The Reason Why Silent Hill 2 Canceled

Exclusive: Silent Hill 2 Movie Is Cancelled?

Well those of you who had your hopes up for Silent Hill 2 it seems may not be rewarded. A source of ours wrote in this morning to tell us that plans for Silent Hill 2 have been cancelled.

The film was looking to shoot in Canada and there was even recent word from Radha Mitchell the star of the first one that she would be returning.

According to our source the film is dead in the water because it missed the window in which it was supposed to be shot. Our source also tells us that they were not going to go as dark with Silent Hill 2 and they wanted to cast more young hot looking people which on its own makes my stomach turn. I hate Gossip Girl Horror Movies as you all know. Substance people.. not eye candy.

According to our source Radha Mitchell was also not returning. Our source also goes on to say that although the film will not be shooting soon it will still very likely happen.

The Real of Silent Hill

The Real Silent Hill

Since the first Silent Hill game back in 1999, fans have wondered if the title town had a real-life counterpart. Is there a particular town that inspired the haunted wasteland we've come to know and fear in the games? There have been many speculations, and now here's a place you can actually visit... for REAL... In researching the different elements of Silent Hill, screenwriter Roger Avary (Killing Zoe, The Rules of Attraction) came across the town of Centralia, Pennsylvania (it's interesting that LA moviemakers look to the deep Midwest [or in this case, the eastern U.S. in Pennsylvania] when they're looking for something "strange" or "different"). Centralia planted the seed for what developed into the cinematic version of the town of Silent Hill. As recently as 1981, there were over 1,000 residents living in Centralia, although the population has now dwindled to 11 (we'll say that again: 11 people) as a result of a 40-year mine fire burning beneath the borough (we'll say that again: it's been burning for 40 years... underneath the town). This is certainly not unlike Silent Hill, which was left deserted since devastating coal fires ravaged the town and its people. The inferno started when a trash fire was lit in an abandoned mine pit in Centralia in 1962. The fire ignited an exposed vein of coal and spread throughout the mines beneath the borough. Several attempts have been made and millions of dollars have been spent unsuccessfully to extinguish this fire that still burns today. The "problem" wasn't really acknowledged until a series of accidents in the '70s and '80s, including the appearances of sinkholes hundreds of feet deep. In 1984, Congress allocated more than $40 million for relocation efforts, and most residents moved to nearby Mount Carmel and Ashland. However, a very few families opted to stay, and they're still there, despite the fact that the state of Pennsylvania has condemned all the buildings in the borough and the US Postal Service has revoked its zip code of 17927. The 11 holdouts include the town's 89-year-old mayor, Lamar Mervine, who refuses to leave because "I like it here."

Centralia   then... ...Centralia now Photo courtesy of: Karl Xydexx Jorgensen

The Analysist Of Silent Hill's monsters

Silent Hill 2 Monsters Analysis

The monsters in Silent Hill 2 have a very specific origin, namely James Sunderland’s subconscious. Thus, understanding the monsters is more about understanding James Sunderland than the monsters individually. The main thing to understand is that James murdered his wife, Mary, because he was angry with her for stealing his vision of what the future would be by becoming terminally ill. This memory became buried in his subconscious, which results in the various creatures of Silent Hill manifesting themselves from his subconscious guilt and desires associated with this event.

Silent Hill 2 Monsters: Abstract Daddy

 

Abstract Daddy is manifested from Angela's experience with her father as she grew up, namely abusive experiences. Thus, it resembles a male figure leaning over a female one on a rectangle that represents a bed. This also represents oppressive masculinity and the manner in which James killed his wife, by smother her while she was on her death bed. Thus, it can be seen as having a double significance by representing James over his wife smothering her to death.

Silent Hill 2 Monsters: Bubble Head Nurse

The Bubble Head Nurse embodies a number of James feelings towards the death of his wife. Firstly, they represent his frustrated libido by having the nurses wear particularly short dresses and low necklines. Secondly, they represent his feelings of anger towards the hospital system and its perceived incompetence. As a result of this, the nurse is facing the wrong direction and is also literally a 'bubble head', a term used to describe someone who is whimsical and not particularly smart.

