Romanticism through Film

Film

Edward Scissorhands by Tim Burton is a classic and a good example of a romanticist film. Johnny Depp is one of my favorite actors and this movie really pushed his career further along. The movie is a good example of romanticism because it is all about this person who is an outsider and trying to fit in with everyone else. He has to accept who he is and let other people in.This can be a hard to do when the thing that makes you an outsider are having giant scissors for hands. Edward's (played by Johnny Depp) character develops throughout the movie. At first Edward is timid and cautious about leaving the castle he had lived in for so long on his own after his creator dies unexpectedly when showing Edward the prosthetic hands he made. As the movie continued Edward feels more comfortable and feels apart of the community, but it quickly changes when he is framed and seen as a monster. He feels alone and back to where he started. Angry and upset, towards the end of the movie the girl that Edward grew a likeness too comforts him by saying she loved him. Edward felt closure to know that he was still loved and finally accepted what he was. The setting of the movie was suburban and all the houses looked the exact same but with different colors. The reason Tim Burton chose this is because that's what the neighborhoods looked like when he was a kid. He got the idea of this movie because, he himself, felt like an outsider and wanted to fit in. The other characters did not have character develop and remained relatively the same except the girl Edward fell for: Kim. At first she thought he was weird and then later began to try and understand him and fell for him too.