Image
Categories: Film TV

Timothée Chalamet is Edgar Scissorhands in Commercial with Winona Ryder

Before his debut as Paul Atreides in Denis Villeneuve’s forthcoming adaptation of Dune, Timothée Chalamet has been cast as Edgar Scissorhands, son of the titular Edward Scissorhands, from the classic 1990 Tim Burton gothic fairy tale about trying to fit in as an outsider in the confines of idyllic suburbia.

In the commercial for the All-Electric Cadillac Lyric, Winona Ryder reprises her role as Kim Boggs, Edward’s love interest in the original movie, and mother of the Chalamet’s Edgar.

But whereas the cult classic film sees Kim as an old woman recounting the tale of her ill-fated romance with the shock-headed Edward to her grandchild, this short film imagines Kim raising their son.

Like his father, whose heart is made of a cookie courtesy of his creator Vincent Price, Edgar grapples with the difficulties of having scissors for hands. During the course of a frustrating day, Edgar accidentally snips the cord to request a stop while riding a bus, gets magnets stuck to his hands during science class, and punctures and deflates a football. When he tries to utilize his talents at charcuterie while working at a deli, his manager admonishes him to just “stick to the menu”.

With another day in his routine, flummoxed by missing the bus yet again,  Edgar dreams of instead driving a car using a VR headset. When Kim sees this, she decides to bring to life the old idiom, “Look mom, no hands”, and surprises Edgar with a car with hands-free driving capabilities.

As opposed to the bittersweet ending in the film where within the garden at his Gothic Mansion, his father Edward would blanket the town in snowfall with the carving of his ice sculptures, the commercial ends with Ryder’s narration, stating that “Edgar drove off into the sunset”, but made it home in time for a warm dinner.

Watch the commercial below:

post-punk.com

From the Editor at Post-Punk.com

Recent Posts

  • Bands

Toronto Shoegazers Rituals Debut Hazy Post-Punk Single “Illusions”

Toronto shoegaze outfit Rituals first stirred to life in 2009, a quiet experiment in Adam Seward’s small, dim room, where…

15 hours ago
  • Bands

Filled with Fire — Swiss Cold Wavers Future Faces Unveil Video for “Neon Outlines”

Filled with fire Come to me Suspended with so much pleasure No matter how scared we may be To live…

15 hours ago
  • Bands

Starlight Star Bright — Icelandic Trio Kælan Mikla Pull Down the Veil of Night in Their Video for “Stjörnuljós”

Be a starlight once more that guides me in the dead of night and when your fire weakens I shall…

1 day ago
  • Bands

Qual Unleashes Sci-Fi Apocalyptic Video for Primal EBM Jam “Funeral Fashion”

Sarcophagus golden carcass Sarcophagus rigor mortis Drenched in cataclysm and curled in dystopian dread, Qual—William Maybelline’s fierce alter ego—seizes the…

3 days ago
  • Bands

Los Angeles Duo Faith In Flesh Inject Chilling EBM and Darkwave into Their Unsettling Video for “Psychodermatology”

Skin sloughed off Exposed rot Sickness spied Wet, weak eyes Lacerated soul Psychodermatology is a medical field that studies the…

3 days ago
  • Bands

Philadelphia’s Cigarettes for Breakfast Prescribe Heartrending Shoegaze Panacea “Numb the Pain”

Loving something you shouldn’t is like clutching a live wire—painful, charged, and impossible to release. You know it’s wrong, yet…

3 days ago
Sticky Footer Banner with Close Button