Clayton George Wickham - final thesis

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previously introduced to Alice or the events of Friday the 13 th is given sufficient
information to attach him/herself to the plot and characters of Friday the 13 th Part 2.
However, the new viewer, being one who has not seen the previous film, can be
expected to retain less attachment to Alice, but is placed on (near) even ground with
the franchise viewer, one who has seen previous instalments, once Alice is killed and
the new characters are introduced. The franchise viewer will hold a higher
significance to the appearance and despatch of Crazy Ralph, who appears in the
previous film, while the new viewer will only register his function as the “prophet of
doom” and victim.
Friday the 13 th Part III 3-D also uses footage from the previous film to
indicate narrative continuity, but discards the framing device used in Friday the 13 th
Part 2. The film begins in medias res, with final girl Ginny on the run from Jason,
and discovering his shack. This is followed by her confrontation with him and the
appearance of Paul which helps Ginny ultimately despatch Jason. The editing of this
sequence is designed less as a clip montage and more as a fluid narrative
progression. Even though the sequence is truncated, the sound and cinematography
retain consistency so that the shots in the sequence cut together smoothly. Thus, the
climactic encounter between Ginny and Jason is shown, but the final sequences
showing Ginny and Paul returning to their cabin, Jason leaping through a window
and grabbing Ginny, and Ginny being removed from the camp the next morning on a
stretcher. Since the reappearance of Jason is significant to the plot of Friday the 13 th
Part III 3-D, a shot with a similar visual aesthetic shows Jason, shot from the chest
down standing up from where he was left for dead and taking his machete from the
ground. The sequence ends with the final shot from Friday the 13 th Part 2 of Jason’s