Haloween
Halloween
In John Carpenter’s film, Halloween, the antagonist, Michael Myers, brutally kills his older sister after she had sex with her boyfriend the night: of Halloween 1963. Soon after, six year old Michael Myers was incarcerated, until 15 years later when Myers breaks out on the night before Halloween; set on killing a group of high school students. In the film, “Halloween”, the primary antagonist, Michael Myers, is characterized as pure evil. He kills with no remorse or pain, doing to others what he did to his sister. Michael Myers sees those who may not see him, hiding in dark corners, kills when least expected but can never be destroyed. Even in a town as small as Haddonfield, Illinois, Michael Myers shows that evil is everywhere, uncontrollable and cannot be destroyed.
The film opens on October 31, 1963, a cold Halloween night, where Michel Myers follows and watches his teenage sister, Judith Margaret Myers, and her boyfriend become intimate with one another. When finished having sex, he grabs a very sharp knife and begins walking up the stairs, pulls a mask over his face and enters Judith's bedroom. As Judith begins to scold Michael for walking in the room, Michael raises the knife and begins stabbing her repeatedly in various areas of her body. He walks out of the bedroom, down the stairs, and out the front door into the yard. His parents sees Michael, they pull off his clown mask, revealing his face, staring into space with a blank expression, still clutching the knife in one hand.
At the age of 6, Myers is already seen as a murder, the “bad guy”. There is already a common characterization that Michael Myers is evil. The lack of expression that appears on his face shows that he is a very troubled boy and comfortable with his murder. Judith Margaret Myers was in the privacy of her own room, with her love interest. Though her parents weren’t around at the time of the murder, she still held a sense of security. In this scene, dramatic irony falls
In John Carpenter’s film, Halloween, the antagonist, Michael Myers, brutally kills his older sister after she had sex with her boyfriend the night: of Halloween 1963. Soon after, six year old Michael Myers was incarcerated, until 15 years later when Myers breaks out on the night before Halloween; set on killing a group of high school students. In the film, “Halloween”, the primary antagonist, Michael Myers, is characterized as pure evil. He kills with no remorse or pain, doing to others what he did to his sister. Michael Myers sees those who may not see him, hiding in dark corners, kills when least expected but can never be destroyed. Even in a town as small as Haddonfield, Illinois, Michael Myers shows that evil is everywhere, uncontrollable and cannot be destroyed.
The film opens on October 31, 1963, a cold Halloween night, where Michel Myers follows and watches his teenage sister, Judith Margaret Myers, and her boyfriend become intimate with one another. When finished having sex, he grabs a very sharp knife and begins walking up the stairs, pulls a mask over his face and enters Judith's bedroom. As Judith begins to scold Michael for walking in the room, Michael raises the knife and begins stabbing her repeatedly in various areas of her body. He walks out of the bedroom, down the stairs, and out the front door into the yard. His parents sees Michael, they pull off his clown mask, revealing his face, staring into space with a blank expression, still clutching the knife in one hand.
At the age of 6, Myers is already seen as a murder, the “bad guy”. There is already a common characterization that Michael Myers is evil. The lack of expression that appears on his face shows that he is a very troubled boy and comfortable with his murder. Judith Margaret Myers was in the privacy of her own room, with her love interest. Though her parents weren’t around at the time of the murder, she still held a sense of security. In this scene, dramatic irony falls