1. Favourite Character:
Billy Loomis.
We don't know anything about what Billy really was like before he snapped or at which point exactly did this happen? We can assume he wasn't always so emotionally cold as he appears in the film's time period, as he had a nice girlfriend who also opened up her heart to him even after he'd been an insensitive *beep*. So what all there was to him prior to the moment he snapped? He obviously had his temper but did he normally give into the pure rage he does in the film? (Stabbing Stu way too much and bad, hitting him with the phone [yes it was an accident in the set and not in the script but they left it in], tearing the living room apart roaring in rage etc.) How complex was his inner life during his murderous rampage? I would imagine the first time you take a human life is deeply affecting and changes you forever. Not to mention taking it by brutally gutting the person. And Billy was only, what, 15 or 16 then?
Most of those intriguing things could of course be found in just about any of the killers in the series but what makes Billy so special to me is that he was a loved one of the main character, the main victim and the heroine and it was romantic love. (Romance + horror = YAY!) Did he find out about Maureen and his dad while dating Sid and thus really loved Sid back (if so, his inner life during the rampage most certainly would've been complex), or did he start dating her with evil means? My point; we know so little but yet many essential details that there is sooo much we can do with his character.
And as I've brought up in couple of fan picks here, I love his motive because of its simplicity and non-dramaticness yet psychological depth and theme (which is NOT "a mama's boy". He was not a mama's boy the least bit.)
Billy may not have an outstanding personality as a killer but he certainly has much to give as a whole character. I love him to bits!
Though I personally like to ignore Scream 3 completely when visioning Billy's character. Roman can bugger off, Billy doesn't need some Sidney's-half-brother-from-hell to find out about the affair or to study how to pull off the perfect murder. (I love you Kevin Williamson, you're brilliant writer and I think Roman is a great homage to Laurie and Michael, but I just feel like he's too far-fetched for the Scream series and kinda ruins the original killers in some way. I think I'd still enjoy S3 if you wrote the script, but you didn't. And I know Kevin Williamson likely will never read this post but as there's a one in a gazillion chance he may, I wanted to say that. xD))
I'm not even sure if I wish to include Mrs. Loomis as the reason for Billy's tendency to snap...It's fascinating and it adds and works darn well, but I kinda think it even more fascinating if the mother didn't have such issues and the son inherited his tendencies from somewhere else.
Billy Loomis = <3
2. Favourite Movie:
SCREAM the original. I like S2 a LOT for every possible reason, but it never quite stole my heart the way the original did. I don't know, maybe the kick-ass opening scene of the original film is to blame or the fact that as a sequel it unavoidably got repeative in general even though awfully interesting and entertaining. S3 then, well, as said I dislike the idea of Sid having a half-brother from her mom's secret life and that brother turning out to be the killer. Although his motive rocks, but basically ARGH NO WAY it ruined the original killers to me in a way and just feels far-fetched. And as said, that basic idea which I dislike, I think I'd enjoy in itself if the screenplay was written by Kevin Williamson like all the current other three movies I like/love but it wasn't. S3's screenplay is just painfully cheesy and making it come off like a cheap horror comedy with partially bad acting. (From the new actors, the original cast rules.) Scream 4 is awesome too but it's still a sequel and has remarkably different atmosphare to it than the original.
I just wrote an article here "10 reasons why SCREAM is So Awesome", I think that pretty much covers why the original is my favourite in the series.
3. Favourite Killer(s):
Billy Loomis is my favourite and the reasons I already covered in in the first question's answer. Mrs. Loomis was my second favourite by adding so brilliantly and fascinatingly to the original, until Jill came along with her shockingly fresh and sick motive and took Mrs. Loomis' #2 rank.
4. Favourite Sidney Moment:
I can't decide any one absolute favourite.
- S1: Billy getting "killed" in front of her and them extenting their arms/hands so dramatically, and her being so devistated and upset.
- S2: Mickey taunting her about "boyfriend killer boyfriend killer" while Derek tries to convince her to untie him and her not knowing what to think or do and then Mickey shooting Derek, Sid devistated again while Derek's last words sound "I could've never hurt you."
- S3: When she wanders into the film set of her former house and into her room part of it and sits on the bed, hearing in her mind a flashback to her and Billy's discussion on their sex life. (The ONLY good scene in the entire film.) I love it as it points out her trauma/issue of having given her virginity to someone like Billy whome she no doubt had loved back then.
