"Why did they put pyramid head in the movie?".
Now before I go on, I have searched for topic about this and I didn't find any discussions about the role of Pyramid head in the movie. The one topic I found through the silent hill quickling thread had been closed. I'm not sure why yet, so I apologize if i'm mistaken about that.
Lets keep it civilized and mature.
Warning, what I'm about to read is my understanding of the subject, I don't claim everything I write to be perfectl and bulletproof. I apologize in advance for the spelling, this is a big post and I'm a bit too tired to re-read it all right away.
First, we analyze pyramid head from the game *Spolier alert*
Pyramid head/Red pyramid thing/Red pyramid.
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Pyramid head appears in Silent Hill 2 as a monster, he's the monster that poses the big threat to James as he is invulnerable to any attacks till the double PH scene where James makes them vulnerable to his attacks.
Pyramid head is probably the most like Silent Hill monster and he serves also as an identification to the franchise, as he is an unique creation which is also full of symbolisms and themes.
Now, in the game he is created by James subconsciously through Silent Hill as a Punnisher but also as a victim. James doesn't realise that he killed Mary, but he still knows in his subconsciense that he did it, and therefore wants to be punnished. Which is why the two Red pyramids kill themselves after James realises and accepts it. Why two pyramid heads appear I have no clue, it could be that after James knows what he did, he takes it harder on himself and therefore magnifying the purpose of the Red pyramid head. But I don't know, so this is just a theory.
We also learn that Maria is created as a reflection of Mary, she looks pretty much like Mary but she dresses and acts diferently. She also seems to know things that Mary and James did together, like that they made a videotape in Lakeview hotel. The point is, James builds up care for Maria. And just when he starts to care enough for her, Pyramid Head slays her more than once. Pyramid head wants to make James remember what he did through the symbolic acts.
Thus failing to make him remember once, he does it more. We also see the scene where Maria is dead in a bed, which reminds of Mary being dead in a bed... I'm not too sure if Pyramid head did this as I don't remember the action being implied.
Another thing to note, is the pyramid on his head. Why is there a pyramid on his head? Well most people come to the conclusion that the pyramid represents the situation and love triangle among Mery, Maria and James. Again comming back to James.
Pyramid head is a male and he carries a heavy byrden in the form of Big Sword which is a symbol reflecting to ANgelas knife. Which could relate back to James and his subconsciense carrying a heavy byrden, as once he uncovers the true, the knife is gone. But as we know, the great knife is also related to Angela, so that's another theory.
So, Pyramid head reminds James and us players of James killing Mary, he does it through the killing the symbolic alternate version of Mary (Maria), the shape of his head, and the journey that James travells through. Thus Pyramid head becomes a perfect symbolic and unique monster, which should only be personal to James.
Pyramid head is probably the most like Silent Hill monster and he serves also as an identification to the franchise, as he is an unique creation which is also full of symbolisms and themes.
Now, in the game he is created by James subconsciously through Silent Hill as a Punnisher but also as a victim. James doesn't realise that he killed Mary, but he still knows in his subconsciense that he did it, and therefore wants to be punnished. Which is why the two Red pyramids kill themselves after James realises and accepts it. Why two pyramid heads appear I have no clue, it could be that after James knows what he did, he takes it harder on himself and therefore magnifying the purpose of the Red pyramid head. But I don't know, so this is just a theory.
We also learn that Maria is created as a reflection of Mary, she looks pretty much like Mary but she dresses and acts diferently. She also seems to know things that Mary and James did together, like that they made a videotape in Lakeview hotel. The point is, James builds up care for Maria. And just when he starts to care enough for her, Pyramid Head slays her more than once. Pyramid head wants to make James remember what he did through the symbolic acts.
Thus failing to make him remember once, he does it more. We also see the scene where Maria is dead in a bed, which reminds of Mary being dead in a bed... I'm not too sure if Pyramid head did this as I don't remember the action being implied.
