Friday, September 22, 2006
GENRE•Marcos Siega’s Pretty Persuasion is a tough and cynical genre film with a twist, taking the female high-school satire farther and deeper than such predecessors as Heathers (which also came out of Sundance) and Mean Girls (a studio picture).
•“Although the film borrows some elements from the teen-comedy genre, it’s not a teen movie and I’m not even sure I feel comfortable calling it a comedy. But because the script read that way, when it finally came down to shooting the film, I was extremely careful to protect myself against all the obvious trappings of the Teen Movie genre “ Marcos Siega
•To the audience, it would appear that this film does contain the generic conventions of a teen movie as the main characters are teenagers and is set in a high school. Also it includes themes such as sex and drugs which are most likely to be related to teens
•Siega’s directing work has mainly been in television, including several episodes of cult fave “Veronica Mars,” which explains his ability to naturally portray the feelings and abilities of teenagers
Sherish at 11:18 AM