Stereotype: A person or thing that conforms to a widely held but oversimplified image of the class or type to which they the belong.
High Schools and College are renowned creating multiple stereotypes in the society that it has. The way you look, dress and act defines who you are and where you fit in to the social pyramid that it creates. Not Another Teen Movie (2001) uses the stereotypes in a obvious way by using other teens films and making it their own, this is called intertextuality. Intertextuality is the interrelationship between texts, especially works of literature; the way that similar or related texts influence, reflect, or differ from each other.
Throughout Not Another Teen Movie uses different stereotype from different films such as 10 Things i hate about you, American Beauty, American Pie, Can't Hardly Wait, Cruel Intentions, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Jawbreaker. The Script writers do this by making out that there isn't any "clicks" in high school but make it obvious by the way they are dressed and grouped with.
The Typical Stereotypes in high school
The Jocks: These are the sporty guys that are very arrogant and feel that they are the greatest looking guys in school and no other guy can compete with them. They usually wear baggy baseball jackets.
The Nerds: They are regarded as the unpopulars due to their advance knowledge, (the majority of the school usually has average or below average grades), they are never invited to parties and always dress in a tacky formal way. The Nerds are also prone to being bullied by Jocks and being used by the dumb blondes.
The Dumb Blondes: As beautiful as they might be, the blondes usually have nothing amazing going on upstairs. They usually rely on their looks and the way they dress to get the guys and sometimes girls attention. If they're not book smart they're smart enough to know how to manipulate every guy in doing what they want.
Social Network 2010
The social network is a teen film that presents the stereotype in a different way to Not Another Teen Film. The Jocks are still cocky and arrogant but they're actually well educated and have ideas with what they want to do in life, unlike not another teen film they have no ambition just focusing on how many girls they could have sex with. The nerd is the protagonist and is seen as a legend for his knowledge, when you think of an nerd you think they have massive glasses and no social skills but the social network goes against the characteristics of a nerd and turned him into a person everyone to be then to a arrogant jock but without doing sports.
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