Edward with the scissor hands

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Movie
German title Edward with the scissor hands
Original title Edward Scissorhands
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1990
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK / JMK 6
Rod
Director Tim Burton
script Caroline Thompson
Tim Burton
production Tim Burton,
Denise Di Novi
music Danny Elfman
camera Stefan Czapsky
cut Richard Halsey
occupation

Edward Scissorhands (Original title: Edward Scissorhands ) is an American fantasy - tragicomedy from the year 1990 with Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder in the main roles. The film opened in German cinemas on April 18, 1991.

action

An old lady tells her granddaughter the following story about snow:

Edward, an artificially created human , is not quite finished when its inventor dies. Instead of hands, Edward is equipped with a complicated scissors construction. He lives alone in its creator's castle until one day Avon consultant Peg Bogg enters the castle. Peg feels sorry for Edward and takes him home with her.

At home with the Bogg family, Edward falls in love with Peg's daughter Kim. She is initially suspicious of Edward, but soon succumbs to his reserved charm. Your friend Jim and his gang are not at all enthusiastic about it; However, Edward is very popular with the neighbors (with the exception of one fanatical religious lady): First he creates bushes with his scissors, then he uses them to coiff dogs and finally the ladies of the neighborhood. One day Edward is molested by neighbor Joyce when she shows him the beauty salon where he is supposed to work as a hairdresser, and he fled.

Because Kim's friend Jim does not receive any money from his wealthy parents and he intends to buy a camper, once they are gone he wants to break into the vault of their house and steal money, using Edward's ability - he can with his scissors Ease of opening locks - wants to make use of it. He tells Edward that he was robbed, that he wants to get his money back and that Edward should help him with his scissors. Even though Edward knows this is a lie, he gets involved because Kim asked him to. After Edward opens the vault and goes inside, the door slams shut behind him and the alarm goes off. While Jim and the others are fleeing the house and driving away, Edward is arrested by the police, since he cannot open the door from the inside with his scissors and therefore cannot escape. After a short time, however, he was released again as he was found to be incapable of guilt. The years in isolation had given him no opportunity to distinguish right from wrong, and his awareness of reality was radically underdeveloped.

Due to the incident, the mood changes and Edward finds himself exposed to hostility from the neighbors, who avoid him and therefore the Bogg family from now on. Kim apologizes to Edward for putting him in this situation and explains that she didn't want to leave him alone in the house. After Jim approaches the house to see Kim, Edward cuts the curtains and wallpaper in anger, which in turn is evidence of Edward's unpredictability to the neighbors. In addition, neighborhood neighbor Joyce claims she was almost raped and threatened with his scissors by Edward, even though she was the one who molested him.

One day when Kim sees snow for the very first time in the garden, she realizes that Edward is cutting a sculpture out of ice and the cut ice trickles down as snow. When Edward accidentally cuts her hand, the jealous Jim, Kim's meanwhile ex-boyfriend, uses the situation as an argument against him, accusing him of wanting to harm her and to incite people. Edward runs away in anger and destroys some of the bushes he has cut and stabs a car tire. Meanwhile, the neighbors also alert the police.

Edward saves Peg's son Kevin from Jim and his mate's car, which is moving too fast. Since he accidentally injures him slightly, Jim attacks him and a fight ensues. When the police arrive, Edward escapes from town to his castle - pursued by the police, angry neighbors, Kim and her jealous ex-boyfriend Jim.

In front of the castle, a well-meaning policeman shoots in the air to fake Edward's murder. When Kim arrives at the castle, she is happy to see Edward unharmed. A little later, the jealous Jim appears and tries to shoot Edward with a revolver. A fight ensues in which Edward pierces Jim with his scissors. Jim is killed and falls out the window. Kim is upset and doesn't know what to do. She kisses and hugs Edward and confesses her love to him, takes another scissor hand from the old shelves, leaves the castle and tells the storming neighbors that Edward and Jim are dead, that they both killed each other. After protecting Edward to be remembered, Edward and Kim never see each other again.

In the end, the old lady tells her granddaughter that she is Kim herself.

