Scream4 vs Cabin in the Woods
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Scream 4 and The Cabin in the Woods are postmodern horror films that reference and parody horror movie tropes. Scream 4 directly references the previous Scream films through characters that represent archetypes from the original. It also includes cameos from popular television stars and references a fictional Stab 5 film. The Cabin in the Woods deconstructs horror archetypes by subverting expectations for how each character acts based on their assumed type. Both films include comedy through self-aware references and characters defying expectations.
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- 3. How is Scream 4 Postmodern? • The opening: a film within a film, within a film. • Starring (for less than ten minutes): Lucy Hale (Pretty Little Liars), Shanae Grimes (90210), Anna Paquin (True Blood), Kristen Bell (Vernica Mars), Aimee Teegarden (Friday night Lights) and Britt Robertson (Secret Circle). • IRONY AND SELF AWARENESS • References made of a fifth movie; ‘Stab 5’ including time travel – an idea Wes Craven put forward for the fourth ‘Nightmare on Elm Street ‘ but it was rejected. • The characters visit the set of the ‘Stab’ films where a dummy of Tatum stuck in the doggy door is visible at the "Stabathon". There are also audience members dressed as Dewey and Gale which emphasises how self aware the character are. • Every new main characters is an archetype for one of the characters from the original Scream: Jill (Sidney), Kirby and Olivia (Tatum), Trevor (Billy), Charlie (Stu), and Robbie (Randy).
- 4. Every new main characters is an archetype for one of the characters from the original Scream: Jill (Sidney), Kirby and Olivia (Tatum), Trevor (Billy), Charlie (Stu), and Robbie (Randy). Similarly as shown in Charlie and Stu’s screenshot, they both play the crazed killer without a personal motive of killing Sidney and so in Scream 4, Charlie mimics a lot of Stu’s behaviourisms and actions. This is especially noticeable towards the end as the final ‘reveal’ scene plays out a lot like the first one in the original Scream.
- 5. Self awareness and archetypes; the scholar, the whore, the fool, the athlete and the virgin. Each main character is referred to as their stereotype by the scientists; why they were ‘chosen’ How is The Cabin in the Woods Postmodern? Even though each character is defined by their ‘title’ some defy various aspects of it: The Athlete; expected to be dumb, has a degree in quantum physics The Virgin; not actually a virgin, just innocent The Fool; portrayed as incompetent but figures out the whole plot and what they’re all doing there. The ‘Fool’ Marty also gives away clues on how the situation their in is ’unreal’ saying ‘I’m on a reality TV show’ and references how much the circumstances that they’re in is ‘like a horror film. The doing behind this is to create meaning and make the characters more dimensional, to create a connection with the characters and the audience.
- 7. • Whilst both films fall into the horror genre, both portray elements of comedy • In Cabin in the Woods most of the comedy stems from ‘The Fool’ – Marty, as shown in this clip, he brings a lot of humour to the film likely due to the amount of weed he smokes on screen. • https://youtu.be/xwN0ZIe-cG8 • There is more humour bought across through the characters succumbing to their archetypes: • Dana: Me? The virgin? • The Director: We work with what we have. • The Director: Whatever he's been smoking has been immunizing him to all our shit – when realising what Marty’s been smoking has been protecting him from dying. • However in Scream 4, a lot of the comedy aspects are from reference to other horror films and mentioning the other films in the Scream series • https://youtu.be/oAOxfIJDfX0?t=30s • https://youtu.be/Bdmu1_IwUdA?t=50s • The film even references that it displays aspects of the comedy genre as ‘Ghostface’ says; ‘This isn't a comedy, it's a horror film. People live, people die and you'd better start running.’
- 8. Bibliography • http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1262416/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlaZfOiGaCU • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsIilFNNmkY • https://prezi.com/sq7nh2ig6eg5/the-cabin-in-the-woods-as-a- postmodern-text/