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00:00Sometimes high school can feel like a real jungle.
00:04Only the strongest survive.
00:14And maybe to stay at the top of the food chain, you have no choice but to become a bad girl.
00:26Mingers defined an entire generation.
00:28An endless source of memes, memorable phrases, and unforgettable characters.
00:34Tina Fey brought us not only a great film that analyzes hierarchies among teenagers in a hilarious way,
00:40but also a true anthem for millennials.
00:44But how did they manage to create this perfect combination of humor, drama, and social analysis?
00:50And most importantly, why does Regina George still remain an icon almost 20 years later?
00:56With me.
00:57Let's delve into this teenage jungle to discover everything behind this film.
01:02From a long struggle that almost led to the film being rated PG-13 due to the script's heavy jokes,
01:09to how it became the internet's favorite movie.
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01:27Tina Fey, the screenwriter who wrote Min Girls,
01:39brought something fresh and unusual to the industry,
01:42a comedy that focused on women and with a multitude of female characters
01:45who were not only well-written but also believable.
01:47The central plot did not revolve around romance or the relentless pursuit of women to pair up with a man,
01:55but rather the aggression that could occur within relationships between women themselves.
01:59She came up with the idea after reading a self-help book called Queen Bee and Wanabi.
02:08The book was a guide for parents that defined the different girl gangs that formed in high school
02:12and what the aggressive behavior patterns were among teenage girls.
02:18Its author, Rosalind Wiseman, was a martial arts teacher and met many troubled teenage girls in high school.
02:24Talking to different boys and girls over the course of a decade,
02:30she gained in-depth knowledge of how they suffered bullying at the hands of very specific teenagers
02:34and what motivated these teenagers to behave violently towards other boys their age.
02:41Tina Fey was struck by many of the things described in the book
02:44and thought it could easily be turned into a movie.
02:49Tina had been working at Saturday Night Life since 1997 as a contributor and screenwriter,
02:54so she suggested her idea for a movie to her boss Lord Michael,
02:57the creator of the Night Life series.
03:11Lord Michael loved the idea and became the film's executive producer.
03:16He personally called Paramount Pictures to propose the project
03:20and they got started by buying the rights to the book.
03:24However, when Tina Fey sat down at the typewriter, she found herself in a predicament.
03:29She realized that the book had no narrative or fiction whatsoever.
03:34Being a guidebook, she had no real backstory to fall back on,
03:38so she had to create the world and characters for men girls from scratch,
03:42drawing inspiration from her own high school experiences and those of her closest friends.
03:46The first draft of the script was called Homeschooled and was much cruder and more profane than what we saw on screen,
03:53but it was the first script that was circulated among directors and actors to get the project started.
04:00The script went to Mark Waters' people, who were fresh off the release of Freaky Friday,
04:05starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, which was also a movie set largely in high school.
04:10So Mark didn't want to have anything to do with teenagers for a while,
04:16but his agent insisted that he read the script, and for good reason.
04:21Waters said it was one of the best scripts he'd read in a long time, so he jumped on board.
04:28Paramount asked them for just one thing going forward.
04:30They had to tone down the script so that it wouldn't be rated R, but PG-13.
04:37Tina and Mark were fine with that.
04:39After all, it was going to be a movie aimed at a female audience between the ages of 12 and 25,
04:45and they had to be able to watch it,
04:46so they cut some of the jokes that might be more controversial.
04:53Some of the things they cut were Kevin's rap,
04:55which ended with a, you can eat the pee,
04:57and also a lot of the swear words that Regilina used in her dialogue.
05:00Or in this scene where Damien and,
05:02are taking KTI to the back of the school,
05:05and Damien is smoking a cigarette,
05:06and KY is telling him not to do that,
05:08and Damien is like,
05:09it keeps me thin.
05:13Obviously they couldn't have teenagers smoking in the movie.
05:16They had to go back and forth to the MPA,
05:19the Motion Picture Association,
05:21several times and they kept cutting more and more things from the script.
05:24Just when it seemed like everything was okay for minors to watch it with someone else,
05:30there was a particular line that the MPA wanted to remove from the film,
05:34otherwise it would still be rated R and here's the thing.
05:36They
05:50had to fight really hard to get the line about heavy discharge and the vagina to stay in the final film.
05:56Mark and Tina were simply shocked,
06:02because that same year Anchorman had been rated PG-13
06:05and there was an entire scene where Ron Burgundy literally had a heart on for the entire scene,
06:10and that was the joke.
