Edward Scissorhands? Are they scissors really?

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When you have a pair of scissors, there’s two blades and each blade is connected to the other by a pivot or fulcrum. As you rotate either of the blades around that pivot point, the blades rub against each other, staying in contact with each other to create friction throughout the entire rotation.

Edwards blade-fingers, in contrast, have independent motion and are not connected by a fulcrum. They all rotate independently, via their own knuckles like normal human fingers, and as they rotate they do not maintain contact and friction with their neighbouring blades.

If you take apart a “pair of scissors”, is each blade separately still called a scissor, even when in isolation? I suppose you could argue that on its own, an individual blade is a “scissor”, but I personally don’t think so - I think scissors only become scissors when connected by that fulcrum, and when independent and disconnected, they’re simply blades.

This concludes my TED talk.

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How did he trim the hedges if they aren’t scissors?

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You can cut branches with things that aren’t scissors you know.

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Why don’t you show a video of him trimming the hedges … and you tell me if those aren’t scissors?

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Those aren’t scissors. He’s just wacking them with fast moving sharp objects.

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So yeah, Edward’s hands actually consist of multiple overlapping scissors.

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A “man with scissors” can be seen as an adult version of the child who breaks toys. Just like a child, who breaks a toy to understand how it works, an adult might metaphorically “cut” or “break” something to gain insight or control. The scissors symbolize the act of division, of separating or dissecting the whole to understand its parts. In this case, it’s not just about curiosity but also the need for control or the desire to dismantle complex systems or ideas.

Just as the child may destroy a toy out of sheer curiosity, the “man with scissors” could be someone who, in their search for understanding or power, disrupts things — be it ideas, structures, or relationships — to see how they function or to assert dominance over them. The allegory reflects the progression from a child’s innocent curiosity to an adult’s more deliberate, sometimes destructive, actions.

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Or maybe like “a child who runs with scissors“ — except instead, they perfectly trim the hedges.

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What is with everybody’s beef with Edward Scissorhands?

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At least Wolverine’s claws were retractable…which is helpful in a relationship. That’s the best I got.

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Try to turn on your brains and think about the purpose of Hollywood shit

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I would have to watch the movie again. It’s been about 500,000 years since I saw it.

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There was such a Jewish bastard Lenin and here are his quotes about cinema: “Cinema is the best school for educating the masses.”, “For us, cinema is the most important tool of propaganda.”, “Cinema should be useful for the masses, it should help the revolution.”

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Dearest beloved-even-though-a-filthy-… racist:

There was this old codger named Socrates who wanted to ban the sophist poets from the Republic (a collaborative thought experiment you should not interpret him as “owning”)… all the while using sophistry and poetry. He was being intentionally ironic.

As long as the truth is there in it, use it. To say not to use it is basically affirming a morose ethics.

Which, by the way, Kant did not affirm. There are some subtleties that people, even to this day, struggle with. Don’t even say anything about my grammar. I don’t agree with Kant on everything, but he is severely misrepresented on this note. I bet it’s out of spite because he is a Christian. Just a hunch. Sophists.

And what the heck does that even have to do with Edward Scissorhands?

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In Russian, the expression “hooked hands” ( руки-крюки “hook-hands”) is used. That is, they talk about unskilled and clumsy hands. The English language is pathetic and straightforward. I had to come up with “scissor hands”.

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OK, Tim Burton, American, for whom the keyword Russian does not seem to bring up anything relevant, please explain to me why the Russian even matters here. I don’t mean that in a racist sense. Or perhaps you are claiming to be Caroline Thompson? Same deal with Russian keyword.

You should just always speak in Russian because you would make just as much sense.

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Thanks to communication on this forum, a unique theory about governing the world with the help of language appeared. That is, more advanced nations and peoples received a primitive language in order to slow down their development. But the backward “subhumans” speak a more perfect language in order to speed up the process of humanization. And yes. Chinese and Russian are definitely more dignified languages than degenerate English.

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The action is more like chopsticks, but Edward Chopstickshands doesn’t have the same ring to it.

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"There was such a Jewish bastard Lenin and here are his quotes about cinema: “Cinema is the best school for educating the masses.”, “For us, cinema is the most important tool of propaganda.”, “Cinema should be useful for the masses, it should help the revolution.”

Yeah, i dunno if a few posters and maybe a short black and white film with some angry russian peasant farmers in it is equal to what Hollywood and the advertisement industry is doing to you in the 21st century.

Now, the reader of D’s quote is supposed to infer from the nuance in the writing (‘jewish bastard, etc’) that your homeboy Lenin is to blame. It isn’t said directly, but you still associate all the leftist mess you experience today to the original bosses, the commission, because they knew the importance and value of propoganda.

Ergo, gay chads in the movies, impossibly hot female heroines saving the world, cross dressing transnerdz in ballerina skirts reading Winnie the Poo to second graders, interracial couples in commercials impressed by Downy fabric softener and folding towels together in the laundry room in a perfect racially harmonious world except for some weird fuckin reason the white person in the marriage is always a female (this seemingly arbitrary fact reveals deep perversions in the western psyche but that’s another matter)… is all Lenin’s creation and fault.

Bonus points for stating the irony. Because Lenin failed all this shit has come to fruition in the west. Even the Leftism is a farce… social democrat capital investors disguised as politicians infiltrating the democrat party and calling themselves socialists. It’s all theater.

When a certain critic looks at the world, he wants to immediately blame the Left for what has become of it… when, in fact, the world never has been left, so what it has become is a direct product of Western liberal institutions and philosophies, of capitalist/consumerist economies.

And this is no lie: in about 25 years, i have hardly found two people who know this and have had to watch the embarrasing spectacle of anti-Marxists droning on in furious anger about a deformed world that’s actually a direct product of their very own politics and ideology. There’s nothing you can do but watch. Nothing you can say. It’s like watching an audience at a Jim Jones rally making strange noises and swaying back and forth. Mass hypnosis.

And in philosophy there’s literature everywhere written by the same zombies… so one finds what another has written and gains a dumbness level because that guy, like him, is wrong, too. Zombie memes you could call em. In three generations, Marxism can become so distorted by the propaganda that not only is it thought of as simply ineffective but also as the very cause of the degeneracy in the west that’s shaking everyone up. Lol, that’s so funny, but only because I’m a sociopath. It should be tragic and dreadful, but i have no sympathy for people foolish enough to believe what they do about Marxism or too stupid to understand it.

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Can i tell you what would happen in a politically perfect racially pure sexy beast aryan free market society that was so awesome it was like atlantis or a Tool video or some shit?

In twenty years, three quarters of the superior sexy blonde aryan beasts would be in financial debt and striking against the remaining one-quarter of the superior sexy blonde aryan beasts that’s been raping them their entire lives.

Why. Well, there’s just such a dynamic duo of thinkers that can answer that very question for you, in fact. That’s Karl Engels and Friedrich Marx. They will tell you that capitalism don’t give a damn 'bout what color you is or how smart you is.