super bad analysis

General background info:
Superbad" is an American comedy, released in the summer of 2007. The film is casted under the sub genre of 'Teen movie'. It with the typical conventions found in the genre of comedy and sub genre of teen movie i.e. sex and drugs. examples of other typical movies wich share the same conventions as super bad would be "American Pie", "The Girl Next Door" and "mean girls". The film proved to be a very successfull film and won alot of awards.

Characters:
All characters shown in the film have very typical status's in school, Fogell is the Geek, Seth is the Rebel and Evan is the underdog. Their roles are represented through their actions and behaviour. the behaviour shown by the geeks is that of which is typical of highschool kids, they are not excepted in normal and social society so they form there own hierachy in which there is a dominant male (seth) the unknown boy (fogell) and the inocent boy (evan).

Narrative:
The narrative of this film is very easily predicted, the odvious there will be a big party, there needs to be booze but someone cannot get it so its left up to a random guy. The protagonist of the film almost always serves as an underdog. He falls for a girl that is much much more popular than he is, therefore in order to get her to notice him he trys to impress her in a number of different ways. For example, purchasing alcohol.

Iconography:
The 3 boys attempt to use a fake ID to purchase alcohol to give to the girl that Evan is 'in love with' and by doing this Evan would 'impress her . From the fact that 3 boys who are in high school have purchased a fake ID to buy alcohol, viewers can connote they may be buying the alcohol to get girls drunk in order to sleep with them. this glamourises the use of alchol.).