Culkin’s father acted as the boy’s agent during Culkin’s rise to fame. The abuse young actors experience is not only due to the actions of celebrities but also the people behind the scenes.
The boy’s relationship with the singer was extremely problematic and highlights how the entertainment industry preys on children who really don’t understand the situation that they are in. More infamously known is the young actor’s relationship with Michael Jackson. Though we don’t know if Wood was alluding to Macaulay Culkin, it is very apparent that Culkin was subject of abuse at the hands of adults in the film and entertainment industry. Macaulay Culkin and Elijah Wood in The Good Son
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In his interview with The Sunday Times, Elijah Woods stated that the Hollywood industry was full of “Vipers” who would “parasitically latch onto newcomers, especially children.” Wood also let the interviewer know that he had heard instances of his fellow peers being victims of abuse from the hands of the powerful in Hollywood. Luckily for Wood, his mother refused to let Wood go to the parties he was invited to. The Good Son was Wood’s second movie, so his presence in the film industry was still incredibly new, so he wanted nothing more but to succeed. It’s a great way for up and coming actors to meet professionals and build their network, even if they are children. Hollywood is historically notorious for having large parties full of powerful actors, agents, and businessmen. Rarely do we see children in horror whose malevolence is based on their trauma caused by human adults.Ĭulkin’s costar in The Good Son, Elijah Wood discussed with The Sunday Times about the topic of child abuse behind the scenes in Hollywood. In no way am I justifying the actions of criminals, but rather I’m demonstrating how Hollywood has created the narrative of an innately evil child when that’s never really the case. But in realistic cases, children who act out in some way are doing so because they were abused by someone more powerful than them. After studying a group of inmates, who were in jail for violent crimes, Craparo and Caretti concluded that it “may be assumed that traumatic memories built upon abuse, material neglect, and lack of emotional care could be responsible for a fragmented self which is dysregulated on a psychobiological level and needs to have power and control over others through manipulation, deception and even violence.” Whenever Hollywood depicts an evil child, the reasons for their malicious actions are due to some sort of supernatural derangement. In a study conducted by Giuseppe Craparo and Vicenzo Caretti, it was apparent that psychopathic and criminal behavior was linked to varying degrees of childhood trauma. However, since this is Hollywood, Henry Evan’s psychopathy is not based in fact.
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There’s a reason for everything if we could just find it.” Kevin McCallister prepares to defend his house in Home AloneĬulkin’s character carried out murder, animal abuse, and substance abuse during the movie with the only motives of being a psychopath. A therapist in the movie tells Mark Evans, Henry’s cousin, that “‘Evil’ is something that is a word people use when they’ve given up trying to understand someone. Henry Evans, though cunning as Kevin McCallister, had a more sinister aura to him. The Good Son is a horror film in which Culkin played Henry Evans, the main antagonist of the story. Culkin also played another child during his fame in the 90s. Culkin’s character, Kevin McCallister, was seen as the problem child that weaponizes his mischievousness to defend his home from robbers. The child actor’s fame boomed from the success of the Home Alone franchise. By analyzing the child actors, Macaulay Culkin and Elijah Wood and their roles in the 90s thriller The Good Son (1993), I intend to demonstrate how these two false narratives take form in the horror genre: the unnatural psychopathic child and the unrealistic resilient child. Rather than dealing with their problems, Hollywood elites have created a different storyline within film to diminish the issues of child abuse. Child abuse in the film industry has been an issue that simply has not been treated with the severity it should have been.
Hollywood, though home to one of the richest industries in the world, is rampant with issues of extortion and abuse. Personally, I think it best applies to the glitz and glam of Hollywood. The proverb has gone on to be used and applied in several different scenarios. The proverb “All that glitters is not gold” was originally written in Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice.
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