Khorne23
02-27-2005, 07:12 PM
Here's some fun for y'all. I MIGHT have posted this before, and if I have, I apologize.
Laurie Strode went into hiding because of the events of Halloween and Halloween 2. Both of those movies took place before the Dan Aykroyd/ Eddie Murphy film "Trading Places", which Jamie Lee Curtis was in, playing a prostitute named Ophelia.
In "Trading Places", Ophelia says that she's "...from a small, miserable little mining town you've probably never heard of...". Haddonfield is said to be in Hardin County, in Illinois. One of Hardin County's major industries is mining, which is supported by the pit Michael falls into at the climax of Halloween 4. That's a mine shaft.
Post-traumatic stress from her experiences in Halloween and Halloween 2 could have led Laurie to flee Haddonfield and sort of obliterate her past, taking a "job" (prostitution) heavily reliant on fantasy and which would allow her to become socially invisible. Ophelia herself says she had a retirement plan...a retirement plan that sounds like it would let her hide from Michael efefctively.
THEN...
In H20, Laurie says her ex-husband was "...an abusive, chain-smoking methadone addict...". At the end of "Trading Places", Ophelia enters a serious relationship with Dan Aykroyd's character, Louis Winthorp III. Winthorp was exactly the sort of Wall Street wheeler dealer that would have gotten into risky speculation during the 1980s (hey, he and Billy Ray Valentine/ Eddy Murphy had just made several hundred million on one such scheme, so why not try again?) and picked up plenty of bad habits from that milieu, like using drugs (I think I heard that cocaine and heroin had their popularity amongst the 1980s financial tycoons). If Winthorp became drug addicted and engaged in other anti-scocial behaviors (became abusive...), those experiences woud have further scarred Laurie and led to the psychosis she experienced in her years of hiding. Finally, John Strode is old enough to be Ophelia/ Laurie's child by Louis Winthorp.
So, if a person wants to suspend a little disbelief and have some fun with the timeline of Jamie Lee's first few films, it is possible to come up with a timeline wherein the first stop that Laurie Strode made, after she went into hiding after the events of Halloween/ Halloween 2 was a stint as a Philadelphia street waker named Ophelia.
Laurie Strode went into hiding because of the events of Halloween and Halloween 2. Both of those movies took place before the Dan Aykroyd/ Eddie Murphy film "Trading Places", which Jamie Lee Curtis was in, playing a prostitute named Ophelia.
In "Trading Places", Ophelia says that she's "...from a small, miserable little mining town you've probably never heard of...". Haddonfield is said to be in Hardin County, in Illinois. One of Hardin County's major industries is mining, which is supported by the pit Michael falls into at the climax of Halloween 4. That's a mine shaft.
Post-traumatic stress from her experiences in Halloween and Halloween 2 could have led Laurie to flee Haddonfield and sort of obliterate her past, taking a "job" (prostitution) heavily reliant on fantasy and which would allow her to become socially invisible. Ophelia herself says she had a retirement plan...a retirement plan that sounds like it would let her hide from Michael efefctively.
THEN...
In H20, Laurie says her ex-husband was "...an abusive, chain-smoking methadone addict...". At the end of "Trading Places", Ophelia enters a serious relationship with Dan Aykroyd's character, Louis Winthorp III. Winthorp was exactly the sort of Wall Street wheeler dealer that would have gotten into risky speculation during the 1980s (hey, he and Billy Ray Valentine/ Eddy Murphy had just made several hundred million on one such scheme, so why not try again?) and picked up plenty of bad habits from that milieu, like using drugs (I think I heard that cocaine and heroin had their popularity amongst the 1980s financial tycoons). If Winthorp became drug addicted and engaged in other anti-scocial behaviors (became abusive...), those experiences woud have further scarred Laurie and led to the psychosis she experienced in her years of hiding. Finally, John Strode is old enough to be Ophelia/ Laurie's child by Louis Winthorp.
So, if a person wants to suspend a little disbelief and have some fun with the timeline of Jamie Lee's first few films, it is possible to come up with a timeline wherein the first stop that Laurie Strode made, after she went into hiding after the events of Halloween/ Halloween 2 was a stint as a Philadelphia street waker named Ophelia.