sixteen candles-movie
The 1986 film "Sixteen Candles" tells a timeless tale of growing up in suburban America. The film's star, Sam, played by Molly Ringwald, wakes up with big expectations on her sweet sixteenth birthday only to be completely disappointed. Not only does she find that she looks exactly the same as when she was fifteen, but her family is so preoccupied with her older sister's wedding that they forget her birthday altogether. The film opens with Sam on the phone with her best girlfriend Randy. She is examining herself in her full length mirror and is totally horrified to find that her body didn't' magically transform overnight. She was hoping to wake up with a body just like Caroline's. Caroline is the head cheerleader, prom queen, and girlfriend of the most popular boy in school, Jake Ryan. Sam is hopelessly "in love" with Jake and is convinced that he won't know she exists until she is more developed, more mature, more like Caroline. Little does she know, Jake does notice her. He is intrigued by a certain mispassed note containing some very personal information about Sam's sex life (or lack ofone). In this note, Sam confesses that she is a virgin (she has never done "it") and is saving herself not for marriage, but for Ja
Ted, for example, was obsessed with having sex, or at least tricking his friends into believing he had sex, the entire movie. Another example is when Ted borrows Sam's underpants. There seems to be lots of competition within male friendships, especially when it comes to sex. She and Randy are constantly together or on the phone with each other. Overall, Sam seems to have a close relationship with her family. She isn't just like everyone else, and he actually sees that as an attractive quality. I found that somewhat unusual in that I would expect her to go to hermother or sister for advice on boys. They all make a big deal about the young woman Sam is becoming and her mom's mom even goes so far as to comment on her "perky" breasts, which totally humiliates Sam. Popularity and identity go hand in hand in the sense that those who are popular are usually the ones that establish an identity first and then have their peers modeling their identitiesafter them. Jake is on the football team, has a fast car, a big house, and is extremely attractive and charming. Sam in particular is very envious of Caroline's body. They wer!e also much more likely to lie about sexual experiences (Werner-Wilson, 1998). Sam is just a sophomore, while Jake is a senior. He can appreciate that Sam is beautiful not in a blonde hair, blue eyes kind of way, but in her own special way. Sam has not yet established her own identity, so she models her identity around the identity of the one person she wouldn't mind being; the girlfriend of Jake Ryan.
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