And damn if it isn’t complicated because nobody should have to out themselves to play a role. Watching a queer person in a queer role just hits different. It’s strange, even if the straight actor is well-meaning and does a beautiful job and exemplifies true allyship in their real life and all that…it still feels like a bummer to me. I’ll say this: I think that yeah absolutely straight folks can play gay roles – but I think we need a lot more of actual queer actor representation and opportunity before it all stops feeling a bit like creative tourism straights taking an adventure vacation in my community’s truth and experience. But again, I was having fun so it was easy to let this point slide.ĭo I dare wade into the discussion around non-queer actors in queer roles? It’s been on my mind a lot lately not even just from me being an actor but as an audience member too. And that’s not even getting into the fact that they were able to easily break into a mall that was also the scene of a very recent mass murder without getting caught. Still, it stuck out to me as a little too convenient for the plot that Deena and Josh were able to find the hand again so easily. I’m not sure that the roots of a tree that old and large could withstand being surrounded by a foundation like that, and I also don’t think the hand would just stay buried given all the surrounding excavation that would have needed to happen I don’t know shit about architecture and engineering so maybe I’m completely wrong. I also thought it was cool the way that the Shadyside Mall was built around the hanging tree. I like the unnatural bright red look of it and how it represented a physical manifestation of the curse. There was also plenty of it around Sarah’s grave in the first movie. I felt like it was found a bit too easily in both instances. I’m a firm believer that character is the key to any good story, and I’m so grateful that these movies have (so far) not lost sight of that. It also made Alice’s and Cindy’s deaths that much more tragic. It made that hopeful moment after Alice found Sarah’s hand all the more powerful. It left the young Ziggy jaded and apathetic about ever being able to get away from Shadyside. I drove Alice to cut themself and seek joys in the simple pleasures of life. It drove Cindy to strive for perfection to seek a way out. The tragic way that the curse of Shadyside had infiltrated all of their lives was shown to have more depth than just the psycho killers who spring up every so often. Fear Street: 1978 featured a really touching story between two sisters (Cindy and Ziggy) as well as between two friends (Cindy and Alice). As though there can only be one that comes out on top.
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Women in movie roles and other sectors of the media are often pitted against each other. There was a really strong undercurrent of women supporting women at the core of this story. I know the film did its job because I cannot wait for the third and final part of the trilogy. Fear Street: 1978 works really well as its own stand-alone movie, but it also sets the stage nicely for Fear Street: 1666. The self-aware approach to old-school horror movie campiness helped a lot in that regard. There were a few contrived items that stretched the realm of plausibility, but there was nothing so egregious that it took me out of the experience. We got plenty of new context to the information we found in the first movie. The principal cast delivered some excellent performances.
The good stuff never makes it into the papers. The fun was in finding out how the events actually unfolded. We already got the headline of what happened at Camp Nightmoon, so we knew how the movie would end before it even started. It also uses a different color pallet to establish a new feel and tone. You can pick up references to Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, The Exorcists, and probably several others that I missed. Where the first movie featured an homage to nineties movies, the second part of the story does the same with the greats of the seventies. Last week’s 1994 had already done a lot of the heavy lifting introducing us to Shadyside and the witch’s curse, so 1978 was poised to hit the ground running. Fear Street 1978 doesn’t waste any time getting right to the good stuff.