I chose the film Mean Girls for this assignment because I have already seen the film. With previous knowledge about the film‚ I knew that it was full of conflict and watching a movie I have previously seen allowed me to focus on the textbook and its concepts‚ rather than everything that was taking place in the film. Power without question is a major reason why conflict took place in Mean Girls and why it takes place in the real-world. Power is the structure of conflict and it is rare for people
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Hollywood. It’s almost the first thing that comes to someone’s mind when you think film‚ production. Hollywood movies have not ended and still continue today. “Motion pictures have been popular for over fifty years before even most film makers‚ considered movies worthy of serious study.” Barsam‚ Richard‚ and Dave Monahan. Looking at Movies. Fourth Edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. These classic Hollywood films were‚ perfected in 1920’s and 30‘s. Some of the things that makes up a Hollywood
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The film “Working Girl” illustrates the feminist fight and struggles of women in the work force in the 1980s to the present‚ every contradiction relates to the main problems that women face. The two main women characters in “Working Girl” represent the two types of stereotypes of women that establish themselves in the corporate world‚ Kathrine Parker and Tess McGill. Despite the film being an inspirational feminist story‚ the writer Kevin Wade created a love plot between the main character‚ Tess
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Mean Girls “Mean Girls”‚ a teen comedy film directed by Mark Watersin in 2004‚ is based on a girl named Cady Heron‚ who currently starting high school; after being homeschooled throughout her previous life. The film is about Cady pretending she is someone she’s not to fit in with the popular girls‚ later then becomes the bully herself. In Watersin’s film‚ he successfully shows the stages of bullying of a social behaviour that occurs in the girl’s world in a chronical order. There are four different
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Although they may not witness the suppression of speech being forced upon others‚ they may have seen it on the news or have read about it in articles. In the documentary “Chicago Girl” the film follows the story of a 19 year old girl that is leading a revolution in Syria against their leader Bashad al-Assad. The film shows the citizen being killed and tortured after standing their ground and demanding to have their rights as human beings. The documentary depicts the hierarchy of the country showing
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interpretations are in form of music‚ films‚ paintings‚ plays‚ or poems. Art provides a great way for people to express their emotions and opinions. Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico City on July 6‚ 1907. She started painting while she was recovering from a terrible bus accident‚ which she had
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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 succumb to it as a result of a dire need to fit in. In the film‚ we’re first
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We begin in the Kingdom of O’Hara with newly reigning queen Violet Chachki‚ a beautiful woman with amazing features and characteristics: beautiful eyes‚ smooth lips‚ stunning dress. However‚ trouble struck when she got an alarming call from her friend Queen Katya of the Soviet Union. “Eek‚” Katya shrieked‚ “Violet‚ please help me! All of my diamonds have gone missing!” “I’m on my way‚” Violet said and she immediately vanished into thin air. Violet then appeared in the ravaged streets of Saint Petersburg-
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In mean girls by Tina Fey‚ Gretchen’s rage demonstrates the likeness between the plot of Mean Girls and Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Her rage is‚ as a matter of fact‚ an immediate reaction to the first plot of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar‚ which is evident in light of the fact that it mirrors the power battles that occur in The Plastics after Cady effectively ruins Regina’s role in their little cliques and turns her best friends against her. Gretchen‚ “poses” as brutus for an english essay made
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Mean Girls follows the journey of Cady becoming part of the Plastics. This is all influenced by George Herbert Mead’s theories that perceptions of others and their approval influence what people make their identity or better known as the Social Self Theory (Julianne‚ Para 7). One example of the Social Self Theory is when Cady begins to dress similar to the Plastics by wearing pink‚ but hers is a men’s t-shirt while they have dressy pink clothes on (Julianne‚ Para 6). Through the film we can tell
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