字幕列表 影片播放 列印英文字幕 Candyman 2 Candyman 3 The trailer for the new film, Candyman 4 written by Jordan Peele has horror fans excited. 5 The film is being described as a spiritual sequel 6 to 1992's Candyman. 7 But what's the big deal? 8 Candyman is one of the scariest horror movies, 9 like in the top 10 scary movies 10 for a lot of horror fans, including me. 11 Just as an example, even though I am a very grown woman, 12 I will not say Candyman into a mirror five times. 13 Tananarive Due is an author and producer 14 who teaches at UCLA. 15 She says the original Candyman 16 Left a huge imprint on those of us who've seen it. 17 It is a very well acted film. 18 Tony Todd especially brings Candyman 19 to almost a level of sort of a Shakespearian 20 tragic antihero. 21 The cinematography is fantastic, 22 the story is fantastic 23 and it is a really, really scary urban legend, 24 this idea that you can invite evil into your house 25 and invite violence onto yourself 26 by just saying a name five times in a mirror. 27 Candyman. 28 Candyman. 29 Candyman. 30 Some people might know the urban legend Bloody Mary 31 which is very similar if you say that name several times. 32 But Candyman was originally from a short story 33 called The Forbidden by Clive Barker 34 and it was a very different iteration of Candyman. 35 It was set in the U.K. 36 Candyman was white. 37 He had never been subject to racism 38 or the effects of slavery like Candyman as we know it. 39 So that story was centered mostly around the idea 40 of the urban legend 41 and when Bernard Rose, the director and screenwriter, 42 decided to adapt this Clive Barker story, 43 he moved it to the U.S. 44 and instead of looking at a class divide 45 which was the original short story, 46 it became about race. 47 Due says the 1992 version has its issues. 48 It's walking a very delicate line racially. 49 It wants to have an impact and make a message 50 about unfair housing 51 and look at this terrible housing project, Cabrini-Green. 52 It brings up all these conversations 53 but it also brings up some imagery 54 that is kind of old school and troubling 55 like the black man chasing after 56 the beautiful white woman 57 which is an old image that hearkens 58 back to the beginning of cinema 59 with D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation in 1915. 60 Even at the time, there were obviously some filmmakers 61 and viewers who thought that the emphasis on how 62 dirty Cabrini-Green is and how scary the black men are 63 in the whole film, 64 not just Candyman but basically almost all of the back men 65 except for maybe there's a police officer. 66 But it's not a good look 67 and there are a lot of ways you can tell 68 that Candyman was sort of created for a white audience, 69 in a way that I think will be different 70 in the 2020 spiritual sequel, as it's called. 71 The urban legend is if you say his name five times 72 while looking in the mirror, 73 he appears in the reflection and it kills you. 74 I think that today's political times 75 also demand a new look at Candyman as a film not primarily, 76 it would seem, shot for a white audience 77 but a film that's really shot for everyone, 78 including black audiences. 79 Is Candyman real? 80 Well, I'm not gonna be the one to say his name 81 five times in the mirror to find out. 82 Why don't you find out if Candyman is real? 83 Technically, Candyman probably isn't real 84 but my attitude is, why take a chance? 85 This is insideedition.com.