Narrative Setting

Settings

Never Been Kissed shows two settings which the audience obtains teenage setting and romantic setting. In the teenage setting, it considers about there are three groups in high school popular culture, they are the pretty girls, prince charming and the brains. Adolescents from the movie are struggling on their life to be famous and popular. By looking at outside of people’s characters, everyone has high self-esteem and confidence. On the other hand, inside of people’s personality, everyone has low self-esteem and dissatisfaction. For example, for pretty girls, they always bring mirrors and want to give perfect poses and wonderful facial expression in every moment; the prince charming performs perfect in every way that male adolescents’ want to be like him, and female adolescents’ want to be with him. There is no doubt that he has confidence in front of people. These are evidences perfectly explains imaginary audience that Elkind (1967) argued was characterized adolescents always think others are watching and evaluating them. As the result, the pretty girls have high self-esteem on their good-looking and outfit. The girls consider they are important toward other people, as well as their attitudes.
In romantic setting, the romantic comedy movie always gives the audience a romantic fantasy, therefore; the myth of romantic comedy ends traditionally with a kiss. By looking at the ending scene, Josie stands on the field, asks for five minutes on the clock, and waits in silence. Then Sam finally shows up to kiss her with crowd cheering. Furthermore, Hollywood’s traditional stories of courtship and marriage have focused on the women’s resistance to romantic attachments, so the kiss often represents a valuable moment of change for her to find all fulfillment in men.