Mean Girls, A Total Analysis | Total Take

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  • @thetake
    @thetake  Рік тому +14

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  • @87alsjth
    @87alsjth Рік тому +631

    Nice that you’re uploading this particular analysis on this national holiday. October 3rd is so fetch!

    • @PokhrajRoy.
      @PokhrajRoy. Рік тому +58

      “Stop trying to make ‘fetch’ happen. It’s not going to happen.”

    • @Kick0a0cat
      @Kick0a0cat Рік тому +36

      Fun fact: it's actually a national holiday in Germany. The day of German unity😅

    • @thetake
      @thetake  Рік тому +29

      Still trying to make fetch happen nearly 2 decades later? 🤔😆

  • @josefk7437
    @josefk7437 Рік тому +143

    The relationship between girls and math deserves more analysis in this movie. Cady was a math prodigy but she hid that to negotiate a better position in Girl World. It was admirable how well Aaron Samuels took it when Cady told him he is bad at math. That made me think Aaron already knew how bad he was at math and he knew immediately what was going on when Cady pretended to need his help. Even if Aaron did not know Cady was a prodigy, he knew she did not really need his help and he knew Cady had some other agenda.

    • @Sky20007
      @Sky20007 10 місяців тому +8

      Ohh that’s a cool theory but I don’t know I feel like Aron is way too stupid to think about that 😭but that’s just me

    • @Sky20007
      @Sky20007 10 місяців тому +2

      ‘Aaron’

    • @maschinka_
      @maschinka_ 8 місяців тому +4

      I have always just assumed that he knew, like, that is the only version that even crossed my mind lol

  • @rebecafonseca4276
    @rebecafonseca4276 Рік тому +230

    When Aaron compliments Regina on her face smelling good because of the product Cady handed to her, she looks at Cady with such gratitude and complicity, and it gives us just a glimpse of what a true friendsip between them would be like, (I dont know if it was just an editing accident or if I just a misunderstood the Rachel Mcaddams look, or if it was really supposed to be this way) but is so nice to just imagine them being real friends and supportive of one another, they clearly have way more in common than Cady have with Janice, it's very sad actually, girls friendships are so colorful, deep and energetic, for me the most beautiful friendship I've ever seen in a movie is the one between Cher and Dione I love those girls :(

    • @kiranjitKaur61
      @kiranjitKaur61 9 місяців тому +1

      No. Female friendship is not particularly exciting whatsoever. Rather. My friendships as a Female art with Men. *

    • @rebecafonseca4276
      @rebecafonseca4276 9 місяців тому +6

      @@kiranjitKaur61 I don't think a man can understand a woman truly, friendships with girls who are really honest and not jealous are another level, woman are really empathetic, man could never, in my opinion. But, of course, its great to have friends, masculine or feminine

    • @ATRaine
      @ATRaine 8 місяців тому +1

      ​​@@rebecafonseca4276 in my experience, the men who can legitimately befriend women are the ones who grew up with sisters, especially if they're relatively close in age.

  • @hippolyte90
    @hippolyte90 Рік тому +119

    I've heard alot of complaints over the years about the school bus and Regina being hit by it as a jumping the shark-moment. But I think it isn't out of place. The school bus represents the real world and if you don't watch out, if you think you're untouchable or that the world revolves around you, then sooner or later you'll not pay attention and you'll be run over.

    • @iprobablyforgotsomething
      @iprobablyforgotsomething Рік тому +27

      Huh. Never thought of it like that. You've made that plot element far more palatable for me, thanks.

    • @thetake
      @thetake  Рік тому +29

      Great take!

    • @saucygyal6480
      @saucygyal6480 7 місяців тому +4

      She needed to be humbled anyway lol her toxic ssa bee walking around all high & mighty for too long. Oh well

  • @trinaq
    @trinaq Рік тому +115

    Happy October 3rd, what a Grool Analysis! This movie is almost two decades old, yet it still stands up as a classic 2000's teen movie. I hope that they eventually make a PROPER sequel, with all of the Plastics as parents to their own teenagers.

