In Tim Burton’s expressive film‚ Edward Scissorhands (1990)‚ audiences are exposed to the gothic world of Edward‚ played by Johnny Depp as he struggles to fit into the conformed and opposing world of the town below the dark mansion that he inhabits. This film is mainly directed at teens and adults and not children under eleven years of age. Even though most children would understand the storyline and recognise the characters intentions‚ they may not fully appreciate the true morals and themes of
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From the outset‚ it is difficult to impart sympathy upon the reader for the loss of Benjamin Edwards without first understanding who he was‚ and why he would be so dearly missed by the townspeople of this little hamlet in New York. Benjamin Jackson Edwards was seventeen years of age‚ and was only month from taking the final step across the bridge into adulthood. He was a senior at the local high school but did not take part in any of the local cliques‚ nor did he seem to belong to any one particular
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Leslie Edwards (Matthew Perry)‚ a clumsy aristocrat‚ and the hilarious Bartholomew Hunt (Chris Farley) are competing against the famous Lewis & Clark to be the first to chart and make it across the United States to the Pacific Ocean. In the beginning of the film‚ Edwards has high hopes to head the first expedition to make it across the U.S.‚ but while he has the want and the money‚ he is a sheltered man who knows nothing of the wilderness. To aid in his journey‚ he hires the services of a supposedly
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Essay: Great drama requires great tragedy and great love. Burton’s eye opening film‚ Edward Scissorhands‚ showed intense drama through the use of Edward and Kim who expressed great love for each other. Yet it became a tragedy as the couple who were meant to be together were too different from each other. This essay‚ will illustrate how much Edward loved Kim so much that he was willing to do anything for her‚ and how much Kim loved Edward so much that she sacrificed her love to let him go. The
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Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 American Romance‚ Horror‚ Gothic and fairy tale hybrid film directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp. The film shows the story of an artificial man named Edward‚ an unfinished creation‚ who has scissors for hands. Edward is taken in by a suburban family and falls in love with their teenage daughter Kim. Supporting roles are portrayed by Winona Ryder‚ Dianne Wiest‚ Anthony Michael Hall‚ Kathy Baker‚ Vincent Price‚ and Alan Arkin. Burton conceived the idea for
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Edward‚ Edward is a ballad written in the seventeenth century. Edward‚ Edward tells the story of a man called Edward who has killed his father because he wants all of his father’s riches and is having a conversation with his mother about it. The ballad was a popular form of entertainment in the seventeenth century as people to sing them to remember them. A ballad is mostly a conversation between two people like Edward‚ Edward. Also Edward‚ Edward is written in first person and is told from Edward
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Edward Scissorhands Tim Burton’s 1990 Edward Scissorhands creates a whole new world for viewers to enjoy: the classic‚ perfect world of suburbia with each family living the American dream versus the unknown world of an uncommonly gentle man who is nearly human. The film Edward Scissorhands shows that Edward’s gothic castle and the perfect town of suburbia are meant to be two separate worlds though Edward desires to live in a perfect world‚ and the people of suburbia desire a change of pace
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In the film “Edwards Scissorhands”‚ the character Edward was portrayed as a strange or scary person to the people of the town. He has scissors for his hands‚ which makes him very useful and unique in the town. When Edward was on screen‚ he always had eerie music playing in the background to add terror to his character. Despite all the fear the townspeople had for him‚ they began to accept who he was. The community enjoyed his presence due to him being able to help them with yard work and hair cutting
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Edward S. Aarons was an American novelist best known for writing the Assignment series of novels. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Edward Ronns and Paul Ayres and also under his real name publishing more than 80 novels of which about half were in the assignment series over nearly four decades of writing. He also penned several numerous short stories for Scarab and Detective Story Magazine. While he wrote other short stories over the years‚ his assignment series was his most popular work as they
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Edward Scissorhands‚ a film directed by Tim Burton‚ contains many allusions to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Both stories are centered on the creation of life and the difficulties that the one who was created must face as a result. However‚ Frankenstein is entirely composed of Gothic elements‚ while Burton chooses to sharply contrast Gothic elements with those of modern suburban life. In Edward Scissorhands‚ Tim Burton satirizes the conformity of American suburbanism‚ which is counter to many ideas
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