Now, first off I wouldn’t be a proper pedant if I didn’t give my compliments to the small, quiet but gently persistent group of mathematicians online who grumble about the film’s script calling this problem an equation. 90 minutes of comedy japes involving a botched house party and someone not even going hereculminates in the Northshore Mathletes reaching the state final of a math Olympiad, with Cady in sudden death trying to find the limit of this function: In Mean Girls, this isn’t particularly difficult as mathematics is used as the metaphorical weather vane for Cady Heron’s descent-into and subsequent ascent-out-of superficiality.Ĭady, played by Lindsay Lohan, moves to the USA and upon entering high school is tempted by the popularity offered by hanging out with the eponymous Mean Girls. If, like me, you own multiple DVD copies because you keep one at your parents to have something to watch over Christmas, you’ll know that I’m writing this post today because on October 3 rd Aaron Samuels asked Cady what day it was, and today is the tenth October 3 rd since the movie’s release.Īlso if you’ve read this blog before, you’ll know we like to pick up on mathematics and science in pop culture. If you’ve seen the film once or twice, you may also be a little bemused. If you’ve never seen the film, you’ll be wondering why I’m writing about it today. Somehow, in the over-saturated high-school drama genre, Mean Girls made its mark. It rates just behind the 6-film behemoth that is the Star Wars franchise and well ahead of its rival Clueless. I’m not sure if this counts as a valid appraisal of a film’s popular impact, but a site-specific Google search of Buzzfeed alone turns up 7,890 results for posts about the 2004 teen rom-com. If this is compared to various other bits of pop culture, we can see that the 28 th highest box office film of 2004 has had a phenomenal cultural impact. Mean Girls is arguably the teen movie of my generation.
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