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    Edward Scissorhands Essay The film ‘Edward Scissorhands’ by Tim Burton, is a modern day fairy tale which follows the story of Edward, a young man that is taken out of isolation and introduced into a new way of life. Although the film is for entertainment, that is not its sole purpose. The film has deep and rich themes, which convey many important messages to the audience. Some themes of the film include; conformity, appearances versus reality and individuality. In ‘Edward Scissorhands’, conformity

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    Related Material: Edward Scissorhands By Tiarne Hamam 1. Name of text: Edward Scissorhands 2. Composer: Tim Burton 3. Text type: Film 4. What is the text about? Edward Scissorhands is about Edward, a Frankenstein-like creation with scissors for hands, who is left alone unfinished in his creator’s mansion. Many years after Edward was created, local Avon saleswoman Peg Boggs visits the broken-down Gothic mansion on the hill where Edward lives. There, she finds Edward alone, and upon

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    The film Edward Scissorhands is a contemporary archetype of the gothic genre exploring themes such as unrequited love, social rejection and human creation as defined by Tim Burton. Feature films explore different ideals that can be categorized into different genres that create expectations among audiences about characters, settings, plots and themes. Edward Scisscorhands directed by Tim Burton in the year 1990 is described as both a dark romantic fantasy and a gothic horror film. The film tells a

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    his movies. He has a lot of movies, but I’m only going to go over the ones that addresses the overall theme. And in those movies I’ll include Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and Beetlejuice. All of these movies have different scenarios that goes into the overall theme of not taking an advantage on someone else. An Example would be Edward Scissorhands, where people took advantage of him because of his skills in cutting things with his “scissor hands”. I’m going to separate the topics into three kinds

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    Edward Scissorhands, directed by Tim Burton in 1990, features Burton’s distinctive style, themes and story elements. Moreover, it is influenced stylistically by the German Expressionism; distortion of objects and bodies, such as the trimmed hedges, Gothic elements, for instance Edward’s castle or his clothes, and the music played throughout the film, curves and crooked lines in the pathway of the neighbourhood, and the Chiaroscuro lighting (low-key lightning) in most of the scenes. Peg Boggs

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    This makes the factory feel massive and alien to normal people, making the first impression of the factory close up feel uneasy and awkward. Another example in his film “Edward Scissorhands” first introduces Edward with an extreme long shot of his silhouette, hiding most of his face and body, but clearly reveal the scissorhands Edward yields. When compared with Peg,

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    Descriptive Claim: Directed in 1990 by Tim Burton, Edward Scissorhands is set in an idealistic community in 1950s America. The story follows the Frankenstein-like character of Edward (Johnny Depp), as he navigates a pastel- coloured world that is unfamiliar to him, after he is found alone in his former creator’s mansion on top of a hill by Peg (Dianne Wiest) and she takes him into her home. At first, the community fears Edward, but they grow to appreciate him for his many talents, until

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    Tim Burton: Using Lighting & Colors to Create a Dramatic Effect Tim Burton uses lighting and colors to create a dramatic effect in the first scenes of Edward Scissorhands and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, both directed by him. In Edward Scissorhands, the lighting of the neighborhood compared to the castle where Edward lives gives the impression that the castle is a secluded part of the neighborhood, outcasted and ostracized from the rest of the world. The neighborhood is filled with bright

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    The film Edward Scissorhands is a uniquely charming story. It all begins when makeup saleswoman, Peg, sees an old mansion after a not so successful day of work. She goes up to the mansion to find a man, Edward, who was part human and part machine. Despite his appearance, he was a child on the inside. Peg takes him to live with her family, where Edward had an immediate connection to Peg’s teenage daughter, Kim. Kim’s possessive boyfriend, Jim, does not like Edward. Edward was happy,and was enjoying

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    Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands film was nothing less than phenomenal from all perspectives. The moral is not to judge someone based off appearances or on the basis that they are different from you. This was all achieved by using cinematic elements such as lighting, sound, camera an-gles, and wardrobe. This film’s message really made the audience think and feel as if they were playing a role in the movie themselves. The fantasy film Edward Scissorhands offers insight into reality using immoderation

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