  • @nellivilhelmiina
    @nellivilhelmiina Рік тому +28

    I love older movies like this, cause i find it so distracting when in whatever series or movie nowdays people are constantly on social media and on their phones. That’s too realistic. While watching films, I wanna escape from the reality of everyone’s hand being attached to a mobile device. 😆

  • @bryansilva6090
    @bryansilva6090 Рік тому +36

    This will probably be the only Patreon that I ever sign up for, well worth it ❤

    • @thetake
      @thetake  Рік тому +3

      Can't wait to see you there!

  • @TheBaltimoreMovieTrailerPark
    @TheBaltimoreMovieTrailerPark Рік тому +48

    While I don’t have the necessary funds to give for a Patreon, I’ll still be supporting the channel in my own way! Y’all are awesome, keep up the good work and Happy October 3rd!

    • @thetake
      @thetake  Рік тому +13

      That is so fetch! We appreciate you :)

  • @prettycarii
    @prettycarii Рік тому +33

    happy mean girls day

  • @thegirlabides6851
    @thegirlabides6851 Рік тому +69

    What a relief to see Debra and Susannah again, I genuinely thought they must've sold the channel.

    • @thetake
      @thetake  Рік тому +16

      Hi there! We're still here 🤗

  • @teesh871
    @teesh871 Рік тому +27

    Just as a side note-Lindsay lohan doesn't look like me but we do have a very similar colouring. I learned early to NEVER wear pastel colours. Especially pastel pink. It doeant work because it clashes washes you out. When she Is more plastic she wears colours that are not suited to her. If she is feeling more powerful or more herself she is wearing red. You can see the influence through clothing that solidify her position but also don't 'fit'. She also has influences from all of the girls because she isn't listening to her own instinct of how she should dress that is her own style. From what I understand that was an intentional choice

    • @MsSarcasticSmirk
      @MsSarcasticSmirk Рік тому +5

      Nice catch! I can't unsee it now 😮

    • @teesh871
      @teesh871 Рік тому +7

      @MsSarcasticSmirk thankyou :) but I don't think this was me I think I saw it on a modern gurlz analysis and forgot I never wear pastel colours.

    • @iprobablyforgotsomething
      @iprobablyforgotsomething Рік тому +7

      What happens frequently is people wear colours in shades ill-suited to them. If you are in America and have "cool" undertones (meaning, according to many including our local makeup brands makers: caucasian aka white with pink undertones), you don't wear the same shades as those people with warm over and/or undertones. Same colours but in different shades. It's generally called the Colour Season theory.
      .
      Olive toned people like myself (euphemistically called 'golden' but aka = yellow'y overtones but cool undertones, with both blue and greenish veins visible as opposed to only one or the other) appear to be a warm 'colour season' due to our overtones but look awful in, say, warm-toned tomato-red. Since we have cool undertones, we look much better in the cool-toned shade of red, called alternately cherry-red, blue-red and/or true red.
      .
      Fyi, despite misinformation, finding your season actually has less to do with your shade of hair or eyes individually so much as your overall skin and hair palette altogether. Do you have warm vs cool vs both over/undertones in skin? Warm -- meaning lots of orange-red based pigmentation -- toned hair or cool or ashy shades (ex. butter-yellow blonde, auburn-brown or coppery orange-red hair vs blue-toned black, espresso brown or ash blonde)?
      .
      If you're having trouble identifying your season (usually because the original theory-based websites often forget that not eveyone is purely pink-toned white or brown-people-so-must-be-warm) try looking up guidelines from other countries, or by bloggers that specifically speak to mixed ethnicities.
      .
      They tend to be aware of things like that 'Asian' people, for example, can come in more than one shade of skin, and not all of them are warm overtone + warm undertone just because they aren't, say, the colour of European or Japanese 'white' looking people. Or that yes, black people and other poc's also have warm and cool over/undertones (ebony black vs warm brown-black skin somehow get missed and dismissed as "black people can all wear anything" as if we're talking about how basic matte black pants can be worn with any colour of shirt; it's true for the pants, but not for the people).
      .
      Thanks for attending my webinar, and enjoy your internet rabbithole reasearch! Also, sorry about that.

