During the course of the week you watched "Can't Buy Me Love". You were to complete a character analysis and identify specific sociological themes that were addressed in the movie. For your blog, I would like you to select two characters (please, not everyone do Ronald and Cindy) and identify a sociological theme (1 for 1 character, 1 for another) that was evident with your character during the course of the movie.
Please provide the definition of the theme, a scene (or scenes) where this theme is shown, and how that character fits into that theme. Each analysis is to be between 4-6 sentences in length, proper spelling/grammar and in paragraph format.
Upon completion of the blog, please turn in your character analysis paper for credit. Failure to comply will result in loss of points. Blog possible points: 20 points (10+10); movie worksheet 10 points.
Blog is to be posted by 8am Monday, November 25th.
During the movie "Can't Buy Me Love" there was characters Kenneth and Rickey, have very distinct sociological themes. Kenneth fits the theme of an out-group through the course of the movie. An out-group is a group from which we are disconnected. He fits into this theme because he is known as a geek and nobody wants to be a geek they want to be popular, and look at geeks as the outcast people. There are many scenes in the movie that Kenneth shows that he is part of an out-group. One particular scene is when at the end of the movie he is sitting at the popular kids lunch table and is helping out a girl and then Quint and Big John are approaching their popular table saying and wondering why there is a geek sitting at their table. So people categorizing him as a geek shows that he fits the sociological theme of an out-group.
ReplyDeleteRickey on the other hand fits the sociological theme as an in-group. An in-group is a group to which we feel an affinity or closeness. This theme is suitable for him because he is categorized as a popular kid in the school. One specific scene in the movie where he shows that he is part of an in-group is when Ronald and Cindy first sit down at the lunch table and Rickey comes to them asking if they are in the wrong section, losers are to the left; and previously he kicked a younger kid out of his spot. Him telling Ronald that he was sitting at the wrong table shows that Rickey thinks that he is popular, and a part of the in-group. The in-groups and out-groups sociological themes were very distinct throughout the movie.
During the movie, "Can't Buy Me Love," there were many sociological themes that were shown by different characters and their actions. Patty demonstrated the idea of assimilation in a specific scene in the movie and also throughout the course of the movie. Assimilation is the act of adopting new ideas and absorbing them as your own to resemble others' customs. At the dance when Ronnie starts dancing with his strange moves, Patty is the first person to try and adopt his new way of dancing and make the moves her own. She does this because Ronnie is considered a 'cool guy' and she wants to be cool like him and therefore is embracing the act of assimilation.
ReplyDeleteAnother sociological theme that's evident in the movie is that of out-group bias which is shown in multiple scenes throughout the movie by Ronnie. Out-group bias is when members of the out-group think highly of the in-group if they think they have a chance of joining them or they'll think down on the in-group if they feel they'll never be able to join. Ronnie watches the in-group a lot, especially Cindy and her friends while he mowed her lawn in the beginning and sat on his bike and watched their cheerleading practice. Also, he makes multiple comments to his best friend about how great it'd be to be popular and part of the in-group because they always seem to have so much fun. Overall, Ronnie constantly thinks of the in-group so highly that he puts them on this grand pedestal in which he himself hopes to join them, therefore forming a positive out-group bias towards the in-group.
During the movie “Can’t Buy Me Love,” there are many sociological themes present. One specific theme that is present is that each character occupies a certain status throughout the movie. Status is the social, professional, or other standing of someone or something. For example, Bobby is still considered one of the cool kids even though he is no longer in high school. He is now a college football player which boosts his social status to make him more popular. He is still keeping his cool-kid status once he leaves for college by still dating Cindy Mancini. He does it just for the status because when he is on TV he doesn’t even mention Cindy which shows that his status is what is truly important to him.
ReplyDeleteAn example of Economic Inequality throughout the movie is that of Ronnie mowing lawns to make money while Cindy is already rich and has all she wants. Ronnie is considered a nerd because he saves up his money all summer from mowing lawns just to buy a new telescope. Cindy on the other hand has the finer things in life without working and pays no attention to Ronnie because he mows lawns for a living. This shows that in order to be cool and popular it is also important to have money. Ronnie believes that having the money to buy the love of Cindy Mancini will make him popular with the other kids.
