These characters are our guides through a dark world unfamiliar to most of us but somehow relatable as well. She bleeds with empathy for Henry and falls in love with this man she sees as her protector, particularly from her depraved brother, Otis. Where Henry and Otis have no issues with eviscerating humans, Becky is disgusted by cleaning a fish. She is the warm, beating heart of the film and the character we can most relate to. The real humanity of the film comes from Becky. Even though we know how dangerous Henry is, Otis is far more despicable, making Henry appear almost restrained or even noble by comparison. The movie plays quite a trick with the introduction of Otis. Henry of the film is at turns hideous and heroic, repellant and magnetic, terrifying and strangely likeable. Though named after real people, the characters of Henry ( Michael Rooker), Otis ( Tom Towles), and Becky ( Tracy Arnold) only tangentially resemble their real-life counterparts Henry Lee Lucas, Otis Toole, and Becky Powell. And then there is Otis’s claim that Henry killed her with a baseball bat. First, he says he stabbed her, then he says he shot her. The inconsistencies in Lucas’s confessions are even reflected in the film, particularly in his recollections to Becky of killing his mother. Eventually Lucas confessed to killing 360 (sometimes he claimed 600) people over the course of eight years and “in every way there is except poison.” He confessed to so many murders that he became known as “The Confession Killer.” In the years since Henry was made, serious doubts have arisen over the validity of his claims, but at the time the film was being conceived and produced, they were widely accepted as true.
28 days later movie zombie trial#
At his trial he claimed to have killed 100 more. The film is loosely based on the confessions of Henry Lee Lucas, a drifter arrested in 1983 for the murder of a young woman. It allows us to do all those things for ourselves. Henry is exactly as its title suggests: a portrait. Its vivid characterizations combined with stark, unadorned images remind us that somewhere, people like Henry really exist and the things we are witnessing really happen. In it we see the random nature of life and death as its principal characters wander and roam through the world, and what happens when they collide with strangers and each other. It is about chaos and death, but also about deep sadness, disconnection, and even love. It is a film about reality-truths that are in some ways distant, but in others deeply relatable.
28 days later movie zombie serial#
The thirty-five years that have passed since its premiere at the Chicago International Film Festival in October of 1986 have done nothing to diminish the impact of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. We’ll just be here waiting patiently for 2030/2035. I think the takeaway here is that Boyle sounds committed to (eventually) bringing the trilogy to an end one way or another.
Although, Garland has been on fire lately, so the idea that he’s going to buckle down to finish writing another 28 Days Later is proper insane. Boyle could have easily said the project is never happening, but insisted that there’s a good idea that he and Garland have been developing.
It’s been four years since the last time there’s been talk. He added: “It’s more likely to be 28 Months than 28 Years. There’s a whole bunch of reasons why it’s complicated, which are boring so I won’t go into, but there’s a possibility.” Danny and Andrew and I have been having quite serious conversations about it so it is a possibility. In 2015, Garland told IGN that they had “just started talking about it seriously.” He’s concentrating on directing his own work at the moment, so it’s stood in abeyance really, but it’s a you-never-know.” He continued: “The original film led to a bit of a resurgence in the zombie drama and it doesn’t reference any of that. “Alex Garland and I have a wonderful idea for the third part,” he told the site. Now, Boyle is reviving chatter in a new interview with The Independent where he revealed that he’s still working on the sequel with Ex Machina filmmaker Alex Garland, who wrote the 2002 original. Set to be called 28 Months/Years Later, the project has been defunct for quite some time. While the filmmaker wouldn’t return for the sequel, he is involved with the long-gestating third film four years ago, Boyle said he’d be interested in returning to the director’s chair. It’s already been 12 years since Fox Atomic released 28 Weeks Later, the hotly anticipated follow-up to Danny Boyle‘s 28 Days Later.
0 kommentar(er)
