Thursday, April 28th, 2011
The Scream movies have always been problematic, with the excessively dull reliance on what can now be called the Law & Order: SVU format, that is to say: everyone is a potential suspect.And yes I’m aware that Ms. Agatha Christie is possibly the originator of this structure, but it took Mr. Dick Wolf to beat it into the ground, set it on fire, roll it into a burrito, and use it to scare old people into staying into their homes.To wit (and without any), the characters run around opening doors, forget to call the police, walk into dark rooms with nary a chopstick as a weapon, and express surprise as they die off one by one.The Wolf/Christie format requires no internal logic (and so creates no tension) as the situation requires that anyone can be the killer, until for the sake of ‘drama’, we discover, much to our relief (relief, that is, that the film has only six more fake endings to go) that it turns out to be the one person it couldn’t possibly be.
Sorry, that wasn’t specific enough.It’s Ms. Emma Roberts and Mr. Rory Culkin.
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