EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (1990) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION
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RIP Vincent Price (May 27, 1911 - October 25, 1993), aged 82
And
RIP Alan Arkin (March 26, 1934 - June 29, 2023), aged 89
You both will be remembered as legends.
I just realized it was Alan. Voice hasn’t changed. His heart neither.
I did three Price movies for my channel and am itching to do more now that the holidaze is almost over. I remember loving Tales of Terror and those Dr Phibes movies.
Such an interesting guy who I realized I have probably only seen 4-6 films with him in total. So much to catch up on...
My bunnies name is Vincent Price and older people get it and wonder how I know of him and younger people say.. Okay...? Some people get it and some people had lame parents! I was introduced to classic horror at a very young age, and now that I have my own child I'm doing the same, it's a tradition at this point
You? 🤔
Alan arkin is legendary, his son adam arkin is very great as well.
Tim Burton’s a genius. Edward is the perfect allegory for how introverted people live their lives: they can travel out of their dark castle, try to live among people, conform to a certain degree, but at the end of the day, they will always be part of that dark castle and will always return to it. It’s as heartbreaking as it is beautiful. (I can say this because I’m an introvert. I probably should’ve clarified.)
he isn't a genius. the majority of his work is just "take something someone else has created and make it goth with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter in it"
@@mayorjimmyWednesday season 1 was pretty good.
Tell us again how many successful films you have directed. @@mayorjimmy
Pretty much sums me up! Beautiful Movie.
@@stanmann356 you're going to be feeling pretty daft IF he turns out to be Steven Spielberg.....🤣
"Hold me." "I can't." That line always makes me cry, my favourite Burton film to date.
I love it 🥲
@trinaq That line gets to me too hits me in the feels 😞
This was an era when Tim Burton was really establishing himself as a director with his own unique goth/ comic vision and yes darklycomical in ways too 😂 .
Always happy to see Cassie's reactions
Hope you had a wonderful Christmas ! 🎄😀
Same. That line, that scene, is so heart-wrenching. You feel it when Edward says 'I can't', his sorrow is so heavy.
yeah burton was the outsider in life and hollywood making movies. I think he's lost some of that an is now a well established insider. @@harveylee51
Edward Scissorhands was a personal passion project for Tim Burton. I think it's an allegory for how he felt growing up in the suburbs of Burbank, California in the 1970s. Young Tim was different from other kids in some respects. He loved monster movies and had an aesthetic taste for the weird and macabre. So, like Edward, he was seen as somewhat of a freak. But, also like Edward, he had an ability to create art. He probably felt that his weirdness was, like Edward's scissor hands, simultaneously a barrier to human contact and a gift for creating art. Hands are an apt symbol for human contact: through hands we touch each other and embrace each other. But hands are also an apt symbol for artistic talent: through our hands we make art. Thus, the scissor hands are symbols of Edward's (and Tim Burton's) difference from others, a difference which, in some ways, serves as a handicap to fitting in and feeling connected to other people, but which simultaneously serves as a power for creating art, and thus for connecting and touching people in another way. Edward couldn't be with Kim and touch her in the usual sense, but he could be with her and touch her through the snow which is an outpouring of his art, the snow which creates an atmosphere within which Kim feels emotionally touched and consequently dances as an expression of this emotion. To anyone who has felt like an outsider because of his or her quirks, difference, and weirdness, this movie resonates.
The ice dance scene with Winona Ryder dancing gracefully in the snow accompanied by Danny Elfman's majestic score is one of my favorite scenes of cinema. Yes the sad part is that Edward is practically immortal so he has to stay up in that mansion all alone while he continues to remember Kim even after she is long gone. Probably Tim Burton's best film although another movie of his, Big Fish is also excellent and you will definitely love it.
Big Fish is my Burton -favorite ❤
Big fish would destroy her
Mine too, Winona never looked more beautiful dancing in the snow!
