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Each death is accidental, almost self-inflicted, the consequence of a series of small decisions, easily made, ultimately fatal. This makes for delicious viewing – audiences are thrust into a sadistic PSA highlighting bathroom, kitchen, and level crossing safety. It’s not the big, extraordinary things that get you (a crashing plane), but the small, everyday objects: a washing line, a leaky cup, an unexpected bus. The underlying perils of middle class, small town American existence are thrown into sharp relief. The “heimlich” is now truly “unheimlich”.
Not even the pluckiest Final Girl could triumph over this threat.Īlex and his fellow survivors enter a brave new world where fatal possibilities lurk around every corner. A friendly mortician (genre stalwart Tony Todd) advises Alex and Clear that it’s pointless to fight their destiny – we’re “all part of Death’s sadistic design”. Once Alex (Devon Sawa) figures out his escape from death-by-fireball is only temporary, his goal involves dodging his fate for as long as possible, rather than long term survival. These teens want out of the situation they find themselves in, but there is only one exit. By the 2000s roll around, the Finalĭestination protagonists are fully aware of their impending demise, and half of the pleasure of the films (particularly Final Destination 2) is watching them squirm under the pressure. While Hitchcock-era audiences were aware of imminent disaster, the onscreen characters themselves, however, remained blissfully ignorant An audience needs that relief after you’ve put them through the wringer.” Alfred Hitchcock quoted in “Heard In The Wings” (1971), edited by Roderick Bloomfield “In death there are no accidents, no coincidences, no mishaps and no escapes.” Your toe MUST touch the bomb at the last minute, you must look under the table, grab the bomb and throw it out of the window, then it can go off but you and I must be saved.
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They’ll say, “Don’t go and see that movie or that play”. If we let it go off, the audience will be as mad as hell with us, they’ll be disgusted. “Don’t talk about football, there’s a bomb under there”, that’s what they want to tell us, as the bomb ticks away and we keep telling the audience there’s a minute to go half a minute and finally ten seconds.
Now this innocuous conversation about football becomes very potent. You and I are talking about football, something very innocuous, but the audience are informed by a method unknown to us that there’s a bomb under the table and it’s going to go off in five minutes. Now we do the scene over again, it’s a five minute scene. What have the audience had while watching this scene? Five or ten seconds of shock. suddenly a bomb goes off and up we go, blown to smithereens. Hitchcock identified how audiences take pleasure in waiting first and best: The Final Destination movies are all about anticipation. Handled, and has effectively sustained five entries in the franchise, This grim premise is actually a very effective crowd pleaser when properly It’s just a matter of when, where and – most importantly for the entertainment factor of these movies – how. The rules are simple, without caveats: if you are a character in a Final Destination movie, you are going to die.
It has everyone in its sights and no one – virgins and geeks are in just as much danger as cheerleaders. The Final Destination killer has no cumbersome backstory, no narcissistic mother waiting in the shadows, no daughters/sons unaware of their parentage.
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