Teen Movies through the Decades
1985: The Breakfast Club [Imdb rating: 7.9/10]
1999: 10 Things I Hate about You [Imdb rating: 7.1/10]
2006: John Tucker Must Die [Imdb rating: 5.6/10]
Style:
one thing I noticed in style of the moves it John Tucker Must Die. There are a
lot of short cuts in the editing, but not so much in the other two movies. In all
three movies there are a lot of long shots (library, football field, gym). Seeing
that these three movies are from different decades, the composition, camera,
and color are very different.
Industry:
These three movies are best cut out as Teen movies and Comedies, they also
include Romance.
Technology:
there are not many interesting things about the technology, because none of the
movies used special effects for anything.
Culture:
All three of these movies stayed true to high school stereotypes, like Mean
Girls (jocks, nerds, potheads, outcasts). A common theme in all of the movies
is at the beginning, no one likes each other. In Breakfast Club it is Molly
Ringwald and the people she meets in detention, In 10 things it is Heath Ledger
and Julia Stiles, and finally, Brittany Snow and the girls she meets in
detention too. These movies are examples of how different people come together
eventually, such as the stereotypes that were listed in the movies. Another
thing I noticed is that the main characters (girls) like Molly Ringwald, Julia
Stiles and Brittany Snow is that they are sort of uptight teenagers that never
let their guard down.
Symbols:
The reading of the letter at the end of the Breakfast Club sends a message out,
The part of Julia Stiles reading her version of a poem mends her relationship
with Heath Ledger, and at the end of John Tucker Must Die Brittany Snow admits
to being wrong which also helps her relationships. They all convey different
messages at the end and they eventually all learn lessons.
