Epiphany
“When you get bit by a snake, you have to suck out all the poison out of it,” Cady Heron said as she started righting her wrongs in the film, Mean Girls. In this film, we follow the young and naive Cady Heron on her journey throughout her first year of public high school. We start with her first day of public school and follow Cady Heron until she has her epiphany near the end of the film. Mean Girls is an adaptation of Rosalind Wiseman’s book, Queen Bees & Wannabes, by Tina Fey. It was directed by Mark Waters and produced by Lorne Michaels. Tina Fey was able to make the book into a movie by adding a story line because the book was nonfiction and non-narrative. Tina Fey wanted to relay to girls everywhere a message to just be …show more content…
She is 16 years old and has just moved back to the states after living with her zoologist parents in Africa. She is young and new to everything including girl world, the American world as well as the teenage world. She thinks she knows all about the survival of the fittest and her parents are new to this sort mainstream teenage parenting concept and will have to deal with things that they would’ve never encountered with Cady in Africa. The movie starts out with “Cady’s big day.” It is Cady’s first day of high school, more specifically her first day of public school ever. What Cady doesn’t know on this first day of school is that she is going to get stuck between two “friend groups” who are on opposite sides of the spectrum and she will get caught up in a lot of drama, typical in high school, and she will have to figure out some way of dealing with it. She has to deal with meeting new people and trying to become like a certain group of people while taking them down, all at once. Cady gets in over her head and things spin out of control. Everything backfires in her face because she doesn’t realize what kind of mess she has created. Cady gets star-struck by Regina, head of the plastics, and so caught up with belonging that she goes against her values and beliefs. It’s not until she realizes what she’s done and what kind of mess she has created that she …show more content…
In Mean Girls, Cady learns a few lessons, but her “quest” per se is acceptance. At the beginning of the movie Cady is star-struck by Regina and couldn’t possibly understand why anyone would hate her. Cady specifically says, “Regina seems sweet.” Later, Cady really starts to hate Regina when Regina toys with Aaron Samuels, Regina was the one who broke up with him and Regina knew that she liked him. At the same time Cady hates Regina, she also really wants Regina to like her. This is when Cady really starts to get into trouble because she goes to her other friends, a.k.a the art freaks, and they create a plan to take down Regina and the so-called Plastics. Also, Cady comes up with a “foolproof” plan to get Aaron Samuels back from the cheating and scathing Regina. Cady gets so caught up in taking down the plastics and getting Aaron Samuels that she actually starts to become plastic and goes against the good values/morals that her parents raised her on. In this process, she starts to lose her few real best friends that she had and totally becomes oblivious to her surroundings. In the process of getting Aaron Samuels, she starts failing calculus on purpose just so that she could get some alone time with him without Regina thinking something was off. In essence, she dumbs herself down to get the guy she likes. This movie fits the criterion of
“When you get bit by a snake, you have to suck out all the poison out of it,” Cady Heron said as she started righting her wrongs in the film, Mean Girls. In this film, we follow the young and naive Cady Heron on her journey throughout her first year of public high school. We start with her first day of public school and follow Cady Heron until she has her epiphany near the end of the film. Mean Girls is an adaptation of Rosalind Wiseman’s book, Queen Bees & Wannabes, by Tina Fey. It was directed by Mark Waters and produced by Lorne Michaels. Tina Fey was able to make the book into a movie by adding a story line because the book was nonfiction and non-narrative. Tina Fey wanted to relay to girls everywhere a message to just be …show more content…
She is 16 years old and has just moved back to the states after living with her zoologist parents in Africa. She is young and new to everything including girl world, the American world as well as the teenage world. She thinks she knows all about the survival of the fittest and her parents are new to this sort mainstream teenage parenting concept and will have to deal with things that they would’ve never encountered with Cady in Africa. The movie starts out with “Cady’s big day.” It is Cady’s first day of high school, more specifically her first day of public school ever. What Cady doesn’t know on this first day of school is that she is going to get stuck between two “friend groups” who are on opposite sides of the spectrum and she will get caught up in a lot of drama, typical in high school, and she will have to figure out some way of dealing with it. She has to deal with meeting new people and trying to become like a certain group of people while taking them down, all at once. Cady gets in over her head and things spin out of control. Everything backfires in her face because she doesn’t realize what kind of mess she has created. Cady gets star-struck by Regina, head of the plastics, and so caught up with belonging that she goes against her values and beliefs. It’s not until she realizes what she’s done and what kind of mess she has created that she …show more content…
In Mean Girls, Cady learns a few lessons, but her “quest” per se is acceptance. At the beginning of the movie Cady is star-struck by Regina and couldn’t possibly understand why anyone would hate her. Cady specifically says, “Regina seems sweet.” Later, Cady really starts to hate Regina when Regina toys with Aaron Samuels, Regina was the one who broke up with him and Regina knew that she liked him. At the same time Cady hates Regina, she also really wants Regina to like her. This is when Cady really starts to get into trouble because she goes to her other friends, a.k.a the art freaks, and they create a plan to take down Regina and the so-called Plastics. Also, Cady comes up with a “foolproof” plan to get Aaron Samuels back from the cheating and scathing Regina. Cady gets so caught up in taking down the plastics and getting Aaron Samuels that she actually starts to become plastic and goes against the good values/morals that her parents raised her on. In this process, she starts to lose her few real best friends that she had and totally becomes oblivious to her surroundings. In the process of getting Aaron Samuels, she starts failing calculus on purpose just so that she could get some alone time with him without Regina thinking something was off. In essence, she dumbs herself down to get the guy she likes. This movie fits the criterion of