Jo Mitchel
Faye
This comparison is between Faye and Jo Mitchell from Mean Girls 2. Both of the girls are from a normal, teenage girl social group. They are both wearing a leather jacket and ripped jeans. This shows that they are a stereotypical teenager as they care about their appearance and keeping up with new fashions. Also, both of the characters are posing in quite a confident way. This also shows the stereotype as teenagers, girls in particular, put up a front to make people think certain things about them. The characters personalities are also very similar as they are both seen as innocent and the misfit. Faye is similar to Jo Mitchel however, also challenges this stereotype. This is because Jo is the conventional misfit and hates the mean girls whereas, Faye is friends with all of the characters, including the mean girls, in our film opening. We decided to challenge some of the features of the misfit stereotype as it made our opening more dramatic and even more unexpected.
Aaron Samuels Charlie
This comparison is between Charlie and Aaron Samuels from Mean Girls. These two characters are very similar. They are both the conventional teen/school heartthrob who gets the girl. Both characters are from the same social group; this group being the good looking, confident, popular group. Both of the boys facial expressions are very similar in this which shows the audience their social group further. This is because their expression shows that they're confident and sure about themselves. Also, their appearance is very similar. It is obvious that both of the male characters care about how they look and what others think of how they look. Both of the characters have slightly styled their hair. This is an accurate representation of this stereotype as it shows that they want to look good. As well as this, their clothes are similar. They are both wearing quite casual t-shirts. This suggests that they care about their look but don't want people to think that they are trying too hard to look good. This is also accurate of this stereotype as they put a lot of effort into their appearance however, they want teenage girls to think that they naturally look good without putting any effort into what they look like.
Brandon Christian
This comparison is between Christian and Brandon from Easy A. The only feature that these two characters share is that they are both homosexuals. They are both very different as Brandon doesn't want people to know that he is a homosexual and pretends that he is a heterosexual. However, Christians character doesn't try and hide his homosexuality and embraces it. Christian is very confident and the way he is standing in this shot shows this. Brandon and Christian are both wearing the colour khaki. This is a very fashionable colour however, their actual clothes are very different. Christian is wearing a very fashionable bomber jacket and skinny jeans whereas, Brandon is wearing an out dated collared t-shirt. This suggests that Brandon is trying to fit in, by wearing a fashionable colour, but he is still an outsider as the actual item of clothing is not the current fashion. Later on in the film Easy A, Brandon pretends to be a heterosexual by 'hooking up' with a female character. He changes his clothes to ones that are considered fashionable. He wears a leather jacket and a normal t-shirt with the colours red and yellow on it.
These clothes are a lot more fashionable than the clothes he was previously wearing. This furthers the idea that he is trying to impress people and is pretending to be something that he is not. Brandon and Christian are both accurate representations of the teenage homosexual stereotype as some homosexuals will do anything to hide this about themselves, even if it means pretending to be a heterosexual however, some teenage homosexuals are very happy with the way they are and do not care what others think or say about them.
The Plastics The Triple L's
This comparison is between The Plastics from Mean Girls and The Triple L's. These two groups of 'mean girls' are very similar and are from the same social group. One way in which the girls are similar is because they are both seen as the 'popular group' in school. There is a 'main mean girl' and her two friends who she bosses about. Also, they are standing in very similar ways. The poses they are doing shows that they are very self confident girls. Also Lucy and Regina, the 'main mean girls' are standing in front of the two friends. This shows further, that the Lucy and Regina are the most important and are superior to the other girls. However, there are some differences between the groups. One difference between the two groups of girls is their clothes. The Triple L's are dressed much more casual than The Plastics. This makes our film more realistic as these clothes are the sort of thing English, teenage girls wear during school. Both The Triple L's and The Plastics are dressed in the latest fashions however, so therefore this can be another similarity between the girls. It enhances the audiences knowledge about their social group; the popular, confident teenagers as they are wearing the latest trends. Another difference is that The Triple L's all have very similar hair. Their hair's are roughly the same colour and length. We decided to challenge the stereotype of the 'mean girls' being blonde or brunette and decided to make them all have a ginger/auburn hair colour. We did this to show that the stereotype of blonde people, which is having more fun, being considered as the 'bimbo' and being more attractive, is incorrect. The actors with ginger hair are normally used for the misfit/outcast character and the blonde actors are usually used for the popular groups characters. We switched these both round as we wanted to show that these stereotypes are not accurate and that people no longer get judged for the colour of their hair.
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