Clueless and The Holiday

Clueless:

Tell me how many girls, at the age of about 12, didn’t dream of being exactly like Cher Horowitz? I know that for me and the girls I grew up with treated Clueless as a bible. Through middle school (that awkward age when all that matters in the world is how popular you are and that you look your best 24/7 even though its pretty much the ugliest point in your life…or was that just me?), the social life of a 12 year old girl was getting together for a sleepover, painting our nails and watching clueless while mom baked cookies for every one. Every teenage girl dreamed of having a white jeep wrangler just like Cher! It was the dream car! Cher, Dionne, Tai, and all the other girls, who wouldn’t want to be just like them? Cher and Dionne turn Tai from looking like a “farmer in those clothes” into a popular high school icon. All the 12 year olds love Christian for his great sense of style and charming smile (okay,okay, so he’s into men, still the best person to shop with). Elton is viewed as the bad guy because he was into Cher and not Tai and then left Cher in the valley because the feelings weren’t mutual. Josh, is all the girls favorite male character. He’s nice, flirtatious, older (Cher doesn’t date high school boys, and she’s saving herself for Luke Perry…who isn’t?), Cher is most comfortable around him and therefore, they’re perfect together…except for the minor detail that he was once her step brother!! Now this is the one aspect of the movie that I wasn’t 100 percent comfortable with; I’ve never had any step siblings so maybe I don’t know how it is exactly, but if he was once part of the family, to me that would mean OFF LIMITS. So anyways, Cher gets a bad report card and by getting involved in school activities and uniting two lonely souls she raises her grades to all A’s. The movie addresses so many issues that teenage girls may be experiencing such as grades, drama with girlfriends, the teacher that is always out to get you, but all you care about is your social life and appearance. Amy Heckerling, portrayed Cher, Dionne, Tai and the other female characters to be the way that most teenage girls strive to be. As young girls, we always want to be older, or act older than we actually are. Cher goes off driving in her dreamy white wrangler even though she doesn’t have a license, she invites Christian over and tries to bake, she goes to parties and she shops. All in all,Heckerling made the characters of Clueless teenage idols for girls. Clueless is essentially a guide to young girls, and who would be able to portray that that best other than a woman who probably remembers what it was like to be a teenage girl?

The Holiday:

The Holiday was the best movie that I have seen this year. Although seeing all the pretty colors, dresses, shoes and cakes in Marie Antoinette puts it towards the top of the list also. Only a woman would know that when a woman (Cameron Diaz’s character) says she wants to be somewhere without any men because she just went through bad breakup with cheater Ethan, she really means that she doesn’t want to be around any men that could potentially hurt her. When Jude Law comes strolling in, you have to be thankful for that! What woman actually wants to be alone at her age after a breakup and around the holidays? But, she wants to be away from the hurt and humiliation of breaking up with someone and being cheated on. All women know that even after the worse break up in the world, we’re always looking for that Jude Law dream guy to show up when your least expecting it. I would have to say that my favorite part in the whole movie was at the end when Cameron Diaz’s character turns around the cab and goes back to the house to be with Jude Law. Now its romantic and what the audience wants, of course, but the best part of it is, that she storms into the house and Jude Law is sitting there sobbing!! How many men directors would portray a man sobbing like that over a woman he knew for only 2 weeks! Women wish men could be that sensitive and romantic and I know there are men like that, but I don’t usually see it in the movies. I was not surprised that Jude Law was still in the house and it is realistic that he is upset, but I find it very funny that he was sobbing like a little girl! It is sweet though.