Growing up as an introvert who couldn't quite "get it" and often hurt people without intending to... God this movie hits really hard.
One of Tim Burton’s most popular. Likewise, one of Danny Elfman’s best scores. Man, does it make you cry at parts, especially the final scene of Vincent Price, in what was his last onscreen appearance in film, as the Inventor.
Danny has written some amazing scores. I grew up an Oingo Boingo fan, and when we first saw his name as a composer, my friends and I were stoked. What a talent.
Vincent Price, Alan Arkin, - LEGENDS. Then throw in Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Conchata Ferrell, ...the list goes on.
Danny Elfman sounds the same a LOT
is it Batman? is it Nightmare Before Christmas? is it Tales from the Crypt theme? it's Danny Elfman!
@@user-ih5jr8rt5q no doubt, but can't the same be said about most composers? Williams, Horner, and even Hans Zimmer have their own sound and styles.
@@capnmoby13difference between style and samey-ness
Metallica has a style, their songs don't sound the same, yeah? but you can find some of their osngs and part of songs that sound same-ish
Of the few you mentioned, they have some variance but I will also say some of their stuff becomes samey, but not as much as Elfman.
James Horner is the best of those and one I'd argue doesn't fit among the other 3 with repeatedness
I never get tired of a Danny Elfman score. Dude is just incredible.
You feel like Kim dancing in the snow, but the snow is the music!
Which really does make the scene a fantastic scene - No offense Edward!
Yeah they're all pretty great. The Hulk score is an underrated one imo.
Batman is still probably my fave Danny Elfman score..
@@StayFractalesque Yeah if he ended up being remembered for one score it would probably be that one. Or maybe Beetlejuice. Or Nightmare Before Christmas.
@@StayFractalesque Me too but this one is a close second. I have had both scores on CD ever since the movies were released!😎
Edward Scissorhands holds a special place in my heart and memory...I really didn't see much of the movie in the theater back in '90....I was too busy watching my wifes reactions which were priceless....she had a kind and fragile heart too...I didn't realize how emotional it would make me seeing it again after so many years. Shortly after our daughter was born, I lost my wife to bone cancer ....But seeing this clearly brought back the memory and joy of seeing her face watching this movie.
RIP. I'm sure you miss her. Holidays are hard sometimes.
@@ct6852 Thank You for your kindness... yes the last Christmas and New Years we had together as a family she was in the Hospiltal and my daughter was just 14 mo. old....Holidays have never been the same since. Thanks again. ☮✝
I am so sorry for your loss. You have this beautiful memory you can share with your daughter as she gets older.
@@valogden I hope I have the guts and my daughter has the patience someday to sit through the movie...with her weepy old Dad,
Thank you! ☮✝
I'm so sorry for your loss.
Anthony Michael Hall, the sweet nerd in _The Breakfast Club_ and _Sixteen Candles_ turns into the cruelest character of _Edward Scissorhands_ (Jim). A great actor! Each member of the main cast is well-known in many different movies and plays. Vincent Price is precious creating Edward. Bless him. Thanks for doing this... it's a lovely... and sad... Christmas movie.
I actually feel kind of sorry
for Hall's Jim here. Jim's clearly
dealing with a control freak dad.
Don’t forget the film Weird Science.
Recently he's been in the Halloween remakes
@@gavinyoung7085 And a cameo in Clerks 3.
I thought that was him!
Bill (Kim's father) is played by the wonderful Alan Arkin, who passed away this year. You may recognize him as the grandfather in Little Miss Sunshine. Brilliant actor.
Such a weird and beautiful movie. I'm a 56 year old man and the whole ice dance scene can still bring a tear to my eyes, and Wynona Ryder is so beautiful dancing.
“What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” is a really good Johnny Depp movie with an Oscar nominated performance by Leonardo DiCaprio (he should have won!)
This is easily one of Tim Burton's best movies.
It’s my #2. Ed Wood is my personal favorite.
