Clayton George Wickham - final thesis

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and kissing, accompanied by the same music as the credits playing on the radio. The
same voice as the voice over comes in, revealing that the speaker is the Disc Jockey
on the radio station, saying, “You’ve been listening to WGAZ, the electricity of
Manhattan. This request has gone all the way out to Crystal Lake and the Senior
Class of Lakeview High.” The girl then exclaims, “That’s us!” establishing Crystal
Lake as the new location after the Manhattan opening. The boy goes to lower the
anchor, which lands near some electrical cables. He then goes in to the bed, where
the girl is naked under the covers. She asks what is bothering him, and he says that
nearby is the summer camp where “all those murders” took place and that “The
guy’s dead now, somewhere at the bottom of this lake, if you believe the stories.”
This introduces the similar introduction of Jason as part of myth and urban legend.
There is a cut to the anchor at the bottom of the lake, slowly dragging toward the
electrical cables. The boy then explains that Jason was a boy who drowned in the
lake thirty years ago because the counsellors weren’t paying attention and the
murders started once people had forgotten about it. This is the first time since The
Final Chapter that Jason’s back story of being a child that drowned at the camp is
introduced as narrative context, which is accompanied by a shot of Jason drowning,
shot specifically for this film, instead of using a clip from Friday the 13th. It later
becomes significant, as the boy Jason is who Rennie sees when her uncle is teaching
her to swim, making her afraid of the water, so extending this far back in Jason’s
history is important to understanding the narrative. The boy then describes the
conclusion of Friday the 13 th , in which it is revealed that Jason’s mother, seeking
vengeance killed the counsellors until one of them decapitated her. There is a cut
again to the anchor underwater still dragging closer to the electrical cables, as the
boy says, “Legend has it that Jason came back to get even, vowing to kill every