Easy A

Easy A !

Easy A is when a clean cut, unnoticed High school student relys on the school rumors to advance her social and finanical standings. Olive the main character is played by Emma Stone. She starts off doing a favour for her gay friend Brandon, she pretends to sleep with him at a party. He tells a few of his friends and they go to Olive to ask her if she would do the same for them. She agrees not because she wants to look slutty but to help them out. They pay her and give her things like coupons and vouchers, this gets around the school and it makes Olive sound like a even bigger slut than they think she already is.
She is given the stereotype of the Slut of the school, she wears bright red lip stick, wears short dresses, high heels and sew's a bright red A on to her clothes. She struts around the place wearing these things acting like she has done the things the rumours are saying making people believe the rumours.
Olive only had one really good friend at the start of the movie before the rumours, her name was Rhiannion but she left Olive when Olive started to become more popular than she was. Olive embraces her stereotype and she becomes what everyone thinks she is.
Then in the end she reliases she doesnt want people looking down on her and believeing the rumors so she makes a video and tricks people into watching it and she tells her side of the story to her high school.

Olive is also a counter type because she doesn't do anything wrong or slutty. She is doing the boys a favour by pretending to do stuff with them. She is a smart student that just wanted to blend in with the crowd. Unlike Regina in Mean girls who was the slut of the school, Olive doesn't have any friends. She doesn't have a couple of friends that follow her everywhere and tell her how amazing she is.

How the representation affects teenage girls. It affects teenage girls because it’s saying if someone starts a rumour about you that’s not true you should embrace it and carry on acting like the rumour is true even when it’s not. Because this is what the character Olive did and everything turned out fine she didn’t get expelled for dressing inappropriately, she even became more popular with the guys at her school and the girls envied her. Even though she didn’t have many friends she got the boys attention and the girls envied her so in one way or another she was popular, but not in the stereotypical way like mean girls. It gives girls unrealistic views on how to make friends in high school and how to get everyone to like you. It’s saying that if you pretend to be someone else you will become popular I think this is very wrong because all through my life in reality I have been told that if you act like yourself you will succeed.

How the representation affects society’s perception of and/or attitude to teenage girls. Society’s perception on teenage girls after watching this movie would be not be a good one. Even though this movie is not as strongly stereotyped as mean girls it still has a few typical stereotypes of teenage girls. For example the heavily Christian girl that form a group hold hands, protest, sing songs and torment Olive because she is clearly not following the Christian way of living. From this stereotype society think that teenage girls go around saying their Christian and believe in all good but then go around tormenting people and looking down on others if they are not following their way. To me and others this is not very Christian of them to be doing this. Society might also think that girls would go to those extreme lengths about a rumour and go around behaving like olive did about the rumour.

Reasons implications for any differences between the representation and reality. Representation is that olive goes around wearing little clothes and acting like a complete slut because that’s the only way to be noticed at school and to become popular and have people talking and thinking about her. But in reality this is not the only way you can get attention at schools there is much better ways to do this like achieve something in either sporting or academic. In reality if you behaved like Olive does in Easy A girls would not envy you at all they would hate you and ostracise you. They would make up even bigger rumours and bitch about you behind your back. The guys would talk about you but they too would like you are one big slut and not all guys would be drooling over you like in the movie or be interested in someone like that. In this representation of how to make friends and be popular it’s saying that if you’re pretend to be someone you’re not you will be popular and succeed. In reality this is the other way around. In reality no one would go to those extreme lengths Olive did just to prove the rumour was true and that she was enjoying being the slut of the school by embroding a red A on her clothing.