And for everyone saying the mask is essentially his real face for them…the mask (of course has become iconic in it’s own right) was just a tool. A disquise. It wasn’t meant to be that important. In reality it was just a matter of convenience for him at the time just like the knife and the rope. His real face is what needs to be seen. No more mask, however blasphemous that may sound
Not trying to be confrontational but this is a mask collection community that has been here probably longer than you’ve been alive. These posts just seem like trolling and probably won’t be very welcome no matter how long you may stay here. You may try to come across deep and analytical of this franchise but it’s a hard sell to these guys that Michael Myers shouldn’t have a mask.
I love the masks. I have several myself. Just thought it might be interesting to see some differing opinions about the new movie and character. All opinions welcome
After talking with very reliable sources who worked on set, Michael also suffers with health issues and is on blood thinner medication because of a cardiovascular infraction.
Agreed. I’ve thought of him having almost “Rorschach” levels association with his mask. For anybody unfamiliar, the Watchman character Rorschach constantly wears a sack over his face that depicts his moods. I’ve thought of Michael being similar, where he feels like the mask, for a lack of a better phrase, hides his ugliness and holds together his rage. I may be influenced by the RZ movies here, but I remember reading a fan theory a few years back about how in RZH2, the more of Michael’s face becomes exposed through his mask, the more brutal and less coordinated his kills become. I really like the idea, and the idea that he thinks of the mask as his true face because it hides everything ugly that really is him. The mask is a salve that physically represents Michael’s introversion into himself. Michael is so introverted that there’s nothing truly “human” there. It’s just a husk of something that may have been human at one time, but now is powered by pure evil.
I can see that. But my argument is, there weren’t many mask choices available on the spur of the moment. Therefore it could have been any mask. My argument is that it doesn’t necessarily have to be a white painted Shatner mask. As much as I hate the RZ Halloweens, I think he did get the point that he wanted to hide his true self with the use of a mask. But it could be any mask I don’t think HE has an attachment to THAT particular mask as we feel he does. WE love that mask, I’m just saying the Shatner mask has no meaning to MM. I just feel that the movies put too much into his Shatner mask. We would revolt, though, (me included) if he wore something else. So it’s just a conundrum. It just makes it harder to advance the film’s when we’re tied to such “have tos”. Imagine Michael killing in shorts and a T-shirt lol
Humanizing The Shape/Michael is always the worst aspect of the series. Stuff like this, like the end of H:20 the tear scene in part 5, the sister motivation, it’s anti-Halloween to me.
Equating someone that played him 40 years ago with the character isn’t mic drop material. That’d be like saying Roman Paloanski’s character in The Vampire Killers is a pedophile because Polanski is.
While we are at it, maybe he should have just remained a child, 40 years later, because aging is too humanizing apparently. There needs to be some realistic aspects to Michael. It is what keeps the mystery alive.