History Headscratchers / EdwardScissorhands

* Was anyone else bothered by Edward killing Jim? Yeah, he was a dangerous, ''dangerous'' JerkAss, but Edward stabs him, gives him a cold stare, then ''throws him out of a window.'' Is that not a little overkill?

* Am I the only one who found Kim's decision to never go visit Edward to be pretty selfish?

** I figured he had been cutting it, but kept botching it, along bed-headedness. Hence why he has all those scars on his face.

** He's not dextrous enough to cut his own hair.

** Don't forget that while he may be a kind mad scientiest, the inventor is still a mad scientiest.

* What's the deal with Edward's hair, anyway?

** The neighbors loved his plant sculptures so much they all chipped in to have the ice delivered just so he could sculpt it.

* Here's one that's bothered me. The ice blocks Edward uses to create snow, where did they come from?

* So in all the years of the town living down below, nobody ever visited or was even the curious about the highly visible creepy mansion on the top of the hill?

*** And in all honesty, if you were Edward, would you be roaming around asking people for a surgeon? I think not.

** One possible explanation is that there's a theme of misanthropy throughout the film. The townspeople are happy to be entertained by Edward, but they never truly try to help him, they just condescend to him, and then feel better about themselves for it like they just did him a favor by acknowledging he exists. They want to look compassionate without being compassionate. It's easy to mention you know a doctor, it's quite another to see about actually putting Edward in contact with that doctor.

* Why did Edward never see a doctor? It was mentioned several times in the film that he should see a surgeon about getting prosthetic hands, and one time he actually said he'd like the name of one when offerred, but we never saw any follow-up on the subject.

*** Jim was ''actively trying'' to kill him. Edward didn't seem like he was really trying to fight back until Jim hurt Kim, but I think it could easily be called self-defense.

** Edward started out as a (presumably mindless) machine used to cut things up. When the inventor built that, he never intended to eventually make him into a human/anroid. Eventually he got the idea to do just that, but again, it's not like he started out creating a human robot and kept the scissor hands for the lulz. He did intend to give him regular hands, just died before he could do it.

* So in all the years of the town living down below, nobody ever visited or was even the curious about the highly visible creepy mansion on the top of the hill?

* Just ''why'' exactly did Edward wind up with scissors for hands? I understand that the inventor never got around to building Edward proper human-like hands, but why the hell would he put '''''scissors''''' on him in the first place? Even if Edward was supposed to be a gentle soul, building a Frankenstein-like artificial human with deadly metal blades for hands is a pretty big risk for an inventor to take--what if he ever went rogue? And if he just didn't have time to build hands, wouldn't it have made more sense to give him grasping claws that he could actually hold things with? Or better yet, he could've just not bothered with putting anything in place of hands until he was ready to give Edward the real thing. As we see in the movie, scissor-hands are very handy for cutting hair and bushes, but they're pretty much useless for anything that you would ordinarily use hands for. It seems like the scissor-hands caused much more trouble than they were worth.
* Edward started out as a (presumably mindless) machine used to cut things up. When the inventor built that, he never intended to eventually make him into a human/anroid. Eventually he got the idea to do just that, but again, it's not like he started out creating a human robot and kept the scissor hands for the lulz. He did intend to give him regular hands, just died before he could do it.

* Was anyone else bothered by Edward killing Jim? Yeah, he was a dangerous, ''dangerous'' JerkAss, but Edward stabs him, gives him a cold stare, then ''throws him out of a window.'' Is that not a little overkill?

* So in all the years of the town living down below, nobody ever visited or was even the curious about the highly visible creepy mansion on the top of the hill?

Just ''why'' exactly did Edward wind up with scissors for hands? I understand that the inventor never got around to building Edward proper human-like hands, but why the hell would he put '''''scissors''''' on him in the first place? Even if Edward was supposed to be a gentle soul, building a Frankenstein-like artificial human with deadly metal blades for hands is a pretty big risk for an inventor to take--what if he ever went rogue? And if he just didn't have time to build hands, wouldn't it have made more sense to give him grasping claws that he could actually hold things with? Or better yet, he could've just not bothered with putting anything in place of hands until he was ready to give Edward the real thing. As we see in the movie, scissor-hands are very handy for cutting hair and bushes, but they're pretty much useless for anything that you would ordinarily use hands for. It seems like the scissor-hands caused much more trouble than they were worth.