- S4: Lol. Umm...Probably the moments when Jill was opening up about how in her opinion her boydfirned was shittier than Billy had been and how she [Jill] wanted to become her [Sid] and how even her own mother had to die for the cause. I can only try to imagine the amount amd depths of the WTFs that must have been spinning around poor Sid's head in those moments.
5. Favourite Dewey Moment:
From Scream 4 when he wakes up in the morning to a Mission Impossible tune. xD But then again I also love from Scream 2 the "If you excuse me, I have some oozing to do." x)
6. Favourite Gale Moment:
Scream: "Guess I remembered the safety that time, you bastard." xDD It's not so funny as an independent line and moment but when knowing what incident it comes from.
7. Favourite Supporting Female Character:
I don't really like Tatum that much and since the ones from the other films don't get enough depth/don't have much to say to me, I'll end up with Gale. I like the idea of her and Sid's relationship/story base and how she can be such a bitch and her motives for doing good deeds are in the least questionable, but in the deepest she seems to have a good and loving heart. But kudos for Tatum for being the only one who put up a real fight and didn't die by a knife!
8. Favourite Supporting Male Character:
Randy! <3 I relate to his movie geekness and he's very sympathetic personality and I hate how they offed him. :'( </3
9. Favourite New Generation Character:
Hm...Don't really have a favourite, none of them really got to me much. But I liked most the movie club guy who got killed and tried to claim himself gay "if it helps" not to get killed. He was funny and sympathetic, kinda like Randy, but nowhere near as great a character. Trevor intrigues me only because of his looks/being are such a screaming combo of Cotton and Derek.
10. Favourite Opening Scene:
SCREAM the original, no doubt hands down THE BEST!!!
11. Favourite Kill/Death:
Well, Casey's is the most bad-ass and memoriable but way too brutal and prolonged torment to be downright my favourite. Hm...I don't know, it seems I can't bring myself to feel any death as favourite. I'm not really watching the films for the literal kills/deaths in that manner anyway. But if I had to name one I guess it'd be Cici's from Scream 2. But only because Cici's played by the awsome Sarah Michelle Gellar, so no valid reason. :D
12. Favourite Quote:
- S1: "Total abandonment can cause serious deviant behaviour, it certainly fucked you up; it made you have sex with a psychopath." OR "Guess who just called the police and reported your sorry motherfucking ass!"
- S2: "No. I'm very sane. My motive isn't as 90's as Mickey's. Mine is just good, old-fashioned revenge. You killed my son! And now I kill you, and I can't think of anything more rational!"
- S3: BLAAAH. xO *thumbs down* I don't care!
- S4: "She said you were the Angel of Death." (A very close runner up is "You forgot the first rule of remakes; don't fuck with the original.")
13. Favourite Horror Movie Reference:
"Did they ever decide why Hannibal Lecter liked to eat people?" Unfortunately the canon creator has decided that by now and it is a bit disappointing. Hannibal would've deserved something more original.
14. Favourite Scene (Scream):
Does the entire final act count as a scene? If not, then...When they reveal the killers and Billy's motive. Or when Billy and Stu stab each other. Or when Billy's trying to find Sid after she gets away with her dad. I can't decide which is better.
15. Favourite Scene (Scream 2):
Mickey/Derek/Sid, the manipulation scene with the boyfriend-killer-untie-me etc.
16. Favourite Scene (Scream 3):
As said, the only good scene in the film, the one where Sidney goes to her movie set room in her movie set house and has the flashback. The reason why I already explained in the Favourite Sidney Momebnt question.
17. Favourite Scene (Scream 4):
Perhaps the closet scene. I mean when the Killer calls to Jill and Kirby takes the call and finally the killer attacks from the other closet. ("I never said I was in YOUR closet.") There is just something about the tension in that scene, it's so..."innocent" with Kirby's attitude, the killer's annoyed "I'm not fucking Trevor" and yet the viewer knowing it was for real. And then the whole attack chaos...There's just something about it. :P
18. Favourite Rule:
"Virgins can die now." from Scream 4. (I'm not sure though if it was in the actual film but at least in the trailer.)
19. Favourite Ship:
Billy/Sid.
20. Favourite Parody Kill In ‘Stab’:
None. I generally dislike the cheap Stab movies.
