Not So SuperBad Sweetly absurd, Crude and awkward, Superbad is almost a typical teen movie, reminding me a bit of the American Pie films because of the simple plot and juvenile humour. However, compared to other teen movies the film is much more intelligently written than others of its genre, and this shines through in the characters. Superbad follows three high school seniors as they go on a long night of self-discovery, ending in drunken declarations of love between best friends with unrealistic yet entertaining events happening in between. The over weight Seth, played by Jonah Hill (Knocked Up) is foul-mouthed and impulsive, Evan, his best friend, played by Michael Cera is a more gentle and shy, almost to the point of being invisible,
In this film, for example, when MTV emerged onto the television scene it was popular. After a while, its attractiveness began to grow dull to the teen eye when the audience’s perception of cool changed. MTV depended on kids to feel as if it were trendy, and without that positive feedback, the station would disappear. Once this channel began to reach inside the homes of individual young men and women, they were able to discover what the viewers wanted. The popularity of MTV is directly proportional to teenagers and their ideas.
At the beginning of the film there was a part of the documentary where young boys were defined as being manly: being tough, powerful, athletic, muscular, and rude. If you did not fit into this category then the names that you were associated with were: wimp, fag, chicken and sissy. ..etc. The family, community and society have a huge part in teaching the kids to be this way, but the biggest influence is found in the media, specially television. For example, kids view Latinos or Mexicans as boxers and Asians as martial artists or even as criminals.
The Axe commercial barely showed its product in the video. They did a great job of making the product desirable for guys. The commercial would most likely attract young guys in their early twenties. The selling method of Axe is dependent on the target audience. So far from all the Axe commercials I have seen, Axe prides itself on using sex in their commercials to attract viewers.
It is clear that more derogatory terms for women than there are for men. Men can also wolf whistle or cat-call in order to harass a woman but there is no such response for women. Men also have more linguistic power over women due to their social status in modern society. In more current times men have turned to visual arts to implement there control and power over women. In this essay I will discuss how the “male gaze” is still very prevalent in contemporary modern culture using advertising, the cinema, music videos and magazines to confirm my views.
Reasons behind many of the immediate changes are caused from the down pour of estrogen and testosterone that the blood stream is exposed to. Sex hormones are also active during this time which plays into the emotions as well as the need to run wild so to speak. Many people view this behavior as peer pressure, most of the behavior seen is peer pressure however it is an act showing of or wanting to impress the group of teens that is hanging out with one another, which is turn is based on their emotions right then. Teens
Tweens Must Navigate Difficult Currents Kay Hymowitz ‘s article , “Tweens : Ten Going on Sixteen ‘ describes the timeless phenomenon of pre-teen children who try to act and look older than they are . Many factors , internal and external , spur this desire toward early maturity , but children who watch vast amounts of television are undoubtedly fooled when they see late-teen , and even early- 20 ‘s actors playing adolescents and teenagers in TV shows and movies .“Tweens ‘ defined in this article as eight- to twelve-year-old children , are pushed by these false media images along with peer pressure and the age-old internal desire to become grown-ups as quickly as possible . The iconic movie , The Karate Kid ‘ featured twenty two-year-old Ralph Macchio playing a teenaged high school wimp who became a karate champion . Similarly , almost every television show that tweens watch includes multiple actors who are older than the age of the children that they play . Impressionable tweens are deluged with mature ,sophisticated , attractive actors playing younger roles than the actual ages of the actors .
The Crying Game manipulates several binary oppositions. The first one, which is so obvious, is male/female. Of course we all know that by nature people’s identities are determined by genitals. In this way, man should find a sexual interest in women and vice versa. But in film we see the opposite situation, which leads us to another binary opposition – sex/gender.
Over the years, shows such as Sesame Street (Huffington Post, 2012), The Muppets (Cooper, 2011), Thomas & Friends (Wilkes, 2009), and many more, have been accused of indoctrinating children, but have been and continue to be, very educational. Movies as well hold influence, where a child might see an action or behavior in a movie they think is exciting, and may then attempt to duplicate and injure themselves. Though in recent years with the type of content released on sites such as YouTube, the negative influence is starting to become a larger part of the younger generations. Young adults and children who video record fights, thefts, and very dangerous or self-depravations is doing more damage than movies or shows with the same type of content. All to have that fifteen minutes of fame.
A large number of these young people are easily influenced. As soon as a new fad or way of speaking is shown to look cool on television, these young people and sometimes even older people try to copy these trends. When the show “Jersey Shore” televised in 2009, it contained fighting, humor, relationships, and excessive drinking. This show has been popular with a large number of today’s college students. Even though the show only aired once a week, it portrayed a bad image that parents did not want their children to be idolizing.