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Shes All That is a movie about typical teenagers. A high school jock, Zack Siler, makes a bet that he can turn an unattractive nerdy girl, Laney Boggs, into the school's prom queen in 6 weeks. Laney’s character changes throughout the film. The use of stereotypes shows the change in her personality and character. When she is first introduced in the film, she wears glasses and a horrible combination of colors. She as well wears glasses, which portrays her to be a geek that does not fit in with the other perfect looking characters. It can also be deduced that her use of different colors being worn at once has connections of her trying to express herself, which is a stereotypical view of teenagers. As she begins to change in the film and open up more as a character, due to Zacks sudden interest in her, her costume changes too. She begins to wear dresses, skirts and cute tops instead of her usual paint covered overalls. This transformation resembles her desire to be more feminine and take care of her looks like the other female characters. Also, she doesn’t wear her glasses anymore, which connotes her to be more accepted as she physically looks alike to the other characters in the film. Zack is immediately illustrated as a typical jock. They show him wearing a letterman jacket when he is first introduced. Throughout the film, Zack typically seems to wear simple clothing such as t-shirts and jeans. This echoes the style of many teenage boys, so it is a stereotypical style of costume that is usually seen in teen romantic comedies.
Laney Boggs dealt with many issues in this movie. Her mother died when she was very young, which turned her into an outsider who used art to cope with her emotions. She tended to block people out her life, as ...
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...sister completely made her over and taught her how to do it herself. Zack wasn’t the nice sensitive guy, his sister had to give him tips on how to get close to Laney. Also Laney helped him become more decent when it came to other people and not to be so shallow.
I really loved this movie. It is from the 90s and I love all the music they used. I also like how it sends a message saying not all teenage girls are ditsy and only concerned with their looks. Some happen to have a mind of their own and don’t always conform to the norm. But my favorite thing about this movie was the cast! I was shocked to see some of the people in it, for example, Usher, Paul Walker, Dule Hall, Freddie Prinze Jr., Kevin Pollak, Lil Kim and Gabrielle Union. It’s really exciting seeing them work together and seeing how young they all look. Overall, I would recommend this great movie to anyone.
Growing up as a happy and popular young man, Zack creates himself a perfect reputation which left room for love and smothering from his mother and two sisters. His mother and sisters love him very much and show this love by being at his every beckoning. Winifred is no exception; the love for Zack is shown by the extraction, “How be you wash my bike for me, Pose, Love?” I would be halfway to the kitchen for bucket and rags before he stopped speaking. [And] I was Zachary’s willing slave. Slavery in fact, was a vogue in our house.”(Wilson,101). Zack from a very young age is overwhelmed with love and good deeds sent in his direction. He takes advantage of these kind gestures and never really appreciates what was being done for him. This lack of appreciation and constant smothering is noticed by his father at later stages in the story and creates a level of confliction between them throughout the story. His father makes the mistake of not saying anything about his disagreement with the way Zack is treated and allows the conflict to continue. “Even Dad took a long time to wake up. You wouldn’t think a fourteen – or sixteen-year-old-boy could hoodwink a father… [And] Dad would just leave the room and go out to his work shed and sit and rock and rock in that old chair of his.” (Wilson,103). His father new there was a problem but did not act on it until the situation reached its climax which resulted in Zack leaving home. The problem is allowed to escalate at the time. The father does not play as big of a role in Zack’s life. Due to mothers love for Zack she allows him to get away with a lot of things that most mothers would not. One day she baked a cake for the church bazaar and left a sign warning nobody to eat it. She came home to find a slice gone and realised it was Zack that took the slice.
The seventies style truck made this movie even more inspiring. Listening to the sixties and seventies music throughout the movie was actually fun. This movie will make you smile, feel like crying and excited all in one setting. It was like you were right there and truly touched you every minute all the way up to end of the movie. Watching a movie that can reach out and grab a hold of you even years after production in October 2003 is truly an amazing production. Looking at this movie with a different way of thinking actually made me realize how much I didn’t notice the first few times I watched it.