Silent Hill 2 Monsters: Creeper

 

 

Interestingly, the Creeper is a monster that appears in Silent Hill 1 but looks quite different in that game. Thus, it must be assumed that the Creeper of Silent Hill 2 is manifested from James Sunderland's mind and not the cities. As the Creeper appears when James retrieves flashlight batteries and activates his light, it can be assumed that they represent what is really 'bugging' James being illuminated temporarily. Thus, when James runs away and leaves the room he is actually running from the truth that scares him.

Silent Hill 2 Monsters: Eddie

At first it is made out that Eddie and James are similar in that they have both lost loved ones, but in truth the connection between the two is that Eddie has experienced oppressive masculinity from his father and James is associated with oppressive masculinity for killing his wife.

Silent Hill 2 Monsters: Flesh Lips

 

The Flesh Lips is another representation of Mary, this time the frame it floats around in represents a bed. It has a pair of lips at its base that is positioned between its two legs, which is a clear yonic symbolism. The reason the image is so distorted is because James refuses to see the truth clearly.

Silent Hill 2 Monsters: Lying Figure

 

 

The lying figure is a primarily feminine form and also the first monster James comes across in Silent Hill. It represents the anguish and suffering of his wife Mary during her final days, as well as his own during the period of the game. It appears to be bound in something resembling a straight jacket, which also serves as a symbol of how James cannot see the truth through his pain.

Silent Hill 2 Monsters: Mandarin

 

The Mandarin is a feminine monster with two arms and a mouth-like appendage at the end of the arms, a form of yonic symbolism. This monster also has a masculine counter-part in Silent Hill 3, called the closer. It does not stand above ground for a number of reasons. Firstly, the female body is associated with caves and holes beneath ground. Secondly, anything beneath ground is generally associated with something hidden in the subconscious, thus they represent the suppressed memory of James having murdered Mary.

Silent Hill 2 Monsters: Mannequin

 

The Mannequin represents James Sunderland's innate urges towards women and feminine figures. They are attacked by Pyramid Head to remind James of his true, oppressive nature in regards to his wife. Thus, when they are being attacked by Pyramid Head they are actually representing Mary.

Silent Hill 2 Monsters: Mary (End Boss)

 

Mary is the end boss of Silent Hill 2 as she represents the true issue that James came to Silent Hill to resolve. As a result, she rests on the frame of what would have been her deathbed. It is also of note that she is upside down, which represents the false perception that James’ had of her and her fate. In order to come to a psychological catharsis, James must kill the monstrous version of Mary in order to play out what he actually did.

Silent Hill 2 Monsters: Pyramid Head

 

Pyramid Head is comprised of a number of different images, all of which represent the concept of oppressive masculinity and subsequently James Sunderland’s shadow archetype. The Shadow Archetype is the negative and repressed aspect of every human being, of which James’ shadow archetype is pyramid head. In order to represent James’ shadow, pyramid Head draws on a number of concepts and imagery.

The first concept that the visage of pyramid head draws upon is that of an executioner. Executioners are almost always male and are generally associated with laws designed by males, thus they represent oppressive masculinity. Pyramid Head behaves much like an executioner, serving to punish those around it including James. It also looks like an executioner with its helm much akin to what executioners would wear in the town square. To add further to this, the executioner visage of Pyramid Head represents how James executed his wife.

The second manner in which Pyramid Head represents oppressive masculinity and James’ shadow is by having a range of phallic imagery associated with it. Pyramid Head’s body itself is phallic, with the pyramid area coinciding with the glans of male anatomy. Also, Pyramid Head uses a large sword-like weapon called the 'Great Knife', with swords being a popular phallic symbol. He also wields spears, very clearly phallic weaponry. When James comes closer to integrating his shadow archetype, he begins to wield Pyramid Head’s sword. Those who have experienced oppressive masculinity ancd are vulnerable to it are also vulnerable to this weapon, for instance Eddie’s weakness is Pyramid Head’s blade.

