Edward Scissorhands

Edward Scissorhands

My favorite responsibility from Edward Scissorhands was probably the set. I can’t be sure whether or not this film was all shot in a studio, but in interest of my paper, I’m going to say it was. There was the quaint little suburban town where most of the movie took place, and there was Edward’s house, which brought forth a feeling of foreboding just from the look of it.

The first element of design I’d like to talk about was my most favorite, and in my opinion, best-used element, color. The contrast in this movie, in all seriousness, was some of the best, if not the best, I have ever seen. All the houses in the town were these goofy pastel colors, which, by themselves, would have represented an oddball in the neighborhood, but since everyone had pastel-colored houses, really brought the community together and just basically showed similarities in culture and lifestyles down there. Then, you have Edward’s house, which is all black and ...