06:11I mean,
06:15they were like,
06:16was a teenage girl talking about her anatomy really reason enough to rate it R?
06:24Tina Fey wrote a long letter in her own handwriting to the MPA,
06:28denouncing what seemed like pretty sexist discrimination
06:30and emphasizing that there was nothing blasphemous,
06:33profane,
06:34or explicitly sexual about girl talking about her body,
06:37unlike a guy getting a heart on in front of a woman in public.
06:41But anyway,
06:46now there was only the most important thing left,
06:48the casting.
06:51Mark Waters' first choice for the role of Katie was Lindsay Lohan.
06:57As we said,
06:58he had just worked with her in Freaky Friday
07:00and he knew that she had the range to play a subtle and complex KY.
07:05And apart from that,
07:07Lindsay had also received great critical acclaim for her performance.
07:11At such a young age,
07:12she was able to play two very different characters,
07:15a rebellious and aggressive teenager,
07:17and at the same time her mother,
07:18an older and mature woman,
07:20and be believable in both roles.
07:22In addition,
07:23she was at the peak of her Disney child career.
07:27Seeing that sweet girl turn into a bad girl
07:30was a very powerful idea about her character to exploit in the film.
07:40But when Lindsay and Lohan read the script,
07:43they didn't want to play Kai,
07:44they wanted to play Regina,
07:46which seemed like a much cooler role.
07:48That's when the head of Paramount herself came into the picture,
07:52Sherry Lansing,
07:52and she was clear with the director.
07:55The audience simply wouldn't accept Lindsay and Lohan as Regina.
08:00They wouldn't accept her being the villain from the start
08:03and insisted that it had to be Katie.
08:06Watts got together with Lindsay and tried again to convince her.
08:10He explained that Katie is the real heroine of the story.
08:13And it's true that she would start out as the good girl in the movie,
08:16but she would also have the opportunity to play the bad girl.
08:19And the interesting thing about that story
08:24is that Lohan finally accepted
08:25and interestingly Rachel McAdams,
08:27who was around 24 or 25 at the time,
08:30auditioned to play Katie,
08:32but she looked too old for the role,
08:33but she would be a perfect Regina.
08:39To Watts it made perfect sense
08:40that Regina would look a little bit older than Katie,
08:43in the sense that she is also a character
08:44who had grown up a little bit too quickly
08:46compared to the other characters
08:48with her characteristic mischievousness and swagger.
08:50So in the end they got the perfect combination.
08:59When we think of minors,
09:00the first things that come to mind
09:01are its hilarious gags.
09:11Its iconic phrases.
09:12All the memes it has given us.
09:18And, above all,
09:20the most epic scream in cinema.
09:21But beyond the gags,
09:37the film hides something much deeper.
09:40It has a script with something very authentic
09:42and timeless about how we deal with things
09:44during adolescence.
09:45The Bourne book itself is a precursor
09:48to cyberbullying that would explode
09:50years later on the internet.
09:54It's not just about fights between girls,
09:56but also about how social hierarchies
09:58are built that lead to violence,
10:00how we stop being ourselves
10:01in order to fit in
10:02and how we can all fall into these behaviors.
10:07Let's see how minors
10:08is actually a sharp social analysis
10:10with a lot of subtext
10:11and different characters
10:12who are much more complex
10:13and rich than they seem.
10:16On the one hand,
10:17it explores the formation of hierarchies
10:19and the way to climb said hierarchy.
10:22It's a theme that is repeatedly reinforced,
10:25both visually and in the dialogue,
10:27showing the school as an animal kingdom,
10:29where hierarchies also exist
10:31and only the strongest
10:31and most ruthless can be at the top.
10:33When Katie arrives at school,
10:42she has no power whatsoever.
10:44She's at the bottom of the food chain.
10:46No one respects her
10:47or accepts her in their group.
10:49She's completely lost
10:50in the modern world.
10:53But she and Damien point out
10:55that she has something
10:55that can help her gain some power
10:57within the school's social hierarchy.
11:03Looks and appearances are social currency
11:09and Regina George
11:10knows this all too well.
11:23Regina instantly identifies Katie
11:25as competition
11:26and pulls out the oldest trick
11:27in the book.
11:29Keep your friends close,
11:31but your enemies closer.
