Ultimate Final Girls In Horror: From Laurie Strode To Sidney Prescott & Dorothy Gale
From ‘Laurie Strode’, to ‘Sidney Prescott,' The final girl trope has been around since the 70s but does it go back further?
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Dorothy Gale? That would seem to be a stretch.
Eel O'Brian, Ralph Dibny and Reed Richards combined couldn't make that stretch successsfully.
Fairuza Balk in RETURN TO OZ at any rate combats somewhat slightly more horrific situations, but still.....
As for WIZARD, Dorothy's the only girl within the main action, which invalidates any ''final'' adjective.
As for WIZARD, Dorothy's the only girl within the main action, which invalidates any ''final'' adjective.
Okay, they list two different final girls from two different installments of the "Friday the 13th" franchise, two different final girls for the same "Scream" movie, but not a single mention of Kirsty Cotton? Fuck that article, that writer just wanted to demonstrate his mental gymnastics of why Dorothy "should" be considered a final girl.
It's like the typical kind of discussions nerds have amongst ourselves. Arguing for some stupid stretch of logic just for fun...except then they wrote an article around it for Deadline.
The weak justifications they use to try and cram Dorothy into that box are stupid.
Plus you'd have to make a strong case that The Wizard of Oz is a horror movie before you can try to pretend that Dorothy counts as a final girl.
The weak justifications they use to try and cram Dorothy into that box are stupid.
And I haven't watched the movie in a long time but I don't recall a series of other murders that lead up to her survival.
Plus you'd have to make a strong case that The Wizard of Oz is a horror movie before you can try to pretend that Dorothy counts as a final girl.
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Don't give them any ideas.It's like the typical kind of discussions nerds have amongst ourselves. Arguing for some stupid stretch of logic just for fun...except then they wrote an article around it for Deadline.
The weak justifications they use to try and cram Dorothy into that box are stupid.
And I haven't watched the movie in a long time but I don't recall a series of other murders that lead up to her survival.
Plus you'd have to make a strong case that The Wizard of Oz is a horror movie before you can try to pretend that Dorothy counts as a final girl.
Of all the college instructors I've ever encountered, only one of the English profs classified WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? as science-fiction, putting it into his SF course. I might never have seen it if he hadn't....and I admire his Kobayashi Maru-ness in his decision. I do feel he's got a far stronger case than the flake who selected Dorothy.*Plus you'd have to make a strong case that The Wizard of Oz is a horror movie before you can try to pretend that Dorothy counts as a final girl.
*(who I'm guessing will one day tote extremely heavy ammunition for the sake of extra empowerment while making OZ accessible to the ''No Problem'' generation)**
**(I refer to them as such since they almost always say no problem instead of you're welcome.)
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