The film is set in a large American high school and is all abut the life of a home schooled African girl called Cady Heron leaving a 12 year research trip to go to a mainstream American public school. When arriving she is welcomed by a darkly dressed girl called Janise and a very camp gay boy called Damian. They teach Cady all the "need to knows" about school life including who to talk to and who to not talk to. The school is catogrised into many cliques (stereotypical and judgemental groups of people each put into a category eg. Nerds, jocks, popular people.) this is very expected in a typical chick flick, the scene and stories are relatable to the target audience. The cliques and popular scale in the film are a dramatic and exaggerated version of the people categorising we see in our day to day life through school and college.
Janise and Damian warn Cady to stay away from a group called the plastics who are the three most popular and beautiful girls at school, Regina George being the most popular and using her popularity as a power to get the school running her way. The second down from her is Gretchen wieners, the prettiest girl with a very rich father. The final girl in the "plastics" is Karen smith, a blonde air head with very little common sense or basic knowledge. Despite Janise and Damien's warning to avoided the plastics at all costs, the plastics take a liking to Cady and invite her to spend lunch with them.
Due to Cady slowly becoming one of the plastics, Janise decides to hatch a plan to ruin Regina George's reputation and popularity by using Cady as the infiltrator.
Due to Cady slowly becoming one of the plastics, Janise decides to hatch a plan to ruin Regina George's reputation and popularity by using Cady as the infiltrator.
When spending her night staying over at Regina's house, Cady is introduced to a book called the "burn book" which is a book containing photos of the students at school along with mean comments about each person.
After Cady falls in love with regina's ex boyfriend Aron samuels, regina gets very jealous and steals him back at her halloween house party.Still continuing with janis's plan to ruin Regina's reputation, they come up with the idea to remove her attributes which help to make her popular by making her gain weight, seperating her from Aron and turning the other plastics against her, Cady finds that she has now taken place as the new most popular girl in school meaning she has now become just as evil and spiteful as Regina was and she also finds herself abandoning janis and Damian for her new found clique of friends. When Regina finds out about Cady's past attempts to ruin her life she puts mean comments about herself in the burn book and puts the blame on Cady. After a long time trying to stay out of the blame, Cady takes blame for the book and as the guilt fades she finds her old personality is back again. Whilst trying to apologise, Regina storms off into a road and ends up being hit by a bus causing her to fracture her spine. As a punishment, Cady is made to miss the spring fling dance to attend a maths competition however this doesn't stop her being elected to be queen at the dance, when collecting her crown she breaks it into pieces and throws it out to the crowd making sure that everyone has a piece of it. The film ends with all of the plastics finding new cliques and friends ending on a happy equilibrium.
Chick flick are aimed towards teenage females, the use of pink is seen a lot during these films and the main characters are usually the same age as the target audience so that they can relate to the film and get a feel of realism with what they are watching. Some of the codes and conventions in every chick flick are the love interest with the main character, in this case we have Cadys love interest in Aron, another code and convention would be drama within a group of girls, this film is filled with girly drama, arguments and sly fighting behind each others backs. The drama's and conflict in the film create tension which draws in the audience. For comedy effect, we will often see either a very camp gay man or a ditzy blonde girl, this film contains both characters giving the film the a lot of humour throughout.
After Cady falls in love with regina's ex boyfriend Aron samuels, regina gets very jealous and steals him back at her halloween house party.Still continuing with janis's plan to ruin Regina's reputation, they come up with the idea to remove her attributes which help to make her popular by making her gain weight, seperating her from Aron and turning the other plastics against her, Cady finds that she has now taken place as the new most popular girl in school meaning she has now become just as evil and spiteful as Regina was and she also finds herself abandoning janis and Damian for her new found clique of friends. When Regina finds out about Cady's past attempts to ruin her life she puts mean comments about herself in the burn book and puts the blame on Cady. After a long time trying to stay out of the blame, Cady takes blame for the book and as the guilt fades she finds her old personality is back again. Whilst trying to apologise, Regina storms off into a road and ends up being hit by a bus causing her to fracture her spine. As a punishment, Cady is made to miss the spring fling dance to attend a maths competition however this doesn't stop her being elected to be queen at the dance, when collecting her crown she breaks it into pieces and throws it out to the crowd making sure that everyone has a piece of it. The film ends with all of the plastics finding new cliques and friends ending on a happy equilibrium.
Chick flick are aimed towards teenage females, the use of pink is seen a lot during these films and the main characters are usually the same age as the target audience so that they can relate to the film and get a feel of realism with what they are watching. Some of the codes and conventions in every chick flick are the love interest with the main character, in this case we have Cadys love interest in Aron, another code and convention would be drama within a group of girls, this film is filled with girly drama, arguments and sly fighting behind each others backs. The drama's and conflict in the film create tension which draws in the audience. For comedy effect, we will often see either a very camp gay man or a ditzy blonde girl, this film contains both characters giving the film the a lot of humour throughout.
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