Language Village Movie Night “Heathers”

I had a movie night with my roommate Kim. We watched the movie “Heathers” for two nights. It was a very strange and disturbing movie. The movie was on Netflix. There was some  connections to linguistics. Some of the phrases were different from the the phrases we use now. The slang was like ” totally”, “awesome” , “rad”, or phrases like “your such a brownie”. The slang today does not really use these phrases anymore.  The movie manipulated the English language in order to make their own know language. For example, the cool, popular high school girls were called Heathers.  The film makers changed idea of cliques with calling a girl a heather because it is a title of fame in the film. Some of sentences were like “fuck me gently with a chainsaw” which is basically trying to communicate that the character is offended or insulted. Another word “Salutations” is like a greeting but the character said it sarcastically. The language used in this film made a statement about the cool, popular kids that were given the opportunity to be called something else then every other high school student. It is a statement made to show that people in high school outcast other people that are not considered cool or popular. Overall, the movie was interesting. Even though, the guy almost killed everyone.


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