coverwork - scream franchise

Scream
directed by the same person who did nightmare on elm street, Wes Craven. The film was released in 1996, it was a revitalisation of the slasher film genre, a sub-genre of horror. Scream was the highest grossing film in the year 1996, it made a total domestic gross of $103,046,663, followed by its success it brought out scream 2, 3 and 4.

The most significant part of the film would be when the character randy describes the rules for a slasher/horror film:

• You may not survive the movie if you have sex.


• You may not survive the movie if you drink or do drugs.


• You may not survive the movie if you say "I'll be right back","Hello?" or "Who's there?"
  A similar set of "rules" was used for the movie's trailer:


• Don't answer the phone


• Don't open the door


• Don't try to hide


• But most of all don't scream

Synopsis

Casey Becker (Drew Barrymore) answers the phone, the man who has called saying he has the wrong number. He calls again, and from there the scene turns into the ultimate trivia contest. If Casey answers the horror based trivia questions right, she and her boyfriend, Steve (Kevin Patrick Walls) get to live. Answer wrong and she dies. She gets a trick question though, "Who is the killer in Friday the 13th?" The man on the other end doesn't say if it is the series or the first film. She answers Jason; in the original film it is his mother. The caller reveals Casey's boyfriend Steve is tied up outside. He is murdered before her eyes.

references to other films that scream has are the following:

• A nightmare on elm street


• Halloween


• Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Postmodernism literally means 'after the modernist movement'. so in the terms of the characters they have become aware of the events that surround them, as in the case of randy, making the film more interesting to watch as the audience are curious to see if they survive knowing how things work.

Pastiche is a work of art that mixes styles or copies the style of another artist, this could be linked with the director, Wes Craven, as he links this film with his other film 'A nightmare on elm Street', one of the characters (tatum) wears a jumper which is similar to that of freddy krugger, this could also be seen as a possible link between the two films.

Irony is a mode of expression that calls attention to the character's knowledge and that of the audience.

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