In Mean Girls, the overall aesthetics are bright, vivid colours that emphasised the teen rom-com genre. Bright colours attract the audience’s attention to the film and targets a more feminine audience. The cinematographer, Daryn Okada, decided to use several complementary colours from the colour wheel such as Blue and Orange, and Red and Green. An overall hue noticed throughout is the use of pink in practically everything; clothing, accessories, decorations etc. This connotation highlights the themes
Situation one In Mean Girls, Cady moves to the US from Africa she tries her best to fit in with “The Plastics.” Through this process, Cady loses her sense individuality and starts changing the way she acts around her friends and eventually the way she acts period. Because Cady is part of “The Plastics” she develops the personality and mannerisms of that group, including the lack of responsibility for her actions when she says and does mean things. Situation 4 In Mean Girls, While “The Plastics”
had to do, suck all the poison out of my life.” – Cady Heron (Waters). This is a clear example of how friendships should be structured as instead of being mishandled in the wrong way. Mean Girls was directed by Mark Waters and was released to the public in 2004 which brought on similarities to real life scenarios. Mean Girls is a chick flick that clearly illustrates the struggle of friendships in a chaotic high school environment. It tells a story of Cady Heron coming back to high school and being
In the chosen segment of the film “Mean Girls” (Michaels, Shimkin & Fey, 2004), interpersonal communication is negatively broken down due to the barriers caused by the characters. The primary character Cady has recently moved to Chicago to attend High School, she makes friends with Regina, Gretchen and Karen who are the plastics, they’re called this because of their mean and judgemental behaviour. Regina is the groups leader, she quickly becomes controlling over Cady’s emotions and decisions, she
In “Mean Girls” by Tina Fey, there are a few characters that stand out because of how interesting they are. One that stands out the most to me is Karen Smith. In the course of the movie, she deals with her friends bringing a new girl into the group and that girl ends up turning into the “Queen” throughout the movie. Karen has to go through with her friends getting into verbal and physical wars. The writer also reveals that Karen is not the smart one of the group. For example, she tries to catch a
Stacey Smith 2/14/2013 Sociology 101 George Kinder Movies And Their Messages In the movie Mean Girls, released in April of 2004, you see the traditional story about the new girl in school and the stereotypes that engulf the adolescent environment. Cady Heron, played by Lindsay Lohan, shows us what life at a corrupted school could be like for teens that are not so familiar with the American ways of socialization and "surviving" the potentially threatening lifestyle it could lead on. Sadly, children
In the movie “Mean Girls”, released in 2004, followed through the life of a girl named Cady, played by Lindsay Lohan. Cady faced a new chapter in her life when she attended in a high school for the first time. Where the “Plastics” rule the school and infested it with drama, the group runs by four teenage girls, Regina, the leader, Gretchen, the pretty princess, Karen, the dummy girl, and later on Cady joined the group as "a pretender". This movie truly shows what a teenage life at a drama infested
Tina Fey and Rosalind Wiseman wrote the 2004 cult classic film Mean Girls. The film is about Cady Heron (played by Lindsay Lohan) and her attempt to fit into her first ever school experience after having been homeschooled. In one scene, while trying to navigate through the cafeteria, she is stopped by the queen bee Regina George and is asked to sit. This act jumpstarts the familiar high school journey, and teenage quest of becoming popular. During this journey, many other teenage ideologies and values
Do you desire an intelligent teen comedy with witty dialogue? Do you reminisce on being young without the burden of responsibilities? Do you enjoy revenge stories? Mean Girls is the answer for such a particular audience. This motion picture is a well-written teenage comedy filled with raging hormones, cliques, humiliation and retribution. Cady Heron is a teenager who is about to encounter the rapture and horrors of high school for the first time. Homeschooled her whole life, Cady’s parents raised
Mean Girls is a movie directed by Mark Waters that came out in 2004, based on the self-help book “Queen Bees and Wannabes” written in 2002 by Rosalind Wiseman. Cady, a 16 years old home-schooled single child of zoologist parents, has been living 12 years in Africa due to her parents’ research before returning to the United States. Since Cady was not used to high school life, Janis and Damien help her understand the various existing cliques, mostly the Plastics led by Regina George of which she is