Line #22 Awesome/Scream1996


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3	* Sidney taking out the killer Stu by [[ImprovisedWeapon dropping a TV on his head]].
4	** Bonus points for the awesome ad-libs by both Matthew Lillard and Neve Campbell.
5	--->'''Stu:''' I always had a thing for you, Sid!\
6	'''Sidney:''' [[PremortemOneliner In your dreams.]]
7	* Tatum spending most of her chase scene kicking the killer's ass, smashing his face into a freezer door, hitting him several times in the crotch and face with beer bottles, and finally flipping him onto his back when he tried to bum-rush her. Had the [[DiabolusExMachina scene been played for any degree of reality]], Tatum would have emerged the victor.
8	** The best part is that many call her attempt to escape through the flap one of the dumbest escape attempts ever...except that Creator/RoseMcGowan ''could'' fit through the cat flap '''and''' her shirt needed to be stapled to the flap to keep from falling out when the door would rise.
9	* Gale shooting the killer towards the end with this one-liner:
10	-->'''Gale:''' I guess I remembered the safety that time you bastard.
11	** Her BadassBoast beforehand:
12	--->'''Gale:''' I’ve got an ending for you. The reporter left for dead in the news van comes to, stumbles onto you two dipshits, finds the gun, foils your plan, and saves the day.\
13	'''Sidney:''' [[EnemyMine I like that ending.]]
14	* Sidney's phone conversation with the killers:
15	-->'''Sidney:''' We're going to play a little game. It's called guess who just phoned the police and reported your sorry mother fucking ass!
16	** Extra points with her using the voice changer as she taunts them. Pure badass.
17	** As if that wasn't enough of ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine, she stabs Billy twice over, while dressed in his own Ghostface costume.
18	* Sidney doesn't even hesitate to put one through Billy's skull when it turns out that he's NotQuiteDead.
19	-->'''Sidney:''' Not in my movie.
20	** Even better, despite Billy attempting a JumpScare, she doesn't even bat an eye.
21	* Sidney doing an Indy slide to escape Ghostface in the bathroom.
22	* The principal gets one for chewing out two students for dressing up as Ghostface after two murders just happened and scaring Sidney, who had barely escaped Ghostface the night previously. Could he be described as a DeanBitterman? Probably. But he gets points for being mad at the right people and [[JerkassHasAPoint actually having a point]].
23	* Sidney punching Gale in the face. Yeah, she TookALevelInKindness later, but for the first half of the first movie, she causes Sidney nothing but pain. It's hard not to cheer Sidney on when she just decks her.
24	** It's extra awesome if you know this little fact - Sidney is a minor (unless she's eighteen but the original script has her at seventeen) and minors can't be identified legally in the media when they're tied to a crime. So Gale was breaking the law at trying to ambush Sidney for an interview, and the punch in the face was pure LaserGuidedKarma.
25	* The film also gives Creator/JamieLeeCurtis her credit for being the iconic slasher movie FinalGirl - dubbing her ''the'' 'Scream Queen'.
26	* Casey's GroinAttack kick on Ghostface while pinned on her lawn. It only delays her fate, but you can tell by the borderline-exaggerated StockSoundEffect that that shit ''hurt''.
27	* The opening scene alone is a cinematic masterpiece that rivals WesternAnimation/{{Up}} for the best first scene of a movie, and could arguably stand on its own as a self-contained short film. They use perfectly timed dialogue and editing to build up the suspense so that those who don't know better would think Casey is gonna survive. You don't even know she's dead until she's found by her parents, eviscerated and hung from a tree. That scene alone shows viewers just what they're in for.
28	** How different the scene is from most slasher movies. Much of the appeal of slasher films is a sort of morbid curiosity, a dark glee in seeing how skillfully and creatively the killer (and film crew) will dispatch this particular crop of victims. But the scene plays up actual ''horror'', first with Ghostface essentially psychologically torturing Casey, then the adrenaline-filled chase, her weakling calling out to her parents after she's been stabbed, then dying while her parents hear her last breaths over the phone, and finally forced to see her gutted and strung up on a tree. It leans into the terror and tragedy in a way few slashers have done before: a young woman has just been brutally murdered, and this scene forces you to confront that. It tells you in no uncertain terms what to expect: this is not a bloody fun movie. This is a '''Scary Movie'''.
29	* Sidney calling the killer's bluff and coming out onto the front porch, where he claims to be, showing that she isn't afraid - at least in that moment.
30	** The entirety of Sidney's first encounter with Ghostface, for both of them. Ghostface lures Sidney out to the porch to sneak into the house, then scares her enough over the phone to go back inside and lock the door, putting the security chain on it. Then the killer attacks from the closet. Ghostface knocks Sid down, but she seemingly instinctively kicks his legs out from under him, buying her precious seconds. While he gets on top of her with the knife she holds him off long enough and effectively enough he has to grab her head and knock it against the hardwood floor to stun her long enough to get an opening to kill her. But Sid recovers before he can capitalize on that, kicking him away and heading for the door. . . but she doesn't have time to undo the chain, so has to run upstairs (earlier, Sid had mocked horror films as "some killer stalking some big-breasted girl who can't act who's always running up the stairs when she should be going out the front door," Ghostface made Sidney engage in exactly that). Sid manages to lock the killer out of her room and start dialing 911 on her computer, forcing Ghostface to retreat.
31	* For as obnoxious and exploitative as Gale can be in this movie, it turns out that she was absolutely right about how Cotton Weary had been framed for Maureen Prescott's murder, and thus was the only person advocating for an innocent man's release from jail.
32	** Billy and Stu have gained a reputation among the fans for being the most cunning and successful killers, thanks in part to the fact that while every other killing spree last a few days at most, they managed to elude justice for a year. But even though she couldn't figure out everything, Gale saw through most of their smoke-and-mirrors before the movie even began. Not Sidney, not Dewey, Gale.
33	** Not to mention that, even if Billy and Stu had managed to kill everyone at the end and go through with their plan to frame Neil, Gale's recording of the whole night would have outed them - providing they never found it, and considering the mess the house was in and how much work they would have to do to cover themselves, the chances of them overlooking it were pretty strong.

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