The Bling Ring is a teen movie based on a real life situations where a group of young teenagers robbed celebrities houses. What makes this movie different to typical teen movies is that rather than having people being bitchy towards each other, they team up and target celeb houses.
There are multiple conventions that tie together that that makes this film a teen movie. Some of these are;
- Themes - crime, drugs, alcohol, fashion, peer pressure, partying, relationships/friendships and greed/money
- Music - urban hip hop, dance and trance
- Settings/location - high school, celeb houses, parent's houses, clubs
- characters - stereotypical teenagers, authorities ruining the teenagers fun and parent's who are portrayed as stupid as well as lenient.
- costume - flashy designer clothes and jewellery
This specific teen movie stereotypes teenagers as greedy, selfish and shallow. This is because towards the end when they get caught, one of the girls lied and said she wasn't involved in the robbery to the police. This proves that she's selfish because everyone else owned up except her.
It also shows that teenagers are quite naive. When they robbed the first house, they didn't get caught so they got carried away until eventually they did get caught by the police.
In the 'clique' of the movie, there seems to be a lot of peer pressure. Throughout the times that they were robbing houses, there was one boy who kept on getting paranoid and was telling the girls to leave quickly. Instead of listening to his instincts, he listened to the girls who told him to stay and didn't leave until the girls wanted to.
The clique also portray teenagers as party animals and alcohol/drug addicts. In the movie, there were multiple scenes of the group taking cocaine and continuously drinking at clubs and parties. A lot of teenagers can relate to this sort of lifestyle. We hardly see them at home and when we do, they don't seem to happy or they are getting ready to go out.
It also shows that teenagers are quite naive. When they robbed the first house, they didn't get caught so they got carried away until eventually they did get caught by the police.
In the 'clique' of the movie, there seems to be a lot of peer pressure. Throughout the times that they were robbing houses, there was one boy who kept on getting paranoid and was telling the girls to leave quickly. Instead of listening to his instincts, he listened to the girls who told him to stay and didn't leave until the girls wanted to.
The clique also portray teenagers as party animals and alcohol/drug addicts. In the movie, there were multiple scenes of the group taking cocaine and continuously drinking at clubs and parties. A lot of teenagers can relate to this sort of lifestyle. We hardly see them at home and when we do, they don't seem to happy or they are getting ready to go out.
Teenagers can also relate to this movie in terms of how they contact each other. Facebook, apart from mobile phones, was a main source of contact for the clique and many people can relate as teenagers spend most of their time online talking to their friends.
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