'Emma - Adaptation in the Movie Clueless'

'Amy Heckerlings post-modern film, Clueless, appropriates the dateless ideas and spate presented in Jane Austens Emma, aggregationing to coeval audiences. Through the appropriation, Heckerling juxtaposes the societies, pull attention to the differences and at the same time, criticising her testify society. Heckerling successfully transforms the universal values of marriage, genial hierarchy and sex roles, modifying them to suit a modern audience.\nHeckerling adapts the nineteenth century contextual setting of, Emma, to appeal to contemporary audiences. Jane Austens novel Emma is set in the colonization of Highbury, reflecting the slow-paced lifestyle of her time. The enormousness of status and wealthiness during the era is constituted finished the definition of Emma as, handsome, clever and rich. Clueless, however, underscores the grandness of consumerism and materialism, depicted through the opening montage. The loyal camera movements and the soundtrack Kids in Ameri ca come along emphasise the unwavering paced consumerist lifestyle of the twentieth century. Through the contextual transformation of Emma, Heckerling exemplifies the similarities amidst the two eras: the essential values do not change, disregarding of the change in context.\nMarriage and relationships in Austens time has been altered to supply for modern perspectives on love. In, Emma, marriage was preponderantly based on social and pecuniary status. This is explored through Mr Eltons desire to altogether aggrandise himself by either winning Emma or, if not, try for swing Somebody Else. Furthermore, it was considered unacceptable for a lucifer to marry exterior of their social classes. Emmas opposition to Harriets interest in Mr Knightley is spurred on by her belief that it would be unlikely for, a man of first-rate abilities to be trance by very(prenominal) inferior powers. In addition, she believes that their relationship would be an, ... '