Friday, September 27, 2013

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

The World of Mean Girls (2004), Part 1


Everyone who has seen the movie Mean Girls knows that this is how Regina George dies (Just kidding!):

 

 But do we realize that the film foreshadows this, gives it away, in fact, in the first five minutes, where we learn that Evanston High School has the worst bus driver ever?


















Also, there's this:


Subtle.

There's also a brilliant bit of visual storytelling, this time in the form of costuming, that signifies the end of Gretchen Wiener's story arc:

Pssst... it's the earrings. I'm talking about the earrings.

These two clever bits are really just the beginning of how brilliant this film is. Read on, bee-otches!