According to Jamie Lee Curtis, the original "Halloween" was not a feminist film

You do not have to be a big fan of horror film to know the trope of the "last girl" – you know, when a woman (typically young and virgin) stays last after that a murderer kills everyone around her. We've seen it in movies ranging from Yell at Extraterrestrial at Friday 13, but many argue that Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) was one of the first "finalists" in 1978 Halloween. For decades, critics and fans have been discussing the film's message about women's empowerment and praising Laurie's character as a feminist heroine – but when I'm chatting with Curtis on a recent day in September she tells me that we are all mistaken.

"The film created 1000 PHD, but … in retrospect, I know it was not intended here.This was not a feminist statement.This had nothing to to see with the fact that promiscuous girls died and the virgin lived, none that, "says Curtis. "Many people say that the intention was something else, and I will tell you that was not the case."

The lyrics of the actor could shock some, considering everything that has been written, as Curtis notes, about the supposedly open feminism of Halloween and its several suites. But she is adamant that even if people take what they want out of cinema, Laurie was written in a simple way, which, at least in the original movie, had nothing to do with her sex.

"It was an emotional journey in which a very vulnerable girl was chosen as the central point of this story, where this vulnerable creature was in conflict with pure evil, and she was a bit of the archetype of this vulnerable young dreamer," explains Curtis. "I do not think an intellectual analysis is attached to it."

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That said, the last installment of the franchise East intentionally feminist, which no one disputes. Halloween, released October 19, is a direct sequel to the 1978 film, starring Laurie, the Curtis star, 40 years after surviving Michael Myers' murderous madness. Still suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder ("it was a very honest way of talking about 40 years of trauma," Curtis explains about the scenario), Laurie has had a difficult relationship with her daughter Karen (Judy Greer) and her daughter. teenage granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) – but the trio unites when Michael escapes from a psychiatric institution to hunt down Laurie again. Yet unlike the first movie, Laurie is not a helpless victim here; She spent years training physically and mentally for a confrontation with Michael, and equipped Karen and Allyson to do the same.

For Curtis, playing Laurie at these different stages of his life has been an emotional journey and, although the personality of the character has changed over the last 40 years, the actor's feelings towards him have not not changed. "[JepenseàLaurieavecbeaucoupd'Love"expliqueCurtis"Mercibeaucouppoursarésiliencesaforceetlefaitquej'aipureprésenterunefemmeintelligentearticuléeJeluiensuisreconnaissanteetbiensûrjel'aimeetjel'aitoujours"[IthinkofLauriewithalotoflove"explainsCurtis"AlotofgratitudeforherresilienceandherstrengthandthefactthatIgottoportrayareallysmartarticulatewomanI'mgratefultoherandofcourseIloveherandalwayshaveandalwayswill"[JepenseàLaurieavecbeaucoupd'amour”expliqueCurtis”Mercibeaucouppoursarésiliencesaforceetlefaitquej'aipureprésenterunefemmeintelligentearticuléeJeluiensuisreconnaissanteetbiensûrjel’aimeetjel’aitoujours”[IthinkofLauriewithalotoflove”explainsCurtis”AlotofgratitudeforherresilienceandherstrengthandthefactthatIgottoportrayareallysmartarticulatewomanI’mgratefultoherandofcourseIloveherandalwayshaveandalwayswill”

In 2017, Halloween Co-author Danny McBride told Yahoo Movies that he and director David Gordon Green had started working on the screenplay without knowing if Curtis would be ready to take over his iconic character. But of course, they longed for the actor to come back into the role – so they worked to make Laurie Strode's character really something she could not say no, turning her into a complex and captivating human being. . Obviously, their efforts worked, but when I tell Curtis this story, she just laughs.

"Well, it looks like bull," she says. What Actually The first time the film, Allison, looking for spare clothes, rushed to her room and opened the door of the same closet – with this bare bulb – as a terrified Laurie hidden in all those years.

"And that suits me," says Curtis. "Because I knew we were talking about a 40-year-old sequel, and the way they opened it was my granddaughter who was crossing Haddonfield and was going up to her room to change into her clothes." 39, school and open the cupboard door, which, 40 years ago, was squatting inside, with this bare bulb, which went on and then went off, then Michael Meyers had the knife and all That – I just thought it was such a clever way to put us back in the closet 40 years later. "

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Curtis has an obvious love for the franchise, but that does not mean that the actor is already thinking about playing the character again; although it has been reported that HalloweenThe writers of 'have ideas for a sequel (and the end of the movie actually leaves a lot of room for one), when I ask Curtis if she would like another movie, she explains that she is focusing on the present, like, the very present.

"Do you know what?" All I know is that I ate half a box of Peanut M & Ms during our conversation, and I'm happy to be in it. movie, "she says, no matter the facts. "Today, I'm in Austin, Texas, in a tower, I'm eating peanuts and I'm talking to you, I do not know what tomorrow will bring us back, I hope I will not have it." not a box of peanuts. "

Let Curtis keep things as pragmatic as possible, whether it's HalloweenThe message or its snack preferences for the next few days.