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{{Infobox Film|| name = Scream 3 | image = Scream3poster.jpg |
caption = ''Scream 3'' film poster |
imdb_id = 0134084 |
writer = [Ehren Kruger |
starring = [Neve Campbell
[Courteney Cox
[David Arquette
[Jamie Kennedy
[Patrick Dempsey
[Jenny McCarthy
[Liev Schreiber
[Parker Posey
[Deon Richmond
[Kelly Rutherford |
director = [Wes Craven |
producer = [Cathy Konrad,
[Wes Craven,
[Marianne Maddalena |
distributor = [Dimension Films |
released = [February 4, [2000 in film |
runtime = 117 min. |
language = English |
budget = [United States Dollar40,000,000 (est.) |
gross = $161,834,276 | music = |
amg_id = 1:181888 |
preceded_by = ''[Scream 2''|
-->
{{Infobox movie certificates |Finland = K-15
|Sweden = 15
|United_States = R
|United_Kingdom = 18
-->
Scream 3 (
2000 in film) (theatrical name "Scr3am") is the third installment in the successful
Scream (film) trilogy of satirical
horror films. It follows
Scream 2.
Scream 3 is the final installment in scream trilogy.The film stars Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courteney Cox Arquette, each reprising their roles from the first two films.This is the only part of the
Scream trilogy not to be written by Kevin Williamson, as he was busy working on his short-lived
television program Wasteland (TV series). Newcomer Ehren Kruger (who would later go on to write the highly successful screenplays for both
The Ring and
The Ring Two) was given the task of writing the script based on notes Williamson himself had sketched out.
Plot
Having experienced the trauma of the first two pictures, Campbell's Sidney Prescott character now lives in a secluded area of California where she works as a women's crisis counselor from her home. Her whereabouts are unknown even to her surviving friends (save for Dewey, played by Arquette). Gale Weathers (Cox) has become a largely successful news reporter (of a sensationalism style), thanks to the books she wrote revolving around the murders of the first two films (and subsequent films based on the books).
The film begins when Cotton Weary (
Liev Schreiber), the man long-ago suspected of killing Sidney's mother, is slaughtered (along with his girlfriend). Suspected of being related to the original killings,
Los Angeles, California police detectives (led by Mark Kincaid, played by
Patrick Dempsey) inform Gale Weathers of Weary's murder, asking if she may know anything about a picture found at the murder scene. When she identifies it as a picture of Maureen Prescott, Sidney's mother, it becomes apparent the killings are linked to her murder.
Meanwhile, Weathers visits the set of the latest film in the
Stab series,
Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro. There she discovers a set that looks identical to the scene of the horrific "real" events that plagued her in the first
Scream (film) film. The visit also provides Weathers with the opportunity to meet director Roman Bridger (Scott Foley) and the various performers who are portraying the real-life people she knew or knows: Angelina Tyler (Emily Mortimer) as "Sidney", Sarah Darling (
Jenny McCarthy) as "Candy", Tom Prinze (Matt Keeslar) as "Dewey" and Jennifer Jolie (Parker Posey) as Gale herself.
Soon, these actors are systematically killed off in the same order as they are slated to be murdered in the
Stab 3 script. Sidney is brought in to help unravel who is behind these killings, but she is barely holding onto her own sanity because of the trauma of past events.
It turns out that Roman (who had faked his own murder) is the killer known as Ghostface (Scream), the connection being that he is the son of Sidney's mother (her half-brother). He was born as the result of Sidney's mother being raped during her stint as a B-list movie actress in Hollywood. Gale and her movie counterpart discovered Sid's mother's acting career, which brought forth somewhat of a short-lived friendship, as fake Gale was killed towards the end. Roman tells Sidney that her mother left her father and cheated on him with Hank Loomis, causing Mrs. Loomis to leave her husband. So Roman told Billy Loomis why his mother had left his father, and told him to kill Maureen. Roman also told Billy to have an accomplice that was weak and easily willing to help him out, which turned out to be Stu Macher. Eventually, when Sidney confronts Roman, she "kills" him by shooting him with a gun she snuck in, but he was wearing a bullet-proof vest. He manages to shoot her in the heart, but she was also wearing a bullet-proof vest (one from the police station), and kills him. As usual, Roman, being the main villain, wasn't really dead and Dewey kills him for real after being told (by Sidney, the only one who knew of Roman's bulletproof vest) to shoot Roman in the head.
Satirical/Self-Referential Style
Once again,
Scream 3 uses self-aware characters and generally references itself as a movie most of the time.
