Representations In Child's Play 2

Representations In A Horror Movie

Child’s Play 2

First scene with Chucky’s eye being gorged out after he’s been burnt - I think this represents violence and was done to reflect on all of the violence an pain that Chucky has caused. As his eye is being gorged out, his face looks angry and annoyed, representing his evil character and how he’s out to look for revenge. There is a camera angle owner of the Good Boy’s company that produces the dolls and the angle is of his car in front of New York sky scrapers. It’s a low angle shot and I think that this represents the power of the company but more importantly Chucky and how he’s going to come back and haunt Andy, after all there wouldn’t be a film if he didn’t.

The next shot is of the burnt material being scraped off the doll on the burnt corpse of Chucky. I think this was done to represent more violence and it may give the viewing audience pleasure to see Chucky being hurt without him being able to do anything. Also, the tool being used to do this is a scalpel which is obviously a very dangerous weapon and this could possibly represent one of the weapons that Chucky could use. As the doll is being repaired and the face is put on, the doll looks happy and this could be representing irony as in fact the person who’s soul is inside the doll is far from happy, he’s an angry serial killer that’s desperate to get out from the doll’s body.

There’s a shot of a Good Guys doll on a billboard outside of the factory that the dolls are being produced in and the billboard is moving; the dolls arm is waving could be used for humour and representing the fact that one of the dolls really is alive, even if on the billboard it’s only moving for advertising purposes. The man in the car from the first scene arrives at the factory and as soon as they pull in, another man runs to the long car with blacked out windows and opens the door for him, this connotes that the man is of some importance and makes the audience worry about him as it will be him that undoubtedly makes the decision that puts Andy Barclay in a troublesome situation with Chucky.

A man is talking to the man that seems of high importance and he says that a one of the workers is a bit of a joker and tampered with one of the dolls devices to make it say ‘I’m Chucky and i’m going to kill you.’ This represents Chucky being alive and it’s narrative enigma in order to tell the audience that Chucky is alive and will be coming back. Six minutes into the film, the doll that was supposedly tampered is having the eyes put into it using a manufacturing machine as they are testing it to see how it was made to speak differently to the other dolls and as the machine is about to place the eyes in...the machine stops representing the power of Chucky. Once the machine works again, it puts the eyes into the doll and then stops once again, electricity flows through the machine causing lightning bolts and killing the worker, representing the re-birth of Chucky.