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One year after the death of Sidney's mother two students at the local high school are murdered. When a Serial killer attacks Sidney she beigns to question whether these new murders are connected with her mothers. Everyone becomes a suspect in the case and the friends begin to start applying the 'rules' of horror films as they find themselves living in one.
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Tatum: Just think, if they make a movie about all this, who would play you?
Deputy Dwight "Dewey" Riley: I see you as a young Meg Ryan, myself.
Sidney Prescott: Thanks, Dewey, but with my luck I'd get Tori Spelling.
Deputy Dwight "Dewey" Riley: I see you as a young Meg Ryan, myself.
Sidney Prescott: Thanks, Dewey, but with my luck I'd get Tori Spelling.
These constant intertextual references create an understanding between the viewer and the cast. The creators have a firm knowledge that intertextuality is a crucial part in entertainment and promotion and in order to breathe some life into the slasher genre they injected this into the dialogue of the characters. 'These instances of overt self-reflexivity call attention to the artificiality of all the Scream films and, by extension, all media products, highlighting their status as consumable cultural products.'( Wee, 2005) These cultural references link with the key imagery of the Television and how media is a big part of the casts lives and our own. An example of the Television imagery is a recursion of media watching where the audience watches Kenny watching the killer sneak up on Randy who is watching Halloween. At this point Craven exploits the fact that TV is harmful for you at times, as Kenny forgets that his monitors have a 30 second delay leading to his throat being slit but also the way that Stu is killed is extremely metaphorical as a TV drops onto his head.
Billy: Sure it is, Sid. It's all a movie. It's all one great big movie.
[pauses]
Billy: . Only you can pick your genre.
References -
Text -
Magistrale, Tony (2005) Abject Terrors: surveying the modern and postmodern horror film accessed on 17/10/2011
Randy from Scream quote - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117571/quotes?qt=qt0315845 accessed on 17/10/2011
Sidney and Billy quote from Scream - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117571/quotes?qt=qt0315822 accessed on 17/10/2011
Sidney, Tatum and Dewey converse - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117571/quotes?qt=qt0315832 accessed on 17/10/2011
Wee, Valerie Su-lin (2005) The Scream trilogy, 'hyperpostmodernism', and the late-nineties teen slasher film accessed on 17/10/2011
Images -
Fig 1 - http://www.movieforum.com/movies/wallpapers/horror/scream/images/1024x768.gif
Fig 2 - http://www.flix66.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Scream-1.jpg
Fig 3 - http://raspberry-caps.net/albums/movies/scream1/Scream_1_1996_mkv1560.jpg
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