“Are they keeping us safe,” William asks, “or keeping us in?” Alluding to the press Helen Lyle received while numerous Black victims of Candyman remain unknown, William says “one White woman dies and the story lives forever.” This dovetails nicely with the Candyman legend-here’s an entity whose immortality can only be realized by having his name (and by extension, the memory of his tragedy) spoken into existence. He meets Anthony just after the latter hilariously jumps into the shadows to avoid a passing cop car. Their proxy is William ( Colman Domingo), an old-timer we first see as a child puppeteer in 1977.
LETHAL LEAGUE CANDYMAN QUOTES FREE
With Abdul-Mateen and Parris as the leads, the filmmakers are free to dig deeper into the legend and its parallels to the here and now. This idea was baked into the 1992 version’s tale of Daniel Robitaille ( Tony Todd), the original Candyman, but the focus was primarily on the White protagonist’s fate. That effective short highlighted one of the major themes DaCosta and her co-writers Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld put into their script: the endless cycle of violence perpetrated on Black bodies by White supremacy and the system it created. This sequence is done with the same type of shadow puppets used for “Candyman”’s teaser trailer. “This is too much, even for you,” says his husband, Grady ( Kyle Kaminsky) about the part featuring the decapitated Rottweiler.
It’s Troy who brings new viewers up to speed, spinning the first film’s tragic story for his captive audience after warning them that where they live is haunted.
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