The Good and The Bad - The Downside of The Schwartz
We often find our wires crossed when taking cues from the national media: The good inverted for the bad and the evil for the anodyne and innocent. As the keenly observant Vox Day points out, we may have done so unwittingly to our friendly neighborhood anti-pedophile enforcement technician, Mike Myers:
"It turns out that “Jamie Lee Curtis” (real name: Jamie Lee Schwartz) was actually the evil monster in Halloween."
Myers of the cult Halloween horror classic films, was a large, masked, robust, knife-wielding maniac who terrorized the town of Haddonfield, Illinois, though the feature was in actuality and through sleight-of-hand filmed in Los Angeles. In another typical switcheroo, Hollywood casts the young, yet oddly plain and long-headed, Schwartz as the English-American progeny Laurie Strode, a high school student stalked by an imposing unapologetic white male. One can read into the plot as they see fit, with his terrifying mask being literally that of a pale European man. The story belies the typical thrust of such flicks with its ostensible homage to the American serial killer trope, instead protraying boldly sinister propaganda of fear of one's neighbor, girl-power fem-machismo, and the imagined dangers of middle-America behind the thin veneer of the placid 1970s suburb.
Schwartz now outing herself as a fan of graphic depictions of child sexual violence with her sickening home decor choices, Myers is perhaps put under a new and more flattering light. And as one reads through interviews with Curtis where she insists that Halloween was a feminist production, and pontificates with mock-purity about "abuse," one can't help wonder how such a saint can meander thoughtlessly, as she apparently does daily, past a painting of a dead naked child in a box hanging in her game room. By her reasoning, such gore and violence frees the common kept woman from boredom, and what more could one trapped by traditionalism and a healthy family wish for?
"Audiences could recognize themselves in this dreamy, smart, girl. And in her, they would see themselves and they would see a life played out kind of boringly, so you could inject this terrible horror of this pure evil creature [into this “boring” life.]"
"Boring" indeed. With our wires thoroughly tangled into a Gordian rat's nest we may very sincerely wish to be axe-murdered to break the oppressive monotony of abundance and peace. In upside down world, everything is topsy-turvy and backward and the unacceptable becomes the style du jour. Afterall, what else accents beautiful mid-century modern furnishings as perfectly as child sexploitation "art," a twisted Schwartz might imagine.
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