Angus, thongs and perfect snogging (2008)
Let me introduce you the topic for this week’s posts. It will be...
FRIENDSHIP
First of all, I must say that friendship encompasses many other topics, like confidence, security, love and sincerity. A real friendship still remains over everyone and everything
How is it show on a movie?
Of course, there are always these "teenagers" movies which always take place in high schools or universities, where girls and boys join in differents unisex groups, stories where, at first, tipical first aim is popularity and to go out with the most handsome guy or the prettiest girl. In these movies, friends spent great moments together, they laught, they talk about crazy and banal things. But there is always this situation in which the friendship is in danger, confiance breaks, friends argue and stop believing in each other after a long time of fun and enjoyable time together, and they have to fight for their friendship, prove it, and, sometimes, even sacrifice things. Sacrifice is a verb usually conected to friendship, not only in these "teenagers" films, but also in other types of films, like military ones in which the soldiers became friends during the war training and they sacrifice their lives for each other.
But let's continue with "teenager" friendship.
I'm going to put three different examples of this type of films: "Aquamarine", "Wild child" and "Angus, thongs and perfects snogging"
- Aquamarine: Hayley and Clare have been best friends forever, but now Hayley has to move to Australia. Neither of them wants that to happen, so they ask for a miracle. That night, there is a storm and the next moning they find a mermaid named Aqua inside the swimming pool. She has come to earth to prove his father that love exists. She is in love this the beach lifeguard, Raymond, and has to make him love her in three days. If Claire and Hayley help her to archieve that aim, she will give them a wish: Hayley will not move. During these three days, they spent a lot of time together, they live many funny moment, they enjoy themselves and they end up loving Aqua as if they had been friends since always. But the final hour comes and Aqua has to go back because Raymond doesn't love her. Nevertheless, she has prove that love exist, because Hayley and Clare love her.
- Wild child: Poppy Moore is a rich girl that lives in LA that thinks she can do whatever she wants. She's arrogante, childlish and, in one simple word, hateful. Until one day her father sends her to a boarding school in England, where people and manners are completely different. She meets her room mates, the principal and her son, Freddy, but what she really wants is to get out of there. So her room mates work out a plan that can allow her to scape: she has to kiss Freddy and the principal has to see it (because that is forbbiden). But within time, Poppy starts to fall for Freddy and gets to love her room mates, they become friends. And there is this "evil" prefect girl, Harrieth, that hates Poppy and writes a letter pretending to be Poppy, in which she says horrible and painful things about Freddy and the girls. so everybody turns their back on Poppy and she feels really bad. In the end (**Spoiler alert**) she manage to sort things out confessing all her plan to the principal, and the consecuence is expulsion. The problem is that, now, she doesn't want to leave.
- Angus, thongs and perffect snogging: Georgia is a 14-years-old girl, she has an ugly nose and is in love with the new boy in school, Robbie. Her best friend Jas starts to go out with Robbie's brother, which makes her jalous and betrayed, because Jas starts to spend less tie with her and more time with her boyfriend, Robbie and Robbie's girlfriend, the "evil" (again) Lindsay. One day, Robbie kisses Georgia and she thinks she has the situation under control, but Robbie strays from her, so she dates another boy, Dave, who likes Georgia, to make Robbie jealous. The resoult? Jas, Dave and Robbie found out about Georgia's plan and tell her off. She has been selfish and only thinking about herself. After Georgia realises this, she decides to move to New Zeland with his father but, before that, she apologizes to evebody. In the end (**Spoiler Alert**) all forgive her and they live happily ever after.
I'm now putting a video I did myself in which I show some scenes of Aquamarine where you can see all this "friendship" process.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2HrE53bDEk&feature=player_embedded
True friendship lasts forever.
Sources:
- My own knowledge because I've seen the movies, but anyway, here you have links where you can see the plots: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquamarine , http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Child , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus,_Thongs_and_Perfect_Snogging
- About friendship: http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=amistad
Nora Huarte Castro
35 ways of silent scream
Aka: how to express oneself through...
cinema
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