Jordana Bevan

Jordana Bevan is a young girl who Oliver Tate falls in love with. She is moderately unpopular which makes the romance between them more likely, having a girlfriend would also boost Oliver’s “street cred” which although high, could be higher.

So Oliver starts taking part in things she enjoys such as bullying which essentially he disapproves of but never the less, he must not let principles stand in the way of progress. Eventually Oliver asks her if she wants to be his girlfriend and she said she’d think about it but what she meant was yes.

In the relationship between Oliver and Jordana the typical gender roles that we see in films is not followed. The females are weak and romantic while the males are strong and have control. Jordana and Oliver are quite the opposite. While Oliver is romantic and is always making moves on her like putting his arm around her and inviting her over to his house for sex Jordana does the opposite, and hardly shows any emotions for him. At one point in the film they even write a list of things there not allowed to do in the relationship.

These include:

1.   No pet names

2.   No hand- holding

3.   NO EMOTIONS (gay)

These show how its hardly even a romantic relationship like Oliver thinks it but that They are basically very close friends, and even then Jordana is a very masculine character. Rather that going out on dates or anything that we would normally expect a couple to do they just go around vandalizing things. Jordana is not romantic at all and enjoys setting things on fire… like Oliver’s leg hair. One of the few moments in the film were Jordana shows any emotion at all it when her other almost dies of cancer she cries a little and even hugs Oliver. In the end she starts going out with another guy without telling Oliver until he sees her together. Oliver is very hurt and eventually get back with her. Oliver and Jordana are the opposite of what we usually expect from their genders in a relationship. The film ends with them walking into the ocean to showing how far they will go each other.

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