Yeah, misogyny is a real thing? Not sure why it doesn’t make sense.
The motivation in the original Scream clearly had sexist undertones. Besides, it’s not like Billy cared about Sidney at all as a girlfriend. I think trying to murder her shows that way more than cheating on her?
Besides, I understand that Billy only started to date Sidney AFTER he killed her mother, as part of his uncontrollable anger. The homewrecker woman that he killed had a daughter and he wasn’t satisfied in killing just her as revenge, he wanted to put out his mommy’s boy anger for what happened to him into everyone else and in the daughter of the woman in particular.
So he started to date Sidney because he wanted to fuck her (a control game where he asserts his dominance and control of his life to himself in his mind) while getting this sick pleasure of sleeping with the daughter of the woman he murdered without her knowing what he did - which is something mind torture that that these psychos take pleasure on as their main source of personal satisfaction.
Sidney wouldn’t have sex with him though, so he kept dating her until she did. When he started killing people he probably had already thought he was never sleeping with her so it didn’t matter much to him whether he slept with her or killed her first.
In the meantime, it’s not out of this world that he was seeing someone else at all. Maybe he even cared about (or loved?) Cristina in a way that he didn’t for Sidney. Maybe Cristina was his ACTUAL girlfriend in the sense he planned to live alongside her and constitute a family with her after he concluded his murder spree.
I mean, Cristina was not a target in the original Scream like Sidney (Billy girlfriend), Tatum (Stu girlfriend) or Casey Becker (Stu ex-girlfriend). So that is potential evidence that Billy wanted to keep her for a reason. Maybe she even knew what Billy was doing and loved him because she’s a psychopath herself.
Which is why there’s a wonderful door to make Cristina appear in Scream VII or in Scream VIII trying to reconnect with Sam and Tara just for her in the end to turn out as the killer. BANG! And it’s revealed that there were three killers in the original Scream all along, but Cristina was more supervising the thing from distance.
If Scream 5 mirrors Scream 1 and Scream 6 mirrors Scream 2, it’s inevitable that future killers will appear on Sam family line since in Scream 3 it was Sidney’s half-brother and in Scream 4 it was Sidney’s cousin. If not a family member, maybe Sam herself! That would be terrible messaging of mental health after she was portrayed as someone who carries a huge amount of past childhood snd teenage trauma though. So I think it’s more likely that Cristina will be a killer in a future movie. She also DOES have motives to kill both Sidney and Gale as revenge for taking out Billy. Tara too for being the child she had with another man and never loved.
And they can play this well with Sam if Cristina tries to convince her to join her side and become a murderer like her biological FATHER AND MOTHER. They can put in some villain speech about being in her blood and that it’s only her inevitable fate to repeat the same stuff that both her parents did as if it was inescapable trend and then in the last moment Sam kills her mother, saves everyone and finally overcomes her visions and traumas once and for all by establishing that she’s never repeating what her family did because she’s not like them.
Ughhh it would be such a great ending for this group of characters storyline. Great character arc conclusion for SAM. If Scream 7 is supposed to be the last one with them, I hope they do it!
Originally Posted by Protheus
Yeah, misogyny is a real thing? Not sure why it doesn’t make sense.
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