![]() Nevertheless, she is the hero in the film because the viewer wants to root for her against such stark evilness in Michael Myers. There is a scene in Halloween where Laurie smokes marijuana with Annie on the way over to Tommy’s house. Of course, she does have a flaw, as Dorothy did in her irrational desire to leave Kansas and Aunt Em. She also is more responsible than Annie is as it pertains to babysitting because she ends up babysitting both Tommy and Lindsey. In addition, she cares about school as evidenced by her concern early in the film that she forgot her chemistry book. Laurie Strode is very shy, innocent and in contrast to her two friends Annie and Lynda, not promiscuous. Similarly, Halloween has two characters that are good and evil in Laurie Strode representing good and Michael Myers representing evil. In The Wizard of Oz, per classical Hollywood cinema’s narrative form, Dorothy is the epitome of goodness and the Wicked Witch represents evilness. Halloween undoubtedly, follows many of the genres conventions and as matter of fact, created the slasher subgenre by establishing rules that would be followed in later films like Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street (although many would contend that Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is the real father of the slasher film). In essence, the horror film is distinct from other genres because every aspect from the character to certain camera angles to the music works together to get the viewing audience to emote in some way – whether it is shock, disgust or fright. Furthermore, makeup and special effects are an instrumental component to any horror film. The slasher subgenre in particular, juxtaposes a superhuman killer with a conceived normalized locale. A conventional horror film practice is to have characters that doubt the very existence of the monster and a lone character voicing for its existence. In order to achieve this, a “monster” figure is the manifestation of such trepidation in the film viewer. The reason for this is the stated purpose of a horror film: to scare you. Suffice it to say, the horror genre is quite distinct from other genres. The film ends with the disappearance of Michael’s body. Loomis saves her by shooting Michael six times and causing him to fall off a balcony. After a few failed attempts by Michael to kill Laurie, Dr. Not long after, he kills Laurie’s friends Annie and Lynda. Instead, he escaped and began stalking Laurie Strode (played by the scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis) and her friends. Sam Loomis (played by the brilliant Donald Pleasence), whom was hoping to take Myers to court to keep him locked up. While there, he was under the care of Dr. At which point, he was incarcerated at Smith’s Grove Warren County Sanitarium. ![]() At the age of six, Michael Myers killed his fifteen-year-old sister, Judith Myers, with a knife. Finally, this paper will look at Carpenter’s use of deep focus as a divergence from classical Hollywood cinema. ![]() In addition, the salient styles are the various aspects of mise-en-scène, lighting, camera movement, and the diegetic and non-diegetic sounds and music. Some of those elements of narrative form are characters’ development, goal orientation, and conflict as well as other forms such as repetition, foreshadowing, and closure. ![]() This paper will assess Halloween’s narrative form and style in relation and differentiation from classical Hollywood cinema. There are two forms worth looking at when discussing a film: narrative form and style. In order to better frame the analysis, a summation of Halloween will be necessary, as well as a brief look at the peculiar nuances of the horror genre itself. Nevertheless, John Carpenter’s 1978 film Halloween bears remarkable similarities to classical Hollywood cinema, as well as some noteworthy differences. ![]() Outwardly, it would seem odd to include a horror film into a discourse about its relation to classical Hollywood cinema. The horror genre and its subgenre, the slasher film is often relegated to the fringe of film discussions. ![]()
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