In “Scream,” Randy’s encyclopedic cinematic data aids in figuring out the killer (or killers) and, extra importantly, helps to ascertain the principles of how you can survive a horror film. Working on the native Woodsboro video retailer gave Randy limitless entry to beloved classics and the newest well-liked releases, though the Blockbuster impressed retailer positively had nowhere close to the quantity of style choices that Video Archives in Manhattan Seaside did again when a 20-something Quentin Tarantino labored there. 

However, Jamie Kennedy did quite a lot of his personal film analysis to get into the mindset of a devoted cinephile. Randy in all probability may’ve held his personal speaking motion pictures with Tarantino at Video Archives, and Kennedy thinks their similarities weren’t a coincidence, telling Bloody Disgusting in 2021:

“I consider Quentin Tarantino may have been an inspiration as a result of I really feel like he is one in every of our early filmmakers raised in a film home. Then he made motion pictures primarily based on motion pictures he beloved, gave them his personal spin, and made motion pictures for those that beloved motion pictures.”

As a wannabe filmmaker, it is rather a lot simpler to be an unique if you realize the tropes and pitfalls that different movies fall sufferer to. It is not a assure that somebody like Tarantino grew to become an excellent director simply by being obsessive about motion pictures, however it actually does not damage. “That is why his motion pictures are so good as a result of they’re so exact as a result of he is a brilliant film lover,” Kennedy mentioned in regards to the ’90s maverick who modified the movie panorama with “Pulp Fiction.” “I believe that is what Randy is.”

Sadly, we’ll by no means see a Randy Meeks image, until in fact he makes a surprising, inconceivable return in “Scream VI.” Possibly Randy’s niece, Mandy Meeks-Martin (Jasmin Savoy Brown), will uncover one other explainer tape from Randy. Technically, that will depend as a film, proper?