<P> Kathy Baker saw her part of Joyce, the neighbor who tries to seduce Edward, as a perfect chance to break into comedy . Alan Arkin says when he first read the script, he was "a bit baffled . Nothing really made sense to me until I saw the sets . Burton's visual imagination is extraordinary". The role of The Inventor was written specifically for Vincent Price, and would ultimately be his final feature film role . Burton commonly watched Price's films as a child, and, after completing Vincent, the two became good friends . Robert Oliveri was cast as Kevin, Kim's younger brother . Nick Carter from The Backstreet Boys plays an uncredited role as the blond boy playing on the Slip' n Slide as Edward rides in Peg's car through suburbia . </P> <P> Burbank, California was considered as a possible location for the suburban neighborhoods, but Burton believed the city had become too altered since his childhood so the Tampa Bay Area of Florida, including the town of Lutz and the Southgate Shopping Center of Lakeland was chosen for a three - month shooting schedule . The production crew found, in the words of the production designer Bo Welch, "a kind of generic, plain - wrap suburb, which we made even more characterless by painting all the houses in faded pastels, and reducing the window sizes to make it look a little more paranoid ." The key element to unify the look of the neighborhood was Welch's decision to repaint each of the houses in one of four colors, which he described as "sea - foam green, dirty flesh, butter, and dirty blue". The facade of the Gothic mansion was built just outside Dade City . Filming Edward Scissorhands created hundreds of (temporary) jobs and injected over $4 million into the Tampa Bay economy . Production then moved to a Fox Studios sound stage in Century City, California, where interiors of the mansion were filmed . </P> <P> To create Edward's scissor hands, Burton employed Stan Winston, who would later design the Penguin's prosthetic makeup in Batman Returns . Depp's wardrobe and prosthetic makeup took one hour and 45 minutes to apply . The giant topiaries that Edward creates in the film were made by wrapping metal skeletons in chicken wire, then weaving in thousands of small plastic plant sprigs . Rick Heinrichs worked as one of the art directors . </P> <P> Edward Scissorhands is the fourth feature film collaboration between director Tim Burton and composer Danny Elfman . The orchestra consisted of 79 musicians . Elfman cites Scissorhands as epitomizing his most personal and favorite work . In addition to Elfman's music, three Tom Jones songs also appear: "It's Not Unusual", "Delilah" and "With These Hands". "It's Not Unusual" would later be used in Mars Attacks! (1996), another film of Burton's with music composed by Elfman . </P>

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