00:00A horror movie in which the victims have seen the same horror movies as you.
00:04They know they mustn't separate.
00:06They know the killer could return.
00:07They even know the clichés of the genre.
00:09Welcome to Scream.
00:10I make videos about movies and TV series.
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00:13When the film was released in 1996, the slasher genre had been known for decades.
00:19The public now knows the rules.
00:21So Scream decides to do something different.
00:23Instead of pretending his films don't exist, he integrates them directly into his story.
00:27In Scream, the characters watch horror movies.
00:31They're talking about horror movies.
00:32They know the rules of horror movies.
00:34Randy even explains to others how to survive a horror movie.
00:38This is what is called a meta approach.
00:40The film knows that we know the codes.
00:42We know that he knows.
00:43And he constantly plays with our expectations.
00:45But Scream does something even smarter.
00:47Ghostface is not a supernatural monster.
00:50This is not Freddy.
00:51That's not Jason on the mask.
00:53There really is someone.
00:54And most importantly, the mask can be worn by different people.
00:57Ghostface thus becomes less of a character and more of an entity.
01:00An entity that someone can take over.
01:03And that allows the franchise to continue asking the same question.
01:06Who is behind the mask?
01:08It's almost a mix between a slasher film and an investigation.
01:11But Scream also says something about our relationship with violence.
01:14These characters grew up watching horror movies.
01:17They turn murders into a reference point.
01:18They talk about reality as if they were in a movie.
01:21And some even end up using cinema to justify what they do.
01:26In Scream, cinema influences the characters.
01:28While the characters themselves try to become cinema.