11:33And something that's intrinsically linked
11:35to appearance is self-esteem.
11:38Regina ridicules the people around her
11:40for their looks.
11:42She positions them as lesser people
11:43in order to stay at the top of the hierarchy.
11:48She is able to recognize a person
11:50who does not have chronic problems
11:52with low self-esteem,
11:53as is the case of Kai,
11:54who was raised outside the system
11:56and has not been exposed to high school,
11:58which is a ferocious machine
11:59for creating insecurities,
12:01and sees in her a potential queen bee
12:03who can replace her
12:04and, rightly so,
12:05as we will see later,
12:06when they incorporate her into their group,
12:08they list a series of super strict rules
12:10related to appearance and physique,
12:12from the clothes she must wear
12:13to what she can or cannot eat.
12:18The truth is,
12:19and every woman knows this,
12:21being beautiful,
12:22what is called truly beautiful
12:23or what people interpret as beautiful,
12:26requires a lot of time and effort.
12:27You have to have your clothes,
12:30your hair,
12:31your makeup and your body
12:32calculated down to the last detail.
12:35But that is the price
12:36for being at the top of the hierarchy,
12:38where the motto is that
12:39you are never enough.
12:40But this relationship
12:47between perfect appearance
12:48equals status and power
12:50does not just happen.
12:53Teenagers are ultimately children
12:55trying to be adults,
12:56and everything they do
12:57is an imitation of what they see
12:59in adult society.
12:59In this hierarchical world,
13:11there can only be
13:12one perfect appearance,
13:13and that appearance
13:14comes with several things.
13:17One is hyper-femininity,
13:19meaning you have to be perceived
13:20as what society understands
13:21as a perfect woman.
13:25Another is performative heterosexuality,
13:27meaning you have to portray
13:28a normative and ethereal
13:29sexuality to others,
13:31since it is the only one
13:32that is 100% socially accepted,
13:35and your own hyper-sexualization.
13:38In other words,
13:39you have to show yourself
13:40or give the illusion
13:41that you are sexually available
13:42to others in order to be desirable.
13:48And Regina also uses
13:49these same stereotypes
13:50as a weapon against other women,
13:52such as trying to discredit Janice
13:54by spreading rumors
13:55that she is a lesbian,
13:56trying to lower her
13:57in the social hierarchy,
13:58because in her logic,
14:00being a lesbian
14:00is something that directly
14:02attacks the perfect appearance
14:03that is so desirable.
14:05And also in her logic,
14:06anything that does not adhere
14:07to those stereotypes
14:08is inferior,
14:09worse,
14:10and deserving of humiliation.
14:11Another way to stay up
14:17in the hierarchy
14:17is by controlling information.
14:20After KY is told
14:21all the rules she must follow
14:23about her body,
14:24Gretchen asks about
14:25which boy she likes,
14:26who happens to be
14:27Regulina's ex.
14:30Knowing something about someone
14:31also gives you power
14:32over the other person,
14:34it gives you the ability
14:35to manipulate people
14:36by not revealing
14:36that secret
14:37or it can help you
14:38win someone's favor
14:39by revealing
14:39someone else's secret.
14:42This also includes rumors,
14:44something Regulina
14:45is very good at.
14:47She knows that rumors
14:48can have a dual function.
14:51One of them is to discredit
14:52other people through lies.
14:53And the other is to be able
15:09to create a legend
15:10around yourself
15:10that makes you seem
15:11almost like a fantastic being
15:13and above the rest
15:14of mortal humans.
15:14And it's curious
15:28because when Katie arrives
15:29in this new society
15:30she could be repelled
15:31by all these things,
15:33but what happens
15:33is that when she meets
15:34Regina she admires her.
15:37Although Janice describes
15:39her as an evil person,
15:40she smiles at what she hears.
15:42When she defends her
15:43from an annoying boy,
15:44she admires her poise
15:46and confidence.
15:47She is fascinated
15:48and captivated by her,
15:49but not only by her,
15:51but by what she has,
15:52which is her power.
15:54She herself wants
15:55to have that power,
15:56that security,
15:57to be at the top
15:58of the hierarchy,
15:59which is why she ends up
16:00becoming, in effect,
16:01the new Queen Bee.
16:04No one likes to feel
16:05outcast and like
16:06the bottom of society,
16:07invisible and despised.