In the movie "Can't Buy Me Love," there were many sociological themes shown. Kenneth Wurman demonstrated the idea of out-group bias multiple times throughout the movie. Out- group bias is when you feel disconnected/ not a part of the "cool group'". This was shown in the scene when Kenneth was trying to make plans with Ronald but Ronald was always to busy for him and didn't really want to hang out with him either since he had "cooler" people he had the chance to be. Ronald thought he could be doing what he believed was better things with his time instead of hanging out with Kenneth. Kenneth constantly felt not included with Ronald's new life style which showed out-group bias.
ReplyDeleteAnother sociological theme evident throughout the movie is in-group bias. In-group bias is when people feel superior to others. Quint demonstrated in-group bias constantly in the movie. Quint always made sure everyone knew where they stood in school weather they were apart of the loser group or popular group. When Kenneth was sitting at the cool kids table and helping Patty with her homework, Quint was the first and only one to make a huge deal about it. Quint believed that Kenneth was below them and didn't deserve to sit at the same table as them, which portrayed in-group bias believing he was superior to other students.
Throughout the course of the movie"Can't Buy Me Love" there are many characters that identify sociological themes. One of those characters is Ronald. He started out being a nerd and through the process of assimilation he changed into a completely different person. He did those so he could fit in and be accepted by those who were also in the popular group. One scene that shows that he assimilated was when Ronald and the football players vandalized Kenneth's house. Ronald would have never done that if he wasn't trying to fit in and get the others to like him. He also changed the way he dressed and styled his hair based on what Cindy told him to do. He assimilated to the styles of the in-group so he could be part of them.
ReplyDeleteKenneth on the other hand demonstrated the out-goup. everyone considered him a nerd so he wasn't well liked amongst the people of the in-group. You can see his position in the out-group in one of the scenes towards the end of the movie. Kenneth was trying to help Fran with Patty with her homework when the jocks came over and told him he was on the wrong side of the cafeteria. They told him that losers were to sit over on the other side and if he didn't move they were going to make him move. This showed how he didn't fit in to the "popular" group.
In the movie "Can't Buy Me Love" there are many different sociological themes. Cindy Mancini is one of the main characters in the movie. She is the head cheerleader which makes her popular and also considered a "rich" girl. An in-group is a group to which we feel an affinity or closeness. An example of this would be when its lunchtime. Every clique has a separate place to eat. All of the jocks and cheerleaders, known as popular kids, sit together. When someone else comes in their area it has to turn into something more. Since Cindy sits with the popular crowd she would be in the in-group.
ReplyDeleteRonald is a nerd who works hard for what he has. He has an interest in astronomy. Through Ronnie, he shows a sociological theme of social structure. Social structures are pattern of relationships that endure from one generation to the next. An example when Ronald goes to the dance. Ronald starts a new dance move and everyone starts to do it afterwards. I would consider this social structure because he was made popular. If he wasn't popular everyone wouldn't have followed him and would have considered him as weird.
In the movie "Can't Buy Me Love" there are many different sociological themes. Cindy Mancini is one of the main characters in the movie. She is the head cheerleader which makes her popular and also considered a "rich" girl. An in-group is a group to which we feel an affinity or closeness. An example of this would be when its lunchtime. Every clique has a separate place to eat. All of the jocks and cheerleaders, known as popular kids, sit together. When someone else comes in their area it has to turn into something more. Since Cindy sits with the popular crowd she would be in the in-group.
ReplyDeleteRonald is a nerd who works hard for what he has. He has an interest in astronomy. Through Ronnie, he shows a sociological theme of social structure. Social structures are pattern of relationships that endure from one generation to the next. An example when Ronald goes to the dance. Ronald starts a new dance move and everyone starts to do it afterwards. I would consider this social structure because he was made popular. If he wasn't popular everyone wouldn't have followed him and would have considered him as weird.
As I watched the movie, "Can't Buy Me Love," I found several sociological themes that the characters from the movie presented. Bobby showed the sociological theme, status, throughout the movie. Status is the position that you occupy within the social structure, which is often closely linked to social class. Bobby is a freshman in college who is a football star, and everyone in high school looks up to him and believes that he is the “coolest person”. He dates Cindy who is the popular cheerleader and everyone thinks she’s pretty so he dates her to still be considered the cool kid. During the movie someone tells him that Cindy has been hanging out with Ronnie and he makes a big deal and breaks up with her which helps his status because everyone gives him attention which is all he wants.