His best movie
Yes
Batman 1989 for the win
Possibly his best. Visually Batman Returns is pretty memorable. And Miss Peregrin might be his most underrated.
When Edward said "Goodbye", I really fought back a tear
RIP Vincent Price. This was a good final film for him
Well technically his final film would be the one that took several decades to make:
The Thief and the Cobbler
The genius bromance dance between Tim Burton and Johnny Depp begins...Love this.
Cassie, the inventor, Vincent Price, was a very famous actor who starred in many movies and particularly the sci-fi genre. Also, if you have ever seen the Michael Jackson video “Thriller “, he is the voice over at the end of the video.
A Johnny Depp movie I think you'll like is What's Eating Gilbert Grape. It also stars a very young Leonardo DiCaprio in what I think is one of his best performances.
Ion kno if she making it thru tht 1😭
@@blakkst4rr lol she gonna need a life sized teddy bear to hold onto and a box of tissue.
A lot of people don't recognize Jim as the nerd in The Breakfast Club. He really broke the stereotype in this film.
I recognized he got bigger but the face is the same
The Ice Dance theme by Danny Elfman is one of the most hauntingly beautiful melodies ever.
this one never gets old; might be in the minority here, but think it’s Johnny Depp’s most memorable role outside of Jack Sparrow; this also kicked off the many memorable Burton-Depp collaborations
I'm a 58 year old man and I've seen this many, many times, yet I still get a few tears in my eyes at the end every single time.
I'm not crying shut up your crying I got somthing in my eye.
I've been recommending "BENNY & JOON" , its not a rom com but i think you'll feel good when you watch it and the acting between the three main characters Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Aiden Quinn is phenomenal. A bit of a semi lost 90s classic and my absolute favorite Depp movie !
Was scrolling through the comments looking for this suggestion. Cassie would love this movie.
@@johnfriday5169Same here. She should watch it. It's right in her wheelhouse.
She would like this movie
One of my favorite movies. Everything flows so smoothly... And I think Dianne Wiest should have been considered for an Oscar nomination for her role of Peg. Her relationship with Edward is absolutely beautiful.
Though he had limited dialogue, this was arguably Johnny Depp's greatest performance. He said more with his eyes and his facial expressions than many actors do with an entire script chock full of dialogue. As for the plot, it was straight out of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein." If you create a life or introduce it into a strange environment, you become responsible for that life. That's what Peg was saying when she said she hadn't thought out what could happen when she brought Edward home.
I still choke up when the elderly Kim says of the snow, "Sometimes you can still catch me dancing in it."
Dude... No. WAY.. ..Jack Sparrow is his greatest role of all time..
@@StayFractalesque First, I said "arguably." Second, you're entitled to your opinion. Finally, while Jack Sparrow is probably Johnny Depp's most popular role, I would argue with some justification that it took more talent and effort to play the role of Edward Scissorhands convincingly.
@@LashLeRoux.1I think it’s impossible to pick a best Johnny Depp performance. He just has so many greats
What's Eating Gilbert Grape, also starring Leonardo DiCaprio, who received his first Oscar nomination.
@@jameshowlett3678Clearly his best role was as Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
RIP, Stan Winston, 1946-2008.
He gave us Edward Scissorhands with those impressive makeup effects.
I'm glad this movie exists. 💖
That is a great way to put it! I feel the same way.
No movie informs my view of life more than this film.
I remember reading a movie review of the film on IMDb, and it said "if Tim Burton only made this film, it would be enough to call his filmmaking career worthwhile", and I totally get it. I mean, it would be anyway, as it's a strong film, but its messages are really important and create a clear view of life, what it can throw at you, and how to deal with its challenges.
@@tornadochaser2457 Yeah the fact that it's told like a fairly simple fairy tale or fable really makes it resonate. It's a pretty strange film visually...but the vibe is very clear. And it's universal.
the final line of this film is still one of my favorite last lines EVER.
