With the tagline : "Sex. Clothes. Popularity. Is there a problem here?" Amy Heckerling's Clueless (1995) is the epitomy of a high school parody. Each of the characters represent (and most of the time waaay exagerate) a certain stereotype. The main character, Cher, played by Alicia Silverstone, is the ever so rich, glamorous, blonde, social butterfly who rules her school. Cher and her sidekick, Dion, played by Stacey Dash, could be considered the "plastics"- (reference from Mean Girls) of their day. Tai, played by the young Brittany Murphy, is the new, very unfortunate looking (at least thats the way she is portrayed) young girl who represents uniqueness in the film. Travis, represents the stoner/skater kid which I found to be the most exaggerated of the bunch. I thought Heckerling took it a little too far with this character and sometimes it wasn't so much humor that she used to play the character but it was more of a cruel and mean 'making fun of' manner she went about. I have a lot of skateboarding friends and so her stereotype of Travis was at times offensive.
But nothing to look too in depth with because cmon, it's CLUELESS! And thats maybe just the problem, is that it was difficult to find anything besides high school social norms and stereotypes in this film. It's over all just a fun film and though it may not having much meaning besides the ever so cliche "Be yourself, because individuality is what makes you who you are", it's still entertaining to watch and I think for the most part Heckerling did a nice job over exaggerating a Beverly Hills High School.
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