Welcome back, folks...
As promised, Freddy Vs. Jason, Part two-
Thus, the drunken dorm room dream of every vaguely geeky college student since the eighties comes to pass:
Freddy. Versus. Jason.
And
what a brawl it is. Jason lifts Freddy and runs him through a wall.
Horizontally. Freddy slices through windows, siding, studs, and
wallboard like a diamond carbide-tipped chainsaw running at two million
RPM. This, of course, should have torn the flesh-and-bone Freddy to
bloody hunks. But Freddy apparently has been doing Tae-Bo during his
stay in Ronny Yu's inky black version of hell. (He probably had a lot
of time on his hands when he wasn't ranting about how everyone had
forgotten him). There's plenty of room in hell to practice all the
kicks and such. He is fighting back against Jason with a style and
sheer verve that would make Jackie Chan wince in jealousy.
Somehow,
Freddy is now a master of martial arts with a genius-level IQ that
allows him to make all sorts of fancy strategic plans, including using
construction equipment to his best possible advantage.
But what
Freddy had not counted on- and what every Jason fan knew was coming- is
that Jason is just as strong in the REAL world, if not MORE so, as he
was in Freddy's little nightmare country.
Jason takes a beating
that's even more preposterous in the real world than in the dream
world. He has heavy things dropped on him. Canisters of pressurized
oxygen, when full weighing probably a couple hundred pounds, are
launched at him. A stack of rebar is dropped on him from a height of
three stories.
This is the most impressive of all, folks.
Rebar, for those of you who aren't commercial contractors or haven't
had a basement built recently, is the collective term for long rods of
iron or steel that are inserted into a concrete mold to lend it extra
strength and resiliency. They're typically about nine feet long and are
cylindrical in shape. So, basically Jason has a stack of solid metal
blunted spears dropped onto him. Many actually penetrate Jason's limbs.
In traditional Jason style, this is only enough to slow him
down. He removes them himself. Pulls them from his legs and continues
on as if nothing had happened. The brawl continues for some time to a
climax that I won't give away, with an additional surprise twist at the
end.
The DVD features deleted scenes which aren't necessary to
the plot, and an additional ending which has even more of the
aforementioned plot twist.
Some really interesting stuff makes an appearance throughout the movie...have a look around and see if you can spot these:
Children and their fear equal power for a matched pair of demonsan
earlier installment of "Nightmare on Elm Street" declares all fans of
Freddy are "his children." Is this a surprise commentary from the
directors on the nature of Hollywood's movements?
Goats appear
occasionally with Freddyclassic Satanic harbingers. Is this a hint
about the nature of Freddy or something more sinister behind him?
1428 is the first house number that appears in the film. 1+4+2+8 makes
fifteen, or three fives. Numerologists acknowledge the number five as
the number representing death.
Ten 'Missing Child' posters
appear in a police lobby. One of the ten at the lower left corner is
blank. Again as before, we have the appearance of two fives, or two
deaths.
A girl appears, her eyes destroyed, and she makes a
prophecy about upcoming events. Why would Greek mythological characters
make appearances in a movie geared toward an audience who likely isn't
versed enough in Greek myth to catch the reference?
Mass-scale
child druggings take place, using a drug called Hypnocil (from the
Greek hypnos) that prevent the kids from dreaming. Again, an appearance
from the Greek. Or, is this a commentary on using drugs like Ritalin in
schools? When you watch the film, note that the children are handed
Hypnocil in secrecy, never revealing the purpose of the medication.
What would be some ramifications if a school, or a town government,
decided to do something similar to children today?
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