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Heather’s Style Analysis: Significance, Semiotics and Strata
Known for the uber-relevant teen-lingo, the 1988 classic is more-so known for its costume design and color coding, often crowned as the one to inspire Mean Girls. How very.
Born as near to the first line of Gen Z in a developing country did not expose me to Hollywood movies pertaining to high school and the drama underneath. While me watching Mean Girls when I was 16 was a big feat, I inherently feel embarrassed to say that I watched the original 1988 Heathers last week. Better late than never. (also, spoilers ahead, duh).
While including a psychopath to bomb up the school as a seventeen year old and a high school clique ready to stomp over each other may seem far fetched, for the ’80s I believe even mentioning homosexuality and date-rape was unexpected, let alone suicide and juvenile crimes.
Heathers will give any viewer a slap in the name of revelation of a society which still exists to this day, and as the famous dialogue goes ‘You say to-mey-to I say to-mah-to’, our society boldly chooses to look at the brighter side. Yet I am here to mention how the outer appearance of the two characters justified the stereotype and the era they belonged to.
