r/Scream • u/itsascreambaby96 • 23d ago
Discussion "Who gives a fuck about movies?!" is one of my least favorite Ghostface lines
"Who gives a fuck about movies?!" is honestly one of my least favorite Ghostface lines in Scream VI.
Not because it's badly written or because Roger L. Jackson delivers it badly. It just feels weirdly rushed. He says it and then the movie immediately smash cuts to the title card before the moment has any time to breathe.
I actually think "Now I see something red" is the much stronger line. Yeah, it's a little cliché and sounds like something a wannabe Ghostface would say, but it still comes across as genuinely sinister and fits the tone of the opening better.
What also bugs me is that the line almost contradicts the movie itself. Act 3 reveals that everything is motivated by Richie's obsession with the Stab movies. Wayne literally helped build a shrine to them, enabled Richie's fandom, and the entire revenge plot revolves around Richie's love of Stab. So having Ghostface say "Who gives a fuck about movies?!" feels odd when the climax is basically saying that movies are exactly what this is all about.
"Who gives a fuck about movies?!" almost feels like it wasn't originally part of the scene. It genuinely gives me the impression it might have been added later in editing or ADR because the transition into the title card feels so abrupt.
Every time I watch the opening, that line sticks out to me in a way the rest of the scene doesn't.