``Clueless'' A masterpiece school comedy that presents a wise and strong heroine

Clueless synopsis

Cher, whose father is a brilliant corporate lawyer and lives in a mansion in Beverly Hills, is a high school student obsessed with fashion and parties. Her stepbrother Josh, her father's son from a previous marriage, always scolds her for her frivolous behavior, but Cher refuses to listen. One day, in order to improve her class grades, Cher succeeds in setting up a romantic relationship between a strict teacher and a colleague, and becomes obsessed with helping other people find love. She transforms the "Clueless" transfer student Ty into a cool guy and works hard to find the perfect boyfriend for her, but loses all confidence when Ty becomes more popular than her after the transformation. Eventually, Cher begins to reflect on her actions and realizes a certain The Truth.

Index

• The school comedy that inspired Booksmart
• The importance of depicting school scenes from a girl's perspective and narration
• Costume designer Mona May creates innovative fashion
• The hierarchy in high school and how to awaken from it
• Clueless presents the image of a smart and strong heroine

The school comedy that inspired Booksmart

When Olivia Wilde's Booksmart (2019) was released, people couldn't help but think about how it brilliantly updated past school movies while following the style of past school movies. John Hughes' The Breakfast Club (1985) and Amy Heckerling's Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) and Clueless (1995) were often mentioned as past masterpieces. In the 1980s The Day After 1990s, when the status of female directors was even lower than it is now, Amy Heckerling's presence and the "girls' school movies" she created, which dominated the era with two school movies, must have had a definite influence on Booksmart. Olivia Wilde, born in 1984, said that she grew up watching Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Clueless when she was young.

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Amy Heckerling made her directorial debut shortly after The Graduate from AFI Film School. Hired by Universal as a promising new talent, she cast young actors to film a sex comedy set in a high school in Santiago. The film was based on a novel written in 1979 by a young Cameron Crowe, who had not yet become a director. Cameron Crowe, who was in his 20s at the time, infiltrated his alma mater, Ridgemont High School, and the novel, which depicted the real daily lives of high school students, became a bestseller.

The film version, which Cameron Crowe wrote the screenplay for, portrayed a high school girl's first sexual experience and the outcome of that experience with a diverse cast of high school students, and was a huge hit. Jennifer Jason Leigh, who played the lead role, and Phoebe Cates, who played her friend, became teen movie stars, and Sean Penn, who played a marijuana-crazed surfer, went on to become a famous actor who appeared in numerous films. Forest Whitaker and Nicolas Cage, who were not yet well-known, also appeared in small roles.

Amy Heckerling's debut feature film garnered much attention, but she achieved further success with Baby Talk , released in 1989. This romantic comedy follows a woman who becomes pregnant with her lover's child and decides to raise the child as a single mother, only to end up marrying a Taxi Driver who happens to help her during the birth. However, the main character of the film is the child Mikey that the woman is pregnant with. Bruce Willis voices Mikey, providing live commentary on the state of the sperm to the state of the newborn baby, as the adults panic, and this comedy was another huge hit, sparking a huge boom.

The importance of depicting school scenes from a girl's perspective and narration