A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Streetis a timeless staple in repulsion history and defeat its 2010 remake in nearly every elbow room , including edging out its terminal girl , Nancy Holbrook , with Freddy ’s original foil , Nancy Thompson .
It ’s decipherable that Robert Englund ’s iconic portrayal of Freddy Krueger was superior to Jackie Earle Haley ’s more serious version of the dream stalker , and final lady friend can seem rather interchangeable in repugnance enfranchisement , but some movies break the mold , especially with the classics . For case , Friday the 13th ’s Alice Hardy survive Pamela Voorhees in the first movie , but returned and was kill by Jason in the second . Laurie Strode , fromHalloween , has faced off with Michael Myers many time through various plot line include a remaking , a retcon , and continuation that stick to two different canon storyline . Sidney Prescott is always running from a dissimilar Ghostface orca - ordinarily more than one - in theScreamfranchise . Therefore , the pick to craft an wholly new Nancy who was intended to be clearly different was a strange exercise of esthetic license from the beginning .
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Despite being played by Academy Award - nominate actress Rooney Mara ( The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo ) , Nancy Holbrook was a different take on the classic final girl , but not necessarily in a skillful mode .
Nancy Thompson Outplayed Her Doppelgänger (Against A Better Freddy)
Though both fiber had a similarbackstory with Freddy Krueger , Nancy Holbrook and Nancy Thompson could n’t have been more different . In the originalA Nightmare on Elm Street , Nancy Thompson ( Heather Langenkamp ) has the girl - next - door charm , a close - crumple group of friends , and start out seeing the digit - bladed dream fiend in more and more alarming ways that foreshorten through the reality of her charmed life . However , Thompson have natural leadership power from the beginning of the film , even as tragedy started to befall them , and showed fearless finding . After her admirer Tina ’s slaying , Thompson ’s friend Rod - Tina ’s boyfriend - is blamed , so she went toe - to - toe with her father about her dubiousness . Instead of sit lazily by , Thompson strike action in seek to hunt down Freddy on her own , and enlist her fellow Glen to stand up safety while she sought him out . She express a solitary loyalty to protecting her friends , and dug at her parent to discover the truth about Fred Krueger ’s murder , then press Freddy alone , even though she love she might not make it out awake . She return to face Freddy a 2d sentence inA Nightmare on Elm Street 3 : pipe dream Warriors , but did n’t outlive that battle . She lead a new generation of teenagers to crusade him , as she and her booster once did , before she perished .
Described by Rooney Mara as " the alone girl in the creation " , Holbrook does n’t possess the same pertinacity as Thompson does from the start . As her friend became targeted by Krueger , she enlisted the aid of her friend , Quentin ( Kyle Gallner ) , to get to the bottom of the mystery and form as a team rather than Holbrook go it alone . It was the smart choice , perhaps , but final girls in repulsion are notorious for being the lonesome survivor against their enemy , even if they have friends to back them up from time to sentence . In some ways , Quentin felt more like the sole survivor than Nancy did in the remaking , since he supplied his own prescription medicine medicinal drug so they both could stay awake . He also slip adrenaline from a pharmaceutics and saved Nancy when she faced Freddy in the dream world . Without Quentin ’s assistance throughout the movie , she likely would have died . The two depended too much on drug - and each other - for either of them to be strong enough to go it alone .
The inspiration for Nancy Holbrook was not only the original Nancy fromA Nightmare on Elm Street , but also Lori Campbell fromFreddy vs Jason . Though Holbrook did find her strength at the end , it take her a while to get there , and took a lot of extra encouragement to make the shy , aesthetic lone hand into a formidable nemesis for the man of her nightmares .
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