Amy Heckerling, the director of the film Clueless (1995), has used an abundance of film techniques to convey representations of modern teenagers. Clueless is a film revolving around the main character Cher Horowitz, who is represented as an immature but yet caring teenager who is oblivious and clueless to the teenage issues she experiences as the film progresses. Heckerling has made use of various film techniques such as dialogue, colours and costume to help represent characters such as Cher, Josh and Tia to create realistic and relatable characters. Throw out the film; Cher has been represented as immature but caring `teenager through the use of dialogue, costume and colures. During Cher oral speech about ‘Violence in the Media’ scene, Cher is called up to do a speech about her view on the subject. Unfortunately her speech is very basic and has a lack of research and evidence behind it, …show more content…
This is shown through the aid of film techniques dialogue and costume. The scene I have chosen that best shows how Josh is politically and environmentally aware, is in the first few day’s of Josh staying at his ex stepdads house, Josh terns over the childish cartoon Cher is watching to the news about war in the middle east but when Cher gets angry about her ex stepbrother turning off her cartoon Josh replies “in some parts of the world its cool to know what’s going on in the world”, which proves he is political and environmentally aware and interested about what is going on in the world. Secondly Throughout the movie costume is used to represent how Josh is mature as all of josh’s stiles of clothing are not only fashionable but also mature and respectable choices of clothing. So with the aid of film techniques, the mature but also politically and environmentally aware character Josh has been