Word: candyman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Giggles at 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30 and 9:50 p.m. Night and the City at 12:50, 3:05, 5:15, 7:40 and 10 p.m. Sneakers at 12:30, 2:55, 5:15, 7:45 and 10:15 p.m. Candyman at 12:45, 2:55, 5, 7:25 and 9:45 p.m. Consenting Adults at 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:50 and 10:05 p.m. Under Siege at 12:55, 3, 5:05, 7:20 and 9:45 p.m. Hero at 12:35, 3, 5:20, 7:55 and 10:15 p.m. Mighty Ducks...
Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the movie is its treatment of interracial relationships. Candyman was killed because he violated the taboos of a racist society. But even in 1992 he has problems wooing Helen. In the final moments of the movie, Candyman offers Helen the prospect of immortal partnership with him and a baby he kidnapped from the projects...
...this interracial family (from hell) is not to be. Helen kills Candyman and takes over for him as number one hook-wielding psychopath. The spirit of Candyman lives on, but in a lily white--albeit burnt--body. Racial integration is possible on a very limited scale. Whites can integrate Black culture but cannot mingle with Blacks...
...early American drama and frontier fiction, a mythical American spirit embodied by an Indian hero lives on through white people even though the hero dies. "American" culture is transferred to Europeans without the threat of intermarriage. In a retelling of this story--a Black replaces the Indian figure--Candyman accepts its own problematic version of Black culture as American, but this American spirit survives only in a middle-class white body...
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