The movie starts off with one of the main characters, Dewey Finn, getting
kicked out of his band because he is over enthusiastic and seen as childish. He
is also confronted by this roommates about paying rent and the need to grow up.
Dewy takes a job as a substitute teacher, pretending to be his roommate Ned.
Dewy impersonates Ned and is hired at a prestigious prep school called Horace
Green. Dewey decided to use his students, making them into a band, so that he
can enter them into the battle of the bands competition and win the prize
money. He starts to teach the students all about rock music and thought that
does end up teaching them a few good lessons. Dewey and the class sped three
weeks of class practicing, setting up lights, costumes and fooling the other
teachers and the principle. Dewey even convinces the principle to let him take
the students on a field trip, she doesn’t know he really means the bathe of the
bands competition. The plan all goes bad when Ned opens a check from Horace
Green and Dewey comes clean. Dewey ask Ned to keep it a secret but Ned’s
girlfriend finds out and gets the police involved. The police show up at
parent’s night and Dewey runs away.
The
next day the students decide they still want to compete in the battle of the
bands even though Dewey was using them. They sneak out the school and use the
school bus that was going to take them to the field trip, they pick Dewey up
and go to the competition. The parents find out the students are missing and
all head to the competition. Dewey says that if they want to win they should
play the song that Zack wrote, he proves that he is a good man. The students
play in the competition and don’t end up winning, but they say it is okay
because they had fun. The parents realize that their students are more than
just smart prep school kids. Dewey does not have a teaching license and so he
cannot be their teacher, but he starts a after-school music program teaching
students rock music.
Stereotypes:
Teachers Pet; Summer is the typical
teacher’s pet. She is concerned with getting gold starts and being graded. She
knows the schedule by heart and gets worries because they are deviating from
the schedule. When she figures out that Dewey is an imposter her first reaction
is that she is upset because they spent three weeks doing work and not getting
graded. When it comes to the band summer takes on the role of band manger. This
is perfect for her because she is in control and has some sense of authority.
There is some truth to this stereotype. All middle schoolers want to be liked
by their teacher, and some students are more prone to leadership. This can be
overly exaggerated and that creates the teacher pet persona.
Asian Nerd: Lawrence is the
Asian Nerd. He thinks that all he is good at is school and that he cannot be
cool. The stereotype is that all Asians are smart and school is all that they
are good at. The truth is that some kids can be “better” at school but that has
nothing to do with their race. The Asian culture is vastly different from the
US and there are aspects of that culture that are more focused on academic
success. This focus on success has been turned into the stereotype that all
Asians are good at school and therefore they cannot be cool.
Fancy Pants: Brian. If I am
going to be honest, when I first saw Brian I immediately thought that this
character was trying to portray a homosexual character. This fits into the stereotype
that all man who have a high pitch voice and are concerned with fashion are homosexual.
The movie never outright says anything about Brian’s sexuality (he is also 12)
but because of preconceived ideas and stereotypes it is assumed.
Like me: I was most like the
teacher’s pet. I was the students who would write down names of my
classmates who misbehaved when there was a sub. I was constantly worries about
getting good grades and fixated on the directions. I wanted to do everything
right and obsessed over my teacher.
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