Summary Of High School Confidential Notes On Teen Movies By David Denby

In the essay “ High School Confidential : Notes on Teen Movies” by David Denby is explaining what happens in teen movies and mainly is describing different characters that are involved in these movies. Throughout this essay Denby uses extreme words such as the most hated and dumb to describe some of the characters in the movies. Throughout this essay Denby states the different characters that plays in teen movies. He starts off by describing the popular girl which he says is usually blonde and has a few friends. He continues by describing her boyfriend who is typically the jock. He says that the jock usually plays football, is muscular but dumb. Denby also says the popular girl and the jock are bullies. He calls them the villains of high school. Denby calls high
He says this because the adults and people that have authority usually do not in these types of movies. The teens usually run everything. The adults are just there as a joke. In these movies the teens have it really easy and the high school is full of groups or cliques as some may call it. Denby then starts talking about the weird kids. Usually there is a girl and a boy. The girl tends to look for acceptance but is awkward and has a horrible taste of fashion. The weird girl tends to be smart. The weird boy on the other hand has an undeveloped body, sometimes a Jew, and is good with the ladies. Denby states that these movies are based off of society perception of beauty. The popular girl always is perfect just like the models on the cover of magazines, Denby says he thinks that these films come from past hurt because the not so popular characters are the ones that usually have one or both parents who are dead or one of the parents have