. Ferris Bueller Ferris Bueller's Day Off, while dated, is an essential high school movie. It details the convoluted scheme of Ferris Bueller to get out of school, resulting in a number of hijinks. Even with its innaccurate portrayal of what happens when you skip school, it's still a relatable adventure. 2. Project X Released in 2012, and a bit more modern, Project X details an 'epic' party thrown by Thomas (Thomas Mann), Costa (Oliver Cooper), and JB (Jonathan Daniel Brown). Intending to make a mark on their high school career, they throw a party that quickly gets out of hand. Even though its a comedy, it shows how dangerous and awry a high school party can get. 3. Grease Another dated movie, but Grease explores the clique-breaking romance …show more content…
High School Musical Even though it's a musical, HSM offers a very relatable look into the world of high school romance and trying to juggle the often packed schedule of devoted students in programs like sports or academic events. Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) has to make difficult choices about his sports career and his life. Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens) has to choose between love and her academic …show more content…
The Breakfast Club In a detention on saturday, five very different students meet under an authoritarian principal. Each one has a chance to tell their story and they come to learn a lot about each other. This movie shows that you shouldn't judge anybody, because their story may be far more compex than you know. 8. Mean Girls After being educated by scientist parents in Africa, Cady Heron's (Lindsey Lohan) family moves to the suburbs of Illinois, where she experiences public school. She quickly finds that there are tightly knit groups that divide up public school neatly. After accidentally falling in league with the 'cool kids,' she quickly learns how shallow public school groups can be, highlighting the reality of social cliques in high school. 9. Harry Potter Series Harry Potter is known as a fantasy series, but it also touches on some of the difficult aspects of adolescence. Not only can we see the adolescent development of Harry himself, but also of those around him. It made them seem human and thus easier to relate to, despite their 'wizardry.' 10. American
“I viewed each of the films at least once…taking notes on the role of the teacher, peer relations, among students, relations between students and adults, student attitudes toward schoolwork, extracurricular activities, the role of the family, the resources of the school, the use of violence and drugs, exploitation of sexuality (4).”
The film that interested me for this assignment was “Boyz n the Hood”. The movie was about a Los Angeles neighborhood expanding of drug and gang culture, with increasingly tragic results. It was about how one teen had family support to guide him on the right path in life regarding the social problems around him. The other two teens in the film wasn’t as fortunate and fell into the social problems of drugs, violence, and gangs; where one ended up dead.
High school is a time in your life that at the time you think is the worst part in your life, but will later find out, that it is the best time in your life. Unlike my fellow senior classmates, I have come to the realization that I will miss this “shitty” place we call school. High school is a mixture of 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18 year olds. Unlike elementary and middle school, in high school, all students are mixed together. To me, high school is a time in your life to figure out who you are, who your friends are, and to make memories. I love high school and will miss every minute of it next year when I am off in college, alone. O Bentworth Senior High School.
Director John Hughes does it again. In Sixteen Candles, he captures the essence of high school from the views of the nerds to the jocks. Depicted in the daily lives of the main characters, he shows even back in 1984, there is a division by popularity and grade. The struggles and pressures students faced are the same as what students are faced with in today’s high schools. This movie relates to teens year after year, generation after generation. Just as the author William Zinsser states in College Pressures, “They are too young to be prisoners of their parents’ dreams and their classmates’ fears” (385). Hughes is able to capture this through the eyes of high school students and the pressures they feel.
This film contains some classic examples of the kinds of real life issues adolescents deal with. Issues such as popularity, peer relationships, family/sibling relationships, sex, and struggles with identity are all addressed in this ninety-minute film.
The movie follows the lives of three students as they go through their first year at Columbus University. These students are faced with issues of race, sexual
The movie main character is Cady Heron who is a homeschooled girl. Her and her family lived in Africa for 15 years. They return back to the states and place Cady into a public school for the first time. Cady meets her classmates and finds a few good friends the introduce her to a group of girls called the Plastics. She ends up joining the plastics with the motive of bring them down because her new friend don’t like them very much and thought it would be funny. However, she eventually gets assimilated into the group of three unkind girls and starts to be just like them.
