Alice's daydreams
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
MisterBabadook — 9 years ago(June 02, 2016 10:13 PM)
Man those was annoying and pointless, everytime that scene comes up where shes day dreaming about Dan i cringe "Ya know you are one major league hunk" ugh. Then the scene where Rick hops out of his coffin, i just thought it was all pointless.
Its like we had to have a visual of every thought that was going through her head.
Thats what i love about these high school girls, i get older they stay the same age. -
loui_b452 — 9 years ago(June 15, 2016 11:19 AM)
While crudely executed, Alice's Daydreams are actually an extension of her powers. Just as she is able to master her dreams and the dreams of others, she can see what goes on in the dream world via daydreaming.
You see, Alice was the Dream Master BEFORE the ordeal with Freddy Krueger. She just didn't know it yet because she had no real purpose. After all, no one was threatening the good dream gate until Freddy began attacking Springwood. It's hinted that her mother was the Dream Master before her in that she taught Alice as much about controlling dreams before her untimely death. To me, this is likely why Alice begins so inexperienced in the beginning. She didn't have enough time to learn how to master dreams or any of her other powers as her mother wasn't around long enough to teach her.
Alice's daydreams represent the fact that, in a way, she's ALWAYS dreaming. Even when she's awake, she dreams. Just as Freddy is always lurking in the dream world, Alice is always watching over it. She doesn't learn how to properly use this aspect of her power until the end of NOES4, when she sees Dan is in danger through a daydream and thus enters his dream to protect him. Alice uses this aspect of her powers again in
NOES5: The Dream Child
many more time. She repeatedly daydreams about her friends dying one-by-one but is unable to effectively help them in time. She DOES however manage to daydream about Mark being danger in the Nightmare House and gets to him before he falls to his death.
We get further confirmation that Alice's daydreams are a part of her powers through another Dream Master: Her son, Jacob. In the subsequent comicbooks, we see Jacob has the ability to see things others cannot. While visiting a Freddy controlled Springwood after the death of Mr. Johnson, Jacob is able to see everything wrong with the town very clearly. Alice can sense there are problems but she can't fully see what her son sees. Thus, when Alice daydreams, she only sees glimpses while when Jacob daydreams, he sees the dream world and it's connection to the real world MUCH more clearly. This is most likely because he received FAR more training than his mother. Not only did he receive training on how to control the Evil Dream Gate from Freddy before his birth, but he had his mother to teach him how to protect the Good Dream Child then after.
tl;dr: Alice's daydreams are just a part of being the Dream Master. She has them frequently in the beginning of NOES4 because she can't control her powers but by the end, she has enough control over her daydreams to use them as indication that Freddy is going after a fresh kill. -
brucelee-38476 — 9 years ago(August 21, 2016 11:01 PM)
alice wasnt in the best films of the franchise but she is by far the best developed character in the film franchise other then freddy the day dreams are to represent how shes repressed an how she deals with life at the funeral she decides no more day dreams meaning she will now face reality
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Movie_Buff_Brad — 9 years ago(October 14, 2016 12:49 AM)
She's a teenage girl, of course her daydreams are cringe-worthy. The point was that she was an introvert, living inside her own head and even covering her mirror to hide from herself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQbX5YpcdE&feature=youtu.be