Cap with entire bee movie script1/28/2024 ![]() In this canon, there is no more foundational text than Mean Girls, Tina Fey’s 2004 teen flick that became a cultural phenomenon-one that is still quoted by a generation of millennials. In my tweens, I spent many nights studying (and idolizing) the American teen experience at sleepovers, watching films like Bring it On, John Tucker Must Die, She’s the Man, and High School Musical. The 2000s were the golden era of the high school movie. The corridors smelt of competition and fear-a specifically American combination. (The corridors smelt of competition and fear-a specifically American combination.) When the trip ended with a homecoming dance, it felt like the final scene of my very own teen movie. Most of all, I recognized the brutality of high school. I was very far (3,211 miles!) away from my home in the U.K., but my surroundings felt weirdly familiar: The school hallways and lockers, the cafeteria and its real-life safari of jocks, nerds, theater kids, cheerleaders, and every stereotype in-between. ![]() ![]() I traveled to New Paltz-a small leafy town an hour or two drive outside New York City-to take part in a school exchange. ![]() In 2009, I was an acne-prone and Abercrombie-pilled sixteen-year-old. ![]()
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