Cosplay of Edward at New York Comic Con (2015)

reception

Awards

Academy Awards 1991

Golden Globes 1991

Hugo Awards 1991

  • There was a Hugo in the Best Dramatic Performance category

Saturn Award 1992

  • Saturn Award in the Best Fantasy Film category
  • Nominated for Best Actress for Winona Ryder
  • Nominated for Best Costume for Colleen Atwood
  • Nominated for Best Music for Danny Elfman
  • Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin
  • Nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category for Dianne Wiest

BAFTA Award 1992

  • BAFTA Award in the Best Stage Design category for Bo Welch
  • Nominated for Best Costume for Colleen Atwood
  • Nominated in the Best Make-up category for Ve Neill
  • Nominated for Best Visual Effects for Stan Winston
The Scissorhands, on display in the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in Seattle (2011)

Grammy Awards 1992

Sant Jordi Awards 1992

  • Sant Jordi in the Best Foreign Leading Actress category for Winona Ryder
  • Sant Jordi for Best Foreign Film for Tim Burton

criticism

"Modern vision of the old story of the 'monster and the beautiful', peppered with quotes from film history, full of pretty directorial ideas and well played. Unfortunately, some bad taste and excessive scenes of violence water down the socially critical approaches. "

Gross profit

The film generated worldwide revenues of around $ 86 million.

Others

  • The American city of Burbank , California, the birthplace of director Tim Burton, was considered as a possible location for the film Edward Scissorhands, but Burton believed that the city of Burbank had changed too much since childhood. Therefore, the actual shooting took place in the metropolitan area of Tampa Bay Area in the state of Florida, in the nearby city of Lutz and in the Southgate Shopping Center in the city of Lakeland . In a suburb there, the film crew found typical American apartment buildings, which the team had painted with pale pastel colors. The exterior of Edward's Gothic Castle was built outside of Dade City . The interior shots of the castle, however, took place in a recording studio of the film production company 20th Century Fox in the Century City district of Los Angeles. In total, the shooting lasted over three months.
  • The artistically cut green bush and tree sculptures that Edward makes with his sharp scissor hands are called topiary , hedge cutting or topiary .
  • During the finale, the plot is similar to the early horror film Frankenstein from 1931: An angry population is confronted with a supposedly malicious creature, in this case the scissor creature Edward in front of his castle.
  • Johnny Depp then played in other Tim Burton films such as Ed Wood , Sleepy Hollow , Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , Sweeney Todd , Alice in Wonderland and Dark Shadows and also lent his voice to the main character in Corpse Bride .
  • Winona Ryder previously starred in the Tim Burton film Beetlejuice .
  • Even Tom Cruise and Robert Downey Jr. had applied for the role of Edward. Likewise were Tom Hanks , Gary Oldman , William Hurt , Jim Carrey and pop star Michael Jackson in an interview for the lead role.
  • Vincent Price's role in this film was his penultimate ever.
  • In a first draft, the film should originally be a musical.
  • Johnny Depp had to lose twelve kilograms for his role. In order to better empathize with the character Edward, Depp wore the scissorhands made by make-up designer Stan Winston for days prior to filming .
  • The Edward Fortyhands drinking game makes reference to this title.
  • In honor of Johnny Depp, an extinct crustacean with scissor-shaped claws was given the name Kootenichela deppi .
  • The American publisher IDW Publishing published a comic series on Edward Scissorhands from 2014 to 2015 , as an unofficial continuation of the plot, written by Kate Leth and drawn by Drew Rausch. Ten individual editions appeared, which were also published in two anthologies.
  • In 1991 the two-part porn parody Edward Penishand was directed by Paul Norman . Tim Burton is familiar with these films. In 1999, he told Conan O'Brien on his Late Night program that if porn parodies were created for your own films, then as a director you would know that you had made it.
  • In the scene in which Edward drives into the idyllic suburb below his castle in the car of cosmetics seller Peg Bogg for the first time, you see the still childish pop singer Nick Carter , who later celebrated great success with the boy band Backstreet Boys from 1996 , as a playing blond boy sliding over a watered yellow floor mat on a green lawn. This is the summer game Slip'N Slide .
  • The metalcore band Motionless in White in 2010 published a song called Scissorhands (The Last Snow) , a lyrical and musical tribute to the film and its deep impact on subcultural gothic culture . You can find this song on the album Creatures . The Scottish indie band The Twilight Sad released an EP in 2008 called Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did , referring to a quote from the character Kim Bogg as an aged grandmother at the end of the film.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Edward scissorhands. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. Edward Scissorhands. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
  3. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099487/locations
  4. ↑ Audio commentary by director Tim Burton, minute 14:10, contained in the bonus material of the BluRay Edward Scissorhands , 2016 (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Deutschland GmbH, Frankfurt am Main)
  5. ^ Researcher names crustacean after Johnny Depp . In: Spiegel Online , May 16, 2013.
  6. https://www.idwpublishing.com/edward-scissorhands/
  7. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101799/
  8. Tim Burton has seen Edward Penishands on YouTube , accessed August 11, 2018