Comparing The Film 'Mean Girls And High School Confidential'

Mean Girls and High School Confidential

The movie Mean Girls, was filmed and produced to highlight the various and different forms of the “average” High School, and its students which include: the various cliques of students, who believe they are the most popular, or those who are too scared to expose themselves to the real world. There are many various groups described in Mean Girls which, reflect upon almost all high schools throughout the world. Mean Girls brings out a major discussion of feelings and emotions throughout its plot, and background stories in order to introduce the main character, Cady the home schooled freak from Africa. Regina George, who was the head “plastic” and the most popular girl in Mean Girls, completely matches with Denby’s analysis of the “typical”
As Denby said, “even though she is not well liked, her friends are all wicked princesses and everyone is afraid of her, that’s why she is so popular” shows how Regina and her plastics weren’t liked by anyone meanwhile they were just feared by all the inhabitants of the highschool. The typical blonde, who is a popular high school student refers perfectly to Regina George. Throughout High School Confidential, Denby uses metaphors, irony and colloquialisms in his text. One colloquialism that I picked out was “she has a mouth on her,” “her hair is a swirl of gold” which he used in order to portray a great idea. Denby tried to portray the idea that in all teen movies, no matter which genre, there is always a generic blonde which serves hatred against all her peers and always show her superiority and novelty. In continuation, Denby established greater emotional links between himself and the audience, because he tried to use ethos. He tried