{"id":7012,"date":"2011-12-18T15:48:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T20:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=7012"},"modified":"2011-12-18T15:48:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T20:48:18","slug":"edward-scissorhands-1990-tim-burton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/7012","title":{"rendered":"Edward Scissorhands (1990, Tim Burton)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katy&#8217;s first time watching this, and of course she liked it (though she complains that Edward ends up alone, the tearjerker snow-story somehow not enough to compensate for a romantically unhappy ending).<\/p>\n<p>I thought I knew Kathy Baker, the housewife who tries to seduce Edward, but I guess it&#8217;s just her resemblance to Katey Sagal.  1980&#8217;s mainstay (and director-substitute in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1255\">Synecdoche, New York<\/a><\/em>) Dianne Wiest is excellent as Edward&#8217;s host mother.  Anthony Michael Hall is strangely cast as Ryder&#8217;s miscreant boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>The movie lost its only oscar nomination, for best makeup, to Dick Tracy &#8211; a movie I don&#8217;t remember having an Avon lady trying to make a scissor-scarred artificially-pale boy look normal, so I call bullshit on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katy&#8217;s first time watching this, and of course she liked it (though she complains that Edward ends up alone, the tearjerker snow-story somehow not enough to compensate for a romantically unhappy ending). I thought I knew Kathy Baker, the housewife who tries to seduce Edward, but I guess it&#8217;s just her resemblance to Katey Sagal. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,159,160,886,1390],"class_list":["post-7012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-johnny-depp","tag-tim-burton","tag-vincent-price","tag-winona-ryder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7090,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012\/revisions\/7090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}