Mean girls was directed by Mark S. Waters and was released by Paramount Pictures in 2004. This movie is one of the better teen comedies I have watched. Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) is a 15-year-old girl who is going to high school for the first time‚ after being home schooled for her entire life. Cady’s first friends are Janis Ian and Damien‚ school outcasts. Janis and Damien warn Cady about the Plastics‚ the snobby popular girls consisting of Regina George (Rachel McAdams)‚ Gretchen Weiners (Lacey
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Austin Ruggieri May 2‚ 2012 Adolescence Mean Girls The movie Mean Girls is about a girl who has grown up in Africa and was homeschooled all of her life‚ named Cady. She is a 16-year-old white girl who has to learn how to adapt and change to her new environment‚ which is in a suburban area and a new completely average high school. Cady already knows that the laws of the jungle and the survival of the fittest but must now understand how to play in this brand new urban jungle. When she arrives
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Developmental Psychology Film Critique Number Two I believe the main character in the film to be Cady Heron who is played by Lindsay Lohan and is a sixteen year old girl. She was homeschooled her entire life until now. I would place Cady in the Adolescence stage of Erikson’s theory of development. It is described that the basic conflict in this stage is identity vs. role confusion. In this stage teens need to develop a personal sense of self and personal identity. If one is able to succeed it
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Text Analysis In the popular movie Mean Girls‚ Lindsay Lohan plays a confused teenager struggling her way through high school hierarchy. Her character‚ Cady‚ is a transfer student that finds herself in a place where everyone is categorized in some kind of group‚ whether it be jocks‚ art freaks‚ or something else. Some of the cliques were seen as more powerful than others‚ but each had some kind of reputation. The movie can be analyzed in the Marxist perspective‚ wherein the text shows who is
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interesting in this film was that if you don’t have a son and you have a daughter in china‚ people will look down on you because sons are the ones who carry on the family name. The word that I think goes well with this is the word patriarchy. Patriarchy is men-as-a-group dominating women-as-a-group; authority is vested in males. This goes well because if the female doesn’t not have a boy the men will shame them. There are 13 million more young boys in china right now than girls. If women do not
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Davidson Clark English 1301 16 June 2011 Popularity: Doing It the Right Way Girls in today’s society feel the need to fit in amongst their peers. They often search for ways to have more friends in school. A person involving themselves in school or community activities is the healthy way to do so. Ways such as the ones seen in the modern day movie‚ Mean Girls‚ unnecessarily corrode a person and the people around them. Girls feel the need to degrade others‚ in order for them to come out on top. This
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Title:Mean Girls Director: Type: Movie Genre: social realism‚ American teen The scandalous lives of a teenager was accurately portrayed throughout the movie ‘Mean Girls’ directed by: Mark Waters. The story follows a teenage girl named Cady Heron as she is starting her first day at high school after being home schooled in Africa for most of her life. Cady learns about the ins and outs of high school life and the cliques that are found throughout the school with the help of her two new friends
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The film that I chose to write about is a Paramount Pictures presentation titled Mean Girls‚ starring Lindsay Lohan and also featuring a handful of Saturday Night Live cast members‚ including Tina Fey the author of this picture. The reason behind choosing this film is because it has a unique style of introducing characters‚ transitioning between scenes‚ and various tools to help spice up the film. Being one of my personal favorites‚ Mean Girls is a comedy about a home schooled teenage girl who
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Mean Girls‚ a 2004 American teen comedy film directed by Mark Waters‚ with the screenplay written by Tina Fey‚ describes how female high school social cliques operate and the effect they can have on girls. The two main characters in this movie‚ Cady Heron and Regina George‚ may have a world of differences between them‚ but they are also very much alike. They are alike in the way they deal with situations‚ but unalike in the way they handle the consequences of those actions. Throughout the movie‚
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been almost a decade since the classic teen movie "Mean Girls" hit the silver screen and this 30th of April 2014 would mark its 10th anniversary. The film has become iconic for its amazing comedic screenplay‚ written by the talented Tina Fey and its realistic portrayal of high school drama. From backstabbing popular girls to the art-nerd revenge‚ Mean Girls characters has surely taught female movie-watchers few important life lessons about high school‚ girl world and womanhood in today’s society (Cills
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