—Janet Maslin of The New York Times

Edward is branded as a freak because he doesn't fit in, simply because he doesn't have real hands. He falls in love but isn't sure if he can experience it because he's different. Everything he does is practically ruined because he can't experience life when everything he touches is sliced into pieces. It's somewhat like a modern Frankenstein, but with Danny Elfman's haunting melodies replacing Victor's curses to the heavens, it's more keen on using subtlety.

This is a classic because Edward just wants to fit in, which is exactly what we all want in life. This is a sad story, with Edward experiencing the death of his creator, the pain he's caused to everyone he's ever accidentally cut, and the way he won't be accepted into society. This is a story about love, and the hate that can consume it.

Awards and Nominations回目录

Academy Award
Best Makeup, Stan Winston and Ve Neil

Saturn Award
Best Actress, Winona Ryder
Best Costumes, Colleen Atwood
Best Music, Danny Elfman
Best Supporting Actor, Alan Arkin
Best Supporting Actress, Dianne Wiest

BAFTA Film Award
Best Costume Design, Colleen Atwood
Best Make Up Artist, Ve Neill
Best Special Visual Effects, Stan Winston

Grammy
Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Danny Elfman

Golden Globe Award
Best Actor, Johnny Depp

Hugo Award
Best Dramatic Presentation

Saturn Award
Best Fantasy Film.

BAFTA Award
Best Production Design, production designer, Bo Welch