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Heckerling’s Clueless is indeed a clever film, transforming a 200-year-old story and making it relevant to today for a modern screen audience, despite radical social changes. While the film can be easily be passed as a regular '‘popular” teen flick merely for entertainment purposes, an understanding of Emma adds another level of meaning. Ultimately, the viewer’s response changes as an understanding of the novel highlight the parallels in characters, plot and the recreation of themes such as truth and error, self realisation, money and status that may be overlooked. An awareness in the different social context and the change in style and humour from irony to visual and witty verbal hint that the film is actually a witty satire of the superficiality of the American ‘pop’ culture that portray how society expectations dictate the ways things are seen. Subsequently, the viewer sees Clueless as a retrospect of Emma - penetrating examinations and commentaries of their contemporary society. The film is therefore no longer a simple entertainment but a movie that cleverly expels Austen’s ironic voice and moral sense. Both Emma and Clueless reconstruct specific social environments and address an audience of that similar en