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- From: philip@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Philip Stephens)
- Subject: Re: Edward Scissorhands: a few questions *SPOILER ALERT*
- Organization: Labtam Australia Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Australia
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:20:31 GMT
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- Harv R Laser writes:
-
- >Eddie was a "Frankenstein's monster" boy created by the V.Price
- >"mad doctor" character. He installed scissors as hands because
- >he hadn't finished the hands yet.
-
- Just a further elaboration: the "mad doctor" character was in fact an
- inventor; there was a wonderful scene where his invention of a cookie maker
- was shown, and Edward happened to be one of the mechanical robots on another
- assembly line chopping up vegetables with scissor hands. The inventor was
- lonely, and so he decided to turn the robot into his very own "son" (he
- first holds up a heart to the robot's chest, then later you see a large
- book full of diagrams showing how the inventor turned the robot into Edward
- Scissorhands).
-
- >The "black thing" is a full leather'n'buckles body suit which
- >Eddie never removes (god knows what he smelled like). We are not
- >told what's under the suit, if not an otherwise normal body.
-
- It's very likely that he was still made of metal underneath the suit, but
- a closer examination of the book as the wind flips over it's pages might
- reveal the truth about Edward. (Hey, a good reason for me to watch the film
- again! :-)
-
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