Holiday task

During the Holiday I decided to watch my all time favourite 

Cast members:

Lindsay Lohan as Anna Coleman

Ryan Malgarini as Harry Coleman

Lucille Soong as Pei-Pei's mother

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Harold Gould as Grandpa

Christina Vidal as Maddie

Mark Harmon as Ryan

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Jamie Lee curtis as Tess Coleman

Chad Michael Murray as Jake

BRIEF SUMMARY

An overworked mother and her daughter do not get along. The wide generation gap between Tess Coleman and her teenage daughter Anna is more than evident. They simply cannot understand each other's preferences. On a Thursday night they have a big argument in a Chinese restaurant. Both receive a fortune cookie each from the restaurant owner's mother which causes them to switch bodies next day. As they adjust with their new personalities, they begin to understand each other more and eventually it's the mutual self-respect that sorts the things out. When they switch bodies, each is forced to adapt to the others life for one freaky Friday. 

The use of star appeal through childhood sweetheart Lindsay Lohan would have brought the film a lot of watchers and publicity as her being in the cast would have definitely helped to promote and boost sales for the film. Also seeing as the film has a high school setting with 'high school friends' this would attract a lot of teenagers to watch the film making teens the target audience. However the film isn't just targeted to teenagers alone as the film also includes a family which consists of a step-dad, younger brother, mother and grandpa making it enjoyable for all ages to watch. 

Not only did I watch the newest version of the film but I also decided to watch the original version in the film which came out in 1976. Here are the similarities and differences I was able to pick out between the two films:

DIFFERENCES  

- Camera Quality

- Time period

- Cast

- Duration of film

- Video camera type

SIMILARITIES

- Storyline

- Cast Roles

- Title name

Evidently, the differences list is longer than the similarities list. This is because the films are set 27 years apart from eachother and in that time difference a lot has changed for instance technology. For instance back in the day to make movies they would use cameras such as this:

However now, to film movies we use cameras such as this: