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post #151 of 156
10/1/10 at 10:55am
Let me ask you guys a question, re: LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (having not seen LET ME IN yet). The thematic idea of Oskar/Owen basically being the replacement "Renfield" for Eli/Abby is more of a suggestion in the film, but I'm not sure if it was the author's intention in the book. I seem to remember reading an interview somewhere where that aspect of their relationship had not occurred to him. I may be talking out my own ass about it, or remembering something wrongly. What's Lindqvist's take on that part of the relationship, if anyone knows?
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post #152 of 156
10/1/10 at 11:11am
Lindqvist did an interview over at AICN:

iNTERVIEW

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he Northlander: My first thought back then was, that you don’t know anything about him. It could be, that he’s been with Eli since he was very little.

JAL: ...and that’s almost implied in the film. The movie ends so that you almost believe that Oskar becomes a new Håkan.

The Northlander: Yeah so that was intended?

JAL: I think that Tomas deliberately left that open. But I know a lot of people recieve it as now Eli has gotten herself a new helper that’s going to follow [her]. That is NOT my version of the end. I’ve written a short epilogue to the epilogue, that is like my version which will come out in a few years. But it’s just 5-6 pages. Until then, Tomas version will reign. It’s a really good ending to the movie. It’s perfect. But it’s a different version from mine. It’s in the book a little bit, Eli picks up Håkan from the gutter when he’s grown up and filthy already.

The Northlander: But yet there are implications in the book, I feel, that you don’t really know if Eli is quite what she says she is, that maybe she... Maybe she’s using Oskar or maybe she isn’t. You don’t really know.

JAL: No. And that’s pretty good. I think it’s pretty good that it’s open like that. But right now, there is so much going on around the book... I like the open ending in the novel. But I would still at some point like to give it my much happier ending.
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post #153 of 156
10/1/10 at 11:15am
I'd read that ending, but I'm much happier with the ambiguity of the relationship. I hope Reeves doesn't play up either aspect too much.
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post #154 of 156
10/1/10 at 11:35am
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Someone could Argue that Nolan is wrong about his Inception ending?
Well he'd first have to come down on one side or the other, wouldn't he?

Plus I just don't see how you (universal you, not "you," Tati) can miss the fact that the film is meant to cause debate and wonder. It's meant to be open ended.

I just don't see what's to be "wrong" about unless he says one way or the other. And even then, unlike something such as Blade Runner, I think Inception does a far better job of staying open to interpretation. I think it's perfect in that way.
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post #155 of 156
10/1/10 at 11:38am
Also, I really like the slight vagueness to Let The Right One In.

It's haunting that Oskar is probably going to end up the new Haken. And terribly sad. But at the same time, maybe he's not? Maybe this time is different and there's some kind of "true" love to be shared there.

Or, maybe Eli turns him at Oskar's request which would be a bit of both happy and sad, depending on how you look at being a vampire vs. their situations.
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post #156 of 156
10/6/11 at 11:50pm


 

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And I wouldn't be surprised if part of him legitimately hates Halloween because it made him a Horror Guy, and he never particularly wanted to be a Horror Guy.
I think it made him a GENRE guy, and Carpenter 100% wanted to be a genre guy, but not just a ONE-GENRE guy. It's easy to think of him as a horror guy, but Escape From New York is not a horror film, nor is Big Trouble in Little China, or Elvis (a gig he got BECAUSE of Halloween!), or They Live, etc. They all exist, to varying degrees, in the realm of the fantastic, but through a "genre" prism, Carpenter's gotten to make nearly every kind of film he wanted. Halloween, as he freely admits, gave him a career. I think he's tired of being asked about it at this point, but without Halloween, he wouldn't have gotten to play Howard Hawks all through the 80s, and he knows it.EDIT: To bring it back on topic, I think Carpenter is less wrong about Halloween than most of its fans, and them being wrong about it is a big factor in his attitude toward it.

 

As far as I know, Halloween had nothing to do with Carpenter getting to direct Elvis.  He was already filming that miniseries before it was even released.  In fact, he's stated repeatedly that due to being busy with Elvis and Halloween having a soft opening, he actually thought it had been a box office misfire and that he would just have to try harder on the next one.  Unless the execs that OKed him to direct Elvis had seen early footage from Halloween, I think it is far more likely that he was hired because of his underseen (but highly praised) work on Assault.

 

I don't think Carpenter hates Halloween.  I do think he gets tired of talking about it and a few of his other projects (The Thing, AOP13, EFNY, etc.) though.  That and he's a cynical smart-ass (something I kinda love about him), so he's rarely being serious when he makes disparaging remarks about said films.

 

 

As a massive Carpenter fan, I can really only think of two opinions that the man has that I completely disagree with.......

 

1. He thinks that Escape From LA is a far better film than Escape From New York.  No John, it isn't.

2. That Christine is one of his worst films.  He almost always puts that one down whenever it is actually mentioned, passing it off as a crappy work-for-hire project that he took after The Thing tanked and he was booted off of Firestarter.  Is it a classic, John?  No, but it is still a damn good film and certainly not a blight on your career as a whole or your "golden age" (1976-1988).

 

 

 

By the way, it seems John might FINALLY get to make a Western in the near future.  It'll have a gothic horror flavor to it (with cannibals!), but it will be an actual period Western nonetheless!  I hope you get to do it, John!

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