Why oh why is there no thread about 'Mean Girls'?

dean w/ links to the mean girls premier to thread.

http://www.local10.com/news/2198497/detail.html

its a very nice poster. the look in lindsay's eyes shows she is afraid of the popular girls for more than one reason. and it has her separated from them like an outcast somewhat. it sends out the message of the movie very well.

(now I really feel creepy)

XPOST DAMN YOU RAGGETT

You mean like Dallas? We had that in the UK, too.

i began to suspect as much when i read that the cliques in the fictional high school had names: "the plastics," etc. to the extent that there were cliques in my high school, they were decidely amorphous and certainly had no names. i have always felt that for a film to have much bite as a satire of high school social mores (to the extent that "high school social mores" even exist except as reified by popular culture) it would have to acknowledge those two realities.

so how does the film handle this? truly?

thank you for your diligent research milo

(so i was almost right; i have one year on her. in any case, she is hardly a nymphette.)

The film’s shrewd insight into how the campus is actually complicit in maintaining the Plastics’ swaggering dominance helps explain why George W. Bush is having so much trouble introducing Jeffersonian democracy to Iraq, a country that’s known nothing but autocracy since it was forcibly removed from the Ottoman Empire by Britain. In Mean Girls, Cady eventually liberates herself from the temptation to lord it over others by first undermining the cohesion of the Plastics with mean-spirited gossip and misinformation that eventually turns the school into a riot zone. Even her erstwhile friends, Janis and Damian, and her supremely enlightened teacher, Ms. Norbury (played with civilized wryness by Ms. Fey), are engulfed in the chaos, before

Cady restores sanity to the situation with an imaginatively generous act of symbolic self-sacrifice.

Best teen films to handle cliques in a more true-to-life way - Say Anything (ugh) and Dazed & Confused, maybe?

(despite my mixed feelings on that film)

The Ottoman Empire wasn't an autocracy?

but yeah it was totally funny

It did seem weird that her name was Janis Ian. I mean, that had to be intentional, right? But to what end?

"Make some noise!!!......alright, settle down"

"I have a nephew named Anfernee. He gets mad when I call him Anthony. Almost as mad as I get when I think about the fact that my sister named her son Anfernee."

WHEN GIRLS GET TOGETHER
WE ALWAYS ACT SO CLEVER
THE LATEST STYLES, THE LATEST THINGS
WE TALK ABOUT WHAT-EVER!

(mean girls mean girls)
(mean girls mean girls)

FROM DIPPING DOPS(?) WHILE AT THE MALL
TO THE LATEST GOSSIP IN THE HALLS
SOME ARE FREAKS, SOME ARE GEEKS
SOME ARE EVEN (SUPER CHIC!)

(mean girls mean girls)
BUT WHAT WE REAAAALLY TALK ABOUT!
YEAH WHAT WE REALLY REALLY TALK ABOUT!

MEAN GIRLS, MEAN GIRLS
THOSE ROTTEN UGLY MEAN GIRLS
SUPERFICIAL! LA LA LA!
THEY'RE OUR TARGETS! HA HA HA!

MEAN GIRLS, MEAN GIRLS
THEY'RE ALWAYS KNOWN AS MEAN GIRLS
WE MUST PREPARE, WE MUST DISCUSS
A GENIUS PLAN TO MESS.. THEM... UP!

She looks kind of different these days though :(

Who would've thought, six years later, that Amanda Segfried would go on to arguably be the mean girl with the hottest career?

And Lacey Chabert; so beautiful it's enough to make a dude ;_;

I think Rachel McAdams is still doing OK for herself, though Seyfried's career is hotter right now.

let's not forget up and comer lizzy caplan

some prescient caplan perving in this thread

This movie's great, and easily the best LL movie I've seen, but in a large part that's because of the strength of the writing and performances by just about everyone in the movie. Great ensemble cast!

Also LL never looked hotter than in the 2nd half of this.

Also Tim Meadows is awesome in this.

I've often wondered how lohan would have turned out if her parents were killed during the making of this movie, and because Tina Fey was the director, she was named custodian. I feel like Lindsay Lohan-Fey today would be working at an NGO in Sudan after her post-doc in neurobiology at McGill.

my boobs can tell, like, when it's raining

lohan's face talking to some of these girls is priceless, her perfectly balanced look of confusion + sweetness

i was suspicious when gf suggested we watch this but it is the business

gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen

o my god karen you can't just ask people why they're white

I wish we could all get along like we used to in middle school... I wish I could bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy...

