She's the Man

She's the Man Literary Elements

Director

Andy Fickman

Leading Actors/Actresses

Amanda Bynes, Channing Tatum

Supporting Actors/Actresses

Laura Ramsey, Robert Hoffman

Genre

Romantic Comedy, Teen, Sports

Language

English

Awards

Date of Release

March 2006

Producer

Lauren Shuler Donner, Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi

Setting and Context

Early-2000s American suburbia, private school

Narrator and Point of View

Tone and Mood

Fun, comic, cringe-worthy, complicated

Protagonist and Antagonist

Viola is the protagonist. The antagonists are Justin, Monique, and Malcolm.

Major Conflict

The conflict is that no one thinks Viola can play soccer as well as a boy and she wants to prove them wrong. The secondary conflict, which arises out of this, is that Viola must effectively disguise herself as a boy, her twin brother Sebastian, in order to be able to play soccer at Illyria.

Climax

Viola scores a goal on her ex-boyfriend, winning the soccer game and proving herself just as good as the boys.

Foreshadowing

When Monique mistakes Viola for Sebastian early in the film, this foreshadows the fact that Viola will disguise herself as him later.

Understatement

The shock of Viola's revelation is somewhat understated, and met with more understanding than we might expect.

Innovations in Filming or Lighting or Camera Techniques

Allusions

The movie is a reworking of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

Paradox

Parallelism

There is a parallel between Olivia's unrequited love for Sebastian and Viola's unrequited love for Duke.

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