The pop-culture phenomenon ‘Mean Girls’ has it’s 10th anniversary.It’s lasting success means that the cast of the movie will gather for a special event to celebrate this day. There is no doubt in the world that my friends and I will all be wearing pink!
Mean Girls (2004) is a story of high-school cliques in America. It is narrated in the shoes of Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) who is a newbie at a her first public school after 16 years of being home-schooled. She is then manipulated into joining ‘the plastics’, the most popular girl clique in school. Cady faces the unwritten rules that society bring to teens today.
Tina Fey wrote the film and also played the part of Ms Norbury (the ‘drug pushing’ teacher). The film grossed a total of $129,042,871 worldwide, showing that there is no surprise as to why most teenage girls like myself would find this film amazing. Even in the opening weekend, the movie made $24,432,195 in the USA from 2,839 screens. Pretty impressive right?
It is described as a sleepover staple, which is endlessly quotable. According to the blogging website ‘tumblr’, users have created more than 10,000 posts and 477,000 notes related to the film in the past month alone.
“It’s a really clever, really smart film so it stands up to repeated viewing, which I think is key for something becoming a cult hit,” says Empire magazine’s deputy online editor, and Mean Girls fan Helen O’Hara. “You notice clever lines you didn’t notice before. Little jokes that maybe didn’t wow you first time around suddenly become the funniest thing in the world. ‘You go, Glen Coco!’ for example. I don’t even remember that from the first time I saw it and now you can buy T-shirts and bags with it on.”
The dialogue in the film is so easy to bring into every day life, which is one of the obvious reasons to its success. All I can say is thank you Tina Fey!
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