white people love to say candyman five times and then get mad when they die like damn what’d you expect? a gummy worm? fuck off
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Studente Helen maakt een scriptie over mythes en legendes. Dit brengt haar tot de mythe over de Candyman. Een eenarmige man die, als je zijn naam 5 keer zegt, verschijnt en je dan meteen van kant maakt. De nuchtere Helen gelooft deze verhalen niet en gaat op onderzoek uit in de buurt waar hij vandaan schijnt te komen.
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Tony Todd's voice is the 8th Wonder of the World
Uses gentrification and academia in Chicago as an access point to the trauma of slavery being painted over in reconstruction, before jumping off into a moody urban folklore dream where historical pain is mythologized and martyred in the form of Tony Todd's Candyman whose incredible physical presence, reverberating voice and vicious acts of violence serve to draw (and heighten) his feelings of longing and rage into something tangible and fleshy. Between the excellent location work and Don't Look Now's cinematographer Anthony B. Richmond there's a lot of gorgeously grimy detail and texture to the images which amplifies Clive Barker's nasty writing (which shares a lot of Hellraiser's beautifully grotesque/perverse pain & pleasure elements) and Phillip Glass's beautifully dreamy score. Not quite sure how to read the ending which I think some argue is an allegory for appropriation but feels more like it just lets commercial genre sensibilities overtake its ideas, but up until that point this is incredibly well-realized and, it's clear by all the creepy overhead shots of skyscrapers, expressive graffiti murals, and expensive condo surfaces at war with the dirty, crumbling bricks they're covering up that Rose didn't pass up a single opportunity to visually express the underseen horror of living in the shadow of white real estate development.Full discussion on ep 187 of my podcast SLEAZOIDS.
Veelgestelde vragen
What is Candyman about?+
A skeptical graduate student researching local folklore accidentally summons a vengeful soul with a hook for a hand into reality.
Who directed Candyman?+
Candyman was directed by Bernard Rose in 1992, adapting a short story by Clive Barker.
Is Candyman based on a book?+
Yes, the film is based on Clive Barker's short story The Forbidden.
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