Analysis Of Mean Girls

The movie “mean girls” is about a sixteen-year old homeschooled girl named Cady Heron who lived in Africa for the last 12 years of her life. After 12 years she returns to the United States and is now going to High school. Attending public school for the first time in her life. The homeschooled girl entered girl world that is full of lies, drama, gossip, boys and rules. She started hanging out with the “Plastics” and become friends with. The movie showed many example of conflict management styles, it reflects on the American culture values and beliefs, and power style.

Jealousy and manipulation are dominant themes in Mean Girls, a movie directed by Mark Waters. The theme plays a major role in defining many of the characters. Throughout the movie, the protagonist Cady Heron, is especially impacted by the power of jealousy.

Tragedy and comedy are used in the film Mean Girls to allow viewers to learn a new meaning about the characters and the plot of the film.

In the film “Mean Girls” there were many types of peer relationships expressed. Friendships are described as a reciprocal liking, trust, and loyalty between all participating dyadic parties. An example in the film is the relationship that Damian and Janis hold because they are loyal to each other and the liking is mutual. Peer acceptance is to the degree one is liked by their peers. In the film Aaron Samuels is very much liked by his peers. Perceived popular is a child that is considered popular based on their peers’ perceptions. Regina George is a prime example of teenage girl perceived as popular. When students described Regina George in the film these type of comments were made, “Regina George is flawless”, “One time she punched me in the faced. It was awesome.”, and “she always looks fierce.” Cliques are polyadic social groups that are voluntary. A main clique in the movie is “The Plastics” which consists of Regina George, Gretchen Wieners, and Karen Smith. These forms of peer relationships are a lot more complex than just a group of friends, these relationships of dynamic in early adolescence.

Stereotypically, men and women have very different roles in the eyes of society. Gender roles and stereotypes have a history in religious, political, legal and economic systems. In reality, men and women are more alike than most people assume. Throughout the world there are struggles with identity, power, and violence occurring everyday between both men and women. The film Mean Girls, directed by Mark Walters, follows a young girl, Cady’s, transition from being home schooled to public high school. Cady enters the school’s group of mean girls, otherwise known as “the plastics”, which consists of Regina George, Gretchen Wieners, and Karen Smith. Throughout the film each character struggles with their true identity.

Mean Girls is a film about a homeschooled girl, Cady Heron, who has moved to Evanston from Africa and has been enrolled at a public school, called North Shore High School. She gets to experience what a public school is like and how there are different cliques that exist in society. Unexpectedly, Cady is invited to join the clique, called “The Plastics,” which consists of Regina, Gretchen, and Karen, and she quickly acquires how a girl should behave and appear. Later on, Cady understands how they received this name based on the girls’ behaviors and status in society. The movie centers on the social divisions between the high school students, and the labels that are given to students. The girls at North Shore High School are deviant in their

“Mean Girls” has produced a fan cult like following. It also fully portrays the real struggles of High School. This pure classic can be fully understood by all age groups. Tina Fey used Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman as the basis for this outrageous comedy. Not only has it become a social icon that fully represents literally archetype such as, the queen bee, loss of innocence, and the outcast. The Settings played a huge part in the “close to home’ factor and the two major locations were the high school and the dance.

The movie Mean Girls is a funny teen comedy, but it also shows form of aggression between teen girls in our society. Society has identify people as normal or abnormal, therefore creating an environment where people are scared to be perceived as different. This movie shows how teenagers feelings of insecurity and desires for acceptance can overrides their innate feelings of self-worth. I think it is important to try to understand what motivates meanness and how we can stop it.

One of the most famous teen movie at 2004, Mean Girls, begins by introducing the members of the most popular girl in high school. The film centers around one student, Cady, who transfers from Africa to the United States. Upon her arrival in the new school, Cady establishes a friendship with two students, Damien and Janice. It is later revealed that these students are among the school’s “losers.” It is also revealed that Janice is not happy with the school and has some issues with a girl by the name of Regina. Later, Regina is known to be the leader of a three-girl group, aptly named “Plastics.” Janice helps Cady so that they can get back at Regina for, from within her group. The whole movie revolves around how Cady dethrones Regina and her team; however, Cady forgets her true values and loses her real friends, Damien and Janice, in the process.

Background of Mean Girls (2004) Imagine being homeschooled up until high school and then start attending a public school surrounded by peers similar in age. At this age, the most important thing, it seems at the time, is to fit in with the popular crowd, and some will do just about anything to get there. Cady (played by Lindsay Lohan) moves all the way from Africa and is a hit for a stereotypical clique, a common characteristic among high schools. This clique, also known as “The Plastics,” is the A-list girl clique at her new school and is run by Regina George (played by Rachel McAdams).

Culture can be defined as so many thing. But the one trait that seems to stick around is that it is an art of human creations that is passed on from generation to generation. Cultural scene that is portrayed in the movie Mean Girls is people with different backgrounds sitting together in a cafeteria. Cady who lived in africa for 15 years represents one cultural scene. The way she compares everything from when she was in Africa is the reason that differentiate her from the rest of the group. She is considered to be an outsider. High School is the starting place where people start to question and understand themselves. Mean girls is based on people with different kind of standard approaching the scene of High School. People sit together with

Learning about the different kinds of bullying and abuse made me quite aware of what was happening in the movie. ‘The Plastics’ essentially run the school and they have a ‘burn book’ which is full of rumours, false statements and accusations of girls in the school. Another rumour that the movie was based around was self image. The girls had many rules they needed to follow if they were to stay in the plastics group and the majority of them were self image

Mean girls hit the world stage in 2004, when the Disney Channel’s star Lindsay Lohan reunited again with the director of Freaky Friday (2003), Mark Waters. Since then, the movie inspired in a non-fiction book written by Tina Fey in 1975 was well-received for the teenage audience and offered to the movie the opportunity to have a lot of good reviews and grossed $86 million in the US. This, helped the actress to earn her salary to $7.5 million for a Donald Petrie’s movie Just My Luck (2006).

One movie that vividly depicts how cruel teenage girls can be to other peers for not meeting their expectations is Mean Girls, directed by Mark Waters. Released in 2004, the film relates the life of Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) as she attends public school for the first time. She meets two friends Janis Ian (Lizzy Caplan) and Damian (Daniel Franzese) who

Everyone has had their fair share of high school drama; whether it’s rude stares down the hallway, distant whispering behind the back, spreading rumors about students and faculty, social sabotage, or segregated school lunch tables. The teen drama film Mean Girls delves into the sociocultural environment of teenage academia. This two-hour film documents how Cady, the new girl from Africa, starts her first day of public school. Throughout her high school adventures she learns the social hierarchy and rules created by the students for the students. As she begins to adjust, she climbs the social ladder and becomes one of the cool kids, or as everyone calls them, The Plastics. In the article, “High-School Confidential Notes on Teen Movies,” by David Denby, he claims that the enemy in teen movies is not the authority figure as some may believe, but rather it is the students themselves, and the surrounding climate that they create. The film Mean Girls is the perfect example that showcases Denby’s claim through superiority mindsets, social cliques, and lack of parental involvement.