Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 American fantasy romance film directed by Tim Burton.
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Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 American fantasy romance film directed by Tim Burton.
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Edward Scissorhands was then fast tracked after Burton's critical and financial success with Batman.
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The creation of an old inventor, Edward Scissorhands is a humanoid who was almost completed.
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The inventor homeschooled Edward Scissorhands, but suffered a heart attack and died before giving Edward Scissorhands real hands, leaving him permanently unfinished.
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Edward Scissorhands's finds him alone and offers to take him to her home after discovering he is virtually harmless.
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Edward Scissorhands falls in love with Kim, despite her initial fear of him.
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Jealous of Kim's attraction to Edward Scissorhands, Jim suggests Edward Scissorhands pick the lock on his parents' home to obtain a van for Jim and Kim.
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Edward Scissorhands agrees, but when he picks the lock, a burglar alarm is triggered.
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Edward Scissorhands takes responsibility for the robbery, telling Kim he did it because she asked him to.
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At Christmas, Edward Scissorhands carves an angelic ice sculpture modeled after Kim; the ice shavings are thrown into the air and fall like snow, something that never happened before.
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Meanwhile, Edward Scissorhands flees in a rage, destroying his works and scaring Esmeralda until he is calmed by a wandering dog.
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Edward Scissorhands's asks him to hold her, but Edward hesitates, afraid of hurting her.
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Jim's drunken friend drives him to Kim's house and nearly runs over Kevin, but Edward Scissorhands pushes Kevin to safety while inadvertently cutting him.
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Witnesses accuse Edward Scissorhands of attacking Kevin; when Jim assaults him, Edward Scissorhands defends himself, cutting Jim's arm before fleeing to his mansion.
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Edward Scissorhands refuses to fight back until he sees Jim slap Kim as she attempts to intervene.
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Edward Scissorhands's believes he is still alive because it would not be snowing without him.
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Edward Scissorhands is then seen carving ice sculptures of his experiences with Kim, with the bits of ice floating as snow in the wind.
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Genesis of Edward Scissorhands came from a drawing by then-teenaged director Tim Burton, which reflected his feelings of isolation and being unable to communicate to people around him in suburban Burbank.
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Edward Scissorhands's wrote Scissorhands as a "love poem" to Burton, calling him "the most articulate person I know, but couldn't put a single sentence together".
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Edward Scissorhands had the opportunity to do any film he wanted, but rather than fast track Warner Bros.
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The giant topiaries that Edward Scissorhands creates in the film were made by wrapping metal skeletons in chicken wire, then weaving in thousands of small plastic plant sprigs.
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Edward Scissorhands is the fourth feature film collaboration between director Tim Burton and composer Danny Elfman.
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Edward Scissorhands is a fairy tale book-ended by a prologue and an epilogue featuring Kim Boggs as an old woman telling her granddaughter the story, augmenting the German Expressionism and Gothic fiction archetypes.
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Edward Scissorhands was able to win the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and the Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film.
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