There is a scene in the movie “Halloween Ends” where Jamie Lee Curtis (63) is particularly good at acting. Her character, Laurie Strode, meets an old friend who flirts with her while shopping. She leaves the supermarket with the smile of a girl who is happy with a balloon.
Outside, she is surprised by one of the few women who survived the attack by Michael Myers, the fictional serial killer of the “Halloween” series. On the annual Halloween night of October 31st, he prefers to kill with a large knife and wears a loose white mask. Strode is also, in his own words, one of the survivors of this “evil personification.”
His face collapses when he remembers Myers on stage. His eyes scream in despair, the lines around his mouth suddenly deepening as the grief he has to deal with the violent death of his daughter. Even the hair looks gray despite being dyed blonde for the movie.
The seventh “Halloween” movie he starred in
“Halloween Ends” will hit theaters on October 13. It is the seventh installment in the “Halloween” series starring Jamie Lee Curtis and the final film in the American director David Gordon Green’s (47, “Massive Talent”) trilogy. The trilogy follows director John Carpenter’s (74) first “Halloween” film in 1987.
Jamie Lee Curtis broke ground with his first “Halloween” movie. The 19-year-old daughter of Tony Curtis (1925-2010, “Some Like It Hot”) and Janet Leigh (1927-2004, “Psycho”) set new standards in the scream queens category with a panicked look. pure – so in horror movie jargon, these are the women who literally scream their hearts out in movie scenes. One of them – “The Last Girl” – usually narrowly escapes the murderer.
Fear turned into anger
Curtis said in a recent interview with the British newspaper The Guardian that she is now the “Last Granny”. The girl at that time became a woman of advanced age, whose role in life developed with her. Laurie Strode doesn’t yell as often on “Halloween Ends.” And when he does, it’s more out of anger than fear, she. Cheerful grandmother no longer wants to run away from her rival, who is still after her. She wants to kill him.
Whether it was successful – will not be described here. In any case, Curtis is almost certain to say goodbye to a role that fans of “sophisticated cinema” are always smiling about. “Halloween Ends” would undoubtedly be a worthy conclusion to the most successful horror movie franchise in cinematic history.
Many characters don’t live to see the second part
The movie starts with a shocking moment, but then it takes a long time to talk about the relationships between the protagonists and introduce new characters. Most of the unsympathetic among them do not live to see the second half of the story.
“Laurie Strode is a feminist heroine,” Curtis said in an interview with The Guardian. The superficial PR babble from some other Hollywood stars is believed by her she. She has always played women who have to survive in an environment consumed by toxic masculinity.
Teen cop falls in love with psycho broker
It is unforgettable how he posed as a nosy law student in the mock comedy “A Fish Named Wanda” (1988) to reveal confidential information from a nervous British lawyer (John Cleese, 82). Kevin Kline (74) plays the boyfriend and doesn’t need to make an effort to look as dumb as possible in front of his movie partner.
Or “True Lies” (1994) with Arnold Schwarzenegger (75): Curtis plays a housewife who is suddenly forced to prove herself as a spy. She acts as an escort and pours the water from the flower vase in front of her hotel room over her head to transform her plain hair into a wet look.
it can be funny too
Overall, Curtis manages to reinvent himself over and over. While most directors chose her for horror movies in the ’80s, she still manages to make a name for herself as one of the funniest women on screen. She also appears in psychological thrillers such as “Blue Steel” (1990) by director Kathryn Bigelow (70, “Zero Dark Thirty”). In it, Curtis plays a young New York cop who unknowingly falls in love with a psychotic serial killer posing as a Wall Street broker. She is a woman who has to prove herself in a man’s field in hard ways.
A year ago, the Venice Film Festival (I) jury awarded Curtis the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. This career wouldn’t have been possible without “Halloween” and Laurie Strode, Curtis wrote in the official statement.