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I really thought I had seen Edward Scissorhands before… that is until I was trying to explain to someone what happens and came up blank.
Edward, who was created by an Inventor, has scissors where his hands should be. Despite his deformity he is adopted by a kind suburban family and integrated into the community. But you can’t spell community without mutiny.
Movies like this really get my goat. How an innocent person can get royally screwed because of another’s over inflated ego and jealousy. That and the effects of crowd theory, how people can turn on you as quickly as they accept you. But heck it makes for an emotive storyline.
I have to say, I don’t think I realised how weird the whole boy with scissors for hands concept really was. Seriously. Scissors… For hands. How does someone even come up with that, let alone turn it into a successful movie?!
Well I suppose such a fantastical concept couldn’t even have been half as successful without an actor like Johnny Depp at the helm. You can say a lot of things about the man – and people certainly are right now – but he sure can act.
Edward was that weird kid at school that for some reason everyone accepted, no one tried to pick on and a few people were attracted to, and I can’t think of anyone other than Johnny Depp who could have done such a complex role justice.
It does make we wonder where all the slightly more out there and Gothic toned movies are today – heck even Tim Burton’s more recent ventures are nowhere near the individualistic darker tones of what they used to be.
Does no-one have it in them to produce more or have we just moved on?
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