Plot Summary of Mean Girls + Description of one Scene

Cady Heron moves to a new home from Africa. She goes to a new school where she meets Janis and Damian. However they warn Cady to stay away from the Plastics. The Plastics are a popular, crude, and beautiful group at school headed by Regina George with Gretchen and Karen. When Cady meets Aaron Samuels, she discovers a massive crush on him. When Regina finds out she seeks revenge by taking Aaron back in front of Cady. This caused Cady, Janis, and Damian to bring Regina's status down. However as Cady continues to spend more time with the Plastics, she begins to become one of them.



The clip above is from the film ‘Mean Girls’ which represents all of the stereotypical groups in their high school. The setting of this clip is in the school cafeteria which represents where you sit, who you sit with, and what you eat. In this clip Janis goes through all of the different stereotypical groups of teenagers such as varsity girls, cheerleaders, girls who eat their feelings and the ‘Plastics’. By showing us the different groups of teenagers sitting together shows us that you can only be friends with people who are similar to you e.g. if your fat you hang with the fat group, and if you’re pretty you hang with the pretty group. Etc... We see from the beginning of the film that the pretty girls, ‘The Plastics,’ are well liked and other teenage girls from the school tend to copy them due to everyone wanting to be like them. By the media creating that trend it is showing girls around the world that people only like you if you are pretty or popular. This film has typical stereotypes which exaggerate them to form opinions about who is bad or good due to when people see a group of friends or even a just girl, they will automatically judge them on what they look like and relate them back to movies they have seen (one being Mean Girls) which then cause them categorise them into a particular stereotype.