Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-2175012-20160323030814/@comment-2175012-20160404040409

For my candidates that I did like to an extent:

1) Aunt Ruth Chandler: Mostly, this is due to Blanche Baker's portrayal of Ruth in the film. At first, Ruth was one of my least favorite proposals (mostly because I was still practicing with typing up effort posts, and I could've given a more in-depth explanation to her character), but I found her to be one of my favorites, especially when compared to Cleek. I mean, seriously, The Woman came out in 2006, while The Girl Next Door was published back in 1986, and yet I was unimpressed by Ketchum's more current book. Back to what I mentioned earlier, Baker does a very good job at playing an utterly despicable woman. One of the reasons as to why I disliked Cleek was because of the whole "nice guy turns out to be screwed up," cliche; with, Ruth, however, I actually did buy her descent into madness. I just thought that she was actually somewhat complex. While the film/book is about a young girl being tortured by her aunt and her children, it is also about David mourning over the fact that he didn't do anything to save Meg, and when he tried to do something, it was too late. After all, what could he do? He was a kid, who would've believed him? What's somewhat funny is that most of the readers actually hated David more than Ruth, citing him as not doing anything for Meg when she was still alive, to the point that you could argue that they were draco in leather pantsing Ruth.

2) The Phantom: So, I was somewhat hesitant on proposing Erik, because I know that it sounds kind of ridiculous to think that a version of the Phantom could qualify for the trope. Would it be crazy to say that I decided to proposed 1989!Erik after watching the Nostalgia Critic review The Phantom of the Opera? Well, he actually didn't cover the 1989 horror film, but I digress. This Erik is less the Phantom and more Freddy Krueger in the way he behaves. He's charismatic, yet murderous, and he would stop at nothing to make Christine his. Now, as I mentioned there was the scene regarding him crying a single tear when he watches Christine perform his music, but this scene doesn't mean much, since he sleeps with a prostitute shortly after the performance, among other things. That scene could be interpreted any way; in this case, the single tear only seems to accentuate his obsession with the young woman. The film very obviously tries to cash in on the slasher craze, but despite that, I did actually enjoy watching it.