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If you're patient enough and watch all the seasons and follow all the viral stuff and watch all the webisodes and read the literature YOU'L GET THE ANSWERS OK?
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Jennifer's Cop-Out
I saw the movie Jennifer's Body last night, and I was not really expecting something huge. I was a fan of Juno and Diablo Cody's quirky articles she writes for Entertainment Weekly, so why not give her new comedy/horror-flick a try?
The movie opens and what is the premise? A girl, in a mental institution is telling how she got there. After that, I didn't give one care about the movie.
No no no no no no no! Diablo Cody, even I thought you were better than that.
Allow me to explain...
It is my belief that whenever someone writes a story, play, movie, whathaveyou, that focuses on a character in a mental institution, it is just a half-assed story. It is a cop-out. Crazy people are easy to write about because you can give them their crazy flaws without explaination. The characters aren't deep, they just provide something to write about.
What I hate more about