Such a standout! Right in the feels every time!
Have you seen Depp in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? Wonderful movie. Also has an amazing performance by Leo D.
My personal favorite movie of all time. A true masterpiece in every possible way. Immaculate casting, immaculate art direction.
Even the wording of characters is immaculate!
Great movie if you overlook the glaring plot holes lol but I do love it too, so I can.
This movie always makes me cry.
I spent most of my life as an abused outcast.
Seeing another person in pain hurts me and remembering my own pain hurts too.😢
Ms. Cassie, thank you so much for doing this one. This movie came out when I was a kid. I am autistic, but I was undiagnosed in childhood. Back then, I knew there was something different about me, but I couldn't understand what it was. When I saw this movie, I related to Edward so hard. I cried, and cried, and cried.
This is Johnny Depp's best performance, and Dianne Wiest gives the movie so much heart, it almost hurts to watch.
The look on Edwards face when Kim says "I love you" speaks a thousand words
I found Johnny on the original 21 Jump Street which showed a number of pretty excellent acting moments by him. Then, my wife and I found Benny and Joon to be quirky and memorable as well as What's Eating Gilbert Grape (with an extraordinary Leo DiCaprio, too). After that, Pirates is the most famous, but there is quite a wild variety of stuff he's done.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape is one of my favorite Depp movies, so sweet and heartbreaking. Johnny Depp has not had many movies that make the most of his talent, but Gilbert Grape and Scissorhands and Jump Street really did him proud.
My first thought when she said she hasn't seen as much Depp as she thought was to recommend both Benny and Joon and What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Both so so good!
I was obsessed with this film when it came out, I was 6-7 years old.. but I still love it to this day, it's so unique and original.. Edward closing his eyes after finally hearing the words "I Love You" with the score kicking in gets me every time lol..
You should know that the inventor who made Edward is played by the great horror film star Vincent Price. You should check out his films. He had quite a career.
Possibly the greatest motion picture soundtrack piece of all time. That piece just takes you. You just see your whole life flash when you are listening to it.
It was designed around the motif of the music box, a song that’s never quite complete- that could end and pick up at any moment. The main theme never quite resolves until the end or does it? Very much like the movie. The score had an immense influence on music for TV, commercials and other movies. You hear echos of the style and voicing of it to this day, but it was especially prominent the first five or so years after it was released.
YOU, speak for yourself, not for others
@@user-ih5jr8rt5q have a good day
Why do I think she’ll tear up?
Why do I think I will?!!!
"An Ed in her Bed" sounds like a great Dr, Suess book!
This is one of my top 5 favorite films. I love bittersweet romances, and I find the story relatable in a metaphorical way. I'm on the autism spectrum, very creative, and kind of an outcast. I also have trauma, and feel I have these things, like the blades, keeping me at a distance from many people.
What are your other favourite films?
the ice dace is one of the most beautiful scene and score ever written
Alan Arkin as the dad, the grandfather from little miss sunshine.
My favorite Danny Elfman score, just beautiful and sad at the same time, just magical, such a unique film and it will always be one of favorites of all time
I loved that Tim Burton used a very old horror film actor named Vincent Price. This was his last movie role as he had Emphasema or Lung cancer, can't remember which, from smoking. Price had a long career and was mentioned in one of Tim Burton's early short movies, a poem about a creepy little boy and his mother scolded him that he is not Vincent Price....and years later he was in a movie with Vincent Price so it was a touching story. Johnny Depp is the world's most successful character actor , he almost never plays a regular person and often his characters are unrecognizable until Johnny starts talking. Tonto and Captain Jack Sparrow and Edward are three examples of that. Know Tim Burton I am surprised there wasn't even MORE blood and gore in this film.
@Cassie The Inventor was played by famous actor Vincent Price who was the king of horror movies during the golden age of Hollywood, and whose iconic voice you'll recognize as the man reciting the poem in Michael Jackson's song Thriller.
