Clueless And The Outsiders: Film Analysis

Adolescent is the process of developing from a child to an adult. This very process is depicted throughout both films Clueless and The Outsiders. Adolescent is revealed through: friends, family, school and self-image. The films that have been chosen that portray adolescence and adolescent experience are, Clueless created by Amy Heckerling and released on September 21, 1995. The other film is The Outsiders created by Francis Ford Coppola released on March 25, 1983.These two films depict teenagers on how they go about living their lives, and also how these two films differ from how they portray adolescence in a variety of ways. The two films portray adolescence in a variety of ways, they display teenagers evolving and demonstrating change through-out the films. In addition, different cultures and social groups are being illustrated all over the two films, the variety of the
Self-image is depicted at the very beginning, where Ponnyboy talks about how he wants to change his hair style to how the greaser’s hair looks like, he denotes this by saying “but I am a greaser and most of my neighbourhood rarely bothers to get a haircut”. In addition, friends also influence the development of the characters, this also links to Ponnyboy wanting to get a haircut to fit in and to look like the other greasers. Also adolescent issues are being displayed with the family between Ponnyboy and Dary his brother. This issue faces violation of curfew and argument between the family members, and example of this is when Ponnyboy falls asleep at the park and did not get back home on time to his big brother, and Dary says “Where in the heck have you been? Do you know what time it is?”. This demonstrates that Ponnyboy is still a small boy who needs to be taken care of. Although Ponnyboy smokes cigarettes to try and fit in and to be looked at in a different way, not as a teenager but an