Hollywood Rewind | Mean Girls: Still fairly ‘fetch’

The yr was 2004. No one might have then predicted the cult standing of Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams-starrer Mean Girls. But at present, in 2020, the Mark Waters directorial remains to be related. Its quotes are used as comebacks in on a regular basis conversations, the sequences are meme materials, and the film has immense repeat worth. What the Tina Fey-penned screenplay additionally dropped at the campus style was freshness. Mean Girls had daring, enjoyable feminine humour and didn’t really feel the necessity to dumb something down whereas presenting its perspective on American highschool life.
High faculty could be powerful, and youngsters could be merciless. When Lindsay Lohan’s home-schooled Cady Heron will get a style of the general public faculty, she needs extra. There are cliques in her new faculty, and Cady finds herself invited to hitch the most well-liked one known as ‘The Plastics’. Three imply, dumb and engaging women make up the group — Regina George (Rachel McAdams), Gretchen Wieners (Lacey Chabert) and Karen Smith (Amanda Seyfried). When Cady makes a splash as the brand new child on the block, The Plastics coerce her to hitch their little group, which makes for some heartbreaks and whole chaos.
What is particular about Mean Girls is that it isn’t simply one other highschool film, regardless of wanting like one. It highlights bullying and showcases the significance of feminine bonding. Somehow girls see different girls as their rivals. Not all of them, however an excellent deal nonetheless do. And Mean Girls, in its personal small but vital method, reveals that this isn’t all the time the case. What folks need is solidarity and a non-judgmental ear. Gossiping is inevitable when you step out into society, however backstabbing and spreading malicious lies is completely preventable and utterly pointless. However, what actually had my consideration within the film was the truth that it was all concerning the women. The ugly, bare fact about being a teenage lady. The male characters had little to say or contribute to the path of the narrative. This was definitely outstanding within the early noughties. Cady was her personal one who didn’t want a male anchor to information her by way of the tumultuous years of faculty. Yes, she did a wage battle towards The Plastics for a boy. But she additionally did it as a result of she felt betrayed by her new good friend. These are the issues that I nonetheless like about Mean Girls and what makes it related in 2020.
Talking about Mean Girls’ relatability, author and actor Tina Fey shared in an earlier interview, “It (the movie) has this little net that catches girls as they pass through preteen and high school age. Girls will come up to me and say it helped them get through a terrible year.”
Hollywood Rewind: Die Hard | Never Been Kissed | Citizen Kane | Kill Bill Volume I | Terminator 2 Judgment Day | Titanic | Heat | Home Alone | Jerry Maguire | Brief Encounter | The Truman Show | The Deer Hunter | The Shining | Clueless | Ferris Bueller’s Day Off | Blue Velvet | Taxi Driver | The Lord of the Rings I | Zero Dark Thirty | The Godfather | Say Anything | Warm Bodies | Bright Star | Malcolm X | Stardust | Red Eye | Notting Hill | Fargo | The Virgin Suicides | The Breakfast Club | Enchanted | Walk the Line | Blood Diamond | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Mortal Kombat | Bridges of Madison County | Edward Scissorhands | Breakfast at Tiffany’s | She’s Gotta Have It | Ever After | The Devil Wears Prada | The Matrix | Creed | Mulan | Ratatouille | Shutter Island | Her | Dead Poets Society | Sleepless in Seattle | Waitress | Pride and Prejudice | The Dark Knight | Before Sunset | School of Rock | About a Boy | A Few Good Men | 50/50 | Begin Again | Brooklyn | Drive | Chocolat | Batman Begins | 10 Things I Hate About You | The Departed | Freedom Writers | Pretty Woman | Dan in Real Life | Jurassic Park | Tangled | Meet Joe Black | Monster’s Ball | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | You’ve Got Mail | Half Nelson | Fight Club | Doubt | American Psycho | Julie and Julia | Forrest Gump | The Silence of the Lambs | Finding Neverland | Roman Holiday| American History X | Tropic Thunder | Before Sunrise | Scent of a Woman | Finding Forrester | Sixteen Candles
Also kudos to the ensemble forged. Everyone did a implausible job, however none greater than Rachel McAdams, who undoubtedly had a meatier function. Rachel as Regina was gorgeous, charismatic and detestable, all of sudden. Lohan’s character was very well-fleshed out, and it had a whole arc too. Cady Heron shows a variety of feelings as soon as she is launched to the world of public faculty. From clueless, beguiled to downright nasty — Lohan went by way of a whole cycle, and it’s a testomony to her dynamic presence that even in her dirtiest moments, one couldn’t assist however root for her to stroll out gracefully in the long run. And, to nobody’s shock, she ultimately does.
As Gretchen Wieners would have mentioned, “That is so fetch!”
You can watch Mean Girls on Netflix.