Emma Amy Heckerling Clueless Analysis

Transformations often involve using the same storyline of a text and changing its context in order to suit the environment, culture or society. In terms of highlighting the themes in a transformed text, it also indicates that the issues that were apparent in the past are still relevant to the current society. The director of the film “Clueless”, Amy Heckerling, has accomplished this through convenient transformation of Jane Austen’s novel “Emma”. Heckerling has supported Austen’s novel in a positive way, however has altered the values seen in Austen’s period to fit modern audiences. The themes of “Clueless” show the context of “Emma” in a contemporary period, converting the text to a well-known high school society in Beverly Hills. Amy Heckerling’s production of “Clueless” presented in 1995 expresses the typical parallels between features, characters and values of the novel “Emma”. In relation to the re-plotting of the text, Heckerling successfully substitutes the values regarding social class, manners, formal conversation and importance of self-image of the novel “Emma”, into another world of social
In “Emma”, the use of the rhetorical question “Could it be?” suggests the character’s sudden realization and perception. Additionally, ot ex[resses “Emma’s” concern and anxiety towards Knightley when she feared that he might be interested in Harriet. This however, is equivalent in contrasting with “Clueless” as the epiphany is portrayed through the “Fountain” scene in relations with “bright lights” and “trumpet fanfare”. Utilizing this hyperbole technique symbolizes Cher’s moment of recognition when she realizes her feelings for Josh. She articulates this through the voiceover “I love Josh”, drawing the audience’s attention. This intrinsic viewpoint of film presentation enables viewers in modern society to grasp the theme transformed from Jane Austen’s novel