“This movie is about the punishment of sexuality, which I disagree with. I will continue disagreeing out of spite. Shame to know that’s all that gets produced/published though”
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Replying to @chrysopoetics @mssilverstein and
There's a whole discussion to be had about how horror isn't really about portraying a moral order you actually agree with and if you did it probably wouldn't really be horror
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chrysopoetics and
honestly my own take that carol clover was basically right: the essential libidinal moment of slasher horror is when a woman picks up a machete and hacks a man to death it's a passion play, where you start weak and victimized but overcome
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and
we can see this in the evolution of slashers, where yes of a certainty the original Final Girls were virginal and pure and their friends weren't but modern horror eschews that, often very deliberately yet the story still plays on the same goddamn beats it was never essential.
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Replying to @perdricof @chrysopoetics and
Again, Carpenter said he never intended Laurie Strode to be read as "virginal and pure" The irony he intended was a much more practical one, that by being forced into a boring night at home babysitting she's exposed to danger less than her friends out having fun
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
But it's not that she doesn't WANT to party, or hasn't partied before The whole point of them inviting her out and her reluctantly refusing is that she has
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
A lot of ingredients go into making the Final Girl stereotype and most of them taken in isolation are just about the practicalities of drama than morality Of course it's the one friend who's stuck at work who lives while their friends out having fun are getting picked off
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Just like if you want to keep ratcheting tension up then obviously it's the least experienced and skilled character who keeps surviving while the older and wiser and tougher characters fail
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
I mean hey look - the actual explicit codifier of the Final Girl concept is Friday the 13th, in that the killer's motive is explicitly stated to be hunting down irresponsible partying teenagers But the Final Girls don't actually survive because they're "pure'
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
The Final Girl of the original Friday the 13th, Alice, *isn't* purer than her colleagues She smokes weed with them, she plays strip Monopoly with them, and she's implied to be having sex with Mr. Christy, her older boss (which is much more scandalous than Jack and Marcie)
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Pamela Voorhees *doesn't* judge her as being more worthy to live than the others, indeed the fact that she's the Final Girl means she's the one Pamela delivers her whole rant about irresponsible fornicating youths to And Jason kills her off right away in Pt. 2
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
(That's because Adrienne King wanted more money to come back, but still) Cabin in the Woods directly references this, with their "Virgin", Dana, established to have recently ended an illicit affair with her college professor
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
The "virgin" thing seems to mostly be a product of the tradition of slashers killing a couple while they're having sex, meaning that having sex *during the movie* is a death sentence (But so is pooping, or taking a shower, or getting in the car to drive to the police station)
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