Was anyone else bothered by Edward killing Jim? Yeah, he was a dangerous, ''dangerous'' JerkAss, but Edward stabs him, gives him a cold stare, then ''throws him out of a window.'' Is that not a little overkill?

So in all the years of the town living down below, nobody ever visited or was even the curious about the highly visible creepy mansion on the top of the hill?

[[WMG: Just ''why'' exactly did Edward wind up with scissors for hands?]]
I understand that the inventor never got around to building Edward proper human-like hands, but why the hell would he put '''''scissors''''' on him in the first place? Even if Edward was supposed to be a gentle soul, building a Frankenstein-like artificial human with deadly metal blades for hands is a pretty big risk for an inventor to take--what if he ever went rogue? And if he just didn't have time to build hands, wouldn't it have made more sense to give him grasping claws that he could actually hold things with? Or better yet, he could've just not bothered with putting anything in place of hands until he was ready to give Edward the real thing. As we see in the movie, scissor-hands are very handy for cutting hair and bushes, but they're pretty much useless for anything that you would ordinarily use hands for. It seems like the scissor-hands caused much more trouble than they were worth.
** Edward started out as a (presumably mindless) machine used to cut things up. When the inventor built that, he never intended to eventually make him into a human/anroid. Eventually he got the idea to do just that, but again, it's not like he started out creating a human robot and kept the scissor hands for the lulz. He did intend to give him regular hands, just died before he could do it.

* Was anyone else bothered by Edward killing Jim? Yeah, he was a dangerous, ''dangerous'' JerkAss, but Edward stabs him, gives him a cold stare, then ''throws him out of a window.'' Is that not a little overkill?

** Edward started out as a (presumably mindless) machine used to cut things up. When the inventor built that, he never intended to eventually make him into a human/anroid. Eventually he got the idea to do just that, but again, it's not like he started out creating a human robot and kept the scissor hands for the lulz. He did intend to give him regular hands, just died before he could do it.

I understand that the inventor never got around to building Edward proper human-like hands, but why the hell would he put '''''scissors''''' on him in the first place? Even if Edward was supposed to be a gentle soul, building a Frankenstein-like artificial human with deadly metal blades for hands is a pretty big risk for an inventor to take--what if he ever went rogue? And if he just didn't have time to build hands, wouldn't it have made more sense to give him grasping claws that he could actually hold things with? Or better yet, he could've just not bothered with putting anything in place of hands until he was ready to give Edward the real thing. As we see in the movie, scissor-hands are very handy for cutting hair and bushes, but they're pretty much useless for anything that you would ordinarily use hands for. It seems like the scissor-hands caused much more trouble than they were worth.

I understand that the inventor never got around to building Edward proper human-like hands, but why the hell would he put '''''scissors''''' on him in the first place? Even if Edward was supposed to be a gentle soul, building a Frankenstein-like artificial human with deadly metal blades for hands is a pretty big risk for an inventor to take--what if he ever went rogue? And if he just didn't have time to build hands, wouldn't it have made more sense to give him grasping claws that he could actually hold things with? Or better yet, he could've just not bothered with putting anything in place of hands until he was ready to give Edward the real thing. As we see in the movie, scissor-hands are very handy for cutting hair and bushes, but they're pretty much useless for anything that you would ordinarily use hands for. It's seems like the scissor-hands caused much more trouble than they were worth.

I understand that the inventor never got around to building Edward proper human-like hands, but why the hell would he put '''''scissors''''' on him in the first place? Even if Edward was supposed to be a gentle soul, building a Frankenstein-like artificial human with deadly metal blades for hands is a pretty big risk for an inventor take--what if he ever went rogue? And if he just didn't have time to build hands, wouldn't it have made more sense to give him grasping claws that he could actually hold things with? Or better yet, he could've just not bothered with putting anything in place of hands until he was ready to give Edward the real thing. As we see in the movie, scissor-hands are very handy for cutting hair and bushes, but they're pretty much useless for anything that you would ordinarily use hands for. It's seems like the scissor-hands caused much more trouble than they were worth.