21. Who You Thought Was The Killer But Wasn’t:
- S1: Neil Prescott.
- S2: I actually thought it would be Mickey and don't recall really suspecting anyone else.
- S3: I didn't give a rat's butt. The screenplay didn't inspire me at all to play detective. :/
- S4: Again I thought it might be Neil Prescott even though he wasn't shown on screen at all. Lol. To think if it actually was. "HAHA, we had you guessing for two hours and we never even showd the killer until now!" xD
22. Favourite Sidney/Gale Moment:
In Scream when they discuss the book and the trial and Cotton and all that. It's interesting and lays out well their relationship and the reason for the tension.
23. Favourite Sidney/Dewey Moment:
I don't recall them sahring any especially interesting/fun moment.
24. Favourite Gale/Dewey Moment:
In Scream when they first discuss on campus about the murders. They're both so sweet.
25. Favourite New Generation Moment:
When Jill was explaining how the world would see the story themselves and was showing Sid a bit of the video. The murder bit shown on it was even so savage. It was a really sick and scary moment to think of what if there really were such videos on YouTube for example.
26. Favourite Quote From Killer:
"You should never say 'Who's there'. Don't you watch scary movies? It's a death wish. You might as well come out here to investigate a strange noise or something."
27. Favourite Actor Cameo:
Sarah Michelle Gellar as Casey "CiCi" Cooper.
28. Favourite Killer Reveal:
Scream 2, Mrs. Loomis. I love it how it is exactly like Mickey says "Billy's mother! Didn't see that coming, did you?" :P And practically as she just steps out of the shadows/from behind the corner/whatever I can't remember exactly, and Sidney is (naturally) the first one to recognize her and the one first saying "Mrs. Loomis?" Ah, I love it!! <3
29. Favourite Fake Death/Almost Death:
Billy's in Scream. Partially for the reason mentioned in Favorite Sidney moments. It's so emotionally charged (especially at the first view when you didn't know!) and comes from a very intriguing situation instead of the typical phone-stalky situation or out of the blue.
30. Did You Like Scream 4/ Should There Be A Scream 5:
A screaming YES to both! :)
Billy Loomis.
We don't know anything about what Billy really was like before he snapped or at which point exactly did this happen? We can assume he wasn't always so emotionally cold as he appears in the film's time period, as he had a nice girlfriend who also opened up her heart to him even after he'd been an insensitive *beep*. So what all there was to him prior to the moment he snapped? He obviously had his temper but did he normally give into the pure rage he does in the film? (Stabbing Stu way too much and bad, hitting him with the phone [yes it was an accident in the set and not in the script but they left it in], tearing the living room apart roaring in rage etc.) How complex was his inner life during his murderous rampage? I would imagine the first time you take a human life is deeply affecting and changes you forever. Not to mention taking it by brutally gutting the person. And Billy was only, what, 15 or 16 then?
Most of those intriguing things could of course be found in just about any of the killers in the series but what makes Billy so special to me is that he was a loved one of the main character, the main victim and the heroine and it was romantic love. (Romance + horror = YAY!) Did he find out about Maureen and his dad while dating Sid and thus really loved Sid back (if so, his inner life during the rampage most certainly would've been complex), or did he start dating her with evil means? My point; we know so little but yet many essential details that there is sooo much we can do with his character.
And as I've brought up in couple of fan picks here, I love his motive because of its simplicity and non-dramaticness yet psychological depth and theme (which is NOT "a mama's boy". He was not a mama's boy the least bit.)
Billy may not have an outstanding personality as a killer but he certainly has much to give as a whole character. I love him to bits!
Though I personally like to ignore Scream 3 completely when visioning Billy's character. Roman can bugger off, Billy doesn't need some Sidney's-half-brother-from-hell to find out about the affair or to study how to pull off the perfect murder. (I love you Kevin Williamson, you're brilliant writer and I think Roman is a great homage to Laurie and Michael, but I just feel like he's too far-fetched for the Scream series and kinda ruins the original killers in some way. I think I'd still enjoy S3 if you wrote the script, but you didn't. And I know Kevin Williamson likely will never read this post but as there's a one in a gazillion chance he may, I wanted to say that. xD))
I'm not even sure if I wish to include Mrs. Loomis as the reason for Billy's tendency to snap...It's fascinating and it adds and works darn well, but I kinda think it even more fascinating if the mother didn't have such issues and the son inherited his tendencies from somewhere else.
