Clueless Movie Analysis

Clueless About Stereotypes? This day and age people look at media differently, civilians give media producers and directors the right to generalize the population into categories. Not only do filmmakers and directors stereotype races by modifying their existence but also think it is perfectly acceptable. Why is it tolerable for people of different races to be looked down upon because of the ways media portrays them? Every movie makes its way to the top by some how standing out amongst the rest. The 1995 comedy and romance, Clueless by Amy Heckerling, clearly portrayed the White Americans as wealthy superficial and entitled.
This romantic comedy is told about a young American teenager named Cher (Alicia Silverstone) that is still in high
Dionne (Stacey Dash) plays a key role as a way to break the barrier of the rich and the poor. The media clearly wanted to make her character also rich so it would not seem as though they were pin pointing White American families. Referring back to the article Orientalism, Said mentioned that the occident were to be the dominant and the ones that observes other people while orients are to be the less fortunate in their eyes. In this movie particularly we can see that Dionne is stuck in the middle of the two barriers, who she wants to be and the group she longs to be apart of but does not want to let go of her true identity as an African American young lady. Yes she is rich just like her best friend Cher but she is also African American and she tends not to forget that by the way she speaks throughout the movie. She may be rich but she still knows where she comes from. Her actions and dialogue differs from the way she portrays herself to society. It can be stated that occident are the classier upper-class rich populations and the orients are the ghetto lower-class poor population. Cher and Dionne both qualify to be apart of the occident majority and their friends like Tia and Murray (Donald Faison) are orients and are looked down