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Edward Scissorhands
Another Translation: Xuankai Romance
Screenwriter/Director/Producer: tim burton
"You know ... my flower ... he should do his duty to her! She is so delicate and powerless! She is so innocent. She only has four useless thorns to protect her from this world ... "-The little prince (Anthony de Saint-Exupery)
Almost everyone grew up with fairy tales. When I was a child, everyone liked to watch Grimm's fairy tales, because it ended with "the beautiful princess and the handsome prince finally lived a happy life", which made people very happy and satisfied. However, it's just some unsatisfactory fairy tales that remind me again and again when I am an adult, such as The Little Prince, The Happy Prince and Andersen's immortal works.
Edward Scissorhands directed by tim burton is a modern fairy tale about robots. It tells the story of an inventor who lived in an old castle, made all kinds of things, and finally made a robot and named him Edward. The inventor devoted himself to this work. He even taught Edward human manners and poetry, when to smile and when to be silent. However, before the robot was finally completed, the inventor died, leaving Edward with human mind but a pair of scissors hands to live alone in the castle. I don't know how many years later, a middle-aged woman named Peg, who was selling cosmetics, broke into the castle by mistake and found Edward, who was described as eccentric. The kind Peg was not frightened by Edward's pale face and bare hands, but pitied his loneliness and took him back to his home.
Peg lives in a small colorful community, and all the female neighbors like to flirt, inquire and gossip. Edward's appearance added fresh excitement to their boring life, so everyone showed great friendship and even intimacy to him. When he showed his talent for pruning plants and designing hairstyles with scissors, the whole town was almost crazy about him and regarded him as a star darling. But he also has his own pain, that is, falling in love with Peg's daughter, the beautiful and unique gold. Kim already has a boyfriend, and she has always been very resistant to the new members of this family. For Kim's request, Edward bravely sneaked into Kim's boyfriend's father's mansion, but after being arrested by the police, he did not reveal the truth for fear of implicating his sweetheart. Although he was quickly released because he was "unable to judge right from wrong", people around him regarded him as a dangerous man who deliberately robbed property and kept him and Peg's family at a distance. In this process, Kim gradually saw her boyfriend's ugly face, broke with him and fell in love with Edward.
It snowed heavily on Christmas Eve, and the contradiction reached its climax. The more Edward wants to do good, the more misunderstood he is. The whole town demanded the expulsion of Edward, and even Peg thought he should go back to the castle. Edward killed Kim's vicious boyfriend in the battle at the castle, and Kim accepted Edward's unrequited love. This is the first blending of love and the last blending. From then on, Edward will always hide in an unknown corner, where he will prune his plants, ice and snow and love …
I knew from the beginning that some fairy tales would have a sad ending, no matter how relaxed, fancy and daunting it seemed. Why do I know? Because the protagonists in those stories are people who don't belong to this world. They are elves, demons and aliens. They are essentially incompatible with the real world and can't be accepted by the world after all. The little prince from another planet finally fell down silently and left us; The happy prince was thrown into the furnace of the foundry for incineration; The daughter of the sea became a bubble on the water and lost her lover forever. And Edward, a robot, a robot with scissors hands, a robot that can't even hold a lover, in the final analysis, is the director's concern for the audience. How can he expect a happy ending?
In fact, Edward's damn place is not that he is a robot, but that he is a robot but doesn't do it honestly. What is scary enough is that his cold body full of circuits is pregnant with passionate love. Tim burton deliberately set the story in a community with no specific time and place. Colorful houses are quite surreal, as if telling us that such a thing may be completely fabricated, but it may also happen in any corner of the world. Burton himself grew up in an environment very similar to Peg's, so his description of his neighbors is very vivid and exaggerated, but it is true and credible. Whether they are interested in Edward, or even want to tease his rich lady, or the woman who rejected him from the beginning, they finally converge into a powerful and vicious force, and want to kill this harmless child because he has a pair of scissors hands and a human heart at the same time.
Johnny Depp showed his best acting skills in this film. As a robot, Edward's facial muscles are stiff and almost expressionless, and a pair of sharp scissors hands is not conducive to expressing his feelings. However, Depp conveyed a lot of emotional information to the audience through his eyes, which was even more memorable on his pale face. When I saw the frightened and painful look in his eyes when he was misunderstood, I felt my heart was slowly broken in that look. As for the heroine, perhaps because of the prejudice after watching The Age of Innocence, I always think that the great beauty Winona Laura Horowitz is a superficial Hollywood vase, just like her role, and this film is no exception. I have to admit her beauty, that white dress in the ice and snow is just out of place, just right for the dreamy color of this modern fairy tale. However, compared with the hero, the heroine's thin personality fundamentally limits Winona Laura Horowitz's performance. The camera lens aimed at her is only satisfied with capturing her charming smile or sadness, so as to win the audience with such a beautiful facial close-up. What is told here is not so much Edward's love for Kim as Edward's love for Kim. He gave everything for her until he was finally expelled by everyone. Although she was very moved and even responded, she could not hide her and his life in the desolate castle. No matter how pure and true Kim's feelings are, they are also secular love. Edward's love is immortal, so it does not belong to our world.
It never snowed where Peg used to live. Only when Edward appeared did white snow flowers begin to fly on the earth. Isn't Edward as pure as white paper? What he shows under his almost ugly appearance is the real beauty in the film, although it is at the expense of tears (snow).
Now the sun rises from the sea. The sun shone softly and warmly on the cold foam, so the little mermaid didn't feel dead. She saw the bright sun and countless transparent and beautiful creatures flying overhead. Through them-she can see the white sails on the ship and the clouds in the sky. Their voices are harmonious music, but they are so ethereal that human ears can hardly hear them, just like eyes on the ground can't see them. They have no wings, but just float in the air with their light floating bodies. The little mermaid felt that she had acquired their bodies and gradually rose from the bubble. -"The Daughter of the Sea" (Andersen)