Edward Scissorhands (1989) is Johnny Depp's first movie with friend and director Tim Burton, about boy with scissors instead of hands, Burton paints an image of the outsider in the suburbs http://inadepptrance.wordpress.com/feed








 

EDWARD SCISSORHANDS 

1990

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Director: Tim Burton

Writers:
  • Tim Burton (story)
  • Caroline Thompson (story and screenplay)





With : Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker, Robert Oliveri, Conchata Ferrell, Caroline Aaron, Dick Anthony Williams, Vincent Price

Music: Danny Elfman


Tagline: "His scars run deep"

Rating: PG-13

Awards and nominations:
1991 ACADEMY AWARDS (OSCAR):

- Best Makeup: Ve Neill, Stan Winston (Nominated)

1992 ACADEMY OF SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY & HORROR FILMS:

- Saturn Award - Best Fantasy Film (Won)

1992 BAFTA AWARDS:

- Best Production Design: Bo Welch (Won)

- Best Costume Design: Colleen Atwood (Nominated)

- Best Makeup Artist: Ve Neill (Nominated)

- Best Special Visual Effects: Stan Winston (Nominated)

1991 GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS:

- Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical: Johnny Depp (Nominated)

1991 HUGO AWARDS:
- Best Dramatic Presentation (Won)








 





 

 

 


  

 














SYNOPSIS

 Once upon a time in a castle high on a hill lived an inventor whose greatest creation was named Edward. Although Edward had an irresistible charm, he wasn t quite perfect. The inventor's sudden death left him unfinished, with sharp shears of metal for hands. Edward lived alone in the darkness until one day a kind Avon lady took him home to live with her family. And so began Edward's fantastical adventures in a pastel paradise known as Suburbia.



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QUOTES FROM JOHNNY DEPP

"I can remember when I finished Edward Scissorhands, looking in a mirror as the girl was doing my makeup for the last time, putting on the appliances and the prosthetics, and thinking, wow. This is it. I'm saying goodbye to this guy. I'm saying goodbye to Edward Scissorhands. It was funny, I was kind of sad. But in fact, I think they're all still in there."|
Johnny Depp, CombustibleCelluloid.com

"The thing is even if you're playing sort of a heightened character and playing inside sort of a heightened reality, you can still apply your own truths to those characters. It's funny because what happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images. Like with Scissorhands, I kept thinking about dogs I had when I was a child, and newborn babies."
Johnny Depp, CombustibleCelluloid.com

"I thought this one of the greatest things I've ever read, and, at the same time, I thought … this will never come to me. Never. Never."
Johnny Depp, ABCNews.com

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Johnny Depp said only 169 words in this film.

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"I always loved silent film. Everything had to come out of their emotions and their eyes and their body movements."
Johnny Depp, ABCNews.com

"It started out as about three, three and a half hours for makeup and hair. But we got it down to a very fast hour, hour and a half. We knew towards the end it would be exactly one can of AquaNet that would go on the hair and by the end I was helping the makeup artist apply the scars and stuff. We had it down."
Johnny Depp, SplicedOnline.com

"I think that for the very uncomfortable first second I met Tim in a coffee shop in, I think it was 1989, there was something instant. There was an instant connection. It was a kind of understanding, a non-understanding, an appreciation for life and human behavior, for what is considered normal and what is not considered normal. There was a connection even in a deeper sense of having felt pretty outside growing up, and freakish, and a little bit weird. Also, Tim at a very young age was sort of obsessed with horror movies, monster movies and found -- as I had -- great sanctuary in those dark places."
Johnny Depp, SplicedOnline.com

"When I met Tim it was for "Edward Scissorhands," and at the time I was doing a television series ("21 Jump Street") and I was just convinced he would never, ever see me in the role. Even though I knew that I knew that guy. I knew Edward Scissorhands. I knew that emotion so well. I had read the script and obviously thought it was very, very special and beautiful and funny, and I just thought there was no way he was going to see me as that, and I just thought, this is embarrassing, and I was very uncomfortable at first."
Johnny Depp, SplicedOnline.com

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During the scene where Vincent Price dies, he actually fainted on the set as it was filmed. Tim Burton decided the take was fine and kept it for the morbidity of it.

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 "Tim and I, during that meeting, probably drank three or four pots of coffee each. And I was literally gnawing on my coffee spoon. I left the meeting still with my coffee spoon (gritting his teeth tightly as he speaks). I was wired beyond belief. Then at the end of the meeting, it felt great, it felt great, it felt great. (And I had to tell myself), "get the thought out of your head, you are not going to be Edward Scissorhands." But I got the part."
Johnny Depp, SplicedOnline.com


"I dabble in gardening now and again. But topiaries, no, not really."
Johnny Depp, Reel.com

"Did I ever cut myself? Unfortunately, I cut other people. I lanced Anthony Michael Hall a couple of times. He was the recipient of the blades more than once. Once, there was a fight scene. The cops were chasing me down the neighborhood streets. I got him in the eye — it was horrible — with the pinky blade, which was really a sharp little bugger. He got that. It was not nice. Not nice."
Johnny Depp, Reel.com



TIM BURTON

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Some of the topiary that Edward makes in the movie can be seen permanently at the New York City restaurant Tavern On the Green.

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Johnny is like a character actor in a leading man's body. He's like ready to do anything. He's probably more like Lon Chaney. He's a leading man and he want to transform. He wants to be different characters in different movies. He's an actor that you think about perhaps even for female roles. I don't know. He could do it all. He's very versatile that way."

Tim Burton, IGN July 2005

"Johnny doesn’t like looking at himself, which is great for me. You don’t have to [deal with] "after the take I’m going to go look and see." He’s just completely open to whatever and ... he just does a great job. That’s a huge issue for me, to not have that kind of vanity of looking at yourself. It keeps the process going and keeps it vital and that means a lot to me and the crew and everybody else and they get into the spirit of just doing it and not sitting around and analyzing everything."
Tim Burton, Hollywood.com 2007

"Johnny was able to do something that amazed me. I was very close to him one day, watching him doing a scene, and the next day we saw it on film, and almost without doing anything he was able to do something with his eyes that made them glassy. It was if he was about to cry, like one of those Walter Keane paintings with the big eyes. I don't know how he did it. It wasn't something we did with the camera or the lighting, it was incredible."

Tim Burton (from: Burton on Burton)

 

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