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What was with the weird little kid who wanted to be a dancer?


His dads taking him i guess on a hunting trip and he's in there complaining to him "Dad i don't like hunting, i wanna dance" wtf was that? lol such an odd thing to write in the script this little kid wanting to be a dancer instead of hunting.

And what was that voice? sounded like the kid had been smoking for 30 years.

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I think it was meant to be a joke reference to the movie Billy Elliot 😉 Just thrown in there for fun. As for his voice, yes it was quite grating. Poor baby. I was so sad to see what happened to him though 😢

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In the liberal mind this scenario is much more commonplace than a father simply taking his son "who is into male activities" hunting.

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Is wanting to go to a dance class instead hunting that weird?

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Yeah it is, its just such an odd thing to write in the script that a little boy wants to go dance instead of hunt. What part did that really play in the movie? would the scene have went any different if the kid was happy about going hunting? It just felt like a weird unnecessary thing to put in the movie.

I'm not saying all little boys should want to go hunting but having the kid wanting to go and dance instead was weird. How many little boys are into dancing? i mean really.

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What's your demographic?

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This scene definitely seems out of place and unneeded. The dialogue is unnecessary too. I don’t care if he’s talking about dance class or karate. Why do we need to know so much about a character who dies so early in the movie?

As for the voice he sounds like a kid with allergies and/or asthma which I guess makes him more vulnerable

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I think it was good to hear alittle backstory and some dialogue because it adds to the uncertainty of whether these characters will play a larger role or die in the next two minutes. This movie had me guessing in many scenes wondering who would survive.

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This scene, along with the weird bonnie and clyde switch-up cross-dressing was out of place. I was thinking they purposefully wanted to show that "kids these days" are more "woke" and "tolerant". Luckily theres many other scenes that showed regular people behaving normal.

A boy could be into a dance class sure, but it was certainly less believable than the kid saying "I love you Dad and I enjoy hunting, but I am missing the new episode of my favorite show on TV tonight"

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Looks like we got a reason, I found this in the trivia section on IMDb:

"Right before the father (Brien Gregorie) and son (Vince Mattis) find the crashed bus and escaped Smith's Grove patients, the son is telling his father about how much he enjoys his dance classes. Prior to his involvement on Halloween (2018), director David Gordon Green spent almost a decade working on a re-imagining of Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977), about the horrors going on inside a revered dance academy, eventually leaving the project due to budgetary restraints and legal concerns. An updated Suspiria (2018) was eventually made - directed by Luca Guadagnino, who'd personally hired Green to direct the film first when he was working on it as a producer - and released a week after "Halloween".

So the boys dialogue is a reference to another horror film that the director was involved in, loosely linking up these two movies I reckon.

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It was part of the not-that-subliminal woke programming inserted into films these days. Young boy who wants to dance instead of hunt, cross-dressing lead couple, bro dude kisses his friend’s head (!?), 5 year old with a porn search history (🤢), lame dad who can’t handle a gun contrasted with his badass wife, daughter and mother-in-law.

In fact the only strong man was, of course… the evil villain.

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