Most of the story is set in Hollywood, and focuses on the making of
Stab 3, the
Scream franchise's parody of itself. For instance, actors (Parker Posey and Matt Keeslar) are playing characters that are actors (Jennifer Jolie and Tom Prinze) playing characters based on Gale and Dewey respectively. There is a constant comparison between the "movie Gale" played by Jennifer and the "real" one.
"Jennifer Jolie" is a combination of Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie. "Angelina Tyler" is a cominbation of Angelina Jolie and Liv Tyler. "Tom Prinze" is a combination of Tom Cruise and Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Jenny McCarthy's character of Sarah complains that she is playing a bit character that is killed off after two scenes. This is exactly what happens to Sarah, and the number of scenes she has in
Scream 3.
The characters believe Randy's rules about surviving a trilogy, and by the end even Sidney herself believes she is in a trilogy. Several scenes take place on movie sets which are actually sets of the first film. The climax takes place in a producer's house, with various movie props and filming equipment figuring prominently. Finally, the movie literally ends with "the door being left open" for future installments.
There are also celebrity cameos (Carrie Fisher, Nancy O'Dell, Jay and Silent Bob), and general Hollywood references (Brad Pitt, Connie Chung, Seinfeld, etc).
Cast
The Rules
A signature device, started in
Scream (film) and continued in
Scream 2 and
Scream 3, was the typical "rules" for that type of horror movie being stated by the characters. In
Scream 3, Sidney, Dewey, Gale and Randy's sister (Heather Matarazzo), watch a video made by Randy (
Jamie Kennedy, in a cameo role) before his death in
Scream 2; he states that if the third movie is just another sequel, then the standard rules for a sequel (given in
Scream 2#The Rules) apply. However, "If you find yourself dealing with an unexpected backstory, and a preponderance of exposition, then the sequel rules do not apply. Because you are not dealing with a sequel, you are dealing with the concluding chapter of a trilogy." The rules for the final concluding chapter of a trilogy are different:
"You've got a killer who’s gonna be superhuman. Stabbing him won’t work, shooting him won’t work. Basically in the third one, you gotta cryogenically freeze his head, decapitate him, or blow him up."
"Anyone, including the main character, can die. This means you, Sid."
"The past will come back to bite you in the ass. Whatever you think you know about the past, forget it. The past is not at rest! Any sins you think were committed in the past are about to break out and destroy you."
Basically... In the third movie? All bets are off.
Cameo appearances
Jay and Silent Bob, the popular characters from
Kevin Smith's movies, appear as tourists visiting Sunrise Studios. In the original
Scream, a VHS copy of their first film
Clerks can be spotted in Stu Macher's house. Kevin Smith would later go on to include
Wes Craven in a cameo as the director of a fictitious
Scream 4 in
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back; in addition, a copy of
Scream 3 can be seen in the background of a scene taking place within a video store in Smith's 2004 in film film
Jersey Girl (2004 film).
Wes Craven makes a cameo appearance dressed as a tourist walking behind Jay and Silent Bob, outside the
Stab 3 set.
Carrie Fisher plays Bianca Burnette, an employee of the studio making Stab 3. Talking with Gale, she says that when she was young she tried to win the casting to play Princess Leia Organa, but the role went to a girl who slept with George Lucas.
References to people
- Gale, played by Courteney Cox, makes mention of Jennifer's relationship with Brad Pitt. In reality, Cox's Friends co-star Jennifer Aniston was married to Pitt. In an ironic twist, Jennifer's last name is Jolie, an obvious reference to Angelina Jolie, the woman Pitt left Aniston for, though some time after the movie was completed.
- The name on the empty cinematographer's chair on the set of the fictitious Stab 3 is the name of the real film's actual cinematographer, Peter Deming.
- Jay and Silent Bob, who make an appearance, mistake Gale for TV reporter Connie Chung, when Jay says about Gale, "It's that TV news chick Connie Chung." Also, when Jay and Silent Bob mistake Gale for Connie Chung, they mention Maury Povich to Gale, when Jay asks "Hey, Connie, How's Maury?", right before she gives both of them the finger.
- During the studio tour, the tour guide mentions that making a stop to the set of Seinfeld. Patrick Warburton, who plays Steven Stone in the film, earned fame for his recurring role as Elaine Benes's boyfriend David Puddy on Seinfeld.
- Lance Henriksen's director character shares the same name as the famous 17th century English poet John Milton, best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost. Many have drawn similarities between the character in the film with Satan in Paradise Lost.
