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Opinion by
arrowone
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11 months ago
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hi all. ain't it great we can finally have opinions about things again now that we swept that white trash bush administration out the door? Trying to tell a bunch of saddened people they're not criminals for having opinions like we weren't crushed over 9/11 too. And that's why Diablo Cody is a genius. She probably had Juno finished for the longest time and nobody wanted to buy it until she watched enough Fox News and such and realized that "hey...maybe my protagonist should KEEP the baby." She started to do what all starving script writers have done during the wifebeater bush years -- ask themselves how to make their stuff acceptable in a world where everyone thinks it's cool to be callous jerks only to discover their own government ripped them off took their houses drowned their relatives in New Orleans and made raising a kid in this country a chore at worst a crying shame at best. What's my kid supposed to be? A bully so he succeeds? Or a nice kid I like having around so he fails? And everyone's a hillbilly creep. Even people who aren't white and many of them played along with the new Bush Nazism (2000-2008), thinking it was cool to use people for the purposes of climbing up in...
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Opinion by
arrowone
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11 months ago
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I've seen this movie out of the corner of my eye on my laptop many times. Spider-Man 3 and Dark Knight as well. So I have lots of opinions about Juno. Here's what I liked.
1) Alison Janney's character was the best concept in the script. The idea that she's disrespected and regarded as ineffectual and a nuisance until the day there's actually something going on that she should be on the ball for. And damned if she is. What a nice metaphor for what Moniq was saying.
2) Juno's friend is so fine. Honest to blog.
3) The storyline with the Lorings fit in no other movie except Juno. A major strength in Diablo Cody's script is the understanding that certain scenes SPECIFICALLY GO WITH CERTAIN PROJECTS while others don't. Nothing in Juno doesn't belong and very few scenes in Juno would fit in any other movie out there. All these are VERY good things. At least to me.
4) The fact that the script allows Juno to freewheel from a failed attempt being a homewrecker to making up with Bleeker like nothing ever happened is very interesting because it's so...FEMINIST. Such a stamp of female empowerment. We're used to the woman's decisions...
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Opinion by
arrowone
posted
11 months ago
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Okay homeskillet and homeskilletettes. Before you write a movie-mov, you have to follow ten major steps.
1. Give yourself a year to write it...but don't get started until 364 days in. The dialogue will flow more naturally on the fly with eight hours and a hundred pages to go.
2. Come up with a super genius funny gimmick like I did in Juno with the barfing in Bren's urn. I was so proud of that. So so proud of it. DIDN'T YOU THINK IT WAS CLEVER?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
3. I don't like to paint my characters in a corner just to have to figure out ways to get them out. I prefer to just cut to the ending. I mean who's gonna tell?
4. Now Asian characters can be tricky. Originally I was going to play Su-Chin like a Vietnamese hooker. I was met with resistence. That's gonna happen in what I call "the biz". BUT I DID get to keep her broken English. All babies want to get borned!
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