representation and stereotypes

1. Representation is how a character is presented to the audience in a scene or movie which links in with stereotypes as it is a generalisation of a certain group of people e.g "The Jock." The Jock is always the character that has slicked hair and all the ladies want to be with, always wears a baseball jacket to represent the high school "football team" most oftenly linked to the head of the cheerleaders until the ugly pretty girl comes along and he begins to like her, most high school teens movies are stereotypically similarly  The representation and stereotype of a character such as this sets the character in a movie which will immediately help the audience identify who they are.

2. Jim Levenstein in the American Pie is the desperate virgin that wants to lose his virginity before prom, he's not really popular but has a close group friends he is always with. they are all young around the age of 17/18 and love to talk about women and sex the usual vulgar talk young males are used to.  therefore the main target of this movie is similar to the age of the main stars so they can relate to what is going on in the movie. 

Fogell also known as Mclovin in "Superbad" is a hilarious character who is the stereotypical  unpopular nerd in high school until there is a complete change in his character when he meets some police officers who change him and make him a "bad ass". He wears glasses and fitted tucked in shirts, very smart look which shows his representation to the audience for them to identify his character.

John Tucker in "John Tucker Must Die" is a stereotypical Jock at high school all the females love him and want to be with him he is a cocky character, he wears the high school football team jacket, he's a popular guy around school, everybody seems to look up to him.
  3. There is no particular character in a movie or tv show i dislike i only dislike the fact that it becomes  boring as it is very repetitious and predictable as all stereotypical high school movies have the same type of characters and dilemmas, which is the only problem, hollywood need to change it up a bit and make it less predictable.