Analysis Of American Pie

American Pie is a 1999 teen comedy film directed by Paul Weitz. The film was a box office hit and spawned two direct sequels having produced American pie 2 in 2001 and then American wedding in 2003. American pie predominately concentrates on four boys who make a pact to lose their virginity before their high school graduation.
The title of the film refers to a scene in the film in which the lead character is caught masturbating with a pie after previously being told that third base feels “like apple pie”. I conducted a short piece of research and it has come to my attention that the film ranked 49th on Bravo’s “100 funniest Movies” list and ranked 22nd on Entertainment Weekly’s list of the 50 best high school movies.
This movie targets its target audience from late teens which is from 18 onwards. I believe that this would be the perfect target audience that the director has chosen to target as this movie contains some strong language and the majority of it being about sex. As far as the representation is concerned stereotypically female teenagers are found to be has the centre of attention in every point that the male teenagers tend to discuss about.
Uses of gratification are applied in this movie as the director has used virgin and whore in order to raise enigma codes for the target audience. By using Levi’s Strauss’s theory binary opposition I believe that the director has attracted a wider range of the target audience as this involves a large amount of suspense.