    • @ATRaine
      @ATRaine 8 місяців тому

      ​@@iprobablyforgotsomething I just became a fan😎

  • @alim.9801
    @alim.9801 Рік тому +17

    Hmm Total Take is a new category i think!! I hope they keep doing things like this and leaning more into film analysis like they used to and not the pop culture/royal stuff they've been doing. This is much better!!

  • @shyandsweetbunny
    @shyandsweetbunny Рік тому +6

    in the first scene cady is almost hit by a bus. cady is very good at math. "i didn't mean for that to happen. regina, please. regina stop. 🛑" x marks the spot.

  • @sar182
    @sar182 Рік тому +15

    Love this content, cant wait for more of this! ❤

    • @thetake
      @thetake  Рік тому +2

      And we can't wait to share it!

  • @amyadams9970
    @amyadams9970 Рік тому +9

    It always surprises me that Tina Fey created this movie

  • @LeahJames616
    @LeahJames616 Рік тому +10

    The timing of this video is crazy I literally rewatched this on UA-cam just last night

  • @honkaistarrailmezaddy
    @honkaistarrailmezaddy Рік тому +17

    My analysis: This is one of the greatest movies of all time up there with Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption

  • @SimsyHazel
    @SimsyHazel Рік тому +8

    I just finished watching mean girls on tick tok and now I get a video from the Take? Can life get any better?

  • @bectionaryadams8046
    @bectionaryadams8046 Рік тому +4

    Oh wow! Just realised I've been waiting for this without even knowing it! Thanks for delivering!❤❤

  • @KittySnicker
    @KittySnicker Рік тому +15

    I still wonder why Regina was so angry

    • @iprobablyforgotsomething
      @iprobablyforgotsomething Рік тому +16

      The way I figure it, the movie hints that her father is weak-willed and finacially present but emotionally absentee (and perhaps also physically, if he's at work all the time to avoid his family).
      .
      Whereas her appearance-obsessed mother is overly-involved -- or tries to be -- in her kids' lives (but makes her desperately clingy involvement about herself and her emotional needs rather than any genuine interest in her girls) who doesn't enforce rules out of a desire to be their 'friend' rather their parent. Because parents are uncool and old but not her, she's young and hip (right? ...right??!)!
      .
      Regina is a spoiled, overindulged tyrant that forced her parents to give her the master bedroom. But also a girl who deep down knows she can't rely on them in any real way for support or guidance or even basic understanding since they don't really even know her as a person (because ofc she'd never trust to confide in them).
      .
      So her worst traits are never reigned in by her parents, who basically might as well not even be there, and she then carries over her dictatorship lifestyle into her school life. Where she has devoted lackies, a (temporarily) naive bf safely under thumb, and fearing-adoring outsider fans but no (longer any, if ever had) real friends that she truly respects and/or trusts.
      .
      She's actually very emotionally isolated. So she gets her b*tch on full throttle 24/7 because by then, why the bleep not?

    • @mhawang8204
      @mhawang8204 Рік тому +10

      she was on top of the social hierarchy but it’s exhausting to stay up there. Karen and Gretchen weren’t really her friends; the members of the plastics were screened to keep her the queen bee. She seemed to like the other guy but got Aaron back just to mess with Cady. Everything she did was not what she truly wants. She was just very good at playing the game. I imagine living that life kept her very unhappy.
      Assuming post-bus accident Regina is a more genuine Regina - wearing jeans, a pony tail and playing lacrosse make her calmer. This huge difference speaks to the facade she put up for the majority of the movie.
      Basically, she was angry because she was putting in all the effort to be what a top hottie girl was SUPPOSED TO BE, at the expense of her own happiness.

    • @KittySnicker
      @KittySnicker Рік тому +3

      @@iprobablyforgotsomething Good point!

    • @KittySnicker
      @KittySnicker Рік тому +3

      @@mhawang8204 Good point!

