>>214023298
If I can say a little about why I love what Wes was doing with Scream 3:
It is a film that revolves around artifice. Of course this is present in the first film, where the film repeatedly points to its own fakeness, to the point that certain characters who have watched enough horror movies can predict what is going to happen next. Scream 2 and 4-6, for me, although good horror movies, are far less critical and feel like the standard cliche horror films that 1 mocked. However, 3 is Wes returning to the theme of artifice, but pushing it so much farther that the movie doesn't work as a believable narrative for most fans.
Taking place in Hollywood, it is the only film in the franchise that is less about horror movies than it is about making horror movies. And despite its over-the-top slapstick goofiness, it is the darkest and angriest film in the series. A lot of people don't care about Roman but he's my favourite Ghostface for what he represents. It's mentioned that he's a rape baby at the end, when he talks about how Sid's mom got drugged and fucked by producers in the secret screening room. Positioning him as the first killer means that the entire series was literally caused by an actress getting Big Harve'd, and that white ghostly mask that haunts Sidney throughout her life is the spectre of Hollywood sexual abuse (thematically mirrored by Roman wearing a sheet and pretending to be the ghost of Sidney's mother, AKA, literalising what the Ghostface mask is thematically representing in the narrative). When they have their showdown in the secret screening room at the end, they're fighting in the birthplace of Ghostface, and Sidney killing him there is a potent symbol for me.
There are a lot of other things I like, such as how the "real" characters are followed around by the "fake" versions, and how this loss of identity is compounded by Roman using a voice changer to literally steal all their voices, but I realise 3 doesn't mean as much to anyone else itt.
