Candy man Before the first film about him in 1992, he started his life as a character in a short story Candy man, Using his story as an urban legend, frightened the residents of the Chicago housing project.
As more films are released, the upcoming 2021 film of the same name is a direct sequel to the first film, written by Jordan Peele, Nia DaCosta and Win Rosenfeld.
The story tells the story of Anthony McCoy (played by Yahya Abdul-Martin II), an artist who told him after trying to learn more about the candy man for his upcoming project. The story is fascinating.
In the same way, if you say the name of the Candy Man in the mirror five times, he will appear, which will lead to terrible consequences.
For Abdul-Mateen, this story goes further than the original, because it revolves around the black experience in a new way, with black actors and staff at the center of the storytelling.
This time, the name of the Candy Man has a greater meaning, because it not only implies a horror story, but also implies a promotion Black people’s fate is also fate move.
say Weekly newspaper, Abdul-Mateen said: “This story is centered on the black experience, with black directors and black writers. It gives us the opportunity to humanize the candy figure.
“By doing this in our way, I think we also humanize or humanize Trayvon Martins, giving George Freuds, to Brenna Taylors, for those who become characters for reasons they will never choose. We know their names, but in fact we should not know their names. “
In fact, he even said that they, like Candiman and his character Anthony McCoy, became “reluctant martyrs” for stories they didn’t want to tell.
For these people, this is a “tragedy of a specific type” that does not need to exist, but is imposed on their narrative.
Abdul Martin said: “He [Anthony] There is no choice to be placed in that position, which makes it a different type of horror, a specific type of tragedy, you know, for someone like Anthony, there is nothing but his entire life. Very ambitious, when he was looking for himself, he entered another self that he would never deliberately choose to be. “
In the 1992 movie, Candy Man (Tony Todd) appeared in front of Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) because she doubted his existence and hoped that his legend could be continued by those who are still alive.
In a climax scene in the 2021 movie, he told another character to “tell everyone” what they saw, but still hope his story will continue.
This time, the motivation seems to have changed. The new version does not retain the legend of Candy Man, but hints that his legend allows the story of those who were treated unfairly to continue, revealing a systemic problem that transcends horror movies.
Abdul-Mateen suggested that this allows the black community to control the narrative imposed on them, where their oppressed people become “monsters.”
He continued: “In everyone who is like them, they have become monsters and their humanity is deprived. So the way Candy Man tells our stories allows us to humanize their experiences and give them as well as Candiman was more dignified after his death than in the last moments of his life, I believe…
“I think as creators, it is important to decide how we deal with our trauma. The story of our trauma is very important. So I think this movie allows us to control our narrative and the story we tell. Our history, our story Pain, our body.”
For him, the seeds of these ideas are what he hopes to take away from the movie and the dialogue about what will happen next.
Those about Candy man It is what he is most interested in right now, he said, rather than trying to start a franchise and let the story develop.
He added: “I am more interested in this moment and let the conversation continue. This is what I am interested in now, you know, let the movie be released first and let the movie do what it wants to do.
“Then become part of letting Candyman live his own life outside of the theater, outside of myself and our creative team, to be the one who controls the narrative. I think this is more interesting to me, when Candyman is living his own life , Please see the dialogue.”
Candyman will be in theaters on August 27
