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Mean Girls and the Teen Comedy Genre

Image found on Amazon      I recently watched the film Mean Girls for the very first time. I know, I know, it's a classic and I should have seen it sooner. Trust me, I've been told that countless times. Having watched it though, it's caused me to think about the movement of mid 2000s comedy films and the teen comedy genre as a whole.       It seems to me that dedicated comedy films hit their peak around the 90s to mid 2000s and started becoming less and less popular after the Hangover franchise ended. It is between this period that the box office received a surplus of these films, often backed by big SNL names, that gave us a lot of classics of the genre. Probably my favorite films to come out of the 2000s comedy boom are Superbad and Walk Hard .      Mean Girls is one of the most iconic films to come out of this era. Endlessly quotable, I have basically been told to watch it by every person in my life. Having seen it, I think it is well...

Teaching Jake about the Camcorder, Jan 97'

  Thumbnail by Brian David Gilbert  So far, every post I have made on this blog has been about the forms of film found online on YouTube. I am happy to say that I'm not breaking that streak yet. Also, you should definitely watch this one before reading as I will be going into my theories on the film and summarizing the entirety of it.  Teaching Jake about the Camcorder, Jan 97'      Teaching Jake about the Camcorder, Jan 97' is a short film by Brian David Gilbert and Karen Han. They're a duo that have been making short form films and music on the internet for a long time within a ride range of genres. Generally, the pair focuses on comedy and some lifestyle type videos, but I think the standout piece from the duo is the aforementioned film posted on March 3rd, 2021.       The film is focused almost entirely on an old CRT TV playing a tape with the camera slowly zooming in on the screen until it's all that we can see. The tape itself is ...