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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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
But yeah the Final Girl of Friday the 13th Pt. 2, Ginny, is the same deal She drinks, she parties, she's sleeping with her boss, he wants to have sex but she makes a joke letting him know she's on her period (Maybe that's the protection against slashers)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
In fact Friday the 13th started the tradition of what Final Girl theorists call the "decoy Final Girl", which is a question begging definition The first movie *starts* with a pure innocent, the sweet starry eyed girl hitchhiking to Crystal Lake whose dream job is helping kids
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
She's the *first one killed* in the present day, to shock the audience and upset them, and is certainly much more innocent than Alice, without any of the needed savvy or ruthlessness to realize the lady she hitched a ride from is the killer
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So if you actually are a pure spotless blameless virgin etc and you have the misfortune to be in a slasher movie you're much more likely to be this character and die first than to be the final survivor
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Yeah. Also, there's probably something to the fact that people who are having sex are by definition, not alone. Which means you have to have one, but not both, murdered for either to be the last survivor.
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