The story types that apply to this film are Romeo and Juliet, Circe & Tristan. Romeo and Juliet is shown the when the geeky boy( Denis Cooverman) in the beginning of the film announces his love for the cheerleader (Beth Cooper) at the school who is well out of his league, which is also where Tristan is shown. The chase is shown of how the cheerleaders’ boyfriend (Kevin) is constantly chasing the Nerd throughout the film trying to beat him up.
The hero’s ordinary world is normal like any normal school boys, he’s clever so therefore referred to as a geek and only has one friend who is like him as well and both considered “un cool” to hang around with so they have to take a lot of slack off other people at school, never getting any attention from girls in particular.
The tests that Denis are faced with are the frequent running into of Kevin on many occasions. Kevin hates Denis so every time they are faced with each others presence fistfights break out, with the obvious slaughter of Denis as we would presume; a little fragile nerd against a big built football player! However the allies that Denis are given are the ones getting him into trouble with Kevin and his ex military friends. Kevin’s girlfriend and her two friends, join team Denis at first as some sort as practical joke but nearer to the end they form an ally helping each other defeat Kevin.
There are two main differences between the hero and villain as they are binary opposites. Firstly appearance, Kevin is huge, fit, big muscles & good looking compared to Denis who is skinny, not as attractive, bland and fragile, and here is a huge difference between the villain and hero. However the other difference is personality/ authority at school, Denis is quiet and more or less a “no body” people in the school have never even heard of him until he gives his graduation speech and bad mouths everyone. Kevin however is training to be in the military and is captain of the football squad so everyone knows of him and is extremely popular at school.
The technical codes used to detect the differences between the binary opposites are firstly music, when Kevin comes on screen for the first time, a dark, depressive song will play indicating to the audience something bad is going to happen, and this generally doesn’t happen to Denis apart from when something bad is going to happen to him, and the only time things bad happen to him are when he is about to get beat up by Kevin! Also the main camera shot for Kevin is a medium shot to show just how big and muscular he is, and to also show off his military uniform to show he has authority throughout the school. Compared to Kevin who mainly gets close ups to show how uncomfortable he gets in most teenage situations such as talking to a girl, which is shown through facial expressions. Mise-en-scene shown is the typical high key lighting for Denis and low key for Kevin which portrays the typical hero/villain image.
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