The classic movie Heathers has a twist like no other about a teenage girl getting sick of being popular at the cost of others leading to deadly consequences. Veronica is a part of the most popular clique at Westburg High School. The clique consists of her and three other wealthy girls all weirdly named Heather. The leader of the most loved and hated group is Heather Chandler. Whose popularity stems from making fun of socially unacceptable students. Veronica begins to become fed up with the girl’s behavior and begins to secretly detest them. She also begins a relationship with the new guy, J.D, who is really a psychopath. Her first encounter with him was in the café. He pulls a gun and fire blanks scaring the two jocks that try to bully him. …show more content…
Heather Chandler begins to notice how Veronica wanted socialized with other people. So she remains her how she made her popular. Veronica being afraid of being the social outcast tries to turn over a new leaf with Heather by agreeing to go with her to a college party. Nevertheless, at the college party, Veronica is asked to do certain acts, which she refuses. Ready to leave, her and Heather begins to argue resulting in Veronica throwing up from assumedly drinking too much. Heather is fed up completely up with Veronica behavior and sets out by the next time school starts to destroy her reputation by telling everyone she threw up at the college party. Infuriated Veronica was at home venting how much she hates Heather and how easy it would be if she was out of her life for good. J.D. pops in from the window where the true plot of the movie begins. Veronica and J.D. decide to play the revenge card with Heather. So they go to Heathers house in the morning and pour Drano into a cup and tell her it’s a homemade remedy that helps with hangovers. Heather drinks the drink, resulting in her death. Stunned J.D and Veronica writes a fake suicide note forging Heather Chandler hand writing. Veronica and J.D. become the 1980’s versus of Bonny and Clyde at the high school whose killing spree begins with the queen bee. The suicide note seems to take a life of its own. Leaving Heather chandler memory to be a misunderstood teenager taken for granted by the misconception of her image. The chain reaction leads to another event J.D. and Veronica plot because two jocks at school spread a rumor about Veronica. J.D. tells Veronica they’ll pay them back with German bullets that only break the skin not really causing any physical damage just to scare them. The result of the event ends up in the two jocks deaths as well and another suicide note about them being homosexual and afraid to express their love to society. Veronica realizes that J.D is a psychopath and breaks up with him. So J.D. decides to blackmail Heather Duke with old photos of her Martha when they were friends. Since Martha was classified as socially unacceptable amongst Westburg high, Heather Dukes feels obligated to comply with J.D. demands. In the process J.D convinces Heather to take the place of the new queen bee and she gladly accepts. Once Heather Duke changes in the new alpha female at Westburg high J.D. tell her to start a petition, in return he gives her the negatives of the blackmailing photos. Eventually the fake suicide letters start rise a problem with students doing similar attempts. Martha, who is rejected because of her obesity pens a suicide letter to her shirt and walks into traffic, and Heather Ncmara humiliated about her radio confession getting back to school tries to overdose. Martha survives, but when it gets back to the school, she is made fun of for trying to act popular, mostly by the new queen bee, Heather Duke. Heather Ncmara was stopped by Veronica. J.D. tries several times to rekindle his spark with Veronica but has failed. So J.D. creates a mass murder plot involving the petition that all the students agree to dying out of angry and feeling unloved. J.D. put a bomb in the boiling room. Veronica finds out and with brief struggles she shoots him three times. J.D. stabs the bomb stopping the timer. In conclusion J.D commits suicide by blowing himself and Veronica decide to give up her title as the popular girl. The issues focused in the black comedy, Heather, dramatized every incoming freshmen nightmare about what to expect when entering high school. The myth that was notice was Heather chandler reason to popularity and that was by humiliating others. The huge myth that was seen that teens deal with was that mean girls are the popular girls of the schools. Generally, the most popular people in school are liked by everyone, not despised. In the movie Heather Chandler, was hated and fear by every because of cruelty to everyone, which made her popular even her own friends secretly despised her. 4.What adolescent psychology issues are presented in the movie? The honesty the movie betrayed about high school life was still brutally concise: a world where the never-ending pursuit for popularity has actual life-or-death penalties. It's also a world where students battle with bulimia, bullying, and parental indifference. The cool kids have self-esteem issues; these issues are everyday issues that adolescent face all the time in high school. For example, Heather Duke, had a fear self, of becoming too big, so she resulted to bulimia. Heather Chandler, had low self-esteem issues periods so she hooked up with older guys. These are all common issues that adolescent face. The extreme issue that every adolescent face is bullying.
