How Self-Aware Teen Movies Almost Killed the Genre | Time Capsule

**SPECIAL GIVEAWAY!** Five lucky winners will receive free copies of The Bring It On Book (https://tinyurl.com/whrfte68) and The Stick It Screenplay Book (https://tinyurl.com/yvddkuh8) by Jessica Bendinger -- perfect reads for any movie lover or aspiring screenwriter. To enter to win, just subscribe to our channel and leave a comment on this video letting us know your favorite teen movie.

Giveaway Details:
1. The giveaway will run from today, May 12 2021, until May 19 2021.
2. The giveaway is only open to residents of the U.S.
3. There will be five winners, chosen based on the comment entries with the most likes.
4. Make sure not to leave any double comments -- we will only count one comment per user!
5. This giveaway is not affiliated with YouTube in any way.
6. You can read the official rules here: https://tinyurl.com/3n8xxxm6

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, movies about teenagers were everywhere. Teen movies like She’s All That, Ten Things I Hate About You, American Pie, Bring It On, and Varsity Blues created an instant familiarity with their audience by tapping into known plot points and tropes, like the pressures of prom, the cruelty of popular mean girls, the sensitivity of social outcasts, angst about cliques, and a strange number of secret bets and financial arrangements. Between 1998 and 2002, there was a sudden boom in a genre that studios (and audiences) shunned for most of the ‘90s. But in these few short years, filmmakers pushed the teen-movie genre to such a self-aware, formulaic place that they nearly killed off the teen movie entirely. Ultimately, this genre’s self-reflective frenzy and near-death in the early 2000s helped pave the way for more original and less trope-based versions of the teen story. Here’s our Take on how this era showed that comic self-awareness isn’t the same as actual critique, and how the turn-of-the-millennium teen formula indirectly led to more nuanced teen comedies today.

Support The Take:
Shop our Limited Edition Merch: https://www.the-take.com/shop
Support our channel and look great doing it with Take t-shirts, hoodies, and more!
If you like this video, subscribe to our channel and support us by:
Joining our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thetake vote on the topic we cover next, gain early access to videos and much more!

Follow The Take:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ThisIsTheTake
Instagram: http://instagram.com/ThisIsTheTake
Snap: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/The_Take/3391744384
Twitter: http://twitter.com/ThisIsTheTake
Website: https://the-take.com/

We are The Take (formerly ScreenPrism).

Следующая серия

S01E571 - New Girl - Why Jess Isn't Really the Protagonist