What was the huge success of Freddy Krueger in ``A Nightmare A Nightmare on Elm Street''?

Freddy Krueger, born of fear theory

He wears a glove with a knife claw on his right hand, a fedora hat and a burnt face, and a red and green striped sweater. Freddy Krueger, the killer who is the driving force behind the ``A Nightmare A Nightmare on Elm Street'' series, is now a familiar figure, but those who saw his strange coordination for the first time were greatly puzzled. Especially on the sweater he wears.

Red and green is a color combination often used at Christmas. However, for Christmas, for example, the color scheme and distribution is such that the base color is red and a little green is used as an accent color, or the color is mainly white with red and green adding color. If red and green are placed next to each other in the same area and with the same saturation, the colors will become complementary to each other, creating a disturbing impression that flickers to the eye.

Freddy's sweater was intentionally designed to have an equal amount of red and green of the same saturation. Of course, this is to create a sense of unease in the audience.

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Wes Craven is an intellectual who once taught at a university as a professor of humanities. He has a particularly deep knowledge of psychology, and used that knowledge to design Freddy. And it's not just sweaters that benefit from Craven's knowledge.

In the movie, when Freddy was alive, he was an ``absolutely evil'' pedophile serial killer, and he was lynched by the neighbors, locked in an incinerator, and burned to death. The parents involved in the lynching have a secret in common, which is of course hidden from their children.

One of the fears children have is of being left out of the loop. Decisions that children have no control over, such as their parents getting divorced or moving before they know it, are usually made after being told to go to bed early, children. That's what it is. In other words, irresistible (more or less unpleasant) decisions are made after being forced to sleep.

In addition, there is the dilemma of not believing what I say. Freddy, who only appears in dreams, sounds like a wild delusion with no way to confirm it for anyone other than the person witnessing it.

A child recognizes the strange shadow that ``looks like something'' created by the contrast of darkness as a ``Monster.'' Adults tend to dismiss it as a figment of children's imagination, but for children it is a very real fear. Moreover, no matter who you tell them, they won't listen properly. Even if you tell your parents, who are your guardians, there is nothing you can do about it, and they just tell you to go to bed early!

Craven incorporated into Freddy Krueger the various dilemmas and fears that everyone has felt at least once in relation to ``sleeping''.

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