Analysis on Edward Scissorhands

Edward Scissorhands



Su Khin Aung Tint



Art 130
Professor A. Takayama
12/03/03




Term Paper: Analysis of Edward Scissorhands

I chose ‘Edward Scissorhands’ as my movie to be analyzed because I was fascinated by this movie as a child. I used to watch it over and over again just to see this strange yet charming man with scissors as his hands, but only now I am able to connect the visual images to the themes of the movie. I believe Tim Burton has created a marvelous film in which he reflects himself as an artist who does not fit into the real world due to his peculiar visions. In doing so, he creates an innocent, clumsy, talented creature named Edward doomed by his shear metals of scssior-hands. When Edward ventures out of his gloomy castle for the first time, he came to have a new meaning to his machine-life as he became the town’s favorite for a while. Eventually, the neighbors turned against him as his sciss...