  • @Echo-mg5em
    @Echo-mg5em Рік тому +8

    I appreciate that you have heard the viewers and are taking their feedback into consideration: this video recalls classic The Take content, and it is what brought a lot of people to the channel in the first place.
    That said, it does raise some questions about how you are approaching accessibility moving forward. People have not enjoyed the more TMZ/gossip stuff and requested more film content; now you say that you will be putting the asked-for content behind a paywall. What will be your main channel content moving forward?
    It’s your channel, you can do what you want with it. But this video ends with a message about breaking boundaries; given your personal focus on equity, what you are describing is just going to be another barrier.

    • @iprobablyforgotsomething
      @iprobablyforgotsomething Рік тому +2

      Seconding this. ^ I so appreciate that you (The Take) want to deep dive into topics, because I personally love media analysis and more meaningful conversations and/or commentaries in general.
      .
      But while I'd love to be able to offer some disposable income in support of this channel, tbh I'm in circumstances where I can't even guarantee I can make the payment on my phone (which doubles as my internet and social-emotional lifeline to friends & family, and thus a high priority bill to pay for me) each month.
      .
      So to learn that the looked forward to-content won't merely only be delayed (even greatly so) for people unable to support the Patreon, but presumably forever unavailable to them, period full stop, really sucks. : /

    • @thetake
      @thetake  Рік тому +3

      We are listening, and this is the type of content we love to make! You can definitely expect more deep, rich film and tv analysis on the main channel, too. But when we do make those videos here, UA-cam’s algorithm doesn’t always favor them or show them to as many people. That’s why we want to open up this new avenue to directly share the videos we’re most passionate about with our audience and give people a chance to support us and participate in that selection process. Don’t worry, if you can’t support us there we still appreciate your support here, and we’ll continue to make great videos for the channel, too!

  • @H.so.
    @H.so. Рік тому +7

    “It’s October 3rd”

  • @emily-crawford-soprano9181
    @emily-crawford-soprano9181 Рік тому +11

    Happy mean girls day! I will sheepishly eat my lunch in the bathroom to celebrate. 😂

  • @shyandsweetbunny
    @shyandsweetbunny Рік тому +2

    in the first scene cady is almost hit by a bus. cady is very good at math. "Regina I didn't mean to... Regina, stop." x marks the spot.

  • @PokhrajRoy.
    @PokhrajRoy. Рік тому +4

    This was such a lovely analysis 👏🏽

    • @thetake
      @thetake  Рік тому +3

      Thanks for being an awesome fan!

    • @PokhrajRoy.
      @PokhrajRoy. Рік тому +1

      @@thetake Omg thank YOU!

  • @chickrepelant
    @chickrepelant Рік тому +11

    this was wonderful!
    it takes the late 90s movie look, and gives it some substance, not just dck n frt jokes

  • @TheFairyGoblin
    @TheFairyGoblin Рік тому +7

    Happy mean girls day!!

  • @ІринаЛевченко-з5б

    Happy October 3rd. That’s so fetch!

  • @equusquaggaquagga536
    @equusquaggaquagga536 Рік тому +5

    Cady is the Michael Corleone of teen films
    She convinced majority of viewers that she was corrupted but in truth she's always been a mean old bastard

    • @Sky20007
      @Sky20007 10 місяців тому

      Not really if she’s a evil person then Regina is basically satan himself

  • @russyp
    @russyp Рік тому +3

    Video starts at 2:16

  • @VidWatcher01
    @VidWatcher01 Рік тому +3

    The part that always bugged me was the "Unfriendly Black Hotties". It was sad because I wasn't unfriendly in the least. I was & still a people person & that got a number (not all) of the black student giving me the side eye.

    • @gudduentertains
      @gudduentertains 9 місяців тому +1

      That's so FETCH ❤

    • @kiranjitKaur61
      @kiranjitKaur61 9 місяців тому

      An unfriendly black hottie wouldst be rather interesting indeed.

  • @Axi.444
    @Axi.444 Рік тому +6

    Can you please make a video on what make regina George iconic and admirable even though sge is just a movie character ❤

    • @pikachick222
      @pikachick222 Рік тому +1

      Uhh I think they already did that 😂

  • @Cut_tape-x9j
    @Cut_tape-x9j Рік тому +1

    🎶Halcyon And On And On🎶

  • @nix2747
    @nix2747 Рік тому +5

    Happy Mean Girl's Day!

