Conventions of The Bling Ring.

The Bling Ring is what happens when a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the internet to track celebrities' whereabout in order to rob their home because of there own materialistic greed. The film is inspired by actual events.

Trailer for The Bling Ring.

The main themes involved in the teen drama, The Bling Ring, are crime, celeb influences/culture, fashion, relationships and friendships and peer pressure. These are all popular themes within teen dramas as well as The Bling Ring.

The film plays of the stereotypes of teenagers nowadays, it portrays them as rebellious, alcoholic, drug obsessed party animals that only care about appearance. This stereotype is reflected on the modern culture and how drinking underage and taking drugs emphases the rebellious life style.

The clique within the film all have the stereotypical characteristics of teenagers, they are very materialistic and cared a lot about fashion. All of the friends within the clique were peer pressured into the robberies. This links with other teen films such as Kidulthood, the people involved in that film were also seen as very rebellious and materialistic (not as much as this film) but were highly peer pressured into committing life daring tasks.

This film is very different to teen films in the past, such as Grease.

Grease also shows a rebellious attitude teenagers had, however the other stereotypes were different, there was no drugs, alcohol or partying to extent which led others any different to them sober selfs. Grease was also a musical meaning a load of dancing and singing was involved throughout the film, unlike films today such as The Bling Ring which leaves the singing to the radio, this is mainly because they play songs that are really popular and teenagers will know.

The boy in The Bling Ring is one of the protagonist within the clique. His talks about his past and explains how he thought he was not good looking and would not meet others standards. It could be suggested that he was the one who started the robberies because he would always located the celebrity houses and times they were out the house. This is similar to other protagonist such as in Kidulthood, Trife would lead the others and his two friends would rather just follow than expressing their opinion. The film shows how consumerism, social networking and modern stars are all highly important within the lives of teenagers today, everyone looks up to someone and will try to follow their footsteps if they can. It also shows how social networking can have a major impact on our lives, in the film the girl has a picture on Facebook with a purse she had stolen. If it wasn't for Facebook police may have not been able to get hold of this picture and find out the girls identity.