Times writers Justin Chang and Yvonne Villarreal revisit Amy Heckerling's irresistible teen comedy.
But seriously, you’re spot-on about how ridiculously quotable “Clueless” is, and in particular how brilliant Heckerling is at using language, at devising a wittily stylized teen vernacular for her characters. As you note, some of the props and drive-by references in “Clueless” may sound a little dated now , but the actual way the characters speak, the contours and cadences of the language itself, still feels irresistibly fresh and sharp and buoyant.
In “Clueless,” language is never just a means of getting from point A to point B; it’s an expression of personal style — and few things, of course, matter more to Cher than style. Her verbal strategies are at once dizzyingly circuitous and weirdly intuitive. When she says, “It does not say RSVP on the Statue of Liberty” , your first instinct might be to laugh and roll your eyes — but the closer you listen, the more everything she says makes its own pretzel-logic sense.
And while there is a romance between Cher and her sort-of-stepbrother Josh , who is kind of a Baldwin, slowly bubbling to the surface, that relationship doesn’t take precedence over her friendships. It’s that spat with Tai that leads Cher to her water-fountain-igniting realization that she is totally butt crazy in love with Josh. But even while Cher is processing those feelings, there is still resolution for the two friends.
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