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Plot Points In Mean Girls

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Acts and Plot Points
In class we learned that any script can be built up in to four parts, the parts being Act 1, Act 2, Act 3, and the Ending. Act 1 is when the hero makes a wrong choice and it brings them to a decision where they have to act to achieve their goal, it sets up the premise and is the beginning of the story. Act 2 follows with a series of events that prevent the character from achieving their goal. Act 3 is when the hero confront their flaw in order to save them. And finally, the ending is an opportunity for the audience to see what the hero learned through this experience. Every script can be broken up in to three acts.
The introduction of Mean Girls begins by introducing Cady and setting up her character. We quickly learn that she is a transfer …show more content…

(One interesting thing is that the script has four goals, the fourth goal being her “skanked-out clothing” but the director clearly took out the fourth point. The main reason that I find this so interesting is because of how prominent the idea of “having things in threes” is so much more appealing to audiences.) Throughout the film it becomes evident that this large goal, built up with three smaller goals is a challenge, but is achievable. Cady struggles with accomplishing it by having some events set her back but in the end she is able to achieve it. The third part of a goal is that it needs to have the character using her strengths in order to accomplish her goal. Well, if Cady’s strengths are her kindness, well, this becomes clear when Cady recognizes that she is in the wrong and becomes self-aware of how she has been influenced. She takes this and turns it around and shows kindness to the other girls at prom as well as to the mathletes. These four points to the goal are evident throughout the goal, therefore this script has a good goal that the audience can support in which the protagonist try to

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