Edward Scissorhands, directed by Tim Burton, is packed with both moral lessons and cinematic techniques that force the world to reevaluate themselves. This movie features a young man, Edward. He is challenged to fit into society while sporting scissors as hands. Throughout the film Burton shows the trials and tribulations that someone who is so different has to persevere through in order to fit in. Burton uses cinematic techniques to prove the importance of not judging someone based on their appearance.
In the beginning of the film, Burton has the camera zoomed in on an abandoned looking house sitting isolated on a hill. While focusing on this old appearing house, the music has a very sketchy, scary tone to it. Due to the eerie non-diegetic sound going on, the audience sees everything through fear tinted lenses. However, at the end of the movie, after Edward is known, Burton features his house again. This time, there is softer music playing so instead of seeing the sharply angled arches and the gargoyles, the viewers see Edward’s isolated home and beautifully shaped bushes. Based on the sound Burton chooses to accompany the same shot, the
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When he does a long shot of the neighborhood, everything looks overly cookie cutter and perfect. The houses are all the a solid color, and almost everyone has a similar house, shaped like a box. The driveways all have similar dimensions and the bushes are all the same. The viewers immeadiately categorize this neighborhood as utopian like because it is all uniform and bright. When Burton shows a long shot of Edward’s house, it is full of gothic arches, gargoyles, and large, eerie seeming inventions that could pass as torture devices. Between the machines, Burton shows us a cobblestone floor and a broken roof. Due to the vast differnces presented in each shot, Burton can make his audience form conceptions about the characters before they are ever