And a "good" little girl at that. "Jody" saved "Chelsea" from her maniacal, axe-weilding father, George Lutz (as portrayed in this film) -- a rip-off of "Tony" the demon that possessed "Danny" and protected him from his maniacal father Jack Torrance in "The Shining."
It was a disgusting put-off that they made Mr. Lutz into the demon and Jody into the "guardian angel under demonic bondage." (Jody was caught, crying, and taken back through the floor and hellfire for punishment for letting the Lutzes flee at the end of the movie)
Part of the psychological horror of the "actual" story (not the 2005 movie) was the way George Lutz was desperate but powerless to help or save his family from the house or whatever haunted/possessed it.
And yes, the way the little girl (Chelsea in this movie, Missy in the novel, Amy in the 1979 movie) saw Jody the Pig could have been very different for her. The father and others could have seen something far more horrifying.
In fact, there is really no reason a pig need be shown at all. Children rarely actually "see" their imaginary playmates, even if they seem to believe in them.
BTW, one of the scariest masks I have is a pig mask -- its very realistic, and on a human it just looks uncanny and freaky. If we were to "see" Jody the Pig, it could just have something "wrong" and uncanny that a child simply might not see or notice. Those scary red eyes might have just been vampiristically hypnotic and the girl is brainwashed into believing a friendly encounter with Mr. Pig.
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am_buglet_82
13 years ago
"They made the change because they felt that a pig faced creature named Jodie was kind of unrealistic in terms of a little girl actually befriending it. Seriously, did you remember what "jodie" looked like in the 1979 film? How the hell would any little girl wanna play with that thing?"
THANK YOU!! My god I thought I was the only one with a problem with this! Granted the response right above mine is a good response. I just wanted to put my two cents in.
Why are people so hung up on Jodi being a pig? Why does she HAVE to be a pig or the movie's ruined?
I've never read the book, so maybe they explain her more in the book...I don't know.
-Amanda
"She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in storybooks written by rabbits"
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Error_PC_LOAD_LETTER
13 years ago
Because in the novel Jody WAS a pig, invisible, red eyes occasionally seen, and the novel was scary as Hell.
And 'cause' never was the reason for the evening,
--Or the Tropic of Sir Galahad.
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grazatt
12 years ago
Plus he may have made himself look cute to the girl, like Porky Pig or Babe.
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fallen_anakin
10 years ago
Yeah the scene at the end where Jodie was dragged under was weird. If it was really the spirit of a sad and angry little girl who is now full of hate and torment versus a actual demon then it was kind of sad how she was just sucked back under into presumed purgatory. Whats weird though is that at first she screams and all the furniture and stuff moves then we see a little tear fall down her face. This fits with her being in torment by why does she give the little smile right before she is pulled under. That almost suggests she was actually a demon posing as Jodie and not the spirit of Jodie herself. I think a lot of people may think it was a demon and not the actual spirit of a child. I preferred to believe it was the Jodie spirit in pain. Also as far as the thing whether they should have made Jodie the demon pig or a little girl there could have been a solution to that. Chelsea could have seen the demon in the form of a little girl that befriends her but in reality she had the form of a pig. So in scenes when say the step father saw her she would look like a pig. I say they should have gone with that angle and it is creepy.
The scary clown doll is hiding under my bed.
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Sugarminx
9 years ago
Yes! Agree with Error!
I read the book when I was a little girl (not the smartest thing I've done - kept me up at night for months!), before I saw the movies, and the one line I remember to this day, as it scared the living daylights out of me, was when George was walking in the the garden one night, he looked up into Missy's window and "staring down at him, was the face of a pig!"
Loved (hated) that damn pig and I missed its inclusion in this version of the film.
The worst thing about this film was changing Jodi/Jodie/Jody from a pig into one of the DeFeo children. Lord what an uninspired idea that was! I can kind of understand them wanting to move away from the pig but to make it one of the original murder victims was formulaic and lacked imagination.
So put some spice in my sauce, honey in my tea, an ace up my sleeve and a slinkyplanb
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