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O'Hara attributed the film's enduring popularity to its universal themes, common in Burton's works, about the well-meaning outsider who “just wants to be appreciated and loved.”

Jack was “a freak, but not a freak,” she told the Daily News. “He is a sweet soul. Like Edward Scissorhands and so many characters in Tim's films. So yeah, the art, the music and the sweetness of it.”

Sarandon had a similar perspective People in 2023: “A lot of young people come up to me and say: 'That was a film that made me feel like I belonged' because it was so strange and so beautiful at the same time and its message was so positive.” And how turns out, watch it again with your children.”

Jack was “perceived as dark, but he's really light,” Burton said Rich in 2023. “Those are the things that I love, whether it's Scissorhands or Batman, characters that have that. It represented all of these feelings that I had. I was perceived as this dark character when I didn't feel like that.” . So it was a very personal character.