However, there are no rules against him appearing in it for the briefest moment. Shown during an establishing shot as Edward and Peg Boggs drive down the street, Nick was an extra whose back we saw as he used a Slip 'N Slide in a front yard. When many people are asked about actor and director teams that work together over and over again, one of the first duos they think of is Johnny Depp and Tim Burton.
A pair of real-life friends that have enjoyed working together many times, Tim seems to consistently create characters with Johnny in mind. However, when it came time to make their first film as a pair, Edward Scissorhands , Tim revealed during the DVD commentary for the movie that he knew little about his new star.
Someone that was known for his starring role in the show 21 Jump Street as well as appearing in the horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street at the time, Johnny was on the rise. At its best, this is an industry that relies on casting actors in roles that fit their abilities, so each year filmgoers see some truly impressive performances on the big screen.
However, when watching Edward Scissorhands, we find it entirely impossible to imagine anyone other than Johnny Depp doing the titular role justice. A character that you come to completely empathize with by the end of the film, when the credits roll we feel like we understand Edward well.
Able to speak in the movie, Edward still chooses to largely stay quiet which inspired someone to keep a tally of the words he utters. Sadly, in reality, it was inspired by some pretty mundane things.
First existing in any form when a teenaged Tim Burton drew a character with scissors for hands during his high school days, he did nothing with that for years. Thankfully, his agents had no work for him so they had him meet with screenwriter Caroline Thompson who he told about the drawing and they created a character partially inspired by it.
An actor that tended to make original films throughout the majority of his career, up until Johnny Depp took on the role of Jack Sparrow he had steered clear of sequels. On top of those films, many of his biggest fans likely have no idea that he actually returned to the role of Edward Scissorhands in the s. This time around playing the character in an episode of Family Guy , he voiced Edward in a quick throwaway gag that quickly became grisly.
Appearing after someone brings up the idea of Edward as a night nurse in a episode of the show, let's just say things go really wrong off screen for the baby he is taking care of.
Earlier in this list we touched on some of the most visually interesting aspects of Edwards Scissorhand,s like the character himself, his sculptures and the homes. It was my dog. But he got it, and luckily he got it.
Edward Scissorhands isn't exactly the loquacious type. Throughout the movie, the leading role doesn't have many lines at all. Thompson told Insider that the character was always going to be non-verbal and that Edward was just "a pair of eyes in terms of emotion. Thompson said that, thankfully, Depp understood this and "delivered a beautiful, beautiful performance.
Aside from the fabled drawing and Ariel the dog, David Lynch was also a big inspiration for Thompson when writing the movie. That was a David Lynch inspiration, somehow, from 'Eraserhead. Thompson said: "The great sadness of Edward is the same as it is for Peter — he never ages. I was evoking Wendy with Kim at the end when her granddaughter says 'why don't you go see him?
Thompson told Insider: "Tim thought it should be a musical because he thought surreality was more acceptable if you were doing a musical. So I wrote lyrics for a song. Edward Scissorhands seems to have been the sort of role that was touted for every young actor at the time it was in production.
I'm not sure why that happened. It didn't work out for any of them, but the latter three actors would later go on to play their own iconic characters, including Iron Man, Woody, and the Grinch, respectively. Thompson also said that Jackson was snooping around for the role: "I imagine Michael Jackson wanted to do it.
I imagine he pursued Tim. Tim didn't pursue him. One of the actors considered was Gary Oldman, who actually turned down the role. A castle at the end of this road and then an Avon lady comes round selling makeup and this kid's got scissors hands?
This is nuts. I don't get this at all. However, Oldman also stated that once he saw the finished movie, he immediately understood it: "The camera pans over these multi-colored houses in this very sort of suburban neighborhood and then you see the sort of Dracula castle on the hill. Literally, two minutes in and I went, 'Yeah, I get it. In an almost unimaginable move, 20th Century Fox, the movie studio behind the film, wanted Cruise, who was a better know actor at the time, over Depp.
However, Cruise blew any chances he had of landing the role by asking too many questions. Thompson said: "In his interview with Tim, he asked how Edward went to the bathroom. If you start asking those questions, the whole thing falls apart.
You can't ask questions like that. If you ask questions like that, you're fucked. You've missed the metaphor, you've missed the point. In the book "Burton on Burton," the director said: "He certainly wasn't my ideal, but I talked to him. He was interesting, but I think that it worked out for the best. A lot of questions came up. Thompson said that while she never wrote with any particular actor in mind, she did think of John Cusack and Laura Dern for the roles of Edward and Kim, respectively.
Thompson told Insider: "John Cusack was the actor I proposed. I didn't write with him in my head, but if somehow they said who do you want, I was like, 'I have a crush on him.
She was brill'. Thompson said that Ryder was Burton's sole choice for the movie, and was "on board" from the very moment "the project was a go. Ryder happened to be going out with Depp at that time, whose biggest movie was "Cry Baby" back then. But his relationship with Ryder helped to win him the part.
Thompson told Insider: "Winona pushed for Johnny. I didn't know who he was. I didn't watch television, he was cut out of 'Platoon. He was a teen idol, and seemed like a dopey kid. But I met him and he carried a gravitas and a sorrow and a whimsy. He really did turn out to be a fantastic choice. While shooting the movie, a couple of actors said that they didn't actually get their characters, including Depp.
Thompson said that at the time, Burton wasn't very "proactive" or "articulate" with the actors on set. Thompson said that she didn't know that "writers aren't supposed to talk to the actors," and said she was supposed to say "go ask the director.
Thompson said: "I didn't know that so I didn't. Johnny came up to me and asked what was what, so I explained. But I'm glad because I don't think Tim would have been able to articulate something so simple. Thompson continued: "Alan Arkin came up to me and said 'I don't get it at all. His performance may well be my favourite. He was wonderfully dry. To celebrate one of Johnny Depp's finest performances how we yearn for those days , here are 25 facts you probably never knew about the movie:.
Soft spoken Edward says only words throughout the entire film. The Cure's Robert Smith was not only Edward's hair inspiration but was also invited to create the soundtrack. He was busy recording his album Disintegration at the time, so the job went to Danny Elfman, who has since scored all but two of Burton's studio films that's Ed Wood and Sweeney Todd , by the way.
Director Tim Burton's hero Vincent Price was intended to have a bigger role as The Inventor , but his emphysema and Parkinson's meant that the part had to be cut significantly. In the scene where The Inventor is reading an unfinished Edward an excerpt from the poetry book , the page he reads off of clearly had no text written or printed on it.
Burton credits Dianne Wiest who played Kim's mother, Peg with getting the film moving after giving it "her stamp of approval" by being the first actor to sign up to the project. Cruise was a favourite of the studio, but didn't like the bittersweet ending. Writer Caroline Thompson wanted John Cusack for the role. Michael Jackson repeatedly lobbied for the starring role, but Burton ignored his calls. We're ok with that. The first draft of the Edward Scissorhands script was written as a musical.
Edward's character and name originated with a drawing Burton did as a disaffected teenager in Burbank, although when Thompson came to flesh out the idea, she took inspiration from an amiable dog she had once owned.
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