- Patrick Dempsey's character, Detective Kincaid, shares his surname with Rowland Kincaid who is a character in Nightmare On Elm Street 3
Music
{{Infobox Album| Name = Scream 3| Type = Soundtrack| Longtype =| Artist = Various Artists| Producer =| Reviews = *[All Music Guide link] song "Red Right Hand" is played in the film, having been heard in all three films. Nick Cave actually wrote a "sequel" to the song just for the film, which can be heard in the closing credits. This song features on The Seeds'
B-Sides and Rarities (The Seeds album). Additionally,
Marco Beltrami uses a few notes from the song in his score.
Also, the
Creed (band) song "What If (Creed song)" has a video which resembles the happenings of
Scream 3, and is featured on the DVD release of the movie. It has a cameo appearance for David Arquette.
Track listing
What If (Creed song) - Creed (band) 5:19
Wait and Bleed - Slipknot (band) 2:32
Suffocate - Finger Eleven 3:50
Spiders (System of a Down song) - System of a Down 3:36
Automatic - American Pearl 3:34
Fall - Sevendust 5:22
Time Bomb - Godsmack 3:59
Tyler's Song - Coal Chamber 2:51
So Real - Static X 5:42
Crowded Elevator - Incubus 4:44
Debonaire - Dope (band) 2:34
Sunburn - Fuel (band) 4:25
Get on, Get Off - Powerman 5000 3:37
Wanna Be Martyr - Full Devil Jacket 3:23
Dissention - Orgy (band) 3:32
Crawl - Staind 4:32
Click Click - Ear Two Thousand 3:15
Is This the End - Creed (band) 6:15
Reception
The film set a record in its opening weekend for the number of screens in the United States: 3,467. This was later surpassed by
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) (
2001 in film) with 3,762.
Though the film had a sizeable opening weekend of over $34 million, it was the only entry in the series that failed to gross over $100 million, falling just short at $89 million.
Critically, the film received mixed reviews. Some critics appreciated the tone of violence (the film contains much less gore than its predecessors), but were disappointed with the plot. The movie was criticized for actually becoming the very thing that the SCREAM series spoofed upon.
External links
{{Infobox Film|| name = Scream 3 | image = Scream3poster.jpg |
caption = ''Scream 3'' film poster |
imdb_id = 0134084 |
writer = [Ehren Kruger |
starring = [Neve Campbell
[Courteney Cox
[David Arquette
[Jamie Kennedy
[Patrick Dempsey
[Jenny McCarthy
[Liev Schreiber
[Parker Posey
[Deon Richmond
[Kelly Rutherford |
director = [Wes Craven |
producer = [Cathy Konrad,
[Wes Craven,
[Marianne Maddalena |
distributor = [Dimension Films |
released = [February 4, [2000 in film |
runtime = 117 min. |
language = English |
budget = [United States Dollar40,000,000 (est.) |
gross = $161,834,276 | music = |
amg_id = 1:181888 |
preceded_by = ''[Scream 2''|
-->
{{Infobox movie certificates |Finland = K-15
|Sweden = 15
|United_States = R
|United_Kingdom = 18
-->
Scream 3 (
2000 in film) (theatrical name "Scr3am") is the third installment in the successful
Scream (film) trilogy of satirical
horror films. It follows
Scream 2.
Scream 3 is the final installment in scream trilogy.The film stars Neve Campbell, David Arquette and
Courteney Cox Arquette, each reprising their roles from the first two films.This is the only part of the
Scream trilogy not to be written by Kevin Williamson, as he was busy working on his short-lived
television program Wasteland (TV series). Newcomer
Ehren Kruger (who would later go on to write the highly successful screenplays for both
The Ring and
The Ring Two) was given the task of writing the script based on notes Williamson himself had sketched out.
Plot
Having experienced the trauma of the first two pictures, Campbell's Sidney Prescott character now lives in a secluded area of California where she works as a women's crisis counselor from her home. Her whereabouts are unknown even to her surviving friends (save for Dewey, played by Arquette). Gale Weathers (Cox) has become a largely successful news reporter (of a sensationalism style), thanks to the books she wrote revolving around the murders of the first two films (and subsequent films based on the books).