Towards the end of Silent Hill 2 there are two Pyramid Heads. The reason for this is that each one of these represents a different murder. The one that has the rusted sphere in it represents the murder of Mary, subsequently the sphere in it is older. The one that has the red sphere in it represents the murder of Eddie, subsequently the sphere is ‘fresher’.

Silent Hill 2 Monsters: Unseen Prison Monster

The prison monster is actually symbolic, in a strange way, of Mary and how James Sunderland murdered her. Thus, if the player decides to shoot the helpless prison monster they are expressing James’ oppressive masculinity in the same manner that Pyramid Head would.

 

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Leonardo Da Vinci's Paintings

  Paintings of the 1480s

Virgin of the Rocks, Louvre, demonstrates Leonardo's interest in nature.

In the 1480s Leonardo received two very important commissions and commenced another work which was also of ground-breaking importance in terms of composition. Two of the three were never finished, and the third took so long that it was subject to lengthy negotiations over completion and payment. One of these paintings is that of St. Jerome in the Wilderness. Bortolon associates this picture with a difficult period of Leonardo's life, as evidenced in his diary: "I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die."
Although the painting is barely begun, the composition can be seen and it is very unusual.Jerome, as a penitent, occupies the middle of the picture, set on a slight diagonal and viewed somewhat from above. His kneeling form takes on a trapezoid shape, with one arm stretched to the outer edge of the painting and his gaze looking in the opposite direction. J. Wasserman points out the link between this painting and Leonardo's anatomical studies.Across the foreground sprawls his symbol, a great lion whose body and tail make a double spiral across the base of the picture space. The other remarkable feature is the sketchy landscape of craggy rocks against which the figure is silhouetted.
The daring display of figure composition, the landscape elements and personal drama also appear in the great unfinished masterpiece, the Adoration of the Magi, a commission from the Monks of San Donato a Scopeto. It is a complex composition, of about 250 x 250 centimetres. Leonardo did numerous drawings and preparatory studies, including a detailed one in linear perspective of the ruined classical architecture which makes part of the backdrop to the scene. But in 1482 Leonardo went off to Milan at the behest of Lorenzo de' Medici in order to win favour with Ludovico il Moro, and the painting was abandoned.
The third important work of this period is the Virgin of the Rocks which was commissioned in Milan for the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception. The painting, to be done with the assistance of the de Predis brothers, was to fill a large complex altarpiece, already constructed.Leonardo chose to paint an apocryphal moment of the infancy of Christ when the infant John the Baptist, in protection of an angel, met the Holy Family on the road to Egypt. In this scene, as painted by Leonardo, John recognizes and worships Jesus as the Christ. The painting demonstrates an eerie beauty as the graceful figures kneel in adoration around the infant Christ in a wild landscape of tumbling rock and whirling water.While the painting is quite large, about 200 × 120 centimetres, it is not nearly as complex as the painting ordered by the monks of St Donato, having only four figures rather than about fifty and a rocky landscape rather than architectural details. The painting was eventually finished; in fact, two versions of the painting were finished, one which remained at the chapel of the Confraternity and the other which Leonardo carried away to France. But the Brothers did not get their painting, or the de Predis their payment, until the next century.

