Clueless

A detailed Summary of Clueless

Clueless is a modern day film based on the novel Emma by Jane Austin. The film includes the themes teen love, appearance, social class and friendship. There are 2 main characters in the film, the first is Cher, she is a rich teenage girl living in Beverly Hills and the second main character is Josh; who is her stepbrother who has come to stay. The film is about Cher trying to match make the new girl at Cher's school, Ty, so that she will become popular, however in doing this Cher doesn't realise that she is only making herself and Ty unhappy. The main issue of the film is Cher's journey to self-knowledge and understanding about herself and how other people, particularly Josh, try to help her get there. Cher is constructed as rich, beautiful, she lives in a nice house, is popular and incredibly clueless. The audience is positioned to responds to this construct by liking Cher from the beginning. It is often argued that the film Clueless has had great impact on the teenage generation.

The opening two scenes in Clueless established Cher and her place in the world. The first scene showed all of Cher's friends, her house and her jeep. Having all these things flashing in a montage the audience feels that they know what th

Finally it can be seen in this film how the images of Cher, Josh and Ty have had a great influence over the teenage generation. During the film the camera crew have varied there shots of the actors using simple shots, such as medium and close-up shot, more complex shots, such as the tilt up and tilt down shots and often used the subjective shot. Clueless is a great film that has been cleverly taken from the nineteenth century novel Emma made into a twentieth century film.

There are many scenes that show Cher trying to change for the better. In the scene when Cher is in Miss Geist's class and she raises her hand and simply says, "I want to help." Following this scene you see her emptying her cupboard of food, collecting clothing from her room and even athletics equipment including her skis. The camera used a medium shot as Cher walks past the camera so it looks as though she is taking all her belongings to the door. The scene is set to happy, encouraging music with no lyrics. This make the audience see how she is trying to open up to herself and "make over" her soul. The audience is encouraged to like her even thought it seems that Cher overdoing her sudden passion in becoming a better person, particularly for Josh. To impress Josh, Cher all of a sudden becomes interested in the news, dresses casually, becomes quite and more mature. These acti

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