The movie showed every component to bullying. Aggression which leads to physical or verbal abuse. Repetition, the two jocks in the movie showed this numerous times with various people they classified as nerds. Lastly power imbalance where the bully feels he’s on a higher status than the victim. All the victim in the movies who were bullied were on a lower status and cast out as rejects. Now while watching the movie the old saying popped up, “Where were the parents at? Adolescents in high school face this problem all the time disengaged parents. For example, Veronica stayed out all night with a boy and it seem like her mom or dad didn’t care enough to even discipline her on how late she stayed out. She faked her suicide to which are mother didn’t even know how to respond emotionally when she thought her daughter was dead. In addition to her slapping Heather Dukes and using foul language in front of them seem not even bother them. Some of the symptoms presented by the main character, Veronica was that she was very impulsive, delinquent, and performing sexual acts. In stressful moment Veronica seem to just act instead of thinking the situation though. The suicide letters, having sexual intercourse with J.D. in the back yard, shooting the two jocks that spread a rumor about her and slapping H teather Dukes when she thought she getting out of line with trying to become the new queen
been. The treatment in the movie was very realistic and cold. This displayed how cruel adolescent can be toward each other and where their internally issues stem from. When Martha, whose plays the obese girl in school, tries to commit suicide she was made fun of for trying to be popular. The Heathers need for popular stemmed from degrading self-image they saw within them-selves. Lastly cold blooded J.D. just never felt love. So he turns to violence to gain the attention of the one person he actually thought loved him and when that didn’t work her result to suicide. In conclusion the movie was precise of how high school can be a reality of hell.
As a bully there are a lot of things that are done out of anger or any emotions. As the story progressed more and more ways of bullying popped up mainly in the characters who were the bad
However, once she is gone, J.D. persuades the other Heather to take it upon herself to become the leader of the group and of her high school. Before this role was brought into her life, Heather was mean, but was not evil. The way she behaves after declaring herself the leader is horrific. She no longer cares about her friends and only cares about the popularity and liking she is receiving from her peers. When Veronica tries to convince Heather she is using her new found authority with her peers wrongly, Heather simply claims she does everything simply because she can. The idea that there needs to be a leader in this high school is evidence of the human need for social classifications and the importance humans given social
For example physical, verbal, and cyber. You can find a bunch of articles, books, and movies out there that tell cases of bullying. Some are pretty well known around and majority are never heard of. The story of Amanda Todd is a very famous story that involves bullying. In Amanda Todd’s story she goes through depression from all the bullying and harassment that she went through and eventually committed suicide. Committing suicide is a very common variable when it comes to bullying. People think that death is an easy way out of their problems, and it’s not. There are cases when the person who is being bullied has had enough where they do the opposite of suicide and commit murder. In this case that person will usually commit mass murder through a school shooting. Bullying is a very common thing that has been happening for a long time. A famous event was the Columbine shooting of April 20th,1999 when it was theorized that two boys shot down the school due to bullying. Even famous people have admitted to being bullied. To name a few there are Lady Gaga, Megan Fox, Rihanna, Tom Cruise, and the president himself Barack
I watched a movie for the first time ever last night. That movie was Napoleon Dynamite. I’ve always heard funny lines and jokes from the movie so I decided to give up some of my time to watch it. Now I know you’re probably thinking ‘oh that movie is funny but dumb and doesn’t have anything to do with pop culture analysis.’ I beg to differ. In this movie we see a high school student, Napoleon who gets picked on for being a nerd. Many students in high school experience this kind of bullying. Nothing was done about Napoleon being bullied just like today, many people feel like teachers and administration don’t do anything for bullied students. Bullying is defined as “ to frighten, hurt, or threaten (a smaller or weaker person) : to act like
Bullying is when a person or group frequently harms someone who is weaker or more vulnerable then themselves. They do this by means of physical, verbal, or mental abuse. Bullies can be male, female, young or old. The nature of a bully depends on many factors such as sex, age, and past experiences. Depending on the nature of the bully, their actions can have many negative effects on others. Bullies display many characteristics such as aggression, rivalry, and competitive behavior. Bullying occurs in many different places, a good example is in the novel The Lord of the Flies. Jack, the antagonist in this novel, displays many characteristics of a bully. Many children have been victimized by the terrible acts of bullies.