The film begins when Cotton Weary (
Liev Schreiber), the man long-ago suspected of killing Sidney's mother, is slaughtered (along with his girlfriend). Suspected of being related to the original killings,
Los Angeles, California police detectives (led by Mark Kincaid, played by Patrick Dempsey) inform Gale Weathers of Weary's murder, asking if she may know anything about a picture found at the murder scene. When she identifies it as a picture of Maureen Prescott, Sidney's mother, it becomes apparent the killings are linked to her murder.
Meanwhile, Weathers visits the set of the latest film in the
Stab series,
Stab 3: Return to Woodsboro. There she discovers a set that looks identical to the scene of the horrific "real" events that plagued her in the first
Scream (film) film. The visit also provides Weathers with the opportunity to meet director Roman Bridger (
Scott Foley) and the various performers who are portraying the real-life people she knew or knows: Angelina Tyler (
Emily Mortimer) as "Sidney", Sarah Darling (
Jenny McCarthy) as "Candy", Tom Prinze (Matt Keeslar) as "Dewey" and Jennifer Jolie (
Parker Posey) as Gale herself.
Soon, these actors are systematically killed off in the same order as they are slated to be murdered in the
Stab 3 script. Sidney is brought in to help unravel who is behind these killings, but she is barely holding onto her own sanity because of the trauma of past events.
It turns out that Roman (who had faked his own murder) is the killer known as Ghostface (Scream), the connection being that he is the son of Sidney's mother (her half-brother). He was born as the result of Sidney's mother being raped during her stint as a B-list movie actress in Hollywood. Gale and her movie counterpart discovered Sid's mother's acting career, which brought forth somewhat of a short-lived friendship, as fake Gale was killed towards the end. Roman tells Sidney that her mother left her father and cheated on him with Hank Loomis, causing Mrs. Loomis to leave her husband. So Roman told Billy Loomis why his mother had left his father, and told him to kill Maureen. Roman also told Billy to have an accomplice that was weak and easily willing to help him out, which turned out to be Stu Macher. Eventually, when Sidney confronts Roman, she "kills" him by shooting him with a gun she snuck in, but he was wearing a bullet-proof vest. He manages to shoot her in the heart, but she was also wearing a bullet-proof vest (one from the police station), and kills him. As usual, Roman, being the main villain, wasn't really dead and Dewey kills him for real after being told (by Sidney, the only one who knew of Roman's bulletproof vest) to shoot Roman in the head.
Satirical/Self-Referential Style
Once again,
Scream 3 uses self-aware characters and generally references itself as a movie most of the time.
Most of the story is set in Hollywood, and focuses on the making of
Stab 3, the
Scream franchise's parody of itself. For instance, actors (Parker Posey and Matt Keeslar) are playing characters that are actors (Jennifer Jolie and Tom Prinze) playing characters based on Gale and Dewey respectively. There is a constant comparison between the "movie Gale" played by Jennifer and the "real" one.
"Jennifer Jolie" is a combination of Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie. "Angelina Tyler" is a cominbation of Angelina Jolie and Liv Tyler. "Tom Prinze" is a combination of Tom Cruise and Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Jenny McCarthy's character of Sarah complains that she is playing a bit character that is killed off after two scenes. This is exactly what happens to Sarah, and the number of scenes she has in
Scream 3.
The characters believe Randy's rules about surviving a trilogy, and by the end even Sidney herself believes she is in a trilogy. Several scenes take place on movie sets which are actually sets of the first film. The climax takes place in a producer's house, with various movie props and filming equipment figuring prominently. Finally, the movie literally ends with "the door being left open" for future installments.
There are also celebrity cameos (Carrie Fisher, Nancy O'Dell, Jay and Silent Bob), and general Hollywood references (Brad Pitt, Connie Chung, Seinfeld, etc).
Cast
The Rules
A signature device, started in
Scream (film) and continued in
Scream 2 and
Scream 3, was the typical "rules" for that type of horror movie being stated by the characters. In
Scream 3, Sidney, Dewey, Gale and Randy's sister (Heather Matarazzo), watch a video made by Randy (
Jamie Kennedy, in a cameo role) before his death in
Scream 2; he states that if the third movie is just another sequel, then the standard rules for a sequel (given in
Scream 2#The Rules) apply. However, "If you find yourself dealing with an unexpected backstory, and a preponderance of exposition, then the sequel rules do not apply. Because you are not dealing with a sequel, you are dealing with the concluding chapter of a trilogy." The rules for the final concluding chapter of a trilogy are different:
"You've got a killer who’s gonna be superhuman. Stabbing him won’t work, shooting him won’t work. Basically in the third one, you gotta cryogenically freeze his head, decapitate him, or blow him up."
