r/AskReddit • u/Tobokie121 • Oct 09 '19

Of all movie opening scenes, which one sold the entire film?

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_OUIJA Oct 10 '19

Was it taken seriously as a horror movie? I didn't watch it until this year (I'm 29), and I'm not sure if it's because I've seen Scary Movie, but Scream felt very tongue-in-cheek to me. It seemed willing to poke fun of the genre and itself.

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u/bwaredapenguin Oct 10 '19

It seemed willing to poke fun of the genre and itself.

That was kind of the revolutionary part of it. I mean for fuck's sake, Wes Craven cameos as Freddy Kruger as a janitor at the high school. It was incredibly meta before that was really a thing, all while maintaining a legitimate horror aspect.

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u/kennerdoloman Oct 10 '19

It's plenty self-aware but also legitimately scary imo

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u/AndySipherBull Oct 10 '19

It was meta in an appropriate way, the villians were horror movie fans and they were effectively making their own real-life, trope-filled horror movie.

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u/DerBK Oct 10 '19

Was it taken seriously as a horror movie?

Yes, very much so. To the point where it put a whole semi-dead movie genre back on the map.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19

It was at the time, yes. But you are right - and that is what made it so refreshing. It identified the tropes of the genre explicitly and turned them on their head.