Paintings of the 1490s

The Last Supper (1498)—Convent of Sta. Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy

Leonardo's most famous painting of the 1490s is The Last Supper, painted for the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria della Grazie in Milan. The painting represents the last meal shared by Jesus with his disciples before his capture and death. It shows specifically the moment when Jesus has just said "one of you will betray me". Leonardo tells the story of the consternation that this statement caused to the twelve followers of Jesus.
The novelist Matteo Bandello observed Leonardo at work and wrote that some days he would paint from dawn till dusk without stopping to eat and then not paint for three or four days at a time.This was beyond the comprehension of the prior of the convent, who hounded him until Leonardo asked Ludovico to intervene. Vasari describes how Leonardo, troubled over his ability to adequately depict the faces of Christ and the traitor Judas, told the Duke that he might be obliged to use the prior as his model.
When finished, the painting was acclaimed as a masterpiece of design and characterisation,but it deteriorated rapidly, so that within a hundred years it was described by one viewer as "completely ruined".Leonardo, instead of using the reliable technique of fresco, had used tempera over a ground that was mainly
gesso, resulting in a surface which was subject to mold and to flaking.Despite this, the painting has remained one of the most reproduced works of art, countless copies being made in every medium from carpets to cameo

Paintings of the 1500s

Mona Lisa or La Gioconda (1503–1505/1507)—Louvre, Paris, France

Among the works created by Leonardo in the 16th century is the small portrait known as the Mona Lisa or "la Gioconda", the laughing one. In the present era it is arguably the most famous painting in the world. Its fame rests, in particular, on the elusive smile on the woman's face, its mysterious quality brought about perhaps by the fact that the artist has subtly shadowed the corners of the mouth and eyes so that the exact nature of the smile cannot be determined. The shadowy quality for which the work is renowned came to be called "sfumato" or Leonardo's smoke. Vasari, who is generally thought to have known the painting only by repute, said that "the smile was so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human; and those who saw it were amazed to find that it was as alive as the original".
Other characteristics found in this work are the unadorned dress, in which the eyes and hands have no competition from other details, the dramatic landscape background in which the world seems to be in a state of flux, the subdued colouring and the extremely smooth nature of the painterly technique, employing oils, but laid on much like tempera and blended on the surface so that the brushstrokes are indistinguishable. Vasari expressed the opinion that the manner of painting would make even "the most confident master ... despair and lose heart."The perfect state of preservation and the fact that there is no sign of repair or overpainting is rare in a panel painting of this date.
In the painting Virgin and Child with St. Anne the composition again picks up the theme of figures in a landscape which Wasserman describes as "breathtakingly beautiful"and harkens back to the St Jerome picture with the figure set at an oblique angle. What makes this painting unusual is that there are two obliquely set figures superimposed. Mary is seated on the knee of her mother, St Anne. She leans forward to restrain the Christ Child as he plays roughly with a lamb, the sign of his own impending sacrifice.This painting, which was copied many times, influenced Michelangelo, Raphael, and Andrea del Sarto,and through them Pontormo and Correggio. The trends in composition were adopted in particular by the Venetian painters Tintoretto and Veronese.

The Next sequel of silent hill

Main article: Silent Hill: Revelation 3D

Hn December 2006, Christophe Gans confirmed that a sequel was "officially ordered and well on the way."^[6] Gans later pulled out and production was delayed for various reasons though Roger Avary initially signed on to write the script.
According to producer Don Carmody, the sequel will be more accessible to the movie-going public, commenting,

"Silent Hill is not a blockbuster game like Resident Evil or the other games out there. It's a connoisseurs' game. It has its own, rabid fan base. They're not cheap, these things. You have to appeal not only to the gamers, you have to appeal to a wider audience."

Carmody also stated the film will be set 'years later' with the main character 'much older'.^[41]
In November 2010, it was confirmed that Michael J. Bassett will direct the sequel, titled Silent Hill: Revelation 3D. It will center on Heather Mason (a character taken from Silent Hill 3) when she starts having nightmares that lead her to Silent Hill and the mystery of her father's disappearance.^[42][43] Bassett revealed he has written his own screenplay, apparently replacing Roger Avary. He added that he would bring back as many of the core creative team as he can from the first film to keep its look and feel but add "more darkness and fear into the mix as well".^[44][45] Filming began in March 2011.^[46]