The movie is very relatable as most high school students have all thought about how nice it would be to just have one day off school. Though, a typical day of hookey for most students probably does not involve “borrowing” a Ferrari, scheming your girlfriend out of school, and living it up for a day in Chicago with two of your closets pals. Yet, Ferris’s acts make one think that they deserve an innocent day off school every once and a while. In fact, to quote Ferris “How can I possibly be expected to handle school on a day like this?” Sometimes all anyone needs a nice day off to feel refreshed.
In the idealistic world of many teenagers, the perfect day includes not having to go to school and hanging out with their friends. They’d go for a drive, and do anything they could, because why not? This dream is brought to life in the film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, a product of John Hughes, mastermind behind all of our favorite 1980s teen movies. It captivates the viewer and makes us all feel like calling in sick to school or work, just to have a day like Ferris’. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is the best movie ever because of its screenplay, casting, cinematography, audience reception, and sound.
“I said it before and I’ll say it again, life moves pretty fast, you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” This is how the audience meets Ferris Bueller. John Hughes’ 1986 film, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off had quite a bit of appeal that brought the attention of many viewers. A film about a beloved senior in high school who decides to play hooky for the day and go on an adventure around Chicago. The trailer doesn’t do much to tell much about the plot, instead, it introduces the main character by a sequence of opinions that background characters are saying of the delightful Ferris Bueller. Bueller is described, via the trailer, as a character that influences his peers – gaining him popularity – in ways they find
This movie also has many detailed concepts such as social sanctions, peer pressure, sociological perspectives, and control theory. This movie is rated R and won MTV Movie Silver Bucket of Excellence Award. It is also rated 4 stars out of 5 stars and is one hour 37 minutes long.
In this film we see many typical high school behaviors such as cliques, cattiness, and popularity (or lack there of) issues. Many scenes in this movie have an array of stereotypes. Sometimes they are clearly stated and others just seen through attitudes of the actors/actresses character. Also through out we follow the main clique “the plastics” and they have this image they have to uphold. Be perfect, skinny, the best at everything, and in sync with everything they do; or they wont uphold their status. I chose this film because I think it shows a lot of what we have learned in this course and how it is in real life. Clearly the film is exaggerated but much of
Since the first segment of the series was released in 1997, Harry Potter has been challenged by churches and parents due to the practicing of magic by children found within the books. The books have been removed from school shelves, discouraged by churches, and censored by parents. It is claimed that Harry Potter is devilish, satanic, and encourages children to practice the occult, damaging their religious views (LaFond). Therefore, many parents keep their children from reading the book series. Yet, Harry Potter has been such a positive influence on my so many lives. Evident through the movies, theme parks, stores, and much more, J.K. Rowling’s series has been an overwhelming success for many reasons (“Because it’s his…”). In order to encourage
In the movie, 16 year old Cady Heron was the daughter of zoologist parents. They had been on a 12 year research trip in Africa before returning to the states so Cady was homeschooled most of all her life. While attending public school for the first time, Cady is swept away by who she thought she was to the new person she had become. A “plastic” is what she had become. The Plastics were the most popular girls in school, but also the messiest and most insecure. Downing others to make themselves feel better was what The Plastics lived for. It took for chaos, confusion, and betrayal for them to get to the gist of who they really are as individuals. The adolescence period in one’s life is a very tough and exciting time. A teen is constantly going through changes daily; physically, mentally and emotionally. Those with a strong sense of self make a smooth transition during this period, while others still looking for a sense of belonging seem to struggle. During the middle school years, they begin to develop more interpersonal relationships and peer acceptance be...
...eelings throughout the day they had spent together in the library. Brian’s essay reflects their feeling on the way they feel about their home and lives and the way they feel they fit in among the other students in their school. The essay was inspirational because it showed through the words each of the five student’s true feelings. They wanted it to be know they are people with true feelings and thoughts of their own they would like to express. They said they are more than a nerd, basket case, popular chick, athlete or a trouble maker. The essay Brian present for the group speaks loud for each of the students inside that library as well as all the other students in every school all around the world. This movie can help children all around relate to their current issues and situation and possible help them through a rough time in their lives as they are growing up.