My group and I have decided to do a scene from the movie Mean Girls. I know what you’re thinking, a bunch of white girls doing a scene from Mean Girls, predictable. But hear me out. We chose to do a scene from this movie for two reasons. The first was that we have a group of five girls and none of us wanted to play a male role. The second reason will cater a little more to your liking. This movie is very predictable, you are right there, but there is so much about this movie that you can dig deeper and find actual meaning to a group of high school girls who show their dominance in the hallway by bullying others. We have decided to do the Halloween scene. The scene starts out with music playing in the background coming from the party as Cady walks up to the house. We hear Regina and Aaron talk and as they begin to talk about Cady the music becomes softer so we hear their words more blatantly. As soon as the shot moves to Cady waving in the doorway to Regina and Aaron, the music becomes louder and louder. Cady is wearing a very gruesome costume with blood and face paint all over her body, while everyone around her is wearing skimpy bunny costumes, including Regina. The shot moves back to Aaron and Regina. Aaron looks scared and freaked out by Cady because Regina has just started a rumor that Cady had already fallen madly in love with him. The music gets louder and speeds up, which foreshadows the chaos that’s about to occur. (The song being played at this time is Operate, by the Peaches.) The camera turns back to Cady and her voice over begins to speak to the audience as she tells us that she couldn’t believe that anyone could actually hate Regina. Then, plot twist! Cady’s next sentence is, “Regina is such a good…(GASP)…SLUT!” when ... ... middle of paper ... ...ovie does do a great job at illustrating sexual and social norms. I hope to learn how hard it is to make just a short scene because I don’t think I actually realize how difficult it is going to be. When I hear that it took a whole year to make a movie I don’t really understand why. I also hope to learn to connect myself to my character in the movie, which may bring out more ideas about what that the screenplay writer is trying to accomplish. Maybe I’ll learn that it’s society that is controlling the way I dress to all these college themed parties and I’ll stop dressing so provocative to them because I know I don’t need to but it’s considered “normal.” And finally, I hope to find some love and appreciation for theatre. I am taking this class as a GE, but I feel like GEs are meant to open up your horizon and make you experience and understand new things. I’m excited!
In the film Mean Girls, teenager Cady Heron was home-schooled in Africa by her zoologist parents. When her family moves to the U.S., Cady finally gets a taste of public school and learns a vital lesson about the cruelty involved in the tightly knit cliques of high school. She eventually finds herself being drug into a group of “the worst people you will ever meet”, The Plastics; and soon realizes how they came to get their name.
Man no longer lives and fights to survive but enjoys luxuries. In the Mean Girls movie, the comparison between the students and domination of others by the alphas depict Rousseau’s idea. The alphas consisting of Regina George, Karen Smith, Gretchen Wieners, Aaron Samuels and Cady Heron (joins later) dominate the underdogs including Janis Ian, Damian, Ms. Norbury, and the Asians. As Rousseau stated, comparison gives dominance and happiness, the alphas have a better life and are enjoying themselves more than the others. They also derive pleasure from dominating the others and treating them with contempt. Rousseau considers the invention of property as the beginning of equality, and that property offers a platform for the rich to exploit the poor. Rousseau believes that conflict and despotism would occur as wealth becomes a rule for comparison. The idea of wealth as a comparison factor is evident in Mean Girls movie with Regina representing the upper class as she is rich, famous, and beautiful. Her social status gives her the title of a leader of the “plastics,” and she makes the rules including deciding what to wear and doesn’t take orders from anyone (Mean Girls). Wealth differentiates Gretchen and Regina, and because of her lower social status, she cannot be the leader of the plastics. She has to accept her position yet she despises Regina, thus depicting the role of wealth as a comparison factor in the movie highlighting Rousseau’s idea of wealth as the basis for comparison. Wealth as a differentiator is also evident in Cady, who comes from the middle-class but her exciting experience makes her accepted in the plastics but becomes obsessed with richness and fame that it intoxicates her. The changing status also shows inequality evidenced by wealth as outlined by Rousseau. Wealth status also creates classes among the other students
Regina George is a junior in high school who is described as teen royalty. As the leader of her clique referred to as “The Plastics”, she rules the school with her best friends Gretchen Weiners and Karen Smith loyally at her side. The three girls feed off of tearing the other girls in the school down and diminishing them by writing awful rumors and secrets in the “Burn Book”. With her tall and skinny physique, bright blonde hair and good-looks, she uses her sex appeal and superiority to manipulate and victimize the people around her including her family. Regina easily controls her family members. Her mother worships the ground Regina walks on and desperately looks to her for acceptance. Her ability to make other girls at school feel inferior fuels her power, as queen bee Regina is seen as the “it” girl. Everyone wants to look like her, dress like her, and be just like her. She uses her sex appeal to get any guy she wants and dangles them around everyone else to make them jealous.
Symbolism can mean and represent a wide variety of ideas, moments and memories in everyone's lives. In the novel The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, colors, names and objects symbolize different personalities, and ideas of the characters. Some of the symbols are more obvious and easier to pick up on than others.
