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The soundtrack for the film

Dancing With Myself - The Donnas
God Is A DJ - Pink
Milkshake - Kelis
Sorry (Don't Ask Me) - All Too Much
Built This Way - Samantha Ronson
Rip Her to Shreds - Boomkat
Overdrive - Katy Rose
One Way or Another - Blondie
Operate - Peaches
Misty Canyon - Anjali Bhatia
Mean Gurl - Gina Rene and Gabriel Rene
Hated - Nikki Cleary
Psyché Rock - Pierre Henry
The Mathlete Rap

Mean Girlz Trailer

Proposal

Film: Mean Girls (12a)
Date: 18 June 2004
Length: 97 minutes
Director: Mark S Waters
Country: USA
Hypothesis: Mean gils represents sterotypical good and bad teenage girls.
Media Language:
-Clothing "Plastics" match what they wore everyday by colour and style. - Feminie clothes used ei. mostly pink
- Parallel music/sounds throughtout the film.
- Scenery based mainly at school.
Instituation: Hollywood - Paramount Pictures
Genre: Comedy/Family
Representation:Good & bad teenage girls
Audience: Tennage girls
Ideology: About teenage girls that are more interested in fashion, makeup, boys then education .who's most popular girls/boys, what extent girls would go just to be popular.
Narrative: Non linear (flashbacks throughout)
Social: What teenage girls come across in today's society.
Historical: Shows how teenage girls have changed throughout the years.
Theorists : Propp - Villian & Hero, TODROV - equillibrium and disequillbrium.

Review on Mean Girls (2004)

Best Teen Movie Ever, 23 November 2004
Lindsay Lohan plays a teen girl trying to get along at a new high school. This time, she plays a girl home schooled in Africa, whose first experience at a public school is marred by a clique of nasty girls called the Plastics, who use gossip and other torture techniques to try to ruin her social life.The story makes it sound like another generic teen film but this one is actually quite funny and realistic. The most cynical person will point out that this is a cheap rip off of Heathers and they are similar. While Heathers is a good movie, mean Girls is an even better movie. I think Mean Girls is very good for a number of reasons. First, the script is actually creative and smart. Tina Fey seems to understand that teens want comedies they can relate to and she did that with Mean Girls. Of course, there were a few lame scenes but nothing that kills the film. Tina Fey should leave SNL and focus on her career in movies.Second, the acting is very good and convincing. Rachel McAdams offers the best and funniest performance as Regina. Her character is very mean (hence the title) yet I found it so hard to actually hate her. She has this charm that sucks the audience in on her and its so hard to hate her. Lindsay Lohan also gives a good performance as Cady. Her best scenes are with Rachel. They have very good chemistry together. The other plastics are played by Lacey Chabert and Amanda Seyfried. They also give good performances and the scenes that have all the plastics together are very entertaining. The rest of the supporting cast are pretty good and Tina Fey also has a small role as Cady's math teacher.Another reason why Mean Girls is so good is because it's actually funny for people over the age of 21. It's not just for teens but also for adults. Mark Waters is proving to be very good at directing harmless comedies like Freaky Friday and this one. He keeps the film short yet enormously entertaining. I really don't understand how someone could actually give this movie a one. I understand some people finding it over the top or stupid but it doesn't deserve a one. In the end, this smart and funny teen movie deserves to be seen. Rating 8/10