Easy A

In class we watched 'Easy A', it was a really good movie and it showed representations of teenage girls really well. the story line was the same as most other teen movies, girl makes mistake and the boy of her dreams flies to her and saves the day but in between that it showed the reality of teenage girls a lot better then other movies such as 'Mean Girls'. There were two main representations of teenage girls (Sluts and Goody Goods) in the film and these were shown through the characters of Olive acted by Emma Stone and Marianne acted by Amanda Bynes. Olive plays an extremely smart girl but also the school slut. she's also seen as someone who helps unpopular male students, by doing this she pretends to have sex with them to help them gain socially.  Marianne on the other hand is complete opposite to Olive, she's a good Christian girl who goes by every rule in the book and will do anything to remove people who aren't. 

Marianne and Olive

(Amanda Bynes and Emma Stone)

In the picture above we see the contrast between the two girls in their costumes, which ultimately shows the two stereotypes of a Slut and a Goody Good. 

In a movie such as Mean Girls, there is a huge difference between the gossip that happens in the two movies. In Mean Girls, gossip in the school only happened between the girls and the boys normally stayed out of it but in Easy A everyone in the school got involved with the rumors and gossip.