Film Comparison

Teen Films Vendiagram

Differences

Clueless:

- The setting changed to a larger scale

- Characters were similar

- Shallow and similar personalities

- Relationships are a common

- Social status is main priority

- Made in the mid 90’s (‘95)

- Focus’s on one protagonist, Cher

- More main characters (10)

- Jealousy

- Learning to drive

- Homosexuality

- Being a virgin is classified good

- Long time frame

- Self seeing issues

- Dramatic about issues

- High fashion status

- Chick-flick

- How you look

- Parties

- Setting people up together

- Superficial issues

- Shopping

- Formal language

- Charity work

- Boys

- Getting good grades

The Breakfast Club:

- Focused on 5 main characters

- Made in the mid 80’s (‘85)

- Shows all characters family backgrounds

- Unique characters and personalities

- Hasher language in text

- Time frame over one day

- Virginity was seen as a bad thing

- Reputation to up hold

- Understanding others

- Trusting and opening up to others

- Deeper issues

- Gaining friendship

- Dramatic sounds to cover up swearing

- Not judging a book by its cover

- One main setting with sub-settings within same area

- Deals with common adolescent behaviours and backgrounds

- Serious issues (Suicide, Abuse)

- Bullying/Harassment

- Stereotypes

- Anger management

- Had uncommon teen movie events

- Students were all in trouble for something

- Lyrics fitted what was happening to the teens

Similarities

- Music helped set the mood and genre

- Current music used

- Filmed in America

- Based on common teen experiences

- About trying to be popular and liked

- Sex/Virginity

- Love – falling in and out of it

- Fitting in

- Being yourself

- Mainly set in high-schools

- Drugs

- Home life

- Issues with friends

- Finding out who you really are

- Controlling parents

- Teenage life

- Romance

- School life

- Friendship

- Helping others

- Cliques/Groups

- Changing your look