The Cutting Thrill of Edward Scissorhands

After watching the film “Edward Scissorhands” this week and going over it again, you see the different kind of ideals that they used in the film like color, texture and even costumes in the film that give it that sense to what Tim Burton is trying to use in the film.  

        I think in the film that the color was a bit equality of light and dark. The light colors going into the neighborhood that the Boggs was living. The colors seem to be of a 60’s-70’s suburban neighborhood with blended colors, such as lighted yellows and blues. It kind of made it look like it came from the 70’s era. And only the dark colors when we go into Edward’s home when he was running away from the neighbors after they thought that he was hurting Kevin. It seemed to be that even though it’s a comedy that there can be a mixed of color.

        The texture in the film looked somewhat real but when you watch it again there is some that really doesn’t quiet look real. When going into the castle where Mrs. Boggs first met Edward, the structure of the place didn’t look quite as real. The walls looked more of pastor walls than cement walls. The hole in the room where Edward sleeps, his bedroom or attic, the way it looked just didn’t quiet had that realness that you would kind of see from an old abandon building or castle.

        The costumes in the film had that 60’s to 70’s look that had such a light color to them. Most of the characters in the film, their costumes were mostly light expect for Edward, which he wore a dark suede outfit. I think that the dark outfit shows the side that the character is scary, yet someone who had been in the dark for so long, is quiet and shy. On the other side, like the costume for Peg Boggs, it was light and colorful. Her costumes showed warm and even caring. I guess to someone like Peg, not only her clothes showed the personal side she is but her attitude towards people.

        The makeup in the film, for the character of Edward there seemed to be a lot of makeup on him. The scares that he had from accidentally scratch his face or even when

Peg put on her stuff from Avon that was going to help him clear his face up from the scares and yet help his skin.

The film had some interesting costumes and set designs for a comedy that almost has that take of "Frankenstein" just a little bit. Some of the things looked real and others in the film a bit not. From what I saw in the film, I thought that it was pretty good from a standing point.