A Nightmare on Elm Street’s New Nightmare: The Return of a Legend in a Re-Imagined Dream
May 5th 2010 11:15
For every legendary piece of art, poetic masterpiece or truly unique character in a film there will always be societal need to re-create the moment, duplicate the success or re-imagine the dream.
The story has been the same throughout the logs of history as re-prints have kept priceless works of art relevant hundreds of years after the paint has faded on the original works of art and the movies that scared us in our youth have been re-imagined for future generations to enjoy.
What began with something as simple to grasp as a re-make has slowly morphed into a movie genre simply known as the re-imagined feature film.
With directorial and production names that have become bigger than the films they have created; audiences are now the beneficiaries of their own memories from yesteryear as the cartoons and characters of yesteryear are molded into modern hero’s and villains dealing with the harsh realities of a world that has evolved into an entirely different monster from the time pen was first put to paper in the creation of the original story lines.
Story lines featuring homicidal figures that invade our dreams and the social conscious in a world looking for an escape through fear.
Fear that drew us into the stories of Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger as audiences eagerly awaited sequel after sequel to learn more about the world that drove these men to become the figures that were bigger in our minds than anything that could ever be portrayed on the silver screen.
It is the idea of everything that Freddy and Jason were beyond projections on a film reel that created a public demand to relive the thrill by adapting the films for a new audience.
Much like the Rob Zombie re-imagined films from the Halloween movie franchise; audiences from yesteryear are being asked to bring their memories of these larger than life figures to the re-imagined features but to do so with an open mind.
An open mind for everything these films meant for us 20 years ago with room for new story lines to evolve for the modern audience.
With this theme, A Nightmare on Elm Street stormed back to the silver screen with a vengeance.
Much like the Michael Bay produced Friday the 13th film released in 2008, A New Nightmare introduced audiences to a re-imagined chapter of a legendary story.
What remained the same is the Nightmare of Freddy Krueger as the shadowy figure in our dreams that made us afraid to close our eyes for fear of never waking up but what changed is the way this story was told and the point of emphasis in the storyline.
A point of emphasis in the events leading to the creation of the character known in pop culture references for his one liner’s, knit sweater and glove of blades.
A far too familiar background story of a parent’s worst nightmare and a question of morality when the decision is made to deliver their own form of justice. These are the questions the audience is boldly faced with in the re-imagined version of a classic story.
A classic story that goes beyond the punch lines that took over the last chapters of the A Nightmare on Elm Street story and takes the audience back to the beginning.
The beginning when A Nightmare on Elm Street was just one of many slasher films with a story line and character that helped it stand head and shoulders above the rest.
When asked to judge the 2008 version of the story against the legendary stature of the originals there is no comparison. No comparison to the things Robert Englund brought to the role of Freddy Krueger or to the memories that are evoked at the mere mention of the film franchises name.
If given a chance, A Nightmare on Elm Street will not disappoint the memory of this legendary film franchise and may even create new nightmares for many generations to come.
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The story has been the same throughout the logs of history as re-prints have kept priceless works of art relevant hundreds of years after the paint has faded on the original works of art and the movies that scared us in our youth have been re-imagined for future generations to enjoy.
What began with something as simple to grasp as a re-make has slowly morphed into a movie genre simply known as the re-imagined feature film.
With directorial and production names that have become bigger than the films they have created; audiences are now the beneficiaries of their own memories from yesteryear as the cartoons and characters of yesteryear are molded into modern hero’s and villains dealing with the harsh realities of a world that has evolved into an entirely different monster from the time pen was first put to paper in the creation of the original story lines.
Story lines featuring homicidal figures that invade our dreams and the social conscious in a world looking for an escape through fear.
Fear that drew us into the stories of Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger as audiences eagerly awaited sequel after sequel to learn more about the world that drove these men to become the figures that were bigger in our minds than anything that could ever be portrayed on the silver screen.
It is the idea of everything that Freddy and Jason were beyond projections on a film reel that created a public demand to relive the thrill by adapting the films for a new audience.
Much like the Rob Zombie re-imagined films from the Halloween movie franchise; audiences from yesteryear are being asked to bring their memories of these larger than life figures to the re-imagined features but to do so with an open mind.
An open mind for everything these films meant for us 20 years ago with room for new story lines to evolve for the modern audience.
With this theme, A Nightmare on Elm Street stormed back to the silver screen with a vengeance.
Much like the Michael Bay produced Friday the 13th film released in 2008, A New Nightmare introduced audiences to a re-imagined chapter of a legendary story.
What remained the same is the Nightmare of Freddy Krueger as the shadowy figure in our dreams that made us afraid to close our eyes for fear of never waking up but what changed is the way this story was told and the point of emphasis in the storyline.
A point of emphasis in the events leading to the creation of the character known in pop culture references for his one liner’s, knit sweater and glove of blades.
A far too familiar background story of a parent’s worst nightmare and a question of morality when the decision is made to deliver their own form of justice. These are the questions the audience is boldly faced with in the re-imagined version of a classic story.
A classic story that goes beyond the punch lines that took over the last chapters of the A Nightmare on Elm Street story and takes the audience back to the beginning.
The beginning when A Nightmare on Elm Street was just one of many slasher films with a story line and character that helped it stand head and shoulders above the rest.
When asked to judge the 2008 version of the story against the legendary stature of the originals there is no comparison. No comparison to the things Robert Englund brought to the role of Freddy Krueger or to the memories that are evoked at the mere mention of the film franchises name.
If given a chance, A Nightmare on Elm Street will not disappoint the memory of this legendary film franchise and may even create new nightmares for many generations to come.
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