Vincent Price was an absolute treasure and almost nothing at all like the characters he portrayed. We are all better for the art he created and the art he supported. Whether he made us laugh, smile, or scream in terror - our lives are better that he was here.
We credit Burton and the actors but hardly give the deserved Props to Danny Elfman…. The score and music in this movie is a character of its own, and it carries the sentiment of every emotion , scene by scene. Watching a symphony play this live makes you feel EVERYTHING
My favorite Tim Burton movie, and one of the best film’s of the 90’s. The message is very profound.
..I'm just over here thinking about how many watershed films came out in 99 alone..
You should react to Big Fish! Might be a good one to do with your sister, actually. It's Tim Burton, but not in the way you might expect. It's a beautiful film, and you may need tissues by the end of it. ❤
Edward Scissorhands’ soundtrack is one the best scores ever. Always enjoy listening to it during the winter or when it snows.
I love this movie for so many reasons. I was 19 when this originally came out and it holds a special place in my heart for two reasons. The first is that Edward Scissorhands is the very first movie I ever went with a girl to see. Deanna was her name. And the second reason this holds a special place in my heart is seeing the legendary Vincent Price as the Inventor in his final film role before he passed away. And I have to talk about the ice dance scene. Seeing Kim dancing in the snow never fails to bring a tear to my eye. That was just a beautiful moment.
This is what they call a bittersweet ending.
“It’s not snowing here in Utah. It feels wrong.”
Me: Wait a minute.
Also me: ✨glow ball warming✨
Finding Neverland is my favourite Johnny Depp film. Such an underapreciated film.
What's eating Gilbert Grape is worth watching too.
You have to watch "Benny & Joon" with Johnny Depp and Mary Stuart Masterson.
One of the greatest movie scores ever and still Danny Elfmans most haunting!! ❤❤❤
"I didn't particularly like his Wonka" LOL comment of the year! 🤣🤣
This was the very first Johnny Depp film I ever watched, and I fell in love with it immediately.
Edward Scissorhands is really one of those comfort characters for me, and I have Johnny Depp and Tim Burton to thank for that.
I love this and knowing Cassie she probably thought it would be a scary movie 😂
I mean, Tim Burton says it all…..
Edward Scissorhands is definitely not a typical fairytale ending but it’s a great story. If you want to see a Burton film that will absolutely win you over, watch “Big Fish”. It’s arguably his best work ever.
I have heard this story described as a reverse horror movie, where the monster is the community.
That's a lovely way to phrase it.
The great Vincent Price as the inventor ! And the also great Alan Arkin as the dad. Two accomplished actors !
A very charming movie indeed. I was completely taken with it from the very first time I watched it, and the effect was no less every time since. My favourite moment has to be when Edward is making his ice sculptures, and Kim dances beneath, the shavings falling like new snow upon her shoulders. And the Danny Elfman score providing additional atmosphere. Simply magical. (Two other very good Johnny Depp movies: "Don Juan DiMarco" and "Benny and Joon".) All the best for you, Carly and your family in 2024. Cheers!
Cassie a great Johnny Depp movie that gets overlooked is The Ninth Gate (1999). It is a creepy good watch. Enjoy.
This movie was shot in a neighborhood in Lutz, FL. You can look it up online to see more recent pics with trees and such that have grown. One of my kids was born at a birth center in Lutz.
Some people have already mentioned, "What's eating Gilbert Grape". Please watch this movie for you own enjoyment or reaction.
One of the best musical scores in the history of film.
It's absolutely a gothic fairy tale.
By way of suburbia.
I watched it inside a packed theater a day after it opened. There were six tough guy gang bangers seated directly in front of me at the screening.
Before the movie started, 2 of them were teasing their girlfriends to not cry at the movies.
During the scene where Ryder is dancing in the snowflakes Edward is making, when the music swells up, we could hear two of the guys in front of us sniffing from crying.
