(ADD ACTUAL INTRO) With its wicked but witty dialogue, strong characters, and symbolic costume designs, it is no wonder why Heathers has gone down in history as one of the greatest cult classics ever made. Heathers is the story of Veronica Sawyer (Winona Ryder), a former geek trapped in Westerberg High School’s most elite clique: The Heathers. This triad consists of Heather MacNamara, Heather Duke, and their iron-fisted leader Heather Chandler (Kim Walker). Desperate to escape the tyrannical reign of Heather Chandler, Veronica befriends the mysterious new student, Jason Dean (Christian Slader) or “JD” for short. However, in a shocking turn of events, the duo accidently poison and murder Heather Chandler, inciting a series of twisted and convoluted …show more content…
He turns a blind eye to Heather Chandler’s suicide and only after more death does he begin to accept there is a problem. The yearbook staff also show this manipulation by using her death as a way to promote their own yearbook. After making a tribute to the fallen queen of Westerberg, complete with her suicide note and all, the yearbook staff seems well-intentioned but completely manipulative of the tragedy. Even the preacher at Chandler’s funeral takes the opportunity to steer the youth towards his church! These selfish actions resonate with a myriad of viewers, perhaps making it a major factor in its popularity today. In all truth, the only character that audiences do not have a reason to hate is Martha Dunstock (ACTRESS), a mere victim of the Heathers’ cruelty. From the very beginning of the movie, Martha is seen as a victim of bullying when the Heathers convince Veronica to forge a note from her crush confessing his love for the pariah. Martha is repetitively put in these kinds of horrible situations as a statement about what high school really is like. For some people, high school is anything but the light-hearted teenage
Mean Girls is about a girl named Cady who joins an elite social group at her new school known as the Plastics. While socializing with the Plastics, Cady develops a new, mean girl, personality and ends up sabotaging the group’s leader, Regina, and becomes the new leader of the Plastics. Regina retaliates by spreading the burn book, a book the Plastics filled with insults and gossip about other students, around the school leading to a riot and Cady takes the blame. Cady realizes that her new personality is wrong and apologizes to the school, makes amends with her old friends, and forms a truce with Plastics who disband and become regular students (Mean Girls, 2004).
Mean Girls is a movie about a girl who moves to the United States from Africa and attends her first real high school, as she had been homeschooled throughout her life. The movie relays the social struggles faced by high school students. This movie, however, is no boring documentary about the life of a high
As Janis is telling Cady about the different cliques at their school, she ponders "How do I begin to explain Regina George?" This is followed by comments and opinions by different students ': "Regina George is flawless" "She has two Fendi purses and a silver Lexus". The fact that the second comment made about her describes the products that she owns says a lot about our consumer culture and recognition of brands, and the way we look up to people. Mean Girls emphasises that Regina is "fabulous, but she 's evil" - despite her attractiveness and the respect she is given, her behaviour and personality leave much to be desired. Even though she is downright nasty and universally hated, people still want to be like
The movie Mean Girls follows Cady Heron as she experiences high school for the first time in her life. As she is thrown into a new society, this film provides the opportunity to socially analyze high school. From figuring out her new culture and society that she is engrossed in to realizing how social status can both negatively and positively affect her values and beliefs, there are many concepts that Cady learns and is taught as she makes her way through her first year of public school.
The film that I chose to write about is a Paramount Pictures presentation titled Mean Girls, starring Lindsay Lohan and also featuring a handful of Saturday Night Live cast members, including Tina Fey the author of this picture. The reason behind choosing this film is because it has a unique style of introducing characters, transitioning between scenes, and various tools to help spice up the film. Being one of my personal favorites, Mean Girls is a comedy about a home schooled teenage girl who enters high school for the first time. She tries to figure herself out by where she can fit in and who she needs to become friends with.
David later finds out Lucy was a member of the pretty ones but later got kicked out of the club because she would not date Brad. Even though Lucy was apart of the pretty ones she is nice and kind hearted unlike the other girls of that group. Later on David forms a group of the loners and the place is not very nice it is a school dump in the downstairs area but later on the varsity group comes and attacks the building and they burned it down know the loners are all homeless and starving. Before the next food drop all the
My movie is Mean Girls. I have probably watched this movie more times than I would like to admit. This is a great movies because any high school girl can relate to it. Mean Girls is about a teenaged girl names Cady that movies from Africa after being homeschooled for all theses years, and she goes to a public school and eventually ends up part of “the plastics” and completely changes from who she was. (Waters 2004) This movie really hits close to home being a teenage girl at one point. Mean girls has a lot to do with adolescence development such as: peer pressure, self-esteem, moral identity and observational learning.
