Tuesday, November 11, 2008

High school musical

High school musical is one of the most popular movies shows for kids right now. They both have feature length movie that are coming out or are already out for them. “High School Musical is a story about two high school juniors from rival cliques – Troy Bolton , captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella Montez a beautiful and shy transfer student who excels in math and science.together, they try out for the lead parts in their high school" musical and as a result, divide the school. Despite other students' attempts to thwart their dreams, Troy and Gabriella resist peer pressure and rivalry.” Are they good for kids to be watching? If you watch high school musical you notice that it focuses on Troy’s problems more than Gabriella’s. In the second movie is it about how troy is losing his friends and choosing a more wealthy life Gabrielle is their as his girlfriend and to support him. She really does not have her own story line troy has to try to decide where he want to go to college. His friends and family tell him to go to UCLA, and on of teachers gives him a scholarship to Julliard They story Gabriella is that she has a secret she is hiding from them which is she got into Stamford early. But that plot gets resolved halfway through the movie while troy does decide where to go to the end. So I think high school musical focus more on troy rather then Gabriella

1 comment:

Jacquelyn said...

I would agree with you. Although i have never seen a full movie of these, i believe that they should focus equally on the characters. However from a marketing point of view, young girls are more likely to watch a movie if there is a cute boy and a sweet girl who are in a good relationship. I guess we can never truly get away from stereotypes in any type of TV.