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Re: Edward Scissorhands    By Kristine on 2/16/2009 3:11 PM The first thing I noticed was the colours of everything in the movie. All of the houses and cars are bright, pastel colours like green or pink or yellow, and how the grass is very green. All the colours caught my attention as if they were just too bright and too colourful, and made me wonder why do they have to be so bright? Then we were shown a shot of where Edward lives, the big mansion/castle on the big hill and it’s all super dark and dreary, and I realized that all the colours are just to show a big contrast between the people who live in the colourful houses and Edward. As if the people in the houses are perfect and always cheery, and Edward is scary and monster-like and evil, because that is what his house portrays. So basically all of the colours are almost an underlying subliminal message of how you are supposed to perceive the characters that come out of the houses. Their costumes also added to this effect, like Peg who comes from the colourful houses, is wearing colourful clothes, where as Edward is wearing black spandex like material and it’s really noticeable how much he doesn’t fit into the neighborhood just from his clothes. I like to create my own opinion about the characters that come out of the houses, but I can see how adding things such as the colours of the houses and costumes of the people would add the plot and ensure that the audience is seeing and understanding the character you want them to see and how the material things add to that. <br> The second thing that I noticed was the music that was playing. Like when you look at the colourful houses the music is cheery but then when the movie suddenly switches to Edward’s house it becomes lecherous. When Peg enters Edward’s house I can tell the music is put there to make the viewer curious but also frightened with anticipation of what’s about to happen next, and like what’s going to happen is not going to be ‘good’. I felt scared but intrigued, two feelings that I wouldn’t always put together just because when I watch his movies the feelings are very strong when they’re together. It’s normal, I would say, to be scared but still have some intrigue, like in horror films you are scared but you want to know what is about to happen next. But I always feel weird watching Tim Burton’s films because the mixture of scared and curiosity are at the same level, because of the music. Clearly the music is played to tell us how we are suppose to feel about this situation but it’s almost as if in this movie it plays up the feeling of being scared and being intrigued so that we can decide for ourselves, but since this combination of such strong feelings are so unnatural that when the music plays I just feel weird. <br> The last thing that I wanted to say was how awesome I thought Johnny Depp acts in this movie, and his ability to portray such an unfamiliar character without being cheesy or fake astounds me. Also, there was one particular camera angle that I really liked, and it was when the family and Edward are all having dinner for the first time together and the camera angle is from Edwards point of view, and we’re like looking down at our scissor hands and trying to eat/cut the chicken in front of us, and it becomes so difficult and frustrating that I really start to feel how Edward must be feeling all the time. I thought the shot was really important because Edward’s character is one where his feelings aren’t ever super obvious on his face, but the audience can guess what he is feeling from his actions and how well Depp portrays them with such a miniscule amount of facial movement. And because of this, having a shot from Edwards point of view was important to let the viewer in on his emotions and his every day life, and so the I realized that how important it is for the acting and the camera angles to co-mingle in order to create the character as a whole. <br>

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