What is worse, cyber bullying or face-to-face bullying? Argue in relation to both Destroying Avalon and Mean Girls, referring to specific events throughout both texts.
Eventually, Brenda and her father made it to Virginia on the morning of the 22nd of March, parking their car at the driveway of the Brotzman residence. It was an average looking house that matched the aesthetics of the houses near the only Catholic high school in the city of Arlington, Bishop Dowell High School. Getting out of the car, the father and the daughter went to the front door. From there, the father knocked on the door. Soon after, the door was opened by the Godmother, wearing her Bishop Dowell uniform, who was surprised by the arrival of unrecognizable guests. Brenda, who obviously was not a Ryanite, was amazed by the sight of the taller blonde girl wearing a royal blue golf shirt (with silver colored school insignia on left breast), a khaki skort that was about one inch above the knee, white knee socks, and a pair of black oxfords. The girl’s hair was tied back with a royal blue colored ribbon, and her dark blue eyes were staring into Brenda’s own.
Deciding what is most important in life is often a struggle, especially during high school. Mean Girls is a teen comedy film loosely based on the self-help book titled Queen Bees and Wannabes. The main character is a high school student named Cady that just moved from Africa and has been homeschooled her whole life. The American culture and society she is introduced to is embodied by the Plastics, who are the most popular girls at North Shore High: Regina, Gretchen, and Karen. The pressure put on Cady by society causes her to struggle to decide what her priorities should be. Mean Girls criticizes the traditional notions of femininity that are expected of women, as they are not required for them to be successful and accomplished.
Martha's mean bitterness is her way of proving to everyone and her self, that she has control. But in reality she has very little control over her life; she is trying to live through her husbands eyes, living up to her father expectations, and drinking heavily. She does not have much power, because her fate is so tied up in the men around her.
Heather tells Melinda that they can’t be friends anymore and Melinda gets mad because she feels like she is the one who took Heather under wing since she was brand new to the area and didn’t know anyone. Now Heather goes to sit with “The Martha” group and Melinda is left to sit by herself at lunch every day. Melinda starts getting depressed that she has nobody to talk to and she starts skipping class and getting bad grades, her parents and teachers notice this new change in her but think she is just trying to get attention from them so they just sort of ignore it but her art teacher doesn’t and encourages her to speak and show her expressions through her artwork. Melinda then becomes friends with a guy names David Petrakis who is her lab partner in science and he is pushes Melinda to speak up. A little while later Melinda sees her old friend from middle school, Rachel start dating Andy Evans, the boy who raped her and she wants to worn her but doesn’t want to speak so she tells her by passing notes to her while they are in the
Mean Girls is about a young teen girl Cady Heron who just moved from Africa to attend a public high school in America for the first time. This is very different for Cady because the high school setting in America will be extremely different from how it was when she was living in Africa. It’s not easy for her because she is not used to the American customs or “norms”. Within the first couple of days of school she becomes really good friends with two people named Janis and Damien. In the school there are many many cliques, and Janis
I read Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery. This book is about a young orphan child, with a never-ending imagination, named Anne. Anne has been taken in and out of orphanages all her life. Until, one day Matthew Cuthbert and his sister, Miss Marilla Cuthbert, are interested in having a young boy to live with them. They called the orphanage and told them to send the child on the train. He goes to the train station to pick the child up, but to his surprise he found Anne. Anne tells Matthew how she imagines living there would be like. She was so set on staying that Matthew just couldn't leave her at the train station. He takes her to his house, and while on the journey, Anne is enjoying every moment of the beautiful flowered valleys.
The movie that I have chosen is a classic film from 1988 called Heathers. Heathers is an American cult black comedy film written by Daniel Waters and directed by Michael Lehmann. The film portrays four teenage girls—three of whom are named Heather—in a clique and a teen named Veronica Sawyer who desperately wants to fit in, as well as a crazy and unstable boy named J.D that plans to ruin it all. The focus of this essay will be on three characters. Analyzing their internal and external battles, as well as their social interactions with loved ones and other members of their fictional society.