After the release of the first Nightmare on Elm Street movie there was a plan for a prequel written by the guy who played Nancy’s father in the original. In the prequel the story would involve Nancy’s older sister Betsy running away to join a hippy commune in the 60’s and then returning after a few years. In the story Freddy was meant to be the therapist that treats Betsy after she returns home, only for her to end up being brutually murdered after a few months of her treatment. Freddy would’ve been the main suspect because of his sessions with Betsy, but he ends up getting burned alive by the parents of elm street in his own home before he can face trial. The twist would’ve been that Kruger was actually innocent, with Betsy being murdered by Charles Manson, the leader of the “hippie commune” she joined, for abandoning his family, and thus it set up Freddy’s motivation for the ensuing films being an act of hateful vengeance from beyond the grave.
It was actually considered for a while, but in the end they decided that it clashed with Wes Craven’s original idea to have Freddy simply be an irredeemable piece of shit from the start, and they realized that it would be hard to spin that angle into a franchise.
Edit to add: this idea was also briefly considered for the remake a few years ago, and you can actually see some traces of it in the first half of the movie, since its initially implied that Nancy and the other kids at the preschool made up he accusations and the story spiraled out of control until it resulted in Kruger getting lynched. But with everything in the shitty remake that had some potential the quickly abandoned it and went with “lol yea he totally did it. We got you didn’t we?”
Reading your post I was reminded of the remake and how the only interesting thing in it was the thread where Freddy might be innocent and was just a poor janitor. Getting lynched and burned alive by the parents and then disposed of instead of buried is a good hook for a dream demon.
Orion Pictures was founded by former United Artists executives; both of their film libraries are now owned by MGM.
United Artists went bust because of Heaven's Gate and the new creator/director driven idea in movie making where the studio provided the money and didn't meddle with the movie.
Where did the creator/director driven revolution come from? What made the studios get on board with that? Deer Hunter was a big part of it, it won Oscars and director/screenwriter had done his own thing wit it, so maybe it wasn't such a bad idea to let the director fulfill his original vision unhindered...
The director of Deer Hunter then started his next project, Heaven's Gate, and afterwards the studios put everyone on a precautionary leash.
Before a proper measuring system was conceived, people used to measure things in improvised units based on everyday items. For example, people would describe someone as “a chair and a half” tall, or say that a tree was about 25 rocks tall.
It wasn’t a particularly accurate or convenient system, but it is interesting to think about.
Speaking of units of measurement, it's a bit strange that there's an old-fashioned one still in use, exclusively used for horses: the "hand".
A hand is just four inches, so a 60" horse is 15 hands tall. But measurements that aren't divisible by four add the extra inches after a decimal, so you get like:
60" = 15 hands
61" = 15.1 hands
62" = 15.2 hands
63" = 15.3 hands
64" = 16 hands
Because 15.4 would equal 16, so you'd just jump to 16.
Imperial is still like that. An inch is a thumb, a foot is a foot, a fathom is from one hand to the other with outstretched arms, the speed knots is knots on a rope being pulled into the water from a moving ship(the faster the knots gets pulled, the faster the ship is moving), a yard is step and twenty stone is the average weight of a british woman.
It's not a dumb system like some say, it 's just old. Looking at it it makes sense in several different ways for different professions.
Inches can, just like anything else, be divided into halves and quarters and there are twelve inches in a foot. Twelve can be divided by 2(6"), 3(4"), 4(3") 6(2") and still return integers, very useful and very natural for carpenter math where dividing 1 decimeter into anything other than 2 or 5 returns something with decimals which in addition to being a slightly more complex numbers also complicates quickly jotting numbers down with a carpenters nub. Dividing inches themselves creates a friendly 1/4" or 1/6", easy to read and easy to write.
Adding and subtracting integers is also something people have an easier time getting their head around even though there should be no reason for them having trouble with decimals getting involved here and there, but that's partially a mental block. It can also be seen in old gamblers who can't do math for shit but if they encounter the same numbers and equations at a poker table they're suddenly super computers, it's applied math at that point instead of something purely abstract.
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