Cold, Hard, Shiny Plastic

Mean Girls follows the three act structure. The first act is an introduction to the movie, it introduces the protagonist Cady Heron and antagonist Regina George. They develop of "friendly" relationship once they allow Cady into 'The Plastics'. The plot point that closes out Act 1 occurs at 29:30. It is when Cady finds out that Regina took Aaron Samuels, the guy she liked, back. She goes over to Janice Ian's, her non-plastic friend, and together they decide to get revenge on Regina. This decision provides complications throughout Act 2. 

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The majority of Act 2 focuses on Cady sabotaging Regina, but at the same time she is becoming more and more of a mean girl herself. The end of Act 2 occurs at 1:00:35, when Janice and Damien call out Cady at her party for becoming genuinely plastic. They tell her she is truly a mean girl and lost who she used to be. At the same time Regina is mad that she wasn't invited to the party and decides to frame Cady for the Burn Book. The second plot point occurs when Regina spreads the Burn Book all around the school halls. 

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Act 3 opens up with the entire junior class freaking out over the Burn Book, and all the girls are called into an assembly. The climax occurs around 1:15:30 when Janice tells Regina that Cady has spent the whole year ruining her life. Regina storms out and while fighting with Cady gets hit by a bus. The rest of the film serves as a resolution. Cady admits to the Burn Book even though it wasn't entirely her doing, she wins Spring Fling Queen, and the Plastics split up and find their own individual friend groups, and it ends with the new Freshman Plastics walking up to campus. It's a classic 3 Act Structure film with plot point at the end of each act that move the story along. This movie is full of complications, because as  the Mean Girls see it, life's better with a little drama in it.

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