So many things wrong with this information I don't even know where to begin as a
Scream fan.
It doesn't sound like a generic slasher, but more like a woke reinvention of the franchise the way Peele's equally cringeworthy
Twilight Zone destroyed the franchise. Then again,
Twilight Zone and Rod Serling have always been moral-pandering, so at least that gets somewhat of a free pass.
But the first
Scream represented something of a much more different reinvention of the slasher genre. It wasn't really reexamining the moral values that might have been "stuck in the much" so much as it was trying to be clever in subverting unrealistic clichés in slasher films like not running out the front door when there's a killer. It's not exactly a scholar giving a thesis on the misogyny of slasher films so much as being a pretentious kid trying to show how clever he is by pointing out how stupid fictional movies are. So no, it's not like what you're doing, Peele. Far from it.
For a true deconstruction of fiction conventions, I actually finished watching an anime a month ago,
Revolutionary Girl Utena, that showed how unrealistic idealization of princes and fairy tale motifs seen in Disney animated movies can be emotionally unhealthy.
That is a true deconstruction, and thankfully, it's far removed from the toxic fourth-wave feminism that Jordan Peele and many #MeToo movement members are involved with (with the anime being more in-line with the saner third wave feminism like
Buffy).
What Peele and many feminists of this generation are doing today, I wouldn't call it deconstruction or a proper postmodernist reexamination of dated values; it's just gender politics, plain and simple, the whole "us vs. them" mentality pitting men against women, and I for one am not interested in politics in any form. You can do whatever you like, just don't expect me to play ball and pay for your movies.
Ever since
Scream 3, I've stopped caring that much about the franchise, such that when
Scream 4 came out, I just shrugged and couldn't care less.
Cabin in the Woods is more fun and subversive with the horror genre than
Scream ever was anyway. Even the first
Scream still incorporate the eye-rolling clichés of the genre. That said, outside of
Cabin in the Woods, I don't think postmodernist movies like
Scream could work anymore post 2010s. It was interesting for a while when both James Bond and Batman were deconstructed so that they're "not stuck in the past" and were given more realistic moral values, but nowadays, filmmakers like Zack Snyder mistook deconstruction for "darker and edgier." While most deconstruction falls into a more grim and even dour territory, not all deconstruction are darker and edgier. For more into:
"Deconstruction" literally means "to take something apart". When applied to tropes or other aspects of fiction, deconstruction means to take apart a trope in a way that exposes its inherent contradictions, often by exploring the difference …
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For a true slasher deconstruction that actually replaced
Scream in the 2010s, see
You're Next, where the serial killers actually have a real motive for killing (not just random senseless violence). They also screw up a lot, unlike the invincible serial killers of slasher films.
