Edward Scissorhands

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The analytical system of spouses Kristin Thompson (film theorist) and David Bordwell (film historian) considers the common types of films, principles and styles of the narrative and the non-narrative form of basic film techniques, and strategies of writing about films. It also puts film art in the context of changes across history. Their book Film Art: An Introduction is a survey of film as an art form. Bordwell and Thomas try to show how the whole film is the most relevant and forthcoming context for understanding how and why the techniques work. It is not enough to just establish low angles or a match-on-action; we have to fathom what they’re performing in the scene, and the roles they play throughout the entire movie. The book also introduces …show more content…

Taking this into consideration, I turn to the film Edward Scissorhands. This film is a 1990 American romantic dark fantasy film. Edward Scissorhands was directed by Tim Burton and starred Johnny Depp. The film displays the story of an unreal man named Edward, an unfinished invention who has scissors for hands. Edward is adopted into a suburban household and falls in love with their teenage daughter, Kim. The character Edward Scissorhands was physically made by a very old creator. The inventor gave him everything but one thing: hands. Unfortunately, the inventor died before Edward could be wholly completed. Seventeen years later, an lady named Peg Boggs finds Edward and brings him to a colourful homeland called …show more content…

Edward is ironically the most ordinary person in the movie and it is the unhinged town’s people who are the evil, which only results in his loss of naivety. Kim and Edward share a final kiss and then she goes, telling the town’s people that he passed away as well as Jim. While the question plays for a preferred happily ever after ending, Burton finishes the film the only way it could have gone, with Edward unaccompanied yet again but still sharing his artistic ability with the snow as he constructs from his ice sculptures. Viewers may question why Kim did not leave with him earlier, but that could have taken away from the bittersweet fairytale ending of the story. “ Artwork cues us to perform a specific activity. Without the artwork's prompting, we couldn 't start the process or keep it going. Without our playing along and picking up the cues, the

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