How does your media product represent particular social groups?
The character of Louis could be compared to Jay from The Inbetweeners TV series and movie. Both characters are represented as typical teenage boys, who are both concerned with drinking, good times, and women. Louis' love of a good time is represented quite early on in the opening sequence; from the fact that he is drink/hungover and from the small flashbacks, whereas Jay's love of the same things are shown through his constant want to go to parties, drink and hang out with his friends. Louis' concern for women isn't shown much in the opening sequence, but is shown by his paranoia that he perhaps took it too far with his best friends sister, whereas throughout The Inbetweeners, Jay makes his wish to get all the girls clear throughout every episode and regularly throughout the movie.
Both characters also have darker senses of humour and a habit of being rude to their friends. Louis' darker humour is shown from the flashbacks of where he is torturing Barry and winding him up, and he finds it amusing before winding Barry up further by reminding him that he is claustrophobic as he is taped to a tree. Jay doesn't necessarily wind his friends up, but he's very often less than nice to them.
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