Satire: Scary Movie

Scary Movie

Keenan Ivory Wayans, is the director of satire movie, Scary Movie. Scary Movie is an example of satire because of it's irony and sarcasm even though a deeper threat is posed. This movie series is based off numerous scary movies, and they twist them in a way to make then crude and funny. The first movie, is based on the movie Scream. In the beginning, a group of teenagers driving along a highway in the middle of the night, hit a man walking along the side of the road. In the real movie Scream, the man dies, but in Scary Movie, they stage it so it looks like he lives, but the kids do not know that. The man tries to yell at them over their bickering about what to do with the dead body, even though there isn't one, but the teenagers ignore him and he leaves. When they finish bickering, they turn to where they thought the dead man was lying, but he was gone. During the movie, the killer comes to kill Buffy Gilmore. At this time, when he comes, Buffy doesn't believe hes going to kill her. She is very sarcastic to everything the killer does, even though the killer is 100% serious. "Oh, is this the climax? Well, I hope you don't mind if I fake it!"(Buffy Gilmore, Scary Movie). Buffy's head, at this point, is no longer attached to her body. "Oh, look at me! I'm all dead!" (Buffy Gilmore).

In Scary Movie, the killer is perceived as a comedy. As he tries to kill the teenagers, funny things happen to him. Like in the video above, he is trying to kill Cindy, but is trying to hide from her, after her spotting him numerous times. Even though he is perceived as a comedic, there is still a deeper mean, death. While he is being funny, he is really trying to get revenge. As he is trying to kill them, he is trying to bring a burden upon them, death itself. After all, he is trying to make the teenagers believe that he is the one who the ran over and killed years ago. He succeeds in killing most of the friends, but not all of them. Cindy survives the massacre, and stars again in Scary Movie 2. The deepest meaning behind the satire, is the death the killer wants paid. The deaths are piling up and he feels like he is almost complete and that his revenge is finished.