point of view. Cher's first-person voice-over neatly captures the contradiction between actual events and her perceptions. As a commentary on events, a voice-over is always distinct from the visual events. Together, the voice-over illustrates the division between Cher's perceptions and reality, and her confidence in her own mixed up views for it emphasizes her outspokenness. By doing this I have made the film intensely verbal.
             My Heroine Cher is an imaginist. The term neatly captures her tendency to view events from her own perspective – as imagined, not real, as well as her interest for scheming. I've represented this selfish side cinematically. The film's opening scene, set to the tune of 'Kids in America,' offers images of Cher and her friends at play, shopping, and relaxing poolside. Cher intrudes to comment that their lives look like 'a Noxema commercial.' Named after famous stars, Cher and her best friend, Dionne, inhabit and control a superficial world governed by fashion and makeup. As such, I've stressed the image in imaginist.
             Although I have changed some themes, matchmaking is still central to the story of the film but more clearly allied with the main character's imaginist ways. Cher's two matchmaking efforts centre on 'making over' women, Miss Geist, the spinster teacher, and Tai, the transfer student. Cher and Dionne strip Miss Geist of her glasses and dowdy sweater. Tai undergoes a more intense. In a fitting comment on the 1990s, image is everything. Makeovers offer 'control in a world of chaos.'
             My film's emphasis on the superficial is at once a commentary on the media's dominance and a reflection of the novel's emphasis on signs, particularly on their misinterpretations. For this reason, my film is most faithful to "Emma" in its recreation
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