pretty in pink vs shes all tha

In John Lewis’s book, The Road to Romance and Ruin, he defines the teen movie as “the principle mass mediated discourse of youth; a discourse that rather glibly and globally re-presents youth as a culture” (p. 2). In using the term “teen movie” this does not refer to a movie geared towards teens, but instead to movies about teens. The 1980’s gave us many teen movies, such as Pretty in Pink, Better Off Dead, Say Anything, The Breakfast Club, and Can’t Buy Me Love, which have become classics to the twenty-somethings of today. These were movies usually involving two teens from different classes most likely, and the impossible love that they find not-so-impossible. Joseph Reed, in American Scenarios, believes that the ongoing popularity of these movies is that they “call up something primal in all of us…High school pictures tend to be about public high school, but they know this: even if I went to private school I can be every teen in this picture. I can be (because I have been) victim or failure or nerd” (p133).

The late 1990’s gave birth to a new breed of high school movies. Freddie Prinze Jr. replaced John Cusack; Jodie Lynn O’Keefe replaced Molly Ringwald. Though on

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