JILL ROBERTS (Emma Roberts), Scream 4
“My friends? What world are you living in? I don’t need friends. I need fans. Don’t you get it? This has never been about killing you. It’s about becoming you…sick is the new sane.”
I have to say, Scream 4 has some impressive twists. Jill was marketed as the central character and victim, just as Drew Barrymore was for the first Scream. Rather than a quick kill like Casey, Jill is revealed to be one of the killers, one with an interesting motive at that. Jill plans to replace Sidney as Woodsboro’s famous victim—only she plans on milking it for all it is worth. The little psycho creates her own Scream world in which she kills her ex-boyfriend Trevor and her accomplice Charlie, pinning the murders on them and making them this generation’s Billy and Stu. Ultimately, hubris leads to Jill’s downfall; she becomes sloppy, failing to kill Sidney and slipping up in front of Gayle. I have to dock some points for that—no other Ghostface revealed their identity on any terms but their own.
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