Teen Movies Note on the first fifteen minutes of Model Behaviour

clothes and her being associated as the geeks friend(this being Alice).Alice tells Sharon to “pack it in” because she knows she hates getting her picture taken, her again it tells the audience that it may be because if people from her school got to see it they would laugh at it as she is the geek of the school.Alice seems to have been hiding herself away in the bathroom away from everyone else probably because she knows she doesn’t fit in at the party.Sharon wants to know why she still hasn’t approached Eric Singer (the hottest guy at her school who is easily recognized as being the jock and who she really fancies).  Alice laughs at her saying basically that why would he even look at her, her being the geek and everything why would he even give her a second glance she says, “What I’d only block his view”.Sharon being a good friend like all friends geeks or not tries to build her confidence saying why wouldn’t he she was “funny, creative and on the verge of being the hottest new fashion designer to hit New York”, but Alice is still not convinced why would he even look at her against all of the other popular girls at her school. Sharon reminds her of what she had said before that this year was going to be different and she was going to get a date for the ball and a boyfriend for the year. Here is again evidence that she is obviously not that popular as she hasn’t had a date before for the ball.When Alice bumps smack bang into Eric Singer Sharon is really geeky and her excuse to get out of the way is “oh I think my blood sugar is dropping”.Alice’s pager goes off and she drops herself in it by saying it “mo and dad”, this is something teenagers don’t do as at this age they want to be independent knowing their parent aren’t always looking over their shoulders.She makes up an excuse saying someone else got her pager number and now they page her every 10 minutes wanting to know where they are.Eric is really sarcastic to her saying when her pager beeps “what you late for another party”.When Eric says can I ask you anything Alice replies by saying “anything” expecting him to say he loves her and then he is really nasty and breaks her confidence even more.From this point I expected to find that the end of the film would see Eric falling in love with Alice and dumping one of the popular girls for her.From this early stage the director has shown a different perspective on this teen movie because normally you find that it is the guy that has to try and get the geeky girl to fall for him, but in Model Behaviour the director has chosen to have the geek already really like Eric and make him fall for her so the director has brought in a contrast.After Eric has told her to move she gets teased by the popular girls and the one obviously being the babe with blonde curly hair, tall and slim, with her saying “move, classic” her she is showing the normal reputation of the babe being a bitch to anyone she really pleases especially the geek.Sharon asks her what happened as she goes to leave the party and she says she was “born Alice that’s what happened”, here the audience are told that no matter what she did with that name there was a reputation as being a geek and a social outsider and with that you would never be excepted no matter what you did.She tells her dad about how he had embarrassed her and the whole of Greenfield High knowing he had beeped her.Her parents have got high expectations of her and really don’t care about what her feelings are as long as she gets good grades and doesn’t stay out late.Alice works with her dad in his catering company and say “yes dad I’m not just a daughter I’m an employee”.When her dad asks her how the party went she uses American slang in saying, “let’s just say I’ve clenched my status as being junior class spinster”.She is in her room and is looking at the front of her magazine and says it must be great to be you “supermodel”.Janine Adam’s is a supermodel who in her opening scene is trying to order Chinese from her car when her mom finds her and changes her order to Streamed broccoli and brown rice, her the audience gets the impression that this is a girl having to be something she is clearly not and just wanting to live the life of a regular 16 year old.When she finds out her mom is going to be gone for two weeks she is delighted and she shows it but quickly covers it up by saying “Oh I’ll miss you guys”.She hates being the girl everyone is talking about and she wishes she could be like every other normal teenager.From this point the audience gets the idea that each of the girls wish they were living the others lifestyle Alice just wanting to be noticed by the people at school as well as at home and Janine not wanting to be AS noticed.Alice gets a letter saying that she has got through to the final round of her fashion competition but her dad isn’t really that interested about it.Her mom is happier about it but says for the interview to wear some newer clothes; this showing that even here mother notices she is different from other girls her age.This is when the two girls meet and decide to swap places.As the audience you expect the two girls to be found out and you expect them to like the others lifestyle and a twist to occur along.