He is the captain jack in Pirates of the Caribbean who wears reggae braids, headscarves, and smoky makeup for thousands of years. He's the Mad Hatter in The Wizard of Oz, and he's Edward the Robot in Edward Scissorhands. It was Edward who opened the door to Johnny Depp's unique decadent and gloomy temperament, allowing him to create a strange and classic screen image.
Messy hair, pale knife scar face, panicked eyes, wielding scissor hands, exaggerated gothic depp played by this ugly and weird robot makes everyone feel pain. Edward was originally living in isolation in the castle, but was inadvertently brought into the world. Although he looks strange and terrible, he is simple and kind at heart. He trimmed the garden with a pair of scissors and made the town look like a fairy tale. He helped housewives and pets to design hairstyles, so that everyone was beautiful and was sought after by everyone.
Yet human nature is complex, and Edward's kindness is exploited. Fu Er Dai used his lock-opening skills to make him steal things and be caught by the police. In order to protect his beloved girl Kim, Edward was willing to be used. A good person who does something bad is infinitely magnified. In a series of accidents, Edward's kindness did bad things. The townspeople spread all kinds of rumors, making him the target of public criticism and the bad guy that everyone shouted and beat. If you have something to ask for, smile and praise hello, do not meet the needs of all kinds of rumors and slander, do what is wrong, this is human nature! The attitude of the townspeople is reversed, ironic and ridiculous.
The most beautiful picture in the film is that on Christmas Eve, Edward carved an angel ice sculpture in the shape of gold in the courtyard, the flying snow foam was scattered by the wind, and the gold danced in the flying snowflakes, like an angel in a fairy tale. Yes, Kim is Edward's angel, but they can't be together, so they have the film's most classic line: "If I don't have a knife, I can't protect you." If I had a knife, I couldn't hug you. Edward protected his angels as he wished, and Kim could only keep Edward in the castle forever. Every winter, the flying snowflakes are a testimony to their love, and it is enough for King to know that Edward has been silently in love with her!
This is an imperfect fairy tale of the adult world, Edward's pure love for Kim, beautiful and simple, but doomed to love and can not be kept. This is also a fable that reflects the beauty and ugliness of human nature, good and evil, pure good people are destined to be intolerable to the world, goodness without a principle bottom line will only be used by bad people, not all goodness will be rewarded with kindness, this is the real human world. Therefore, the kind Edward does not belong to the human world and can only return to his castle alone.
This fantasy story that has been replayed countless times on the movie channel is the childhood memories of the 8090s, that is, in recent years, I learned that the scissor hand of the year turned out to be the famous Captain Jack, and this childhood Easter egg is simply too surprising and incredible. If you don't watch the cast list, who knows that this is Uncle Depp's masterpiece of the 90s?
Edward, portrayed by Depp through his body and eyes, has a childlike pure mind, clean and innocent eyes, and the image is too classic. She was overwhelmed when she was brought home by Mother Jin, and her frightened and pitiful little eyes knew that she had done something bad. The first time I saw the beautiful girl with blond hair and blue eyes, my eyes were enlarged with nervousness, my lips were quivering, and my body fell stiffly to the ground, cute and funny. When King asked Edward to hug him, his eyes were filled with disappointment and sadness. The helplessness of saying goodbye to the beloved girl, the various scene pictures, Depp interpreted the layers of real enough, it is simply impeccable.
Aside from Captain Jack from the Pirates of the Caribbean series, the Scissorhand is my personal favorite classic image of Uncle Depp. In addition, there is also an early movie "Different Skies" can also see the serious role he played, and the young Depp is also a sunny and handsome teenager!