The final scene in the movie,
they were at the point of actually sobbing.
It was hilariously ironic to me.
Which shows how great a storyteller Burton is.
Living in MN, we normally have at least a few inches of snow that have stuck by Christmas. Last year we had a few feet by Thanksgiving. This year we've had snow fall twice, but it was gone within 2-3 days. Christmas day was mid-50s for temps and very rainy lol. In my 30 years of living in MN I don't recall ever have a warm, rainy Christmas. But I love it. I'm in MN for family, but I absolutely despise snow, likely because I spend a lot of time driving for work so icy roads are a nightmare to deal with.
I love this movie, glad you liked it too.
And there's loads more of Depp films to explore. I would nominate Donnie Brasco, a more conventional role compared to the quirky ones you've seen him play so far. Love that movie.
Hope everyone has had a good Christmas, have a good 2024 🎉
I love this movie. It's a simple yet great metaphor for not being able to fit in.
Johnny Depp said that he cried the first time he read the script for this film and that it was, 'The most beautiful thing, not just script, but story, I have ever read.'
The making of the film was hellish for Depp though! We was encased in a thick leather and vinyl bodysuit, along with heavy makeup and a large wig that took over an hour to get on and styled. Often times he'd be wearing more clothes over the bodysuit, like thick black coats and those grey tweed trousers, only adding to the discomfort. The scissors weighed about six pounds per hand. And all this while shooting in Florida, in the springtime, dealing with well over 90 degree days with 100 percent humidity. Tim Burton passed out from heat exhaustion during filming!
A bright spot in the production for Depp came when he got to work with the great Vincent Price, who played The Inventor. Depp was a huge fan of Price's work and couldn't wait to meet him. When Price heard of this, he invited Depp to his trailer where the pair talked for hours about Hollywood and horror movies and art and books. Depp has said the experience was one of his most treasured.
I watch this film usually once a year and I tear up every time. You're right when you say it's a fairytale.
Jim's dad had his best Christmas ever
Arguably the best Tim Burton film. Beautiful story about love, trying to understand others.
And having scissors for hands, of course!
It's not Edward gluehands, y'know?
This is one of my favorite movies!
That music at the end. As it's snowing and Kim is dancing in it. Whewwww 🥺 Chills every single time. Bittersweet ending. He knew she loved him but he was safer up there. I think that's all Edward needed. Was knowing he was loved by someone.
By someone?! THE one! Edward loved Kim massively as soon as he saw her photo. Being turned on by the whole town, it may have made her love that much more powerful at the end, when she tells him, "I love you."
I always took her not going up to see him when older as a display of her love for him - Edward admittedly fell in love with Kim for her beauty, and they didn't love each other due to being good conversationalists with one another, they simply made a connection - Seeing her all wrinkly and old would damage his treasured perception of her - Perhaps even shatter the image if Edward is unfortunately more shallow than we thought (I doubt this by the way!).
Saw this in the cinema and loved it, watched again this year, it's still magic. You would love Benny and Joon with him in it, you will cry!
Out of all the Tim Burton flicks, this is still my most favorite one of all time. The casting, background score, and screenplay were spectacular! I recently read Tim Burton based the title character off himself from when he was in his teens.
Girl! This is one of my favorite Tim Burton/ Johnny Depp/ Christmas movies! I saw it as a kid and it still touches me emotionally. I laugh. I cry. I got choked up a little when I hear that theme at the end. Lol ❤❤❤
Marty McFly: Hey, Doc, we better back up. We don't have enough road to get up to 88.
Dr. Emmett Brown: Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.❤
"The trial"... no. Stop. I friggen cackled!
One of Tim Burton's less frantic style of film, as well as a toned down Danny Elfman. It really gave Johnny Depp a chance to break out of his babyface cute boy roles he'd played up to the time of this film. If you want to see another good Depp film, along with a very young Leo DeCaprio, try What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Really hope you stay well and everyone else gets well soon.
