Mean Girls vs. Mean Girls 2 I’m sure almost everyone has seen the very popular and very successful movie Mean Girls, starring Lindsay Lohan as a high school girl trying to adjust to a new school and make new friends along the way. She has just moved from Africa and is starting at a brand new school. She becomes friends with two different friend groups, “The Plastics”, and “The Losers”. Cady is in constant battle with trying to please both groups and make everyone, including herself, happy. On the
the movie Mean Girls is simply a silly teen chick flick and is not good for anything but pure entrainment. Even though Mean Girls is slightly dramatized, high school in reality is perfectly portrayed through this movie. Every high school varies but there is always a domain group of students. The socially powerful are the rich and beautiful girls and everyone else are the loyal subjects to their castle. However, there is a twist in Mean Girls, the message is actually positive. Mean Girls is sending
Alicia Altmann Essay #2 WST: Women, Gender, and Society Media Analysis: Mean Girls 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
Case Study The film Mean Girls tells the story of sixteen-year-old Cady Heron and her new life as a high school student in the United States. She had previously been homeschooled due to her parents work as zoologists in Africa. Since it’s her first exposure to public school, she is a bit naïve and unaware of all the rules and customs. On her first day, she befriends Janis and Damian, who give her the rundown of different groups and personalities at North Shore High. Of all the groups, they recommend
knowing what to do to socialize, in the movie Mean Girls a girl named Katy comes from Africa and also doesn’t know what to do socially, so they both have similar social skills, both causing them to be social outcasts. In the book Charlie starts his freshmen year out friendless and he is not really sure on what he is to do to make a friend. But he meets Sam and Patrick and just goes with them because he felt comfortable around them. In the movie Mean Girls Katy arrives at school and also doesn’t know
Mean Girls tells the story of Cady Heron’s transition from 12 years of home school in Africa to public high school in the United States when her mother gets offered tenure at a nearby college. Upon her arrival, Cady bonds with Janice and Damian who are considered apart of the “out crowd”. Janice and Damian give Cady the scoop on all of the social cues and how to navigate her new territory. When she is invited to join the most popular clique in the school, “The Plastics” Cady is placed in the middle
Are Girls too Mean to Each Other? Do you ever think girls are too mean to each other? Girls are often mean to each other, but sometimes they a little bit too mean. Like Newton's Third Law, for every action there is a reaction. Girls take action to get a reaction and please their audience. It is clear that girls are too mean to each other. To begin with, girls are too mean because they often jump to conclusions or assume one thing, when in reality it is something entirely different. For example
Mean Girls reading response “Raise your hand if you have ever been personally victimized by Regina George.” Okay, behind Mean Girl’s comedic, dramatic and plain exaggerated ideas of what it is like to be in High School, it really made me realise how lucky I am going to an all girls’ school. The film makes me smile every time I watch it because of the way high school is portrayed. After watching this movie, I did start noticing how at my age, girls are very insecure about the way they look and
The movie Mean Girls, is the most popular and accurate representation of adolescent society in today's adolescent culture. It is sincerely one of my favorite movies because of its satirical portrayal of different facets of high school life. Mean Girls is about a girl named Cady Heron, who relocates from being homeschooled in Africa to high school in the United States. At first, she is naive to the status hierarchy of cliques that are prevalent in the school. But what turns from innocent sabotage
Abigail Greenberg Greenberg 1 Martha Schwer Oral and Interpersonal Communication May 11, 2015 I chose Mean Girls to analyze because this film is relatable and I have been quoting it since 2004. Mean Girls is set at North Shore High School in Evanston, Illinois. The high school in the film does not actually exist but is based off of New Trier High School located in Winnetka, Illinois. I am originally from Northbrook, Illinois and attended a high school only ten minutes away from New Trier
Movie Analysis: Mean Girls The movie that I chose to do my analysis on, is Mean Girls because it is my all-time favorite movie. I watched it a million times, it never gets old and plus I know every single line in the movie. The main character Cady, played by Lindsay Lohan, exhibits how to go from being a nerd, popular, hated and rehabilitated all in one school year. It’s hilarious movie about high school but, it also covers many interpersonal concepts that we learned in class like: verbal communication
Paige Bushnell Gender Development Film Review #1 For my first film review, I have chosen to watch and discuss Mean Girls, a movie about a previously homeschooled girl from Africa, Cady. Cady is portrayed as the stereotypical shy and naive “new girl” who is introduced to the pecking order of public high schools and the stereotypical cliques with which the student body divides itself when she befriends outcasts, Janis and Damian. Janis and Damian become Cady’s genuine friends, and we see examples
stereotypical girls in highschool can either be very negative or positive when it comes to engaging with interpersonal communications. To display various examples of interpersonal relationships, there is a movie called Mean Girls. The movie demonstrates how a group of girls in a public high school survive their way through life with gossip as one of their sources of communication. The main characters involved in this movie are Cady Heron, Regina George, Gretchen Wieners, and Karen Smith. These girls are known
Mean girls is possibly the most captivating movies for teenage girls in the 2000’s, with Lindsay Lohan starring, high school drama, and bullying, but it is also a relatable funny story about girls coming of age. This all starts when a homeschooled Candy Heron (Lindsay Lohan) is thrown into a high school when her parents decide to move back to the United States from Africa. Of course almost every high school has their “popular group” and in this case they were called the plastics (Waters, Mean Girls)
Peyton Dannatt Mrs.Dwiggins Computers 24 October 2014 Mean Girls Mean girls is movie written in 2004 by Tina Fey. She based the movie off of the book "Queen Bees & Wannabes" Tina wrote the screenplay for Mean Girls. Alot of the movie was also based off her high school experience. The Mean Girls is a trio of girls named Gretchen, Karen and Regina. Gretchen is Regina’s best friend and knows all of her secrets, “That’s why her hair is so big. It’s full of secrets.”
that you partook in, or wanted to be in. A staple of this example would have to be from the movie Mean Girls, and how Cady wanted to become a part of some girls who were known as “the Plastics.” They were skinny, rich girls who were known for their beauty by the student body. I’ve watched the movie multiple times and can never figure out who came up with the claim that they were the “most beautiful girls in school.” Now that I am thinking about it, that is where we are wrong. As humans are evolving
Closely behind, the fan boys and girls admiring the fame of the spot lighted teens of high school. The fictional idea of what a high school in America is like isn’t completely true. There are the queen bees and the wannabes, the cost of friendship, and the cruelty of girls. Although they bear some similarities, the difference between my high school experience and the one in Mean Girls is clear. In every school, there will be the Queen Bees
The movie Mean Girls is about a bunch of high school girls who are only looking out for their best interest and bringing down other girls around them. This may just be a movie, but this movie is also a great representation of typical high school girls. High school years for girls are very awkward. All that most girls want to do is to fit in. This is not the case for all girls, but it is seen a lot in high school where girls will do just about anything to get peoples attention. They will dress differently
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
Mean girls is a 2004 teen comedy film about how girl social cliques in high school can be evil and damaging to the lives of other around them. Cady Heron grew up and was homeschooled all her life in Africa, until she was the age of 16 and her parents moved her to the suburbs of Illinois. This is where she got a taste of what public school was really about: the cruelty and rules of popularity that divide the school into several groups. Unfortunately, Cady stumbles upon the wrong set of friends known