“Bullying is also not an action flick, it’s a psychodrama. It’s not going to glide naturally toward a happy ending; both perpetrator and victim have deep psychological needs to heap, abuse or absorb it” (Gale Student Resources in Context). This quote is sating that bullying is not based on a hero overcoming physical feats and violence, but it is where the main interest is psychological elements. This ties into the novel because it exhibits the psychological effects of the victim and the psychological issues the bullies have. In the novel, Ender’s Game, a boy named Andrew Wiggin, also known as Ender, is the third child in his family. The government only allows people to have two children but in this case the Wiggin’s first two children, Peter and Valentine, were not qualified to go to battle school. Peter is too vicious and Valentine is too compassionate. The government lets the Wiggin’s have a third child hoping that the third will be a mixture of both Peter and Valentine. Ender qualifies to go to battle school and leaves Earth to go into military training to fight the enemies, the buggers. Throughout the book Ender gets physically and mentally bullied. While Ender is gone, Peter comes up with the idea to dominate the world. When Ender finally went back home, he realized that battle school was not a game. It was a reality. He actually killed people, destroyed ships and a world. Ender was relieved to be home. Valentine goes with Ender into space and Peter ends up in charge and he eventually dominates the world. Ender wins the third invasion, and then helps the buggers find a new home. The novel, Ender’s Game integrates with American history because it shows the presence of bullying in the schoolyard, the workplace, and even in gove...
Bully (2001) is a movie based on a true story about a group of rebellious, yet naïve teens who conspire to exact ultimate revenge on a mutual friend. In a twist, unlike most, this movie highlights not only extent of bullying amongst peers, but details the ultimate revenge that would irrevocably change the lives of the entire group. The movie takes place in South Florida where Marty, a high school dropout, and Bobby are “alleged” best friends. As they set out to meet up with mutual friends Ali and Lisa for a double date the bully is immediately apparent as Bobby begins to verbally torment Marty, which quickly turns physical as he repeatedly punches Marty while he is driving for accidently swerving. Although, Marty stops the car and retaliates,
Walking down the school hall to the next class, the bully appears before his prey. He stands before his soon to be victims as if he is two feet taller and ten times stronger. His victims attempt to ignore him, but he stops them and puts his face in front of theirs to make sure his presence is known. He then abruptly decides to save his senseless punishment for another day as he passes by with a slight shoulder nudge. In today’s high schools, the majority of bullying incidents occur in this fashion. A bully finds the weakest kids and targets them. Freaks and Geeks, a television show, demonstrates these specific bullying instances and their effect on the character Bill Haverchuck. The pain bullying causes goes beyond surface level bruises and stretches to damaging internal feelings. When analyzing Freaks and Geeks, it is apparent that this television show demonstrates the physical and emotional effects of bullying through character Bill Haverchuck.
The documentary film Bully (2011) – directed by Lee Hirsh – takes the viewer into the lives of five families that live in various, predominantly remote, towns across the United States. All families presented have been affected by bullying, either because their child was at the time being bullied by peers at school or the child committed suicide due to continuous bullying. The film also profiles an assistant principle, Kim Lockwood, whose indiscreetness makes the viewer...
