...The legacy of the 1988 black comedy movie, Heathers is still prevalent 29 years later, as its dark take on high school social hierarchy is a breath of fresh air from its descendents, Clueless (1995) and Mean Girls (2004). The movie follows Veronica Sawyer (Winona Ryder), token genius and witty teenager, who ‘befriends’ Westerburg High’s most popular clique. They are collectively known as the Heathers, due to all three girls sharing the same first name. During a Q&A enacted by the Heathers during their lunch period, Veronica encounters Jason Dean (Christian Slater), or JD for short. He is immediately proven as an outlandish and extreme figure, when he shoots a blank during an exchange with two stereotypical jocks to create a truly memorable...
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...aware of the food chain, but he never discussed how human elitism could affect the food chain. As a result of mass production, human ignorance towards other forms of life proves their elitism. Humans believe that they are the top of the food chain, and therefore, they value their own life far above any other life. They have a biological elitism. With their biological elitism, humans begin developing a superiority complex, which, in result lends them to believe they are a step above “top of the food chain”. Finally, humans can get pleasure from watching the destruction of other life because the destruction reassures humans of their superiority complex. Although each has a unique setting, Super Sad True Love Story, “The People Pound”, and Heathers are all connected in their inherent values of life, each providing a satirical approach to biological elitism and proving the sadism of humanity. Biological elitism starts with the devaluing of other, inferior life forms, which leads to the construction of a biological dictatorship. In Hunter Breckonridge’s story, “The People Pound”, she satirizes the lack of value humans place on animals by paralleling animals with disabled humans, calling disabled humans “duds”. In her story, Gertrude is a middle-aged woman who received brain damage at her job. She is the first “dud” of many seen in the story. The term “dud”, is inherently condescending. It implies a lack of social value in the object. Breckonridge’s writes, “…she probably can’t think...
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...a cool way for people to truly feel apart of the play. Between that and student work posted around the walls, you really felt like you were in a kids classroom. The play started with Heather, the teacher, at her desk, grading papers but seeming preoccupied and upset. Upon Corryn’s entrance, Heathers dialogue seemed very static and plain, as though reading from the script. She seemed to be relying on heavy sighs and breathing for emotion. I felt immediately this might be a one-sided performance but her speech rhythm began to loosen and flow more naturally the more she spoke. The more Heather talked the more you think she knows about Gidions suspension. She seemed to have knowledge of the issue, but plays the defensive as if she’s uncomfortable saying, or just trying to keep the conference professional and appropriate. The actor did a good job keeping that demeanor, her posture straight, face blank when possible, body language cordial but reserved and constrained. After understanding her acting choices more, I could better see the type of woman she portrayed and why she had her defenses. As the play went on, Heather finally allowed her emotions to surface, her caring concern to emerge, and the two women almost seem to bond. Key word almost. Their back and forth conversations seem very bipolar. One minute they’re talking about death, then literature...
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...Heathers is a satirical black comedy directed by Michael Lehmann, starring Winona Ryder as Veronica Sawyer and Christian Slater as Jason “J.D” Dean. Veronica Sawyer is a new addition to the most popular clique comprised of three other girls in her high school, all named Heather, but Veronica does not approve of the other girls’ petty and malicious actions. When Veronica and her unorthodox new acquaintance, J.D., attempt to confront the clique leader, Heather Chandler, they accidentally poison her, and make it out to be a suicide. As a pattern of similar suicides breaks out, Veronica realizes that J.D. may not be all that she had hoped for. Heathers features many literary elements throughout the film to add depth and meaning to the characters...
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...Heathers review This musical is based off of a black comedy movie and is about a major problem with teen depression. It all starts off as the normal first day of school where you are completely lost and you meet a girl named Veronica who is not liking the year so far. Though, the only way she could get on top of the crowd is by hanging out with the Heathers (popular girls). As for them being late for class, Veronica uses her Forging skills to help them from getting detention as they bring her into their inner circle. Though, we figure out that being popular could also be bad as to lying to a friend. Which causes a whole other story based off of how one thing could mess up a friendship. Veronica is too caring to do something like that until it might ruin her social life. Furthermore, they weren’t the only ones around but hearing over the threats was a mysterious trench coat kid named Jason Dean (JD)....
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...Racial profiling has been around for many years, with laws such as the "Black Codes", which were created during the reconstruction in the South. These laws imposed severe restrictions on freed slaves such as prohibiting their right to vote, forbidding them to sit on juries, limiting their right to testify against white men, carrying weapons in public places and working in certain occupations; and the “Jim Crow” laws, which were laws that discriminated against African Americans with concern to attendance in public schools and the use of facilities such as restaurants, theaters, hotels, cinemas and public baths. Trains and buses were also segregated and in many states marriage between whites and African American people. According to Heather Mac Donald, the term "Racial profiling" has two meanings, hard and soft profiling. “Hard” profiling uses race as the only factor in assessing criminal suspiciousness: an officer sees a black person and, without more to go on, pulls him over for a pat-down on the chance that he may be carrying drugs or weapons. "Soft" racial profiling is using race as one factor among others in gauging criminal suspiciousness: the highway police, for example, have intelligence that Jamaican drug posses with a fondness for Nissan Pathfinders are transporting marijuana along the northeast corridor. A New Jersey trooper sees a black motorist speeding in a Pathfinder and pulls him over in the hope of finding drugs (Mac Donald). Racial Profiling really came...
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