Sally Hardesty

Sally Hardesty-Enright
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre character
Marilyn Burns portraying Sally in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
First appearanceThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Last appearanceTexas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)
Created byKim Henkel
Tobe Hooper
Portrayed by
In-universe information
FamilyTed Hardesty (father)[1]
Lefty Enright (uncle, deceased)
Franklin Hardesty (brother, deceased)
Unnamed Grandfather (deceased)
StatusDeceased (original continuity)
Alive (Millennium Film's alternate continuity)

Sally Hardesty is a fictional character in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise. She made her first appearance in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) as a young woman investigating her grandfather's grave after local grave robberies—crossing paths with Leatherface and his cannibalistic family in the process. In this film and later in The Next Generation (1995), she was portrayed by Marilyn Burns. Olwen Fouéré was cast in the sequel Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022). The character, renamed Erin Hardesty and played by Jessica Biel, also appeared in a remake of the original film in 2003.

Filming was particularly challenging for Burns as she endured numerous injuries throughout the notoriously difficult shoot. In one such scene, Hansen cut her index finger with a razor due to the crew being unable to get theatrical blood to come out of the tube of a malfunctioned prop.[2] Burns' stage clothes were so drenched with fake blood that they were solid by the last day of shooting.[3]

The character has become a pop culture figure and is commonly referenced by film scholars when discussing the final girl theory; a trope for which Hardesty is credited for being the catalyst.

Although the character Sally Hardesty is the lone survivor of the five young protagonist friends in the original 1974 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, her character dies in the 2022 reboot Texas Chainsaw Massacre from Leatherface chainsawing her in the stomach.

Appearances

The character made her cinematic debut in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre on October 11, 1974. Created by Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper, in this film, Sally (Marilyn Burns) is a free-spirited young woman traveling across Texas with her brother Franklin and friends to investigate her grandfather's grave after a series of local grave robberies. After visiting the abandoned Hardesty homestead, their friends are murdered by the cannibalistic Leatherface and his sadistic family. While searching for them, Leatherface appears and kills Franklin and Sally is pursued and captured. Bound at the family's dinner table, she breaks free and escapes.[4][5] Although she does not physically appear in the following two sequels, Sally's aftermath from the first film receives mention in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986), which identifies her as Sally Hardesty-Enright. In the opening, the narrator states that Sally describes her traumatic encounter with Leatherface and his family as feeling like she had "broken out of a window in hell" and that she became catatonic after revealing her ordeal to the police.[6] In the intro speech for Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990), the narrator states that Sally died in a private health care facility in 1977. Burns briefly reprises the role in a non-speaking cameo appearance in Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1995) as a patient on a gurney. Written by Henkel, he included Sally to convey "an emotional connection between the Sally character and the Jenny character, a kind of perverse passing of the torch".[7] Sally returns in Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022). Olwen Fouéré was recast as Sally following the passing of Burns in 2014. It is the first film since the original to feature Sally as a focal point, with her having a five-decade-long vendetta against Leatherface.

Development

Marilyn Burns, a former University of Texas drama student, was working as a stand-in for Blythe Danner and Susan Sarandon in the drama film Lovin' Molly (1974).[8] Burns met writer Kim Henkel and director Tobe Hooper when they snuck on the set, and she witnessed them getting kicked off.[8] Burns knew of Hooper's previous work as a filmmaker, noting that as a young actress, she tried to make herself aware of as many filmmakers as possible.[8] Shortly after this incident, Burns became a member of the newly formed Texas Film Commission and was aware that Hooper and Henkel were developing a film.[8] Burns wanted to audition for them and ultimately got cast in the leading role of Sally.[8]

Burns stated, "I believed in this movie from the beginning."[8] Burns hoped the role would launch her career, and although she was the central character, she feared her scenes would get cut during editing.[9] Due to her prior experience working on film sets, most of the cast assumed Burns was a screen veteran.[10] Filming was difficult for Burns.[11] Her costume was so drenched with fake blood that it was solid by the last day of shooting.[3] Within two days after filming finished, she received a call to come back on the set and reshoot Sally's escape in the truck as something went wrong with the original footage.[11] Burns was mentally and physically exhausted from the shoot.[11] Burns stated the thing that upset her the most was nobody on the set ever praised her performance.[11]

The original script for the 2003 remake was in flashback format, featuring an aged Sally recounting her experience with Leatherface to authorities; Burns had several conversations with the studio about reprising her role although this version of the film got scrapped.[12] Olwen Fouéré was cast as Sally in David Blue Garcia's Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022), a direct sequel to the original film, following the death of Burns in 2014.[13] Before being cast, Fouéré was unfamiliar with the series and was unaware of the popularity of the Sally character.[13] In preparation, she studied Burns' expressions and physicality, although she wanted to create her version of a character living fifty years after a traumatic event.[13]

Hardesty was a featured character, alongside Leatherface, in Universal Orlando's 2012 Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Saw is the Law Halloween Horror Nights amusement park attraction—appearing during a reenactment of the dinner table sequence from the 1974 film.[14] American singer Tinashe made an homage to the character in the music video to her 333 (2021) single "Naturally" in a sequence featuring the singer covered in blood and laughing maniacally in the back of a pickup truck.[15] In October 2023, it was revealed at Toy Fair that Trick or Treat Studios would be releasing an action figure of Sally.[16]