Janie's Grandmother is the first bud on her tree. She raised Janie since she was a little girl. Her grandmother is in some respects a gardener pruning and shaping the future for her granddaughter. She tries to instill a strong belief in marriage. To her marriage is the only way that Janie will survive in life. What Nanny does not realize is that Janie has the potential to make her own path in the walk of life. This blinds nanny, because she is a victim of the horrible effects of slavery. She really tries to convey to Janie that she has her own voice but she forces her into a position where that voice is silenced and there for condemning all hopes of her Granddaughter become the woman that she is capable of being.
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...s a classic that shows just how nasty adolescent girls can be under typical circumstances. Nearly every character at one point shows adolescent egocentrism. There are numerous lifespan concepts covered throughout the movie. Cady Herron is a perfect example of how tough high school can be for an adolescent girl going through multiple changes. She goes through a lot more than the typical adolescent girl. However, I think she shows how staying true to yourself is important when going through high school. The "plastics" do a great job of displaying different relationships with peers. They have strong relationships with each other, but struggle to form these relationships with anyone outside of their group. All in all, Mean Girls does a great job of displaying parenting styles, egocentrism, relationships with peers, self worth in relationships, and juvenile delinquency.
Overall I like the movie because it is emotionally raw with a considerable amount of violence and action that isn’t senseless and is instead a product of the emotional rawness of it all. Also because the Ho Yay between Orange and White is considerable and it makes for a rather interesting watch.
I have always believed that all races have their good and bad. Their is never going to be the perfect race. This movie definitely set a powerful message that life is not perfect for any race and that even though people are from different cultures, they are all interconnected somehow. The filmmakers did a great job at showing us that individuals should not be based on first impressions such as skin color or the social status.
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control like Regina and was more powerful than her because she was able to destroy her. An even Cady believes this because she says, “I had learned how to control everyone around me.(Waters, 2004)” That was the case until Regina got hit by the bus and where her math teacher was on suspension for something Cady wrote in the burn book. That’s when she snapped out the fantasy world and realized that her action have consequences. Cady as she stated, sucked out all the poison in her life, and once the plastics broke up she no longer had a dominating style of life and began her journey to a social interest style of life. “I had gone from home-schooled jungle freak, to shiny Plastic, to most hated person in the world, to actual human being (Waters,
All in all, after watching the movie, I know how to be thankful, the point of persistence and the precious friendship, I have learnt some important things that I didn’t know before. And the best thing is I'm still young enough, I also can fix my behavior and gain experiences.
This film stares five young girls in the stages of adolescents and the challenges they face during this stage of life. The film begins with Massie Block (Elizabeth McLaughlin) waking up to her parents notifying her that some family friends were coming to stay with them for a little while. Shortly after she was notified the Lyons Family showed up, Massie was taken off guard by the looks of the family and decided she had no interest in associating with the Lyon’s daughter Claire (Ellen Marlow). Massie, Claire, and three other girls (Dylan, Alicia, and Kristen) are placed in situations to help them comprehend the facts of life. It is up to each of them preserve through the chaotic demands of adolescents.
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Addie Bundren, the wife of Anse Bundren and the matriarch of a poor southern family, is very ill, and is expected to die soon. Her oldest son, Cash, puts all of his carpentry skills into preparing her coffin, which he builds right in front of Addie’s bedroom window. Although Addie’s health is failing rapidly, two of her other sons, Darl and Jewel, leave town to make a delivery for the Bundrens’ neighbor, Vernon Tull, whose wife and two daughters have been tending to Addie. Shortly after Darl and Jewel leave, Addie dies. The youngest Bundren child, Vardaman, associates his mother’s death with that of a fish he caught and cleaned earlier that day. With some help, Cash completes the coffin just before dawn. Vardaman is troubled by the fact that his mother is nailed shut inside a box, and while the others sleep, he bores holes in the lid, two of which go through his mother’s face. Addie and Anse’s daughter, Dewey Dell, whose recent sexual liaisons with a local farmhand named Lafe have left her pregnant, is so overwhelmed by anxiety over her condition that she barely mourns her mother’s death. A funeral service is held on the following day, where the women sing songs inside the Bundren house while the men stand outside on the porch talking to each other.