Mean Girls (2024)

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Wikidata Q117014906, film, IMDb tt11762114, TMDB 673593: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the note “2024 musical film”.

Also said as Mean Girls (2024 musical film) (2024): the same Wikidata item, so listed here.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

In the store as #557, Mean Girls (2024).

Who talked about it

The Big Picture

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Mean Girls: 3 lines the host's read ×3

  1. unmapped (meta-joke): Mean Girls ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). The new film turns the original's October 3rd meme into a meta bit by having a choir sing it.
    “they have like the choir go, it's October 3rd, you know, which like, that's at least like making a meta joke of it”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:53:15 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

Tina Fey: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. unmapped (authorship): Tina Fey ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). Sean frames the film as a Tina Fey adaptation of her own screenplay of her own musical.
    “directed this adaptation by Tina Fey of a screenplay by Tina Fey of a musical by Tina Fey?”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:49:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Mean Girls: 3 lines lineage ×1 unmapped ×1 craft ×1

  1. unmapped (meta-joke): Mean Girls → Mean Girls. The new film turns the original's October 3rd meme into a meta bit by having a choir sing it.
    “they have like the choir go, it's October 3rd, you know, which like, that's at least like making a meta joke of it”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:53:15 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

A Star Is Born: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (generational remake): Mean Girls → A Star Is Born. The speaker is fine with a new auteur remaking a beloved thing every 20 years, as with Star Is Born / Star Wars-style retellings, here giving the social-media generation its own Mean Girls.
    “every 20 years another Otour comes along and is like, I've got a take on this.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:54:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

Barbie: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (moviegoing experience): Mean Girls → Barbie. Seeing Mean Girls alone in an IMAX theater surrounded by young women in bright colors felt just like seeing Barbie.
    “It was very similar to Barbie.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:50:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

The Lord of the Rings: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (IP recreation): Mean Girls → The Lord of the Rings. The verbatim echoing of the original is compared to how a future remake of Lord of the Rings would recycle its shtick.
    “when we see a Lord of the Rings movie, you know, 10 years from now, when they're just like doing the same shtick, like it's kind of like IP recreation in a way.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:51:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

The Sex Lives of College Girls: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (backstory): Mean Girls → The Sex Lives of College Girls. Rapp's earlier show is where her feud with millennial women allegedly started, per the hosts' gossip.
    “I think those are the millennial women in question, who she doesn't like.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:02:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Tina Fey: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (authorship): Mean Girls → Tina Fey. Sean frames the film as a Tina Fey adaptation of her own screenplay of her own musical.
    “directed this adaptation by Tina Fey of a screenplay by Tina Fey of a musical by Tina Fey?”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:49:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Transformers: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (remake tolerance): Mean Girls → Transformers. Since the host does not give Transformers and Spider-Man grief for echoing earlier versions, he will not give it to Mean Girls.
    “I guess if I'm not going to give Transformers and Spider-Man shit about that.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:54:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

craft (1)

  1. craft (tone shift): Mean Girls → Mean Girls. The musical sands the edges off the Plastics and replaces bite with empowerment, a generational update on the original's Tina Fey punchline comedy.
    “the edges are sanded off the plastics. And most of the jokes don't have the same bite.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:54:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (3)

  1. lineage (remake): Mean Girls → Mean Girls. The new film reuses the original's iconic lines and jokes nearly verbatim, which Sean found a little flat because no joke lands when you know it is coming.
    “they really do it verbatim, like, and so that's weird with a joke.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:52:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (remake tolerance): Mean Girls → Transformers. Since the host does not give Transformers and Spider-Man grief for echoing earlier versions, he will not give it to Mean Girls.
    “I guess if I'm not going to give Transformers and Spider-Man shit about that.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:54:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (generational remake): Mean Girls → A Star Is Born. The speaker is fine with a new auteur remaking a beloved thing every 20 years, as with Star Is Born / Star Wars-style retellings, here giving the social-media generation its own Mean Girls.
    “every 20 years another Otour comes along and is like, I've got a take on this.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:54:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (5)

  1. unmapped (authorship): Mean Girls → Tina Fey. Sean frames the film as a Tina Fey adaptation of her own screenplay of her own musical.
    “directed this adaptation by Tina Fey of a screenplay by Tina Fey of a musical by Tina Fey?”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:49:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (moviegoing experience): Mean Girls → Barbie. Seeing Mean Girls alone in an IMAX theater surrounded by young women in bright colors felt just like seeing Barbie.
    “It was very similar to Barbie.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:50:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (IP recreation): Mean Girls → The Lord of the Rings. The verbatim echoing of the original is compared to how a future remake of Lord of the Rings would recycle its shtick.
    “when we see a Lord of the Rings movie, you know, 10 years from now, when they're just like doing the same shtick, like it's kind of like IP recreation in a way.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:51:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (meta-joke): Mean Girls → Mean Girls. The new film turns the original's October 3rd meme into a meta bit by having a choir sing it.
    “they have like the choir go, it's October 3rd, you know, which like, that's at least like making a meta joke of it”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:53:15 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (backstory): Mean Girls → The Sex Lives of College Girls. Rapp's earlier show is where her feud with millennial women allegedly started, per the hosts' gossip.
    “I think those are the millennial women in question, who she doesn't like.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:02:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Mean Girls: Sean saw it alone on opening-ish run in IMAX, a lone 41-year-old man among young women in pink and teal, just like Barbie.
    “one weird 41-year-old man sitting alone in an IMAX theater surrounded by young women who were just like wearing pink and yellow and teal”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:50:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Mean Girls: Renee Rapp's numbers stop the movie so she can do a full pop-star vamp, because the movie knows what it has.
    “it's kind of like the movie stops and she does a number and then it keeps going. because the movie knows what it has.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:56:56 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Mean Girls: Auli'i Cravalho playing Janice turns out to be Moana, which Sean only discovered after going home.
    “I did not know until I went home that she's like literally Moana.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:58:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Mean Girls: A new bit in the talent show: Damian performs the iCarly theme song in French, with a slow reveal from tight on his face.
    “his performance at the talent show is, um, the theme song to iCarly in French, which is one of the funniest jokes.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:59:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Mean Girls: Damian recaps the Regina/Janice drama using plushies, a new joke the hosts loved.
    “when he recaps the Regina Janice drama, he uses Plushies, and I also thought that was really funny.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:59:17 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Mean Girls: The Mathletes MC is Lindsay Lohan in a cameo near the end of the film.
    “She plays the MC during the famous Mathletes moment near the end of the film.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:00:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

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