Edward Scissorhands Opening Scene

Our world has a hard time accepting people with differences. You are supposed to treat people differently because they are different, however if you do treat them different it's like you're discriminating against them. This is the trouble the townspeople had with Edward. Edward was different,he was new, he wasn't like the rest of the town. The setting of Pegs backyard in the BBQ scene shows the obvious difference between Edward and the townspeople using a metaphoric stage prop.

In Edward Scissorhands, there is the setting of peg’s backyard. It's like the rest of the backyards in the suburbia type town, square with a fence, grass, flowers and hedges. Tim burton uses an establishing shot to introduce this setting and to show the backyard fully.

It shows treehouse in the corner where Kevin and his friends hang out, it matches the house with the pastel blue walls and grey roof. Like the pastel house all the people in the backyard are wearing pastel colours. All of the town is pastel and almost all the towns people are in this backyard for a BBQ. The thing that sticks out the most is the enormous t-rex in the front corner, it's a dark green that stands out next to the pastel colours, it's unrealistically big yet no one pays attention to it. The t-rex relates to edward in ways that are obvious and in ways that you don't pick up on right away.

A T-rex is a giant, scary, horrible monster that lived millions of years ago, in this shot it's that but on the inside it's just a bush, leaves and branches.

Edward is pretty scary on the outside but like the T-rex his inside is harmless, he's a sweet person who makes bushes into child fantasies, like the T-rex, but you can't see his inside unless you look past the outside. The audience can see that the T-rex is out of place and that edward was the one who cut it to be like that. The audience probably was a kid once, some probably obsessed with dinosaurs making them understand that edward is a kid at heart. It makes them understand he wasn't trying to cut out a scary monster, he was just cutting out a cool dinosaur that is extinct now. His intentions were pure just like when a kid paints a picture of their family on the wall. Its overly obvious that it's out of place which was the director's intention, he didn't want you to have to find a hidden meaning, he wanted it to clearly be seen and make it easy to relate it to edward. We as humans judge people who don't fit in or are different in certain ways. This setting is where they patronise Edward, speaking with kindness yet looking down upon him like dirt, we do that a lot in our society. We always have this feeling that we are superior to everything and anything, even if that's not the

case.