16:11Katie stops being
16:12who she is
16:12because being who she is
16:13does not give her power,
16:14but adhering to all
16:15these social standards
16:16and strategies does.
16:20In this story,
16:21Katie is a strong person
16:22who believes she has
16:23found a way to survive
16:24in this jungle,
16:25but it is the wrong way
16:26and that is what
16:27makes her interesting.
16:29Another character
16:30that I also find
16:31very interesting
16:32is Janice.
16:33I think she is
16:34a very faithful portrayal
16:35of what a victim
16:36of narcissistic abuse
16:37looks like.
16:38We are told that
16:39Regina and Janice
16:40were best friends
16:40a long time ago,
16:42but Regina threw
16:42her out of her life.
16:44We can see through
16:45Karen, Gurchenshin
16:46and KY how Regina
16:47manages to become
16:48the center of attention
16:49in their lives
16:50through manipulation,
16:51coercion and disregard
16:52for their interests
16:53and personalities.
16:56This inevitably ends up
16:57in the life of the person
16:58who is close to Regina
16:59revolving around her.
17:11And then Regina,
17:13after forcibly becoming
17:14the center of their lives,
17:15has the nerve to say.
17:20Because I mean,
17:21who hasn't had
17:22a mega narcissistic friend
17:23who made your whole life
17:24revolve around her
17:25and no one else?
17:26Because otherwise
17:27she would get angry
17:28and even though years
17:29have passed
17:29since you broke up,
17:31you still compulsively
17:32stop it, right girls?
17:34My god.
17:39Janice embodies
17:40what we would also know
17:41today as hate watching,
17:42a topic widely explored,
17:44for example,
17:45by creators like
17:46Soyuna Pringata.
17:48The strange addiction
17:49we develop to knowing
17:50and seeing things
17:51about people
17:51we deeply hate,
17:53either to laugh
17:53at how despicable
17:54they are,
17:55or to reaffirm
17:55that we are right
17:56not to be like them,
17:57or to validate ourselves
17:58as victims
17:59in the eyes
17:59of said person.
18:02And that makes us
18:03feel better in some way,
18:05but it also poisons us.
18:08Mingers has survived
18:09the test of time
18:09because it talks
18:10about things
18:11that can be perfectly
18:11applied to today's
18:12cyber social life.
18:14As we have said,
18:16the burn book
18:16is a precursor
18:17to cyber bullying.
18:19Appearances
18:19and control of information
18:20are essential
18:21to being a relevant
18:22influencer
18:22on social networks.
18:23Body dysmorphia
18:26is the order
18:27of the day
18:27and it is spreading
18:28due to face-correcting
18:29filters and changing
18:30standards for the
18:31female body.
18:34And the rise
18:34of the narcissistic
18:35personality
18:36that moves
18:36like a fish
18:37in water
18:37within this sea
18:38of online violence
18:39and how this cycle
18:40repeats itself.
18:42Just as girls
18:43used to repeat
18:44what they saw
18:44on TV before,
18:46girls now repeat
18:46what they see
18:47on social media.
18:49And anyway,
18:49I would love
18:50to continue delving
18:51into all these topics,
18:52but I'm afraid
18:53that's where
18:53this video ends.
18:54The truth is that
18:55analyzing Regina George
18:56as a perfect villain
18:57wouldn't be a bad idea,
18:59honestly.
19:00One theory
19:00that I personally love
19:01is that Regina
19:02could be perfectly
19:03queer-coded.
19:05I mean,
19:05throughout the movie,
19:06falling in love
19:07is compared
19:07to being hit by a bus.
19:11And Regina
19:12gets hit by a bus.
19:14Or she also makes
19:14this comment
19:15about Janice
19:16mockingly.
19:20And curiously,
19:21the fight ends
19:22with her being
19:22filled with a crowd
19:23of girls
19:23who throw themselves
19:24at her.
19:25But hey,
19:26just as there are
19:26gay men
19:27who are absolutely
19:27homophobic,
19:28right?
19:29Because they don't
19:29acknowledge their sexuality.
19:31The same happens
19:32with girls,
19:32right?
19:33They may be lesbians
19:34but perform heterosexuality
19:36in an extreme way
19:37because they believe
19:38that's what's expected
19:39of them.
19:40I don't know,
19:41thinking thoughts,
19:42what do you think?
19:43As always,
19:44I'll read you
19:45in the comments box.
19:46Ciao!
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19:54Ciao!
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