Ooooooooooooohhhhhhh Kevin G.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR-41A3spQs

http://gawker.com/5947371/in-never+before+seen-footage-tina-fey-amy-poehler-and-rising-star-lindsay-lohan-perform-the-kevin-g-rap-from-mean-girls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbRe5kVkMH4

Heh i just posted that to the Lohan thread

Works in both!

Meantime...

http://io9.com/vampire-academy-is-actually-a-lot-funnier-than-we-expec-1443944986

Based on the very popular Richelle Mead vampire series, Mark Waters (Mean Girls director) and Daniel Waters (Heathers) took the stage with two of their new vampires and the Vampire Academy star Zoey Deutch, who will be playing the ass-kicking Rose Hathaway.

It was all turning out to be another collection of good-looking kids with supernatural powers that was good but not good enough to garner a lot of heat (it was Mortal Instruments all over again). But then the Waters brothers took the wheel and showed off some pretty fun footage. And we're back in the bag for Vampire Academy.

The footage:

Blasting the "Live Fast Die Young" song, a very long sizzle reel/trailer was shown to the audience. The first scene, watching Lissa feed off of Rose. Because she was hungry, and as Rose said "what are friends for?" It established the fact that this was a girlfriends kind of vampire movie, as opposed to the "he loves her she loves him but one of them is a monster" trope this genre has been kicking around for ages. Cut to the Vampire Academy and it's all kids kids kids. Kids laughing at each other, kids fighting with each other. Kids filming things on their cameras and smart phones. It almost stops being a vampire movie entirely for jokes. Bully Mia shows up hissing and baring her fangs, telling the other girls to leave her man alone. She later runs up to Lissa at a dance and frantically yells, "You were gone, are you pregnant, do you have herpes, maybe your baby has herpes?" Rose appears, they get into a tussle and Rose just clocks her in the face and asks, "everyone saw me try to take the high road on that." And then to top it all off is Rose, kicking so much ass, unzipping her shirt and doing tai chi on the lawn of the school.

Now that they are pushing the Mean Girls with vampires angle of this series, I'm much more into it. Especially after what a disaster Amy Heckerling's Vamps was.

http://www.vulture.com/2014/02/mean-girls-director-spills-10-juicy-stories.html?test=true

Lindsay Lohan didn't want to play the lead.
Waters and Lohan first worked together on the 2003 remake of Freaky Friday, and he knew from the start that he wanted Lohan in Mean Girls ... but not as Cady, the role she would eventually play. "Her energy is a very aggressive, testosterone-laden energy, and that's exactly what I knew I needed for Regina George," said Waters, who claims that Lohan quickly sparked to the bad-girl role. "When I gave it to her, she was like, 'I fucking love Regina George! This is exactly the part I want to play.' So we did a read-through, and we were trying to look for somebody to play the role of Cady, but frankly, we didn't find anyone we liked who felt strong enough to go up against Lindsay." While the studio searched far and wide for a suitable foil to Lohan, Freaky Friday finally hit theaters, "and it was a much bigger hit than we expected it to be," Waters admitted. "Sherry Lansing, who was heading Paramount at the time, told us, 'We have to have Lindsay play the lead in Mean Girls. It's just not going to work having her play the villain, because she now has an audience that won't accept that.'" It fell to Waters to break the bad news to his actress, but at least she saw the upside to the role switch: "Lindsay kind of begrudgingly said, 'Okay, I guess I'll play the lead. At least I get to have more lines.'"

Rachel McAdams was one of the also-rans for Cady.
While Lohan was still planning to play Regina, 24-year-old Rachel McAdams came in to read for Cady, but Waters wasn't quite convinced by her audition. "I remember watching her do the scene," said Waters, "and after it was over, I told her, 'I think you're a movie star, but you're way too old for this character. You just aren't going to be able to play the ingenue.' And she said, 'No, I understand, I get it.'" Once Lohan switched over to Cady, though, casting McAdams as her tormentor Regina George made perfect sense. "When Lindsay was acting with Rachel, she got very shy, because Rachel was older and a very accomplished actress," said Waters. "She'd come in the room and not talk to Lindsay — she was very focused. Lindsay kind of got nervous around her, and I thought that, more than anything, was going to be the deciding factor, the fact that she affected Lindsay in that way."

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