Billy Loomis = <3
2. Favourite Movie:
SCREAM the original. I like S2 a LOT for every possible reason, but it never quite stole my heart the way the original did. I don't know, maybe the kick-ass opening scene of the original film is to blame or the fact that as a sequel it unavoidably got repeative in general even though awfully interesting and entertaining. S3 then, well, as said I dislike the idea of Sid having a half-brother from her mom's secret life and that brother turning out to be the killer. Although his motive rocks, but basically ARGH NO WAY it ruined the original killers to me in a way and just feels far-fetched. And as said, that basic idea which I dislike, I think I'd enjoy in itself if the screenplay was written by Kevin Williamson like all the current other three movies I like/love but it wasn't. S3's screenplay is just painfully cheesy and making it come off like a cheap horror comedy with partially bad acting. (From the new actors, the original cast rules.) Scream 4 is awesome too but it's still a sequel and has remarkably different atmosphare to it than the original.
I just wrote an article here "10 reasons why SCREAM is So Awesome", I think that pretty much covers why the original is my favourite in the series.
3. Favourite Killer(s):
Billy Loomis is my favourite and the reasons I already covered in in the first question's answer. Mrs. Loomis was my second favourite by adding so brilliantly and fascinatingly to the original, until Jill came along with her shockingly fresh and sick motive and took Mrs. Loomis' #2 rank.
4. Favourite Sidney Moment:
I can't decide any one absolute favourite.
- S1: Billy getting "killed" in front of her and them extenting their arms/hands so dramatically, and her being so devistated and upset.
- S2: Mickey taunting her about "boyfriend killer boyfriend killer" while Derek tries to convince her to untie him and her not knowing what to think or do and then Mickey shooting Derek, Sid devistated again while Derek's last words sound "I could've never hurt you."
- S3: When she wanders into the film set of her former house and into her room part of it and sits on the bed, hearing in her mind a flashback to her and Billy's discussion on their sex life. (The ONLY good scene in the entire film.) I love it as it points out her trauma/issue of having given her virginity to someone like Billy whome she no doubt had loved back then.
- S4: Lol. Umm...Probably the moments when Jill was opening up about how in her opinion her boydfirned was shittier than Billy had been and how she [Jill] wanted to become her [Sid] and how even her own mother had to die for the cause. I can only try to imagine the amount amd depths of the WTFs that must have been spinning around poor Sid's head in those moments.
5. Favourite Dewey Moment:
From Scream 4 when he wakes up in the morning to a Mission Impossible tune. xD But then again I also love from Scream 2 the "If you excuse me, I have some oozing to do." x)
6. Favourite Gale Moment:
Scream: "Guess I remembered the safety that time, you bastard." xDD It's not so funny as an independent line and moment but when knowing what incident it comes from.
7. Favourite Supporting Female Character:
I don't really like Tatum that much and since the ones from the other films don't get enough depth/don't have much to say to me, I'll end up with Gale. I like the idea of her and Sid's relationship/story base and how she can be such a bitch and her motives for doing good deeds are in the least questionable, but in the deepest she seems to have a good and loving heart. But kudos for Tatum for being the only one who put up a real fight and didn't die by a knife!
8. Favourite Supporting Male Character:
Randy! <3 I relate to his movie geekness and he's very sympathetic personality and I hate how they offed him. :'( </3
9. Favourite New Generation Character:
Hm...Don't really have a favourite, none of them really got to me much. But I liked most the movie club guy who got killed and tried to claim himself gay "if it helps" not to get killed. He was funny and sympathetic, kinda like Randy, but nowhere near as great a character. Trevor intrigues me only because of his looks/being are such a screaming combo of Cotton and Derek.
10. Favourite Opening Scene:
SCREAM the original, no doubt hands down THE BEST!!!
11. Favourite Kill/Death:
Well, Casey's is the most bad-ass and memoriable but way too brutal and prolonged torment to be downright my favourite. Hm...I don't know, it seems I can't bring myself to feel any death as favourite. I'm not really watching the films for the literal kills/deaths in that manner anyway. But if I had to name one I guess it'd be Cici's from Scream 2. But only because Cici's played by the awsome Sarah Michelle Gellar, so no valid reason. :D
12. Favourite Quote:
- S1: "Total abandonment can cause serious deviant behaviour, it certainly fucked you up; it made you have sex with a psychopath." OR "Guess who just called the police and reported your sorry motherfucking ass!"