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The Plot Of The Movie

Rose (Radha Mitchell) and her husband, Christopher Da Silva (Sean Bean), are concerned about their adopted daughter, Sharon (Jodelle Ferland), who has been experiencing nightmares and sleepwalking while screaming the name of a town, "Silent Hill". Desperate for answers, Rose takes Sharon to Silent Hill. As they approach the town, she is pursued by police officer Cybil Bennett (Laurie Holden). A child appears in the road, causing Rose to swerve and crash the car, knocking herself unconscious. When she awakens, Sharon is missing, and fog and falling ash blanket the town.
Rose wanders the empty streets of Silent Hill looking for her daughter and instead encounters monsters which appear after sirens wail. Rose meets a woman named Dahlia Gillespie (Deborah Kara Unger) who speaks of terrible things done to her own daughter, Alessa, by the townspeople and claims that Sharon is Alessa. Rose returns to her car and runs into Cybil, who arrests her. After they discover that the road leading out of town leads to a fracture, they pair up to search the town.
Meanwhile, Christopher also simultaneously scours the town, shown to be abandoned and without mist and falling ash, with the assistance of Officer Thomas Gucci (Kim Coates), who grew up in the town. Christopher discovers documents showing that the town was abandoned after a coal seam fire thirty years ago, along with a photograph of Dahlia's daughter who bears a strong resemblance to Sharon; told to stop investigating under threat of incarceration, he heads home.
Rose and Cybil meet a woman named Anna (Tanya Allen), who leads them to the town church for refuge. As they approach the building, Anna is killed by the monster Pyramid Head (Roberto Campanella). In the church, Rose and Cybil discover a cult, headed by a woman named Christabella (Alice Krige). Christabella tells Rose about a demon, who knows where Sharon is. After convincing Christabella to help them find the demon, who is feared by the townspeople, Rose and Cybil are taken to the town hospital. There, Christabella learns of the likeness between Sharon and Alessa, and condemns Rose and Cybil as witches. Cybil allows herself to be captured by the townspeople in order for Rose to escape and descend into the hospital basement. There, Rose encounters the burned Alessa in a hospital bed and a being in the form of a girl who strongly resembles Sharon.
In a flashback, Rose discovers that Silent Hill had a long history of witch burnings, stemming from the beliefs of the cult. Thirty years prior to Rose's arrival, Alessa was stigmatized for having been born out of wedlock by an unknown father; her schoolmates bullied her, while the adults made no effort to protect her. It is implied that Alessa was raped by the school's janitor during her time there. Dahlia agreed to Christabella's suggestion that she allow the cult to "restore the innocence" in her daughter. When not allowed to follow Alessa into the ritual, Dahlia realized that they intended to kill Alessa and ran to the police. Alessa was subjected to a ritual burning, but in the midst of the ritual, a fire accidentally burst out. When Dahlia returned with the police, Alessa was seriously burned, but alive. While in the hospital, Alessa's pain and rage caused her "dark" side to manifest in the form of a duplicate of herself, who refers to itself as the darkness inside Alessa^{[2] [3][4]}. Alessa then pulled the townspeople into a world of "dark" dreams, corrupted by the injuries that were inflicted on her body.^[5] Rose learns that Sharon is the manifestation of Alessa's remaining innocence and goodness. After the flashback, Rose is told that she must aid Alessa in her revenge by granting her entry into the church; she is also told that Christabella will soon find the real Sharon and attempt to burn her as well.
Rose enters the church after Cybil has just been burned to death by the townspeople, and Sharon is about to suffer a similar fate. She confronts Christabella with her knowledge of the truth, attempting to convince the cult that they are in denial of their own fate. Christabella stabs Rose, causing her blood to drip onto the church floor. The blood serves as a portal, through which Alessa rises out of and proceeds to kill Christabella and the townspeople with tendrils of barbed wire, leaving Dahlia, Rose, and Sharon the only survivors.

Rose and Sharon return home; though they are in the same room as Christopher, who has also returned home, they cannot see each other.