Another thing to note, is the pyramid on his head. Why is there a pyramid on his head? Well most people come to the conclusion that the pyramid represents the situation and love triangle among Mery, Maria and James. Again comming back to James.
Pyramid head is a male and he carries a heavy byrden in the form of Big Sword which is a symbol reflecting to ANgelas knife. Which could relate back to James and his subconsciense carrying a heavy byrden, as once he uncovers the true, the knife is gone. But as we know, the great knife is also related to Angela, so that's another theory.
So, Pyramid head reminds James and us players of James killing Mary, he does it through the killing the symbolic alternate version of Mary (Maria), the shape of his head, and the journey that James travells through. Thus Pyramid head becomes a perfect symbolic and unique monster, which should only be personal to James.
First we need to ask ourselves, is this the same pyramid head?
If you ask me they seemed very diferent in many ways, dessign and acting. I thought that the movie version gave more the inpression of being a monster.
What's diferent?
We do notice that the pyramid head from the game and the movie are diferent. First, the shape of the pyramid on his head was changed and so where the details. His knife and robe has also changed, you can notice change son the blade, and you can notice that both the color shape and covering area of the robe, appron, whatever covers diferent areas. In the movie, it goes from the waist and down, not showing the shoes, and somehow showing his ass.. but nevermind that.
He does also not wear gloves in the movie.
If we look closely we also notice that the pyramid head in the movie is taller and more loaded with muscles. We don't see him beeing sexually raping in the movie, that scene with Anna is only the raping in form of violence.
What remains the same?
He is violent and serves as a punnisher and victim, perhaps even a bit more violent than in the game. Then there's the weapon of choice, him beeing a monster in the exact same position and the general apperience.
This was all I could figure, it is normal that from game to movie things can't be exactly allike. They have to update and apply changes according to the artistic point of the view and will of the artist. In this case being Christophe Gans, because the movie is a separate thing from the game, it's more like an interpretation. I didn't think that the movie was bad, in fact I loved it and I think that Christophe Gans is a wonderfull artist, and he managed to give us an experience which the general public and fans had never experienced, not even close. The fans having played the game and recognized a lot of it, I still think this was a completely new experience.
That's why I decided to believ that he was not just misusing our belloved Pyramid Head.
Now lets analyze the pyramid head from the movie.
In the movie, PH is summoned by Alessa and also seems to be summonable by her mother. But only follows Alessas will. But what happened to the symbolism behind the monster?
The impression I was given was that the monster could reflect the symbol of Alessa's father as it is a male, we never get to meet her father. Another theory is that it could represent the janitor in the school before Alessa became a demon, as we are hinted that the janitor molested her, so that could be the manifestation of the janitor. A raping male.
To me it just seemed like the movie needed an icon, and the perfect icon was pyramid head, because of the popular choice among the fanbase and the themes. Not only that, but it seemed like they needed him to be a strong icon too, a servant and a big mofo. Which seems to be outdone by Alessa at the end with the wirefest. Before that, he seemed to give the impression of being the punnisher, rather than the horrorific molesting minions. But that allone didn't make much sense, they could have chosen any other popular monster that didn't involve so much symbolic connections. I really
I really did not understand the part where Christophe said that he wanted to put 6 PHs in the end instead of Alessa with the wires. I don't see how this could havecontributed to the film, but I can't really judge it till I see what he was trying to put together.
What I managed to put together
So the conclussion here is that I came to at a certain point was that the Pyramid head could be iconic after all. As we never get to know who was her father, I don't think she ever got to either.
I think that the pyramid on the head of the male, represented a manifestation of her father with an unknown face hence having him to wear the pyramid shaped mask/helmet. And the rest of the figure just serving the purpose of being recognizable from the fanbase and working as a strong blueprint for the identity of Silent Hill.
But as said this is only what I have managed to put together with my mind, I would like to know what you guys think about this subject, either in favor of this conclussion or sharing your own.
I think this is a much better sticky than your previous one.
