Textual analysis on the final scene of TCM – the beginning

The scene that I have chosen to analyse is the last scene of the film which has Jordana Brewster and Andrew bryniarski (Leather face). Jordana Brewster is the most significant character through out the film she is the last one to survive out of the bunch and also try’s to get her friends out of that house of horrors.

At the start of this particular scene, Chrissie played by Jordana Brewster, gets in the car after escaping a close death encounter to try and get some help but as she finds herself getting closer to the sheriff standing on the road nearby she discovers that the villain Leather face is in the back seat and before she can claim any sort of help a chainsaw is put through her neck and she is the final character to be killed. This is one of the most significant scenes in the film as it proves the theory of final girl by Carol Clover wrong because she claims that there is always a final girl who survives in Slasher films and she kills the villain but in this particular film it was not the case. On the other hand her theory is partially correct as even in this film the final character to survive is a female.

The next part of this short scene is the ultimate punch to the storyline as it concludes with the car going out of control and running over the sheriff on the scene. This shows that the villain is out of danger as everyone around him is dead and he yet again survives as in the historical Texas chainsaw massacre. It is very important to understand the significance of the ending as in many Slasher movies the villain is killed at the end although in the case of both Texas chainsaw massacre texts the villain has survived.

There are extreme close up shots of Jordana Brewster’s face as the facial expressions are extremely important in the climax as she is on the verge of escaping this horrified experience, there is anxiety building up for the audience as they question themselves if she is going to be rescued or not and later its revealed that the villain kills her before she reaches to get any help.

The final part of the scene is when everyone around the villain is dead and there is a long shot of the villain walking into the dark as there is a voiceover which talks about the horrifying deaths in Texas over years and finally a dark screen appears and the film ends.