it's all the non-black girls (one girl looked kinda spanish maybe?) who have the audacity to even test the Candyman game (aka WPS) but then (assuming it's not a funky edit), it's the black girl who pays the price.
so, black people paying the price of stupid WPS. a tale as old as time.
Lot at stake for me in this remake existing. Candyman is one of my favorite favorite favorite movies, which is fraught territory. I'm trying not to look up anything about this, but that was Tony Todd's voice at the end, right?
That'd be a good start.
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9. "Irrelevant nostalgia bait" In response to Reply # 0
Had it come out in 2016, it might have been more impactful; that's when Chicago's murder rate was at its highest in two decades. Candyman doesn't work if the ghetto isn't teeming with crime, if Cabrini-Greenm has all but disappeared.
It's like the bed time story you tell your kids to keep them out of trouble when they ask why the crack house next door is being raided.
Even when the film was first released, it worked as hood urban legend only to a limited extent. I guess that makes it a cult classic.
Today, a bogeyman-in-the-mirror is an almost laughable concept and has to be seen for the miserable nostalgia bait that it is, when the population gazes into their personal, digital scrying mirrors every few minutes of everyday without the least bit of fear.
Hollywood is in a period of decline; hopefully, not for another decade.
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13. "RE: Irrelevant nostalgia bait" In response to Reply # 9
From the trailer, it would seem that the devil-in-the-mirror could be the self which would be VERY 2020 of him
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14. "That’s definitely plausible" In response to Reply # 13
I see what you mean. If so, then it’s a worrisome departure from the source material, borrowing the novelty of the original film to compensate for a lack of purely original ideas.
I say “decline” because of the typically lackluster remakes that have come out of Hollywood in the last 20 years.
To be sure, I can’t be certain until I see the entire film which is not likely to happen while it’s in theaters. But the magic of Candyman (1992) was its context; it dared to imagine a more terrifying presence in the hood than the very real mood of horror that was already in existence. I’d put Tales From the Hood in there too, despite its humorous elements. In fact, when I saw Get Out, Tales From the Hood was the first film that came to mind.
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17. "RE: That’s definitely plausible" In response to Reply # 14
yea... they are billing it as a "spiritual sequel" So it isn't a direct retread..
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16. "I wonder what Jordan Peele produced means. " In response to Reply # 0
I mean I see he has a writer credit as well but his brand is so strong that you see his name way more than writer/director Nia DaCosta.
Is he polishing hot scripts? Throwing his name on finished projects just to give them that marketing bump? Is he bringing talented people together and maybe giving DaCosta the tap for bigger projects like this?
Love to hear how this project came together.
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21. "Probably a little of everything " In response to Reply # 16
im gonna assume that it was a project he was putting together since he wrote it and he reached out to the director after seeing her 2 eps on Top Boy. He seems to be working on a lot so he can’t direct everything and shouodnt direct everything. I actually dont love his directing more than i like his ideas and overall storytelling. Not a huge fan of it aesthetically so I’m glad he’s using others
22. "RE: Candyman (co-written by Jordan Peele) TRAILER " In response to Reply # 0
CANDYMAN, at the intersection of white violence and black pain, is about unwilling martyrs. The people they were, the symbols we turn them into, the monsters we are told they must have been.
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