Text | Love cat novelist
"If I don't have a knife, I can't protect you." If I had a knife, I couldn't hug you. There is no snow in this city, I drop a snow for you, and every snowflake that falls on the ground is saying, I love you. I'm an old woman now, and I just want him to remember what I was. ”
Suddenly turned out an old film, not too old, the protagonists on the screen are no longer teenagers. But just like at the end of the film, some people are still the same as the original, nothing has changed; some people have changed their faces and mental processes over time, but when they think of this story, they are still forever young.
I should have recommended this movie a long time ago, in the winter.
But every time I watch this movie, I am sad, sad that there is no he's happy ending, sad that Edward has been waiting for the person to pick him up, sad that they have ended in tragedy inside and outside the play.
Although there was a movie with a similar ending later, "Wolf Boy", it was not as powerful as the poignant love brought by "Edward Scissorhands".
It's a fantasy romance film directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp, Winona Reid, Diana West, Vincent Price and others. It tells the tragic fairy tale of Edward, a scissorsman who lives alone in the castle, and after being taken home by a woman who sells cosmetics, Pegg, mistakenly breaks into the castle, and falls in love with Pegg but cannot be together.
The film premiered in the United States on 14 December 1990 and won awards such as Best Fantasy Film at the 18th Saturn Awards and Best Art Direction at the 45th British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards.
[The protagonist Edward is a robot with an unfinished pair of scissor hands, but has a pure, kind and sensitive human heart.] 】
The story begins with an ancient castle.
There lived an inventor who made all sorts of things and finally a robot and named him Edward. The inventor devoted all his efforts to the work, and he even taught Edward human etiquette and poetry, when to smile and when to be silent.
However, before the robot was finally completed, the inventor died, leaving Edward, who already had a human mind but a pair of scissor hands, to live alone in the castle. I don't know how many years later, a middle-aged woman who sells cosmetics, Peg, mistakenly broke into the castle and found Edward, who was described as eccentric. The kind-hearted Peg was not intimidated by Edward's pale complexion and scissor hand with teeth and claws, but took pity on his loneliness and took him back to his home.
Pegg lives in a small, bright-hued neighborhood where female neighbors love to flirt, snoop, and flirt. Edward's appearance added fresh excitement to their boring lives, so everyone showed great friendliness and even affection to him. When he showed his talent for trimming plants and designing hairstyles with scissor hands, almost the whole town went crazy about him and regarded him as a star-like darling.
But he also has his own pain, that is, falling in love with Peg's daughter, the beautiful and beautiful Kim.
Kim already had a boyfriend at the time and had always been resistant to the new member of the family.
For one of Kim's requests, Edward sneaked into Kim's boyfriend's father's mansion and did not reveal the truth after being arrested by the police, lest he affect his sweetheart. Although he was soon released for "lack of ability to judge right from wrong", people around him saw him as a dangerous person who deliberately robbed his property and ignored him and Pegg's family.
In the process, Kim gradually sees her boyfriend's ugly face, breaks with him, and develops a crush on Edward.
The snow fell on Christmas Eve, the conflict reached its climax, and the more Edward wanted to do good, the more he was misunderstood, and the whole town demanded that Edward be expelled, and even Pegg thought that he should return to the castle.
During the fight at the Castle, Edward kills Kim's vicious boyfriend, and Kim accepts Edward's unrequited love. This was the first and final fusion of love, and from then on Edward hid forever in the unknown corners, where he trimmed his plants, ice, snow, and love.
The charm of this film comes from the image of 'Edward'.
The first time I saw him, I felt that his skin was white, but his eyes were very bright. Although he has the hands of a robot, he loves everything around him, and he could have spent his life in the castle, but in the end he was taken to this world full of right and wrong.
Edward was full of panic and curiosity about everything outside, he, "as pure and kind as a newborn baby, is a gift that does not belong to this world", he "surprised everyone, and treated everyone around him with a sincere and kind heart".
But what he gets is not the same reward, which is what this movie really wants to tell everyone: because he does not belong to this world, he does not get the same treatment.
Then the accident happened, everything didn't seem to have changed, and the world was still so 'muddy'.
In that era, it was even more impossible to withstand rumors and tit-for-tat confrontation, so Jin came to his side like an angel.
Everything was still like that, but Edward had changed.
He fell in love with Kim and also fell in love with her world.
She said, please hug me.
His scissor hand lifted up gently, and after a moment's hesitation, he lowered it in frustration, "No, I can't. "He was afraid that his sharp scissor hand would hurt the person he loved, he couldn't even give her a hug, he was just an 'unfinished product'.
I hope it will have a good ending.
I also imagined that they would not retreat to the castle, love as before, get married and have children. But the reality is that Edward alone, day after day, remembers the people he loves, thinking about the people who brought him 'love', he is still young as old, wielding those sharp scissors, carving the beauty of his heart.
It's also a good ending.
For the world is ever-changing, the vulgarity is unchanged; but Edward can stay away from it all, and even to this day he is still alive, looking at the outside world, the world he never liked.
The people he loves will be gone and may live forever in his heart.
The reason why the film is different is inseparable from the director's life experience.
Tim Burton had a closed childhood, and he was known as a movie boy, single-mindedly creating eerie and creepy movie worlds. Edward can even be seen as the embodiment of Tim Burton: a bizarre appearance, a poetic soul, a unique way of knowing. His films always like to reinforce the sense of illusion with special people, such as siamese singers, dwarfs, giants.
Edward Scissorhands was inspired by director Burton's paintings in his teens, expressing his loneliness and difficulty communicating with those around him. Burton was often lonely and had difficulty getting lasting friendships. He said he often felt that people deliberately left him alone, and he wasn't sure why he thought about it.
During the pre-production of Hades, Bolton asked Carolyn Thompson to write the screenplay for Edward Scissorhands. Burton was impressed by Thomson's novel First Born, which tells the story of an aborted fetus, and believes that it has the same psychological state as Edward, which is similar to the same thing.
In order to better bring his childhood world to the screen, the film was originally filmed in Burbank, but Bolton thought that it had changed too much from when he was a child, so he did not choose to shoot there, and finally chose Lutz, Florida as the shooting location.
The film's artistic design, Bo Welsh, painted the house in a faded look and reduced the size of the windows to make it more suitable for the film's scene. Later, the filming of the film brought in more than 6 million US dollars in local economic income.
Because the director's choice of environment is quite ingenious, there are 'colorful communities' and 'horrible and gloomy castles'.
"This setting in the colourful community is the object of the satire of Tim Burton's shots, with the seemingly eerie castle symbolizing goodness, sincerity, beauty and purity, and the seemingly warm and serene town symbolizing evil, turmoil, hypocrisy and intrigue."
You see, before he came, it never snowed here, and it started to rain after that.
If he wasn't on it now, it shouldn't be snowing.
Sometimes, don't you see me dancing in the snow?