- S2: "No. I'm very sane. My motive isn't as 90's as Mickey's. Mine is just good, old-fashioned revenge. You killed my son! And now I kill you, and I can't think of anything more rational!"
- S3: BLAAAH. xO *thumbs down* I don't care!
- S4: "She said you were the Angel of Death." (A very close runner up is "You forgot the first rule of remakes; don't fuck with the original.")
13. Favourite Horror Movie Reference:
"Did they ever decide why Hannibal Lecter liked to eat people?" Unfortunately the canon creator has decided that by now and it is a bit disappointing. Hannibal would've deserved something more original.
14. Favourite Scene (Scream):
Does the entire final act count as a scene? If not, then...When they reveal the killers and Billy's motive. Or when Billy and Stu stab each other. Or when Billy's trying to find Sid after she gets away with her dad. I can't decide which is better.
15. Favourite Scene (Scream 2):
Mickey/Derek/Sid, the manipulation scene with the boyfriend-killer-untie-me etc.
16. Favourite Scene (Scream 3):
As said, the only good scene in the film, the one where Sidney goes to her movie set room in her movie set house and has the flashback. The reason why I already explained in the Favourite Sidney Momebnt question.
17. Favourite Scene (Scream 4):
Perhaps the closet scene. I mean when the Killer calls to Jill and Kirby takes the call and finally the killer attacks from the other closet. ("I never said I was in YOUR closet.") There is just something about the tension in that scene, it's so..."innocent" with Kirby's attitude, the killer's annoyed "I'm not fucking Trevor" and yet the viewer knowing it was for real. And then the whole attack chaos...There's just something about it. :P
18. Favourite Rule:
"Virgins can die now." from Scream 4. (I'm not sure though if it was in the actual film but at least in the trailer.)
19. Favourite Ship:
Billy/Sid.
20. Favourite Parody Kill In ‘Stab’:
None. I generally dislike the cheap Stab movies.
21. Who You Thought Was The Killer But Wasn’t:
- S1: Neil Prescott.
- S2: I actually thought it would be Mickey and don't recall really suspecting anyone else.
- S3: I didn't give a rat's butt. The screenplay didn't inspire me at all to play detective. :/
- S4: Again I thought it might be Neil Prescott even though he wasn't shown on screen at all. Lol. To think if it actually was. "HAHA, we had you guessing for two hours and we never even showd the killer until now!" xD
22. Favourite Sidney/Gale Moment:
In Scream when they discuss the book and the trial and Cotton and all that. It's interesting and lays out well their relationship and the reason for the tension.
23. Favourite Sidney/Dewey Moment:
I don't recall them sahring any especially interesting/fun moment.
24. Favourite Gale/Dewey Moment:
In Scream when they first discuss on campus about the murders. They're both so sweet.
25. Favourite New Generation Moment:
When Jill was explaining how the world would see the story themselves and was showing Sid a bit of the video. The murder bit shown on it was even so savage. It was a really sick and scary moment to think of what if there really were such videos on YouTube for example.
26. Favourite Quote From Killer:
"You should never say 'Who's there'. Don't you watch scary movies? It's a death wish. You might as well come out here to investigate a strange noise or something."
27. Favourite Actor Cameo:
Sarah Michelle Gellar as Casey "CiCi" Cooper.
28. Favourite Killer Reveal:
Scream 2, Mrs. Loomis. I love it how it is exactly like Mickey says "Billy's mother! Didn't see that coming, did you?" :P And practically as she just steps out of the shadows/from behind the corner/whatever I can't remember exactly, and Sidney is (naturally) the first one to recognize her and the one first saying "Mrs. Loomis?" Ah, I love it!! <3
29. Favourite Fake Death/Almost Death:
Billy's in Scream. Partially for the reason mentioned in Favorite Sidney moments. It's so emotionally charged (especially at the first view when you didn't know!) and comes from a very intriguing situation instead of the typical phone-stalky situation or out of the blue.
30. Did You Like Scream 4/ Should There Be A Scream 5:
A screaming YES to both! :)
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