Clueless Emma
Not a day goes by without a teenager's mind giving way to a daydream revolving around their favorite teen idol.
 A guy finally gets his chance to  kiss Alicia Silverstone, while a girl squeals ,"I do" to her Hollywood Heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio. 
How many days go by before the teenager's mind begins thinking of a great literary classic? 
Could it be two weeks, nine weeks, or seven months perhaps? 
It is attitudes like this, that have spawned several creative directors to turn literature hits into hit movies by cautiously tricking their teenage audience. 
Films like '10 Things I Hate About You'(Taming of the Shrew), 'Cruel Intentions'(Le Liasions Dangerouse) as well  as 'She's All That'(My Fairy Lady/Pygmalion) are but a few examples of their talent in action.
The sire of all these films is a 90's twist of Jane Austin's classic "Emma." 
This movie is well known by the teenage audience as 'Clueless.' 
This essay will touch upon the similarities that thousands of teenagers adore in 'Clueless,' and the differences placed there in order to keep the teenage audience from realizing that they were actually watching a classic. 
The plot is the major similarity between the paperback and the screen. 
The story follows a rich matchmaker who lives with her widowed father. 
In all her attempts to find her friends suitable matches, she digs herself into all kinds of trouble. 
 A friend of the family, who is considered like a son by her father, often visits and teases her about her hopeless attempts on finding everyone a match but herself. 
She just smiles and responds with a witty remark and comments that she has no use for such a thing. 
As the story goes on she begins to realize she has strong feelings for the man her father considers a son. 
At the end of our tale, the two end up together and are blissfully happy. 
The other thing that is very similar is the main characters' personalities. 
 Both Emma and Cher are extremely popular girls in their towns; no one can see any faults with either of them, despite the various mistakes they so obviously make. 
A lot of the situations stay the same as well. 
One of the most memorable scenes in 'Clueless' is when Cher tries to set up her friend Tie with the popular Eliot. She finds out first hand how that failed when he takes her for a ride in his car and tries to force himself upon her. This scene was derived perfectly from Jane Austin's "Emma".
 Emma tries to set up her friend Harriet with a suitable match, but watches in disappointment as it fails; the man advances upon Emma instead.
One of the major things the director changes in order to hide the classic from the publics' eyes is the setting. 
While Jane Austin's "Emma" takes place in the turn of the century Highbury, England, the matchmaker's tale is moved into present day and settles in Los Angeles, California. 
This approach carefully erases the lines that the audience would tie into a classic book.
 It also adds to the audiences' connection to the tale that is told.
Another thing that changes is the characters social presence. 
Emma is changed into a 16-year-old girl named Cher who battles the everyday life of an adolescent with a cell phone in one hand and a credit card in the other. 
This was done in order for the teenage audience to relate to our main character. 
While some of the situations in "Emma" and 'Clueless' are the same some were changed slightly in order to make up for the dropping of age. 
For example, one of  the unsuccessful matches involving the heroin herself changes from a married man to a gay guy. 
The pressure Emma is given about not seeking a husband for herself is the pressure added on Cher on not having a highschool boyfriend.
In conclusion, the sire of all the 90's "classic films", 'Clueless', has done a successful job in masking the connection between the classic literature piece and the film. 
Only a careful eye can depict the true origin of this comedic romance. 
Both the similarities and differences in these stories make it one of the most time transcending tales ever told.