ReplyDeleteAnother character that shows a sociological theme is Kenneth Wurman, he shows the out-group theme throughout the movie. Out-group is a group from which we are disconnected. Kenneth is not considered a “popular kid” and he doesn’t have many friends except Ronnie who is supposed to be his “best friend”. A part in the movie that Kenneth shows the theme out-group is when he keeps on being stood up for playing cards by Ronnie. Kenneth tried to makeup excuses for Ronnie, but Kenneth wasn’t good enough for Ronnie to be around because he wasn’t considered cool enough. Kenneth started to feel disconnected to Ronnie.
In the movie “Can’t Buy me Love” there were many sociological themes that were evident throughout the movie. One of these themes was out-group. An out-group is a group from which we are disconnected. Kenneth, who is Ronald’s best friend, is part of the out-group. He is considered dorky and gets made fun of by the popular kids. A scene in the movie where this is evident is when Kenneth is sitting at the “popular” table. When Quint and Big John see this, they were infuriated that a “dork” was sitting at their table, by their people. That is when they try to get up and go beat him up. The fact that they think he is a dork and get mad that he is sitting with the popular kids shows that Kenneth is part of the out-group.
ReplyDeleteAnother sociological theme present in the movie is in-group bias. This is the feeling that a person’s in-group is superior to others. Ronald Miller is part of the out-group and wants to be part of the in-group more than anything. He is always watching the cheerleaders practice and wants to be part of their group. An example of this from the movie is when Ronald pays Cindy $1,000 dollars to be his “girlfriend” for one month. He believes that this will make him popular and he will be able to hang out with the in-group. This demonstrates in-group bias because he sees that being part of the in-group is the most important thing in the world, and he thinks that the popular kids that are part of the in-group are better than him and his friends, which are part of the out-group.
There are many themes in the movie “Can’t Buy me Love,” and one of the themes is that each character has his or her own status. Status is the social, professional, or other standing of someone or something. For example at lunch they have a specific spot for each type of status so if you sit in the geek’s section you’re considered a geek if you sit in the cool kid section you’re considered cool. Cindy and Patty sit in the cool kids section and Ronald and Kenneth sit in the geek section. Patty was considered cool and Ronald was considered a nerd and she never talked to Ronald before, she thought he was a geek and she judged Cindy at first when she was around Ronald. Once Cindy started dating Ronald and they hung out a lot, Patty started to think of Ronald as cute. Then once Cindy broke up with him she right away tried to date Ronald. When Cindy exposed Ronald then she didn’t like Ronald anymore.
ReplyDeleteAnother theme is in-group bias, which means that people think their group is superior to other groups. A good example of this is when Kenneth was helping Fran and Patty with some school stuff, which required him to sit at the cool kid section at lunch. Once some Rickey, a jock or cool kid, saw it he immediately went over to threaten Kenneth about sitting at their table because he believes that Kenneth is a geek and he doesn't deserve to sit with the cool kids. He thinks that his group is better than Kenneth and the geeks. Rickey is a very good example for in-group bias because when Ronald tried to talk to the cool kids before he was just a jerk to him because he thinks that he can’t talk to geeks because they are inferior to him.
The movie, “Can’t Buy Me Love,” shows many different sociological themes. Mrs. Mancini is Cindy Mancini’s mother and she is very wealthy. Mrs. Mancini displays the economic inequality sociological theme. Economic inequality is the different levels that people are within their society based on their wealth and income. Mrs. Mancini falls under this theme because she lives in the rich part of town and wears all of the fancy expensive cloths. A scene where this theme was shown is at the beginning where Cindy goes into her closet and gets her suede outfit out and wears it, which it is the most fashionable material. Another scene is when Mrs. Mancini pays Ronald to do her yard work every week, which puts her under the economic inequality theme because most people would do it themselves instead of paying someone to do it for them.
