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Underlying Themes In Clueless And 10 Things I Hate About You

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What underlying themes do Clueless (1995), and 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), have in common, and how do they differentiate themselves in their portrayals of 90¨s high school life? The 1995 movie, Clueless, made by Amy Heckerling, was a classic teenage movie following the popular and rich girl, Cher Horowitz, as she finds love in high school and progresses through the school year. The 1999 movie, 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger, and written by Karen McCullan and Kirsten Smith, follows the Stratford sisters through high school as they try to find love. Bianca, the popular and callow girl of the duo, along with her oddly unpopular and socially outcast sister, Kat Stratford. In 90¨s high school movies, social status and …show more content…

Kat was reluctant to follow Bianca to the house party, yet she went to please her sister, though she still left drunk and embarrassed. At the house party, Bianca and Kat have fun, though Kat indulges herself, getting drunk in a crowd of people, dancing on top of a dining table, and falling, though she was friendly during the period before she was injured. Bianca´s poor choices were directly imprinted on Kat at the party, where she drank underage, and hurt herself in the process. Tai and Kat are both 1990s high school social outcasts, yet they both party, gain new attention, drink alcohol, and come out of their shells while under the influence, unlike their sober selves. In the movie Clueless, Tai attends a high school party in the valley, where she drinks, dances, and flirts with unpopular stoners, and eventually, in both movies Kat and Tai fall and get injured. Clueless and 10 Things I hate About You have parallels, even if they are not always able to be seen at first glance. In both movies, the social outcasts get drunk in front of people from their school, attend parties with their popular siblings/friends, and injure themselves while drunk. Between their popularity, partying, and interest in finding love, these movies are both classic 1990´s movies, being must-watches in teen

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