Following the final week of feedback, I found that again, my project lacked enough context to be understood, especially by those who were not familiar with the film.
I also found that while I was successful in translating the medium of the source material from film to illustration, the meaning remained essentially the same.
One really useful piece of feedback pointed out that the way the coloring book was structured was reminiscent of playing cards.
This led me to the creation of my own version of a Loteria, a Mexican game similar to bingo played with 54 cards. Each card depicts a single item or person, and while some subjects are generic (sun, tree, watermelon), others are quintessentially Mexican (nopal, flag, chalupa).
Seen from a foreign perspective, Clueless could be perceived as a tale about a girl living the American Dream. Cher, in a sense, has won the lottery. Her world is made up of the wealth and material possessions that people dream of.
In this project, the illustrations of the film becpme icons of her existence, things that as a whole painted a picture of a life lived in American privilege.
Creating the Loteria it became possible to transcend the narrative of the film itself, to capture more than just the zeitgeist of the 90s, but a more profound truth of the aspirational nature of the lives depicted.
By keeping the cards in Spanish and using Mexican slang specifically for various cards, the game also became a social commentary, poking deliberate fun at the world of the film while also acknowledging it as something to aspire to, like winning the lottery.