Halloween Ends Director DEFENDS This Plot DECISION..
23Halloween Ends Director DEFENDS This Plot DECISION..
Welcome back to Film Nerds. Divisive is perhaps the best word to describe David Gordon Green's capper to his Halloween reboot trilogy Halloween Ends. The highly anticipated film hasn't hit home with fans nearly as well as the film that kicked off this reinvigorated take on the classic slasher franchise, landing with an underwhelming 57% on Rotten Tomatoes. Largely, the backlash to the film came with the direction Green took the story, taking the spotlight off of Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Michael Myers (James Jude Courtney) and instead focusing on newcomer Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell), a young man wrongfully accused of murdering the boy he was babysitting who strikes up a relationship with Laurie's granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak)
Green explained to MovieMaker, in an interview, that his divisive angle was always the intention for the film, never the Laurie and Michael grudge match hyped by the myriad trailers, featurettes, and promotional material for the film. By crafting a darker romantic tale between Corey and Allyson, Green looked to put his stamp on the franchise by moving past Michael Myers to show how evil can spring from anywhere. The outcast Corey proved the perfect vessel to inherit the evil left in the wake of Myers. By showing him trying to find love and acceptance in Haddonfield only to be constantly ridiculed and pushed to the brink as the townsfolk pin him as a murderer, it crafts a much different path to evil than the backstory for Myers. In related news, The Halloween franchise’s Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is, without question, one of the most famous Final Girls in the history of horror cinema. An archetype first identified by author and academic Carol J. Clover, a Final Girl is, as the name suggests, the last remaining female survivor after a monstrous serial killer murders the rest of a slasher movie’s cast of characters. The Final Girl recognizes the horrific power of the killer, shifts from passivity to activity, and uses the weapons of the killer’s arsenal (usually items that stab) to defeat him.
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