Yet for some strange reason, it's always clear what he's trying to say. The social misfit aspect of the Edward Scissorhands character has appeared in Burton's work before. Price narrates the cartoon, which won two awards at the Chicago Film Festival. The images in Vincent were drawn directly from Burton's own middle-class childhood in Burbank, where his father recently retired from the parks and recreation department and his mother runs a small gift shop. This sounds dramatic but he helped me live . . .
Some people find release through heavy metal or whatever.
You're not just watching a low-budget Edgar Allan Poe movie, there's something else there that's not on the screen. I channeled my melodrama into that, as opposed to suicide probably. In it, a young boy becomes a kind of Young Frankenstein when he brings his dead dog back to life in the isolation of his attic. The complex reaction of the suburban neighborhood to the dog is much like that of the neighbors toward Edward Scissorhands. But at the same time, he has been criticized for flaws in story structure.