    • @Sky20007
      @Sky20007 10 місяців тому

      I know I am late but same to you and happy mean girls day everyone else!

    • @kiranjitKaur61
      @kiranjitKaur61 9 місяців тому

      I do rather love being a Mean Girl !*

  • @IONov990
    @IONov990 Рік тому +5

    Does anyone think Mean Girls' Plastics resembles the TV show Daria's Fashion Club?

  • @bartmann81
    @bartmann81 Рік тому +1

    Wow! Was that a shot from CLÉO DE 5 A 7? Is the channel actually acknowleging the existense old black-and-white foreign films? That's a huge step forward!

    • @thetake
      @thetake  Рік тому

      We can't wait to cover some French New Wave cinema on Patreon!

  • @karlaalcantar5797
    @karlaalcantar5797 Рік тому

    This movie is a jewel

  • @lygophilia4127
    @lygophilia4127 Рік тому +3

    Is there a 2010s equivalent to 80s/90s/00s Heathers, Jawbreaker, and Mean Girls?

  • @LovedayJourno
    @LovedayJourno Рік тому +3

    Not a criticism but a concern, I hope you’re feeling okay Susannah, a little worried about your voice.

  • @daliamartinez8967
    @daliamartinez8967 Рік тому +6

    Lindsay Lohan is just so good. I want her to have a proper comeback!

    • @kiranjitKaur61
      @kiranjitKaur61 9 місяців тому

      No. Lindsey lohan is an awful radical rather.

  • @palomasaudios2676
    @palomasaudios2676 Рік тому +8

    for the total take...i was thinking if you can try out series such as mr. robot, taxi driver (korean series), girl from nowhere etc.

  • @marikkelaszlo3355
    @marikkelaszlo3355 Рік тому

    Happy October 3rd!!!

  • @natarose
    @natarose Рік тому +2

    please please please do warm bodies!!! it has so much symbolism !!!

  • @Kirsten_is_cursed10
    @Kirsten_is_cursed10 Рік тому +4

    Can someone tell me what day it is? 👩🏻‍🦰

    • @alim.9801
      @alim.9801 Рік тому +1

      It's October 3rd 😏

  • @naziamunir4220
    @naziamunir4220 Рік тому +4

    I was thinking about mean girl literary a couple days ago😂😂

  • @seebothways9630
    @seebothways9630 Рік тому +2

    What's point of a game if everyone wins what's points of racing

  • @natarose
    @natarose Рік тому

    warm bodies is like a zombie romeo and juliet

  • @samfilmkid
    @samfilmkid Рік тому +6

    You’re doing a full analysis of a movie? You mean like you used to do all the time?

    • @vintageincolor
      @vintageincolor Рік тому

      😂😂😂

    • @vintageincolor
      @vintageincolor Рік тому

      Glad I wasn’t trippin cuz I was like this is exactly the same type of content they literally always post???

  • @swooningtree
    @swooningtree Рік тому +4

    Has the Total Take for Melancholia been made yet because that's tempting me

  • @sweetbean2009
    @sweetbean2009 Рік тому +1

    Thinking of "total take" you'd expect them to be at least 30 mins worth of content. Is this video specifically just a condensed version? Or all all of the, less than 20 minutes?

  • @dafnifez
    @dafnifez Рік тому +5

    I agree with most of this analysis but I don't think that any analysis of Mean Girls would be complete or "total" without pointing out its relatively transparent racism and classism. I mean, for instance, the whole image of "Africa" that is presented in the movie is overly simplistic, inaccurate and stereotypical. It derives from, and feeds into, the "Africa is a jungle" and "Africans are primitive" stereotypes that are so rife among Euro-American White people. In addition, the casting of the movie is embarrassingly White, and the high school experiences and challenges depicted in it are in no way inclusive of the experiences of non-White teenagers in American high schools. This depiction is also classist in that it includes only the experiences of wealthy and, at best, middle class high schoolers.
    I hope that your future takes on this classic take these issues into consideration. Nevertheless, thank you for this thoughtful analysis of the film; I certainly learned a few things from it.

