Dissection of John Tucker Must Die

The movie begins with Kate (Brittany Snow) discussing her mother Lori's (Jenny McCarthy) series of bad relationships which always causes the family to move to a new town. She and her mother move to a new town and Kate gets a job as a waitress. While at work, she sees popular local boy John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe) on dates with three different girls: Carrie (Arielle Kebbel), a chronic overachiever; Heather (Ashanti), who is a sassy, aggressive head cheerleader; and Beth (Sophia Bush) a promiscuous vegan activist. Kate learns from a co-worker that he dates girls from different cliques at his school so that they never interact and convinces the girls who he dates to keep their relationships secret.

One day in gym class, Kate, Carrie, Heather and Beth end up on the same team for a volleyball game. During the game, Carrie brags about being with John Tucker, and the girls learn about his scheme. Carrie, Heather and Beth begin fighting and Kate tries to break up the fight, only to land them all in detention. Later, Kate is enlisted to help in the retaliation against John Tucker. In the meantime Kate becomes friends with John's brother Scott (Penn Badgley), better known as "The Other Tucker". The girls' initial attempts to undo John (making people believe he has genital herpes and undermining his confidence by giving him (estrogen) backfire as John manages to use them to his advantage. After he breaks up with all three girls, they agree that breaking his heart is the ideal revenge. They then enlist Kate to be the heartbreaker.

Kate joins the cheerleading team in order to get John's attention and the girls give her advice on how to act around John and spy on the dates using surveillance equipment. Kate and John go on a series of dates, the first of which at a bonfire at the beach. Kate is unprepared after John asks to take her home and Beth intervenes to teach her how to kiss. However, John arrives, forcing Beth to hide in the back of hisLand  Rover. At her house, Kate manages to buy Beth time to escape by kissing John, with Beth's skirt being ruined in the process.

The next date is a romantic boat ride, and Kate and John have a good time together. Beth later notices that Kate is starting to fall for John. To counteract this, Carrie tapes John bragging to his friends in the locker room, saying he'll be scoring "more than baskets" at the away game, and shows the tape to Kate in order to get her to snap out of it. The girls try another plan to embarrass John Tucker at a hotel on the night of the away game. Kate seduces John on a video-chat and tells him to put on a woman's thong and climb out of his room and into hers. He accidentally climbs into a teacher's room and becomes the laughingstock of the school. John again uses this to his advantage, starting a fashion trend.

Meanwhile, Kate's mother and Scott both discover the plan and lament the change in Kate's behavior. Afterward, Kate tells John that she heard about what he said in the locker room about her. John makes amends by giving her his watch and asking her to be his girlfriend. Kate tells Heather, Carrie and Beth that she wants out of the plan, as whether they are dating or plotting to destroy John Tucker, it is still all about him.

At John's birthday party, the tape the girls made of John's destruction is played, and Kate reveals the entire plot. Heather, Beth, and Carrie defend her after a guest throws his drink at Kate. Still, John Tucker is unfazed, and the party devolves into a cake fight.

A few days later, John and Kate agree to be friends, and John resolves to be honest.

Lightning and shots :

The shots, angles and lighting add to the emotions of the film. Most of the scenes include close-up shots of each character. This is done so that the focus is on each character when they are talking. Also, the fact that the scenes are shot at eye level can easily show that the characters are having informal conversations. When the four girls and John Tucker are talking on stage at Tucker’s birthday party about how Kate lied the entire time, the scene is shot from the people in the audience at low-level, to portray the people on the stage as having importance. The lighting in the movie is bright in every scene, which reinforces the fact that the movie is a comedy. The only scenes that are dark are the ones that take place a night.

1) The narrative of the movie is developed into four parts, consisting of the rising action, climax, resolution and closure. The rising action begins when Kate comes to Forest Hills High School and is instantly infatuated by the popular jock, John Tucker. Tucker is the guy that every girl wants to be with and every guy wants to be like. One day during gym class, Heather, Beth and Carrie find out that Tucker cheated on all of them at the same time. The girls end up in a huge volleyball fight and Kate gets caught in the middle. While sitting in detention, Kate tells the three girls that they should get revenge on Tucker. They decide to embarrass him in different ways but quickly learn that nothing they do will bring down his macho ego. The girls decide to take a different approach and instantly transform Kate into a popular cheerleader, the type of girl that Tucker loves. As soon as Tucker falls for Kate, she is going to break his heart just like he did to all the other girls. Kate and Tucker begin dating and he falls in love with her, just like the girls planned he would. The climax of the movie occurs when Tucker learns that Kate was pretending to like him the whole time just so that he would fall for her and she could break his heart and he would know what it felt like. The resolution happens shortly after Tucker’s birthday party when Kate approaches Tucker at school, apologizes and he declares that he is going to start telling the truth about every girl he dates. The closure of the film ends with Kate flirting with Tucker’s younger brother Scott, and Kate, Heather, Beth and Carrie walking to class as true friends and discussing their plans for the upcoming weekend.

The ideology occurs at the end of the movie when Kate confesses that she pretended to date John Tucker all along. The plot of the movie reveals that you should not play with people’s emotions no matter if you think it will hurt the person or not. Realism is also shown in the movie by having the scenes take place in an average looking high school with normal students.

 Cast:

• Jesse Metcalfe as John Tucker
• Brittany Snow as Kate Spencer
• Arielle Kebbel as Carrie Schaefer
• Sophia Bush as Beth Straham
• Ashanti as Heather McIntyre
• Penn Badgley as Scott Tucker
• Jenny McCarthy as Lori Spencer
• Kevin McNulty as Basketball Coach
• Patricia Drake as Coach Williams
• Chelan Simmons as Crying Waitress
• Taylor Kitsch as Justin
• Nicole LaPlaca as Molly
• Samantha McLeod as Holly
• Amanda Crew as Hallway Girl
• Steve Bacic as Skip #1
• Dean Wray as Skip #2
• John Cuthbert as Skip #3
• Aaron Dudley as Skip #4
• Marc Menard as Skip #5
• Dan Payne as Skip #6
• Amber Borycki as Jennifer
• Meghan Ory as Jill

Kate Spencer (Brittany Snow)

Kate (Brittany Snow) leading actress plays a role in which she has to pretend  being John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe)'s girlfriend because she had to make him feel how it felt when your heart gets broken

Beth Straham (Sophia Bush)

Beth Straham (Sophia Bush) is the smart unique girl who is into fashion and John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe)'s girlfriend

Carrie Schaefer (Arielle Kebbel)

Carrie (Arielle Kebbel) runs the TV News for the school and she is one of John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe)'s girlfriend

Heather McIntyre (Ashanti)

Heather (Ashanti) is the head cheerleader and one of John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe)'s girlfriend

John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe)

John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe) plays the playboy role who cheats on every other girl and uses them, but he falls in love with Kate (Brittany Snow) not knowing what he has coming his way

These are John Tucker's three girlfriends from left to right (Ashanti) as Heather McIntyre, (Arielle Kebbel) as Carrie Schaefer and (Sophia Bush) as Beth Straham and all of them plan to get revenge by putting Kate (Brittany Snow) in the game

Over here Kate (Brittany Snow) is pretending to be John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe)'s girlfriend on the mission to break his heart for all the hearts he has broken

John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe) shows Kate (Brittany Snow) that he actually loves her and she means everything to him