Reception

In Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don't They Do It Like They Used To?, David Roche contrasts Sally to Laurie Strode from the Halloween series stating: "All in all, Sally Hardesty and Laurie Strode have very little in common, apart from the fact that both characters survive the horror they have witnessed" and goes on to say that "Sally, the hippie, is very 'feminine' and not especially heroic: she undergoes intense suffering, attempts to sell her body, and seems to lose her mind. Sally is, in effect, the most resisting body. As such, the character of Sally simultaneously enables the Family to attempt to assert its masculinity in the face of the abject female and contributes to the discovery of the instability of sexist patriarchal values by bearing witness to the way the Family's mimicry of patriarchy reveals its constructiveness; these two functions coalesce in the shots of Sally's eyes. I would, thus, argue that the character of Sally by no means represents a feminist development, but her resilience does enable an anti-essentialist subtext to emerge to some extent".[17] However, James Rose[18] believes that Sally and Laurie have a lot of similarities, describing:

Possibly the most significant impact Hooper's film has had upon the horror genre is its sustained trauma of Sally Hardesty. The juxtaposition of her terrible plight but eventual survival seemingly reconfigured the genre and created, as Clover has termed it, the character of the Final Girl. Yet, for all her endurance, Sally is not the first Final Girl but more a survivor who stands alongside Halloween's Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis); for as much as both survive, each, in the end, requires male intervention to fully save them from the narrative's male antagonist: Sally is rescued by a passing driver, while Laurie is saved by Dr Loomis (Donald Pleasance [sic]). Despite this, both Sally and Laurie combine to make manifest the key attributes of the Final Girl as both struggled, endured and, in Laurie's case, attacked their aggressor until they could escape and be saved. In the slasher films that followed in the wake of Chain Saw and Halloween, the Final Girl steadily gains in strength until she herself vanquishes the male antagonist.

He goes on to state the difference between the two:

It is this that prevents Sally from being a true Final Girl, for she (unlike Laurie and all the others that followed) never turns upon her aggressors and attacks them. Instead, she simply endures, runs from them and, by chance seizes an opportunity to escape. However, this is not to disagree with Clover's positioning of Sally as a Final Girl, as she does indeed endure, and it is this that makes her so noteworthy.

Editor Stefano Lo Verme compared Burns' performance as Sally to the performances of Sandra Peabody as Mari Collingwood in The Last House on the Left (1972) and Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode in Halloween (1978).[19]

References

  1. ^ Squires, John (February 8, 2017). "[Exclusive] We Will Meet Sally and Franklin's Father in 'Leatherface'". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved February 8, 2017.
  2. ^ Hansen, Gunnar (Actor) (2008). The Texas Chain Saw Massacre audio commentary (DVD). Second Sight Films. Event occurs at 1:08:17. we couldn't get the blood out of the tube onto the knife edge and so after the fourth or fifth take... I turned away from everybody... and just cut her
  3. ^ a b Jaworzyn 2004, pp. 8–33
  4. ^ Risnes, Matt (March 12, 2013). "Foraging For Subtext: 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' (1974)". Coming Soon. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
  5. ^ "The Series Project: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Part 1)". Crave Online. June 15, 2023.
  6. ^ "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, The (1986)". oh-the-horror.com. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
  7. ^ "HL Exclusive: Writer/Director Kim Henkel Reveals Secrets of 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation'". Halloween Love. July 22, 2014. Retrieved July 29, 2017.
  8. ^ a b c d e f Hansen 2013, p. 30.
  9. ^ Hansen 2013, p. 31.
  10. ^ Macor 2010, p. 24.
  11. ^ a b c d Hansen 2013, p. 163.
  12. ^ "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". Mania. Archived from the original on August 26, 2014. Retrieved June 13, 2018.
  13. ^ a b c Logan, Gavin (February 16, 2022). "EXCLUSIVE: Olwen Fouéré Talks About Playing Sally Hardesty in 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre'". The Fright Club NI. Retrieved July 22, 2024.
  14. ^ Press-Enterprise (September 23, 2012). "HALLOWEEN 2012: 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' at Universal". The Press-Enterprise. Retrieved February 18, 2022.
  15. ^ Melanson, Angel (February 16, 2022). "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, "Naturally" Watch Tinashe's Horror-Infused Music Video". Fangoria. Retrieved February 18, 2022.
  16. ^ Squires, John (October 2, 2023). "'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' – Sally Toy Revealed in New Trick or Treat Studios Action Figure Collection!". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved July 22, 2024.
  17. ^ Roche, David (2014). Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don't They Do It Like They Used To?. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-62674-246-8.
  18. ^ Rose, James (2014). The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-1-906733-99-5.
  19. ^ Lo Verme, Stefano (June 25, 2016). "SCREAMING ACTRESSES: FROM VERA FARMIGA TO JAMIE LEE CURTIS, THE GREAT SCREAM QUEEN BETWEEN CINEMA AND TV". MoviePlayer (in Italian). Retrieved January 5, 2018.

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