![]() The shot parodies the fact that Cady's first day of public school is coming at age 16 (not age 5), but it also captures the awkwardness of adolescence more broadly, as a middle ground between childhood and adulthood. The first image of the film is a point-of-view shot of Cady looking up at her parents while sitting on the steps of her house. Waters' direction firmly plants the viewer in Cady's perspective, given that she is the audience's primary point of identification. I did not leave the South Side for this!" Duvall to grab a baseball bat, the chaos retains comic overtones, like when Mr. When the junior girls riot in the hallways, knocking Ms. But she did get hurt." Several jokes are made about Coach Carr's child sex abuse and subsequent disappearance. After the bus blindsides Regina, Cady remarks, "And that's how Regina George died. ![]() Although Mean Girls does not involve multiple premeditated murders like Heathers does, the script has a casual, comic relationship to violence, perversity, and death. Heathers also informs the gallows humor that Mean Girls occasionally deploys, most notably in the bus collision scene. Mean Girls satirizes the absurdity of the herd instinct to worship and idolize in-group behavior in a similar way-for example, when all girls start wearing hole-ridden shirts after Janis cuts holes in Regina's gym shirt. They stage the deaths of their popular classmates to look like suicide, but end up inadvertently glamorizing the act of suicide in the process. In Heathers, Ryder's character Veronica, along with the help of an outsider, plot to sabotage a group of popular high school girls known as the Heathers: "If you wanna fuck with the eagles, you have to learn to fly," Veronica surmises. Waters once again cast Lindsay Lohan in the lead role as Cady Heron, and along with Fey herself and producer Lorne Michaels, assembled an ensemble cast that mixed Saturday Night Live veterans (Ana Gasteyer, Tim Meadows, Amy Poehler) with promising up-and-coming young stars (Rachel McAdams, Lizzy Caplan, Amanda Seyfried).Ĭoincidentally, Mark Waters's brother Daniel Waters wrote the script for the black comedy Heathers (1987), starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, which has a considerable influence over Mean Girls. ![]() Waters' experience at Disney working with younger actors and recent success generating a big box-office turnout helped make him a natural choice for Paramount Pictures to direct Tina Fey's script about double-dealing high schoolers. ![]() ![]() In 2003, Mark Waters directed the wildly successful Freaky Friday (a 2003 remake of a previous Disney film), also starring Lindsay Lohan. ![]()
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