ReplyDeleteBig John is another character from the movie that reveals a sociological theme. He shows an in-group sociological theme, which is a small group people who share the same interests and are very close nit. He falls under this theme because he is one of the few “popular kids”. A scene is during lunch when he sits with the people of his in-group at the lunch table. Another scene where he shows this theme is when he kicks Ronald out of the New Year’s Eve party because Cindy makes Ronald look like a loser and not part of the in-group anymore, so Big John kicks him out. The in-group was a very distinct theme throughout the movie.
The movie "Can't Buy Me Love" shows many aspects of sociological themes. Some of the themes are taken up by obvious characters like Cindy Mancini. Cindy is the Captain of the Cheerleading Squad, she has a college football playing boyfriend, she is rich, and most important, she is pretty (Sarcasm). She is considered to be the in- group leader. Every guy wants to date her and every girl wants to be friends with her and go shopping with her. This in- group perspective is shown all throughout the movie but especially at lunch when she sits only with her group and her group only sits with the jocks. All though she later understands that being popular is fake, others like Ronnie need to find out for themselves what it is like to be popular.
ReplyDeleteRonnie Miller is a nerd who works his butt off so he can buy a telescope and he sees Cindy needing money so he takes advantage of the moment in pursuit of being happy and most of all, popular. Ronnie goes from the out- group to the in- group just by "dating" Cindy, an in- group member. In the movie when Ronnie and Cindy first began to "date" the jocks and Cindy's friends were second guessing the situation because Ronnie is a nerd, in the out- group, doesn't play sports, and is low status, while Cindy is a pretty girl, Captain of the Cheerleaders, rich, and popular. They are so different but when Cindy says it is okay, well it is okay and now Ronnie is popular. That is how messed up high school is and New Riegel is portrayed perfectly in the movie!
In the movie Can’t Buy Me Love, multiple sociological themes are shown. One of the themes shown is in group bias and this is shown by Quint. In group bias is the feeling that a person’s in-group is superior to others. The scene that shows Quint’s bias is towards the end of the movie when Kenneth is helping Patty with her homework and Quint cannot stand for a loser to near his groups section of the lunch yard. Quint’s actions here show in group bias because he believed that Kenneth wasn’t worthy of being in that section so he tried to make him leave for no other reason.
ReplyDeleteThe second theme that is shown in the movie is assimilation which is shown by Ronald. Assimilation is the process by which minority groups adopt the patterns of the dominate culture. One scene that shows Ronald’s assimilation from the out group into the cool crowd is the first day of school when Cindy changes his appearance so that he will fit in with what the cool crowd will accept. Ronalds change shows assimilation because he was changing his personality to what the dominate culture is.
The movie Can't Buy Me Love does a great job of showing different sociological themes through its characters. One such character is Bobby who shows an in-group bias. He is part of the popular group and looks down upon those who are not. This is shown in the scene where he comes back home for the New Years party and finds out that Cindy had went out with Ronald. He was very angry that the head cheerleader and his old girlfriend had went out with the kid who mowed lawns.
ReplyDeleteAnother character who shows a sociological theme is Kenneth who demonstrates an out-group. Kenneth has his own group of friends who are not part of the popular group and are considered outsiders and losers by those in the popular group. A scene where this can clearly be seen is when Kenneth and his friends stay home and play cards instead of going out with kids like Quint, Big John, Patty, and Barbara. They aren't part of that group so they have to stick together and have fun on their own.
In the movie Can’t Buy Me Love there are many sociological themes. Some of those themes are in-group bias and out-group bias. Out-group bias is the group that you’re disconnected from and you tend to have a negative or positive outlook on the in-group. Kenneth Wurman represents out-group bias because he is considered a nerd or a loser and he knows that. He looks negatively at the in-group because they aren’t very nice and he doesn’t want to have to change who he is just to fit into the in-group. He also looks at it negatively because he sees how it changed his friend Ronnie into become something he is not when he finds Ronnie vandalizing his house with the cool kids.
ReplyDeleteAnother theme in the movie is the in-group bias. In-group bias is the feeling that a person’s in-group is superior to others. Barbara is in the in-group and she does whatever the popular crowd does. When Cindi first brought Ronnie into their group she thought it was the worst thing ever because she felt she was above Ronnie because he was a nerd and thought he shouldn't be allowed to even associate with the in-group