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Why doesn't Chucky use his..

posted 11 years ago by avortac
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(I am using these 'cliffhanger'-topics sometimes, but dang, I feel DIRTY for doing it..)

Ok, so Chucky doesn't require ..

- lungs for speech
- organs for energy and blood movement and processing
- brains for thinking and operating the doll
- bones to keep the doll erect and walking
- muscles to move and utilize said bones
- etc.

.. so what is he using for movement, speech and so on? What power?

Let's say it's some sort of telekinetic voodoo soul power. Ok. Shouldn't that be extremely exhausting to keep doing all the time? Does he need sleep? Where does he suddenly get all that energy?

But if he can use such energy and has so much of it, then why doesn't he..

- use it in the gunfight in the beginning, to grab the cop's gun, confuse the cop, shield himself from the cop's bullets, make himself invisible, teleport elsewhere, or simply push the cop away or make objects fall on the cop?

- use it like 'telekinesis', when he is inside the doll - does his power somehow get localized and work only around the doll? I mean, if he can move a non-muscled, non-boned doll limbs, why can't he just move the whole doll and throw it around or make it levitate/fly? (Heck, moving the legs and hands is pretty much the same thing, when it happens without muscles) Why doesn't he control other objects or people telekinetically?

Btw, when it's clear that there are no vocal chords involved in forming the speech, why does he need to move the doll's "lips" in order to speak anyway? Wouldn't that go against the explanation that the voice comes directly 'from his soul' somehow?

This movie makes no sense.

[–] Tresix 11 years ago

You're kind of overthinking this. Some movies like this basically say that if you can believe that a man can transfer his soul into a doll to begin with, logic doesn't totally play in this world. Yes, there may be certain rules in the horror genre, but, for the most part, if you can accept, say, a vampire being able to exist, drink blood, but not have to urinate from all of the liquid in his body, then a man's soul in a doll making it move should be as equally believable.

"There will be blood. Oh, yes! There will be blood."-Jigsaw; "Saw II"

[–] KingCobra686 9 years ago

Well, he's used to moving like a normal man. If it takes a lot of energy to make the doll move, it might be more efficient for him to make it do so in ways that are familiar.

There were a couple times when he moved unnaturally, like when the mom dropped him and he rolled under the couch. Maybe he was moving telekinetically in that situation at least a little?

[–] houstonhacker 8 years ago

I was able to ask the director of this film that very question. He said the reason was because Chucky had...

[–] astridm1990 8 years ago

Aw come on, you don't finish your sentence? Don't know how to put a spoiler or why does your sentence cut off after Chucky had...?

[–] Strannger (2007) 8 years ago

Chunky was a supernatural character who became human the longer he stayed in a body. After a while he was set.

[–] Starduster (268) 6 years ago

Your last line says it all....,
This movie makes no sense!
BUT.... the movie "works" for the following reason...
We (as viewers) must put ourselves in the position of a small child and try to explain what Chucky is and why he is "ALIVE" and dangerous.

WARNING! What follows contains spoilers and plot points from Childs Play 1, 2 and 3

WE, as rational people, cant explain ANY of this. So imagine ourselves as Andy, trying to explain it.
WE CANT !
So HERE lies the complete and total frustration of our attempts (as a young child).
WHO is going to believe us.
By the end of the movie, 2 adults also know what is going on (sort of).
One of them, the cop, has to keep his mouth shut. Andy's mother is put in a psychiatric, facility and loses custody of Andy. Andy undergoes his own "therapy" even though he is not crazy. These are actually things we learn from the second movie.

The second movie goes WAY BEYOND absurd, in inconsistencies of ANY sort of logic.
The ONLY consistency is WE, the viewers, must again "become" Andy and try to exist in a world that makes no sense at all, but constantly poses a danger to US and those around us. We are powerless to do anything to explain it or stop it.

So as you can see, ANDY, is the key to making this movie "work" at ANY level.
WE must "BECOME" Andy by putting ourselves in his situation.

I have long admired the Performance of Alex Vincent (as Andy) for drawing us in to his "world" and making US live his nightmare life. If we cant or dont do that, the movie is meaningless.
As far as I am concerned, once Andy was removed from the picture, the movie series became meaningless anyway. I wish we could have kept Alex Vincent into the third installment. I really liked his performances.

As it was, the third became TOO illogical at all levels.
A whole group of teems in a military school saw Chucky for what he was, and were holding rifles with live rounds of ammunition and DIDNT blow Chucky to smithereens.
How's THAT for illogic !