In several shots, dock cranes are clearly visible, as well as houses that don't look very old. This is actually historically accurate. There were dock cranes in Dunkirk at the time, and the houses on the beachfront did look more like "modernized" three- or four-story apartment blocks.
Edward Scissorhands - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Corey Feldman was considered for the role of Jim. But he turned it down as he was busy doing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990).
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Johnny Depp had to lose a reported 25 pounds for the role of Edward Scissorhands.
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Edward is wearing a 1990 University of Virginia baseball cap during the burglary.
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When Caroline Thompson first heard about Edward, a character with scissors for hands, she thought it was "the silliest thing she'd ever heard."
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The film was shot in an actual neighborhood in Florida, and the houses were all painted to match as they are seen in the movie. Although the production painted most of them back They also removed all the topiaries that had been planted for the film. Tim Burton mentions some of the owners liked the change and kept the new colors.
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Crispin Glover auditioned for the role of Jim. He later played an antagonist to Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010).
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This was Vincent Price's last screen appearance, and his last moment ever on screen, is a death scene.
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Tim Burton: [Black and white stripes] Jim's shirt collar at dinner.
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Edward's dog haircuts are real.
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The neighborhood is based on Tim Burton's hometown of Burbank, California.
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Tim Burton joked on the commentary that some of the scars on Johnny Depp's face were real, because there was an adjustment period for the actor wearing scissors on his hands.
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Anthony Michael Hall was twenty-two while playing the teenage Jim. Winona Ryder was nineteen. Edward is of course ageless but his appearance is that of a teenager. Johnny Depp was twenty-six.
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Joyce's husband plays one of the security guards scared by Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns (1992).
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"That's a scary shot," says the director when the camera falls on the picture of Winona Ryder and Anthony Michael Hall's characters' prom photos. Tim Burton does mention he had a tux like that, but it was yellow.
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At the BBQ, The neighbor who tells Edward to not be concerned with his "handicap", is the same neighbor who later hypocritically warns Kevin about the "cripple".
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The entire movie is based on a seventy-page treatment that Caroline Thompson wrote in just three weeks.
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The film cast includes two Oscar winners: Dianne Wiest and Alan Arkin; and two Oscar nominees: Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder.
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This is the only film in which both Vincent Price and his daughter Victoria Price both appear, however they did not have a scene together.
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In the scene where Peg Boggs enters the mansion, she backs up to the base of the staircase, where right behind her is a statue that looks like the Oogie Boogie man in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993). Tim Burton also wrote and produced this film.
Edward Scissorhands - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Edward Scissorhands - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Edward Scissorhands - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Edward Scissorhands - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Edward Scissorhands - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Edward Scissorhands - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Edward Scissorhands - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Edward Scissorhands - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Edward Scissorhands - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Edward Scissorhands - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Edward Scissorhands - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Edward Scissorhands - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Edward Scissorhands - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Edward Scissorhands - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Edward Scissorhands - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Edward Scissorhands - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Edward Scissorhands - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Edward Scissorhands - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Edward Scissorhands - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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