Visual Analysis Of The Movie 'Mean Girls'

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“On Wednesdays we wear pink.” Most teenage girls would catch this popular Mean Girls reference. This pretty pink picture features the four main characters from the Paramount movie Mean Girls. The image focuses on Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan). Her three friends, Regina George, Gretchen Wieners and Karen Smith, are surrounding her fixing her hair, applying her makeup, and attempting make her perfect. The girls surrounding Cady symbolize the constant pressure placed on high school girls today to look a certain way in order to fit in. Girls are judged everyday. Not only by guys, but also by other girls on their appearance. They are expected to be petite, have long healthy hair, flawless skin, pretty eyes and eyebrows, and have straight teeth. In this picture, Cady is the girls' personal Barbie doll. The girls in this picture are meant to appear shallow, high maintenance, and conceited. It fits their personalities in the movie. The photographer meets those expectations by posing their bodies and facial expressions.
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If an image has an ethos appeal, its intentions are to make a person feel a certain type of way when he or she looks at that image. What caught my eye about this photograph was the people in it. I recognized the girls as the stars of one of my favorite movies. If people who see this image are familiar with the movie Mean Girls, then this picture would probably make them chuckle. They know the personalities of the girls in the picture and they think about how their personalities changed through the movie. Even though the picture portrays them as high maintenance bratz, the girls learn that their appearance isn't as important as they thought. What is on the inside is significantly more