Veronica Sawyer is less one-dimensional than the average damsel in distress, and instead embodies a new type of gothic heroine. What makes Veronica such a compelling character is that she isn’t labelled as hysterical or over-emotional, but rather aggressive, clever, rebellious, and beautiful. Heathers has changed the way teenage girls are portrayed on screen – it acknowledges the complexity of the female adolescent and breaks the unpopular/in need of a makeover cliché. She is neither innocent nor vulnerable, and not at all helpless. At first Veronica seems unruffled about the murder of her enemy, and rather takes it as a joke when watching the sappy aftermath. Blinded by J.D’s charm, she is then fooled into murdering another two students. Finally, her intuition kicks in. Instead of being controlled by J.D, Veronica declares her Bonnie and Clyde days to be over and ends their relationship. She eventually matches the pieces together and discovers J.D’s plan to blow up their high school, and singlehandedly fights J.D and saves the school from a deathly massacre. His power over Veronica shatters – and she ultimately saves herself. Bloody and wounded, J.D surrenders: “You’ve got power. Power I didn’t think you
The three important components to bullying are as followed; bullying is aggressive behavior that involves unwanted, negative actions, bullying involves a pattern of behavior repeated over time, and bullying involves an imbalance of power and strength (Olweus1). At one point in time, bullying had meant a push on the playground, or a mean slur, however bullying has progressed from then. Bullying can be described as the systematic abuse of power (Smith3). Kids take it upon themselves to hurt, and bring down others, which is not justification whatsoever. It is hurtful, and spiteful. Regardless of your personal feelings about someone, ...
Everyone has been bullied or encountered someone being bullied at some point of their life. Whether it would be physically or verbally both can be exceedingly traumatizing and can have a long-term psychological influence on children’s development. Majority people may define bullying in a more physical term; nevertheless that’s not always the case. The act of bullying can occur in several ways and in reality affect the individual in the same way. Bullying is generally defined as repeated, negative, and harmful actions focused at target throughout a course of time, exhibiting a sense of power difference between the bully and the victim (Olweus, 1993; Limber & Mihalic, 1999 as cited from Douglas J. Boyle, 2005). A survey was conducted in the United States estimating that over six million children, about 30% in grade six through ten have experienced frequent bullying in a school environment (Nansel, 2001 as cited from Douglas J. Boyle, 2005). Many people might debate that bullying is something that every child goes through and is simply a part of growing up, although there are several damaging consequences that happens to the child’s brain. Bullying causes the child to feel upset, isolated, frightened, anxious, and depressed. They feel like they reason they are being picked on is because there is something wrong with them and may even lose their confidence feel unsafe going to school (Frenette, 2013 as cited from Douglas J. Boyle, 2005) Anthropologically, sociologically, or psychologically, bullying can be analyzed through different perspectives and several questions can be asked based on the topic:
Educators attempt to provide safe, nurturing environments where students can thrive. Any disturbance to this climate can have negative affects on students’ educational performances. Bullying is one such disruption. Unfortunately, physical and verbal abuse are nothing new in the school setting, however, the rise of technology in our country has created a new setting for bullies to target their victims. Cyberbulling, or the use of any number of technological means to harm or harass another, has become an increasingly prevalent occurrence, specifically among school-aged children (Campfield, 2006).
Bullying is a major problem and needs to be prevented. A bully is defined as aggressive behavior or to harm a person repeatedly overtime. School bullying can start anytime from elementary to high school. Over 5.7 teens in the United States are involved in school bullying(about.com). Boys tend to be more physically bullied as girls are more prone to being bullied verbally. According to the National Conference of State Legislature, boys who are often bullied can be five times as likely to be more or severely depressed and four times more likely to be suicidal. Girls are three times more likely to be severely depressed and eight times more likely to be suicidal. Some children are afraid to go to school, which can lead to poor grades or lack of concentration. It is hard for students to focus at school when they are worried about their bully. Bullying can make school a place of fear and can lead to school violence.
Bullying of students in school is an abuse that affects and produces a number of negative experiences on the victim. It is proven that those students who bully do so merely because they see themselves superior than those being bullied. They use this as a tactic to make juniors fear them and show them that they are not equal in any way. Some will even bully as a revenge of the bullying they suffered in the past. I have been bullied before and I know some of the effects it could have on a person. Bullying is a serious cause of many issues and has effects that may be long lasting.