"Anyone, including the main character, can die. This means you, Sid."
"The past will come back to bite you in the ass. Whatever you think you know about the past, forget it. The past is not at rest! Any sins you think were committed in the past are about to break out and destroy you."
Basically... In the third movie? All bets are off.
Cameo appearances
Jay and Silent Bob, the popular characters from Kevin Smith's movies, appear as tourists visiting Sunrise Studios. In the original
Scream, a VHS copy of their first film
Clerks can be spotted in Stu Macher's house. Kevin Smith would later go on to include
Wes Craven in a cameo as the director of a fictitious
Scream 4 in
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back; in addition, a copy of
Scream 3 can be seen in the background of a scene taking place within a video store in Smith's 2004 in film film
Jersey Girl (2004 film).
Wes Craven makes a
cameo appearance dressed as a tourist walking behind Jay and Silent Bob, outside the
Stab 3 set.
Carrie Fisher plays Bianca Burnette, an employee of the studio making Stab 3. Talking with Gale, she says that when she was young she tried to win the casting to play
Princess Leia Organa, but the role went to a girl who slept with George Lucas.
References to people
- Gale, played by Courteney Cox, makes mention of Jennifer's relationship with Brad Pitt. In reality, Cox's Friends co-star Jennifer Aniston was married to Pitt. In an ironic twist, Jennifer's last name is Jolie, an obvious reference to Angelina Jolie, the woman Pitt left Aniston for, though some time after the movie was completed.
- The name on the empty cinematographer's chair on the set of the fictitious Stab 3 is the name of the real film's actual cinematographer, Peter Deming.
- Jay and Silent Bob, who make an appearance, mistake Gale for TV reporter Connie Chung, when Jay says about Gale, "It's that TV news chick Connie Chung." Also, when Jay and Silent Bob mistake Gale for Connie Chung, they mention Maury Povich to Gale, when Jay asks "Hey, Connie, How's Maury?", right before she gives both of them the finger.
- During the studio tour, the tour guide mentions that making a stop to the set of Seinfeld. Patrick Warburton, who plays Steven Stone in the film, earned fame for his recurring role as Elaine Benes's boyfriend David Puddy on Seinfeld.
- Lance Henriksen's director character shares the same name as the famous 17th century English poet John Milton, best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost. Many have drawn similarities between the character in the film with Satan in Paradise Lost.
- Patrick Dempsey's character, Detective Kincaid, shares his surname with Rowland Kincaid who is a character in Nightmare On Elm Street 3
Music
{{Infobox Album| Name = Scream 3| Type = Soundtrack| Longtype =| Artist =
Various Artists| Producer =| Reviews = *[All Music Guide link] song "Red Right Hand" is played in the film, having been heard in all three films. Nick Cave actually wrote a "sequel" to the song just for the film, which can be heard in the closing credits. This song features on The Seeds'
B-Sides and Rarities (The Seeds album). Additionally, Marco Beltrami uses a few notes from the song in his score.
Also, the Creed (band) song "What If (Creed song)" has a video which resembles the happenings of
Scream 3, and is featured on the DVD release of the movie. It has a cameo appearance for David Arquette.
Track listing
What If (Creed song) - Creed (band) 5:19
Wait and Bleed - Slipknot (band) 2:32
Suffocate - Finger Eleven 3:50
Spiders (System of a Down song) - System of a Down 3:36
Automatic - American Pearl 3:34
Fall - Sevendust 5:22
Time Bomb - Godsmack 3:59
Tyler's Song - Coal Chamber 2:51
So Real - Static X 5:42
Crowded Elevator - Incubus 4:44
Debonaire - Dope (band) 2:34
Sunburn - Fuel (band) 4:25
Get on, Get Off - Powerman 5000 3:37
Wanna Be Martyr - Full Devil Jacket 3:23
Dissention - Orgy (band) 3:32
Crawl - Staind 4:32
Click Click - Ear Two Thousand 3:15
Is This the End - Creed (band) 6:15
Reception
The film set a record in its opening weekend for the number of screens in the
United States: 3,467. This was later surpassed by
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) (
2001 in film) with 3,762.
Though the film had a sizeable opening weekend of over $34 million, it was the only entry in the series that failed to gross over $100 million, falling just short at $89 million.
Critically, the film received mixed reviews. Some critics appreciated the tone of violence (the film contains much less gore than its predecessors), but were disappointed with the plot. The movie was criticized for actually becoming the very thing that the SCREAM series spoofed upon.
External links