When you have to read a lot of books and stories about your classes, you start to see a lot of patterns. A lot of stories have a formula and are quite predictable. Unfortunately, this mindset can carry over into when I am reading for fun or watching a movie. My friends hate watching movies with me because I almost always predict the ending. It's also common to overanalyze and think that everything is significant and has a meaning, but that's what English majors do best. Here's a look at what watching a movie is like when you're an English major.
1. This is such an interesting setting for this story. Will it be important to the plot?
2. The camera is showing the character put on a watch. Is that a symbol for something?
3. How interesting that the protagonist doesn’t have a father. Maybe it’s influenced her perception of males.
4. The character is pulling the tomato out of her sandwich. That HAS to mean something.
5. Got to love the trope of the unpopular, nerdy girl getting bullied by the divas of the school.
6. Obviously, there are three divas, and the leader has blonde hair.
7. Ugh, this plot is so predictable. I bet I can accurately guess how this will end.
8. The popular guy in the school is the football quarterback, extremely attractive, really nice, AND is dating the blonde-haired lead of the school divas? What a unique idea.
9. This character has stage fright but won’t say why. She probably threw up on stage once during an audition.
10. The protagonist is having boyfriend problems. It probably stems back to the fact her father walked out on the family.
11. Early in the movie, the character was frowning in the bathroom mirror; now, she’s smiling. I like this parallelism to represent the protagonist’s inner-emotional change and boosted self-esteem.
12. I love that they keep putting in this tomato symbolism.
13. What could the tomato represent?
14. I was right about the stage fright friend, and obviously she got a chance to do her dream audition again. Not only did she not puke, but she got the part.
15. They never mentioned the watch again, so I guess it wasn’t important.
16. I was right about the ending. Obviously, the outcast protagonist would get the popular quarterback for her boyfriend AND stand up to the blonde-haired diva.
17. I enjoyed this movie personally, but it has no intellectual significance. What a drag.
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