List of age Stereotypes: Young people; Criminal, Naive, violent, Sex driven, Social Media, Status, Popularity, Sport, Lack of forward thinking, Instant Gratification, No interest in society, No respect for elders, Distracted
Older people; Fear of the young, Slow, Bitter, Racist, Wise, Conservative, No sex, isolated, Nostalgic, Relish in the past, Poor health, Senile, Unconcerned with appearance/fashion, Old fashioned.
Friday the 13th is a horror franchise that focuses on teens visiting camp crystal lake. In this blog i will be looking at the 1st instalment of the franchise and look into how it represents age in media. The franchise represents young people as rude, naive, sex driven and oblivious. They show this by the counsellors of the lake running upstairs to have sex while the kids they are meant to be looking after are unattended to. They also show a scene where 2 teens are having sex, the main reason they went to the lake for. This links to the stereotype that young people are only interested in sex are is their main drive at that age. This would make the audience feel as if the teens have no care and no ambitions, this thought would especially be placed in the minds of older people, the main demographic for this movie as younger people would not have been allowed to watch films or this graphic content at the time.
The franchise represents older people as bitter, relish in the past, fear of the young, cold hearted. They show this through the character of Pamela Voorhees. Pamela is an old lady who is very old and bitter and is the main killer of the film. She goes around and kills the teens and counsellors of camp crystal lake because of her relishing in the past. Her son, Jason, died by drowning when the counsellors were meant to be looking after him. Instead of doing the task they were set, they were having sex in another area.
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