I love this film, one of the best Tim Burton films, and Johnny Depp films too. I really liked 'Dark Shadows' with them both too.
That one guy went from the nerd in the Breakfast Club to the bully in this.
Andrew Clark was tough and defensive, and could lash out, as he beat up a kid even though he felt guilty about it.
John Bender was a bigger bully, usually always rude, intimidating, and effortlessly harassing, as well as having a "dangerous" air about him.
So, Brian Johnson decided to one-up them all, by becoming big and flat-out evil! With a gun, violence, and a completely ruthless attitude, he's more adept to take Andrew and John down in a battle to the finish. This may even be a movie worth seeing.
What a final performance for Vincent Price to bookend his career on. One of Burton, Depp and Elfman's greatest collaborations.
4:50 chocolat is my second favorite love movie, the book is even better. And I watched the trial too and I loved him even more after. It taught me a lot about how actually nice of a person he was even though they painted him as a fall down talentless addict.
I'm sure others will suggest this as well but one must see Johnny Depp movie is What's Eating Gilbert Grape - also starring Leonardo DiCaprio
When the production designer was getting permission from all the homeowners to paint their houses those garish colors, there was one holdout. The holdout finally relented when he realized they would just shoot around his house.
I remember watching this on TV at home. My mother was there reading and hated the first 5 minutes or so until Vincent Price appeared and she started paying attention. She started watching and ended up loving it.
I had watched this movie when it first came out, but didn't realize who Tim Burton was until I saw "Mars Attacks." Now I'm finding he did all these earlier movies, which all have a bizarre flavor to them. I hope you'll give "Mars Attacks" a reaction in the near future. 😊
Cassie; please do Ed Wood; a great Tim Burton film 🎉
It’s a nifty role reversal of the Frankenstein monster. In the beginning, Edward is considered the other or different. He’s a quaint curiosity at first, and seemingly both liked and accepted for his otherness.
But as the narrative unfolds, like and acceptance become tolerance, and he is ultimately expelled as a monster. The irony being that Edward is more civilized and human than all save Kim and her family, and the true monsters were the neighbors themselves.
The ending theme always makes my eyes tear up. Such a beautiful score by Danny Elfman.
Another good but very different Johnny Depp movie is "What's Eating Gilbert Grape." Also has a very young Leonardo DiCaprio in it.
I love this movie so much. It’s so beautiful and tender and funny yet dark and sad. It’s a tribute to people who don’t fit in with the rest of the world. One of the few movies that always makes me emotional. One of my fav films ever and probably tied with Ed Wood as my fav Tim Burton movie (with Sweeney Todd not far behind). ✂️ ❤️😢
This is one of my favorite movies, I don't know why but the scene where Peg does Edward's makeup makes me feel very warm, and very peaceful.
After the first time you see this movie, the music gets you every time you watch it afterwards.
This was the first of the many Tim Burton movies with Johnny Depp. It’s kind of like Burton’s take on Frankenstein’s monster, Pinocchio, etc.
I’d categorize it as a tragedy. Like you said at the end, you’re left not knowing if it’s happy or sad. It’s a little bit of both.
The saddest part for me is when the inventor dies and Edward accidentally destroys the hands.
His fate is basically sealed there. He’s a created being that will exist forever alone and incomplete… so if you consider that, then at least getting to experience a little life and love with the family in town is something to be happy about.
But the best way to love and protect Edward was for Kim to say he was dead and then never let anyone know he wasn’t. She saved him but only to spend forever alone up there, like he would have been anyway.
All they have now is the snow.
The inventor is played by horror legend Vincent Price.
You should watch more Johnny Depp movies. One of the best actors of our time. I highly recommend another one of his early films: Benny & Joon
Also: Donnie Brasco, Finding Neverland, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Black Mass, Blow, Public Enemies, and many more
You would love another Johnny Depp movie too, called "Benny and Joon". You should add it to your list.