The Costume Analysis in Edward Scissorhands

The Movie

The movie Edward Scissorhands mainly tells the story of an uncommon man Edward, who has fallen in love with Kim. Kim is a very kind and beautiful woman. However, due to some misunderstanding, the neighbors think Edward is criminal and treat him badly.

Costume

The film’s splendid highlights are the make-up and costumes. The colorful houses and exaggerated character designs are quite surreal. The gloomy castle where he lived in is black and white away from the hubbub of the world. This could compete with the modern film visual style. By contrast, the community town uses the bright colors. The colors for interior furniture, decoration, clothes, and supplies are full and bright as the world of fairy tales.

The Edward styling is messy. Dark makeup around the eyes reflects some unique horror and melancholy temperament. The complexion is pale and lips are black. The overall performance is a melancholy ghost-like character. His costumes and other accessories are the medieval knight-style clothing made of leather which also reflects Edward’s characteristics and identity. Especially the upper body clothing decorated with leather belts tightly to the body limits the Edward’s freedom of movement and also indicates his passive position in human society. The costumes could deeply demonstrate the personality and the social position and reveals the background of the whole the film. It can be seen from the premise, the first artist to be a thorough understanding of the atmosphere and content of the film to be shown, every scene in the scene design in this drama to be shown the meaning clear, in line with the story content and create the atmosphere of a scene leaving reflect on the deeper meaning of the selection and placement of tone sets the scene setting props - the fate of the psychological character