In Never Been Kissed produced by 20th Century Fox and Drew Barrymore's production company, Flower Films , director Raja Gosnell attempts to show how to move on from labels and bullying by telling the story of a young girl who is struggled though high school and how those emotions held her back. This film demonstrates the effects of bullying by showing how the main character Josie is hunted by her high school experience and encourages some self-reflection. Dork, dweeb, geek, freak, and loser are all labels that Josie was under. Dr. Suess first used the word “nerd” in 1950 it described a “small, unkempt, humanoid creature with a large head and a comically disapproving expression”. Later the word nerd was used to describe a person who is dull and conventional.
Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan), the 16-year-old homeschooled daughter of zoologist parents (Ana Gasteyer and Neil Flynn), recently moved from Africa, is unprepared for her first day of public high school at North Shore High School in Evanston, Illinois. With the help of social outcasts Janis (Lizzy Caplan) and Damien (Daniel Franzese), Cady learns about the various cliques. She is warned to avoid the school's most exclusive clique, the Plastics, the reigning trio of girls led by the acid-tongued queen bee Regina George (Rachel McAdams). Regina was once Janis' best friend, but they have grown to despise each other since the 8th grade when Regina started a rumor that Janis was a lesbian. However, the Plastics take a shine to Cady and invite her to sit with them at lunch and go shopping with them after school.
Fall 2012 College Composition I: ENG101 Argumentative Essay Two Assignment Specifications: 550-700 word essay, titled, double-spaced, MLA format Topic: Using our focus essays from “A Casebook on Bullying” (p 473-483) and Mean Girls, compose an argumentative essay answering one of the following questions: 1. Cady, the movie’s main character, navigates her way through high school, while encountering many different classifications of students and teachers. Her story begins with outsider status, but soon she is the Queen Bee of the “The Plastics.” Based on our class discussions, the readings, and the movie, is Cady truly a “mean girl?” Or does that title fall onto someone else? Use specific examples, quotes, or film scenes to answer
It is impossible to create something that everyone will like, but I believe that it is the elements that go into the movie that can make a movie entertaining or not. In the movie Mean Girls, written by Tina Fey, the use of humor and the overall message makes the movie enjoyable to many. The movie Mean Girls began with the first day of high school for 16 year old Cady Heron who, up until now, had been home schooled in Africa by her zoologist parents. Not understanding the social or school rules of high school, Cady found herself in dire need of some guidance. Luckily, two social outcasts, Janice and Damien, showed her around and warned her of all the other social cliques in the school.
GHOSTGIRL TOPIC: popularity, obsession, love and death. PAGES:328 PLACES: Hawthorne High TIME: this decade Characters Charlotte Usher (also called ghostgirl) – the main protagonist of the novel, a senior in High school. She has a Puppy love on Damen, and plans to be with him, but chokes to death on agummy bear before carrying it out. She then becomes a ghost. Damen Dylan – Charlotte's crush and Petula's boyfriend.
It’s very well handled and easy to follow. The Characters & Cast The film did an excellent job of cutting and combining unnecessary characters and streamlining that part of the narrative - Madge, The Mayor, Peeta’s father, and a handful of other small parts are missing entirely, but it’s almost unnoticeable. Even with the combining and cutting that was done, the supporting cast is quite frankly an embarrassment of riches, especially considering how little screen time most of these heavy hitters actually get. Elizabeth Banks is a perfect and hilarious Effie, and her character easily has the best costume design in the entire production, as it should be. There’s also some unspoken commentary to be drawn from the fact that Banks is a beautiful woman, and yet overdressed and styled as she is here, she’s a borderline horror show, which is fascinating.
There are so many to talk about but due to limited amount of space, that will have to do. The Character of Donna is a very complex one. She's funny, smart but at the same time, very...dim and I think this really helps with the occasional boost the episode needed to keep every viewer watching. Donna (Catherine Tate) can interact with almost any other character, whether it be being against a feisty at a Giant Spider (Empress of the Racnoss) or slapping a Sarcastic Doctor - she works! Donna overall is one of the best companions in my eye and this certainly is where I see her wonderful story started.
Raven Aponte 3/5/2013 PSY 346.RA Dr. David Chun “Mean Girls: A Social Psych Approach” Mean Girls is an American teen comedy that portrays the “typical” high school experience. Cady Heron is a 15-year-old girl who has spent most of her life in Africa, where she was home-schooled by her zoologist parents. When her family relocates to the United States, Cady finds herself attending a high school in suburban Illinois, where she gets a crash course in the various sub-strata of the student body: the jocks, the cheerleaders, the stoners, the "cool" kids, and so on. At the beginning of the movie Cady meets two friends, Daemon and Janis. These two students were seen as the outcast crowd or the out-group, but Cady has no idea.
She goes through school life like any other child, and makes it to college where she tries out for the Miami Dolphins' cheerleading squad, and makes it. When she was in college, she put off taking science classes, I think a lot of people have an idea of ‘science is really intimidating’, and so did Mireya. By the end of college, she took the anthropology class and thought it was really interesting. One day, she watched ‘‘Gorillas in the mist’’ thought this was what she wanted to do; she wanted to live with gorillas for the rest of her life. One of the most exciting scenes from the book was that she actually succeeded on discovering the world smallest primate.
The movie ‘Mean Girls’ provides insights into the concept of belonging because throughout the film the director Mark Waters shows the journey of Cady Herring (Lindsay Lohan) trying to find where she belongs in the social ranking at her new high school. Her predilection to belong with the ‘popular groups’, this desire puts some of her very few friendships she has on hold and they slowly start to crumble. The film discusses how trying to belong does not always have a positive outcome and isn’t always a positive thing to achieve. In today’s society almost everyone is superficial; people are judged on their appearance, the brands of clothing they wear, weather they have the latest phone, laptop, the type of house they live in the area in which they live and if they have a high paying job. And if you don’t have all of these or most of these you are generally considered an outcast.