    • @kiranjitKaur61
      @kiranjitKaur61 9 місяців тому

      I do not mind the racial elements. Whatsoever. Rather. A Hollywood Film is allowed unto be that way and is often interesting for it.

    • @kiranjitKaur61
      @kiranjitKaur61 9 місяців тому

      The Parents being zoologists doth make sense of the manner within which Africa is depicted within the Film and given the homeschooling element additionally. Rather.

  • @seebothways9630
    @seebothways9630 Рік тому +4

    Seems like the Barbies would relate to the Speech Before thr Ken's tiok over

  • @tabathastaples7884
    @tabathastaples7884 Рік тому

    Shepherd's Chapel Network !!!!!!! Do you know where America is mentioned in the Bible ???????

  • @seebothways9630
    @seebothways9630 Рік тому

    Thise shirts sometimes look more purple

  • @sgrhwl2706
    @sgrhwl2706 Рік тому

    All the time he is boasting he could make 10 Munna Bhai or 3 Idiots. The fact is both are populist movies, dialogues were dumb down, spoon fed Audiences today may discard such movies because they r not into pravachan. 12th pass is based on true story, may be that's why r connecting.

  • @kiranjitKaur61
    @kiranjitKaur61 9 місяців тому

    Hmmm.

  • @seebothways9630
    @seebothways9630 Рік тому

    Does accountability really make you happy

  • @beckylineham1484
    @beckylineham1484 Рік тому +1

    First comment!

  • @rdkap42
    @rdkap42 Рік тому +1

    Come over to Nebula!!

  • @themanagement69
    @themanagement69 Рік тому +2

    First

  • @seebothways9630
    @seebothways9630 Рік тому

    Name 1 feminist movie that taught accountability to women and girlsbad mom's Barbie

  • @quietstorm7684
    @quietstorm7684 Рік тому

    🩷

  • @fortune_roses
    @fortune_roses Рік тому +2

    It's interesting to see how all the actresses turned out... main character ended up the worst :/ which is sad

    • @witchplease9695
      @witchplease9695 Рік тому +10

      The only one that had issues was Lindsey, and that’s more due to her being exploited by the industry

    • @alim.9801
      @alim.9801 Рік тому +5

      ​@@witchplease9695 fr, child stars have been failed by the industry and their support systems time and time again. I really hope it's gotten better but I guess only time will tell

    • @Ryanmichaelmac
      @Ryanmichaelmac Рік тому +2

      She just had a baby and is married I read online and saw pics of her this year and looks so at peace with herself and healthy. She was probably dealing with trauma from her parents, hollywood, fame, drugs etc.

    • @kiranjitKaur61
      @kiranjitKaur61 9 місяців тому

      That lindsey is an awful radical rather. I am not sad about it. I simply do not care for that lindsey. *

  • @kerrajohnson3203
    @kerrajohnson3203 Рік тому

    I would complain about your lack of analysis on black teen girl movies but we don't have any.

  • @melissamoonchild9216
    @melissamoonchild9216 Рік тому

    analyzable?..

  • @kunamosity
    @kunamosity Рік тому

    0.44min Anyone also thinks she sounds like Anya Taylor-Joy?😊

  • @MarkLaw13
    @MarkLaw13 Рік тому +2

    Girl, what happened to your voice? This feminism thing got you lot all gassed up.
    Nah, take a spoon full of honey, sugar in water

  • @slystone4892
    @slystone4892 Рік тому +2

    A fucking masterpiece I love that movie.

  • @missyface5
    @missyface5 Рік тому +1

    I love you ladies and I'll totally pay for your content when I hit it big, but I hope you'll still do the free videos too 🩷

    • @thetake
      @thetake  Рік тому +1

      We'll still be here, don't worry!

  • @mariaskabardonis8353
    @mariaskabardonis8353 Рік тому

    Happy mean girls day