Mean Girls Movie Analysis

Cartoons and fictional movies create impacts on the viewers in our society that most people are not aware of, especially at a young age. Young children, and even teenagers/young adults, have malleable minds and can be easily influenced. Ethos is integrated into productions, such as television shows, commercial ads, and movies, because the producers are well aware of the influence they have on the audience members. Producers and script writers of movies and other film related shows make their productions unrealistic; the intention of television shows and movies, and especially commercial ads, is to evoke emotion out of the audience members, may that be passion, empathy, lust, or resentment. Commercials like the SPCA (Society for the Prevention

A very classic example of this is the movie Mean Girls staring Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams. This movie is directed toward teenagers so it is set in high school. A new girl, Cady, walks in on her first day of public school. Cady is very intelligent; she was head of the Mathletes and led her school calculus team to victory. Unfortunately, she got sucked into the wrong crowd—the Plastics. Once she was admitted into this “popular” group, she was finally in arms reach of the boy she had been gawking at since the beginning of the semester; Aaron Samuels. Instead of ruining the whole movie, let’s get to the point; Cady is a very smart and capable girl who falls for a, lack of a better term, stupid jock. When young, emerging girls watch this movie, they expect a situation like this to be their reality; this then leads them to thinking they must be submissive to men. In our society, this is how females are portrayed; that women throw themselves at men because they have nothing better to do than make dinner and

Furthermore, according to the research, modeling social aggression may discourage viewers to take part in behaving aggressively toward peers.

Reverse-Role Universe Demonstrated in a French film, published by Eleonore Pourrait, is a world ran by women (much to the contrary of our world today). In the short film, the main character, Pierre is pursuing his normal day; his day is disrupted multiple times by women yelling harsh and provocative words at him. One particular instance is when a group of women approach him and physically and sexually assault him. The women had held him at knife point and aggressively bit his genitalia. The police officer who took his final statement (a woman, of course) ridiculed him by repeating his statement back to him “to check for accuracy.” When someone is stripped of their dignity, regardless of the circumstance, that individual needs as much support, especially from people of authority, as they can get so they are better able to hurdle through the issue they have just faced. Being reminded of the event, in a condescending way, can do mental damage to an