Creating A Portrait In Pastel DVD

Advantages: Amazing production and costume design, strong performances.
Disadvantages: Many unexplored characters and subplots.

...one minute and cut you dead the next (if you’ll pardon the pun). In that respect, you could see the movie as a parable about the perils of celebrity. Although it would be easy to portray the last queen of France as an empty-headed bimbo obsessed with frocks and jewellery, Coppola creates a more rounded portrait. She shows her as a lonely little girl and then young woman utterly unprepared for her role, friendless and cast adrift in an unfamiliar world. She and Louis-Auguste may not have passion in their marriage, but there is a sense of growing affection after the initial shyness. They are the most human of the characters because they are only pawns in a game, while those around them are politicking of their own accord. Hence all the bitching and backstabbing that characterises the dialogue when they are being spoken of. They are also... Read review

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Advantages: I cant think of anyone but Depp to play this role
Disadvantages: The grandma telling a story was unneccissary

...Wiest) to live with her family, his adventure in the pastel paradise of Surburbia. SPECIAL FEATURES: Special features include... Tim Burton commetry, Danny Elfman commentary, Fearurette, Interview Clips, 2 Trailers, Spanish TV spots and Concept Artwork which is my favorite feature as it shows some of artwork Burton has done to create the overall asthetic for Edward Scissorhands. PERSONAL THOUGHT: I deffinatley recomend it and for Tim Burton fans like myself, it is a deffinate MUST SEE! CERTIFICATE: 12... Read review

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...Found by an over eager Avon Lady after his inventor has snuffed it, Edward Scissorhands (Johnny Depp) is brought into pastel perfect idyllic suburbia to become the hairdresser/ topiarist of choice. Tim Burton’s personal fairytale crystallised many of his favourite themes - the outcast as hero, the weirdness that hides behind normality - and served up trademark arresting imagery but what was new here for Burton was the emotional timbre behind the bonkers visuals, a quality helped immeasurably by Depp’s poignant rendering of the bruised outsider.This magical film is a must for all Burton fans.... Read review

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