BARTHES THEORY MYTHOLOGISED

BARTHES THEORY MYTHOLOGISED
Legally blonde opening

It starts with blonde hair swaying back and forth. The motion of the blurred out hair disorientates you.The first thing i noticed that is extremely fluffy and mythologized is the bright pink highlighted diary style typography. The music is very preppy and girly showing you exactly how the main character will be.It starts the scene with slow motion brushing of her blonde hair.The tones are very soft and wavy. As the scene plays on we see alot of pink, realizing that this is going to be the stereo typical idea of a young girl, almost barbiefied. We go on to see a scene of a park. everyone is having fun on their way to school or just hanging out while there is one girl on her bike that stands out from the rest.

We are shown a very stereo typical view of girls on from the start. Blonde hair, small outfits, skinny bodies, big bust. This shows you something very exaggerated and very sexist to the point of being almost fantasy. We see close ups of the girl "elle" shaving her legs, painting her nails , doing her hair etc. making it so girlyfied its almost cheesy and sickly. At 1:34 all the girls are working out but as before, blonde hair and big bust. another indication of something so ridiculously stereo typical its almost mythologized.

The clip makes you feel as if your almost watching barbies dream house,as it goes on we get to see elle's room. Her room is filled with pink , fluffy things, pictures of her chihuahua and girly teenager things.Pay attention to the fact ALL of the girls are blonde. The "preferred" idea of a girl has always been skinny waist, blonde hair and big bust.This is giving the false indication that all women should be like this. However right at the end of the opening scene we see our first brunette within the campus that is somewhat partially covered up,very spunky attitude and very quirky however she looks very out of place. I feel this part is the wake up call that not all girls are clones, love pink and act like cover girls.The video features alot of enigma codes, such as: who is the girl on the bike?, what is the letter about? , why does everyone have blonde hair? , who is the girl at the door?