For instance, in a ritual-like scene, Regina starts whining about how her hips are huge and the other girls naturally follow her with complains about themselves.
Everyone loves popular girls that are hot and sexy like Cady in “Mean girls”. But these popular girls can also be mean. So how do these girls develop their personality? Erickson answers this as having to go through eight stages of psychosocial development going through differences between an individual and the society. Unfortunately Cady an innocent little girl at the beginning of the movie developed though the three of the eight stages of Erickson theory involving trust v. Mistrust, t a sweet that turns her personality from an innocent girl to a mean, popular girl.
One of the major conflicts is the intrapersonal conflict Cady has with herself. Cady goes from being home-schooled in Africa to entering the “girl-world” in high school. Throughout the movie, Cady is trying to fit in, become popular and to get the attention of her crush, Aaron Samuels. This causes Cady to ultimately lose herself in the process of becoming Plastic. In the effort to take revenge on Regina for taking Aaron back, Cady loses her own self by attempting to be Regina. This gets Janis to notice Cady’s transformation especially when Cady throws party the same night of Janis’s art show and doesn’t even show up to the art show. Janis came to Cady’s house tell her: “You think that everyone is in love with you, when actually, everyone hates you.” Cady then has to decide whether she wants to become a better person or become someone she’s
I will continue to grow in the counseling field by attending workshops and convention's to learn about new techniques and training on different speaclities in the counseling profession. I will also seek guidance from my supervisors, and learn from there years of experienced.
As far back as elementary school I had heard about the mean girls. I'd seen plenty of movies in which the clique of perfect, beautiful girls ruled the halls of high school year after year. I am sad to say that even in my small, country town, mean girls ruled South Jones High too. From here on, I will refer to them individually as "THE Queen B", "Wannabe Queen B", "Honey B", "and "How-Could-You B". Collectively, I will call them "The B's". These horribly conceited beasts arrived at school every morning looking flawless, smelling delicious, and commanding the
His behavior can affect Ms. Loviet’s and Bellinda’s emotions, also his friends’ opinions. Mr. Dorimant plays tricks to make his mistress Mr. Loviet angry and jealous. At the same time, his affairs make the other mistress of him, Bellinda worries a lot. In his group, his friends Medley, Young Bellair and Lady Townley all follow and idolize him, even they know Dorimant’s affairs. He is the bellwether in his group. In Mean girls, Regina is also play the role like Dorimant in her group “the plastics”. She is the queen on the campus and she determine the fashion and behavioral rules. Her every move is watched and mimicked by other students. For example, she wears the T-shirt with two holes which was cut by Janis (Lizzy Caplan) and walks round on campus and then every one wears their T-shirts with two hole. Regina is a fashion icon and other students imitate her moves even her embarrassing thing. Furthermore, people proud of being noticed by Regina, even being teased, mocked, and satirized. As the key figure in the group, both of them are enjoying the pleasure of being sought after and the vanity which was feed by people’s
I agree with you that teen films genre like the movie Mean Girls does not reflect reality. I also agree that the teen films all have the stereotypes that are in all movies that have a high school setting. In my personal experience in high school these stereotypes did not exist for me as well. I do see how students in teen films are often not allowed to be friends with anyone they want now that you pointed it out. In my personal experience however many people were friends with everyone at my school there wasn't people that were only allowed to talk to a specific group. After reading this I now see that teachers or any other staff members are not really included in big roles in the teen movies. In reality teachers and other staff members
"Cold, shiny, hard, PLASTIC," said by Janice referring to a group of girls in the movie Mean Girls. Mean Girls is about an innocent, home-schooled girl, Cady who moves from Africa to the United States. Cady thinks she knows all about survival of the fittest. But the law of the jungle takes on a whole new meaning when she enters public high school and encounters psychological warfare and unwritten social rules that teen girls deal with today. Cady goes from a great friend of two "outcasts", Janice and Damien to a superficial friend of the "plastics", a group of girls that talks about everyone behind their back and thinks everyone loves them. Adolescent egocentrism and relationships with peers are obviously present throughout the film. I also noticed self worth in relationships, parenting styles, and juvenile delinquency throughout Mean Girls.
The movie Mean Girls portrays several interpersonal communication concepts. Cady Heron grew up in Africa and was homeschooled by her parents. When she is sixteen, her parents decide to move to the United States, where Cady enrolls in public school for the first time to begin her junior year of high school. Two students that are considered outcasts, Janice and Damian, befriend Cady, and soon they decide that it would be funny for her to join the populars girls clique, known as “The Plastics”. The Plastics are a group of three mean girls that are feared by their school, but everyone also aspires to be one of them. They come up with this plan for Cady to pretend to be one of them so that she can learn all of their secrets and report back to Janice
hope to advance up the ladder at my department and retire with a long and proud career to look back
I will bring into the classroom my open-mindedness, my respect for others, my willingness to listen before making decisions, and my love for knowledge. I hope that by ...