And the girl next door to me was actually a troll. You do understand we are talking about an archetype, right? Or are you purposely being obtuse for effect?
No…I’m just saying I don’t really see what going to an Ivy League school has to do with it. I mean there are plenty of girls at Ivy League unis who have the American Girl look, is all.
Yep.
Yes. Mmmmmm. Rory.
Agreed, though the reason you get those hits is because of a song she recorded.
I don’t think so, mainly because she’s going for the bad girl image in real life now with the tattoos and stuff. In the movie? Certainly.
I’ll second Amy Adams and also throw out Kaley Cuoco (Penny from Big Bang Theory).
Just my opinion but I like I said I think there is an attitude component too. As an archetype the Harvard trained lawyer is going to be the one wearing the expensive business outfit with a shark-like personality. It doesn’t matter if they are cute. That is the whole point of Legally Blonde. It is a fish out of water story because she is not the Harvard law school type. In real life of course there are all different kinds of girls living next door and there are many different types of people going to Harvard law school. But this thread is in CS, we are not talking about real life.
It used to be that an All-American Girl would wear her hair in a ponytail pulled through the hole in the back of a baseball cap, but I haven’t seen that in a while.
I’m not sure what it is now.
My weird moment of the week was hearing my grandpa comment that he knew “Hannah Montana’s grandpa”.
I didn’t even know he knew who Hannah Montana was.
Jessica Biel as Mary Camden in* 7th Heaven*.
Yvonne Strzechowski from “Chuck” does it for me.
I don’t hold it against her that she’s actually Australian.
[HARVARD VOICE]
Mmyes… Why we have plenty of neighbors here in Cambridge and they are as American as Daddy’s Mercedes skiing in Gstaad or summering in Newport.
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Pretend you are the casting director for some story about Harvard. The “All American girl” will typically be the fish-out-of-water girl from the midwest trying to adapt to this school full of rich, snooty snobs.
Hard to get more All-American than the late, lamented Marilyn Chambers.
Disney productions consistently give us the quintessential “all-American” girls. It’s their expertise.
I agree that “wholesome” is the keyword, rather than Caucasian, but usually they’re Caucasian.
The idea is to be cute but not too sexually expressive. A girl who has just had her quinceañero usually starts emphasizing her sexuality at that point (with make-up and dress)–that’s kind of the purpose of the rite. Few, if any, Caucasian girls have quinceañeros.
One of the defining moments of our time.
Like Natalie Portman. I think there is a personality component as well, which is usually sweet and bubbly. I think Ms. Portman would fit the bill, or at least my perception of her personality, anyway. She could be a raging bitch, for all I know.
Her character in Garden State would be a prefect example (of an All-American girl, not a raging bitch).
Absolutely. Like Dylan going electric.
Someday at the fiddlesticks family Thanksgiving dinner table:
“Daddy, where were you when Donna Pinciotti went blonde?”
“…”
Damn, that was a hot look!
AnnaSophia Robb seems to be filling the bill for the current younger generation.
Back when I was a teenager, Hayley Mills was an AAG.
The current non-jailbait AAG for me is Penelope Cruz.
Of course Hayley Mills is British. And Audrey Hepburn was Belgian and British.
But both had the innocence about them - the non-sexuality - some quiet athleticism - and the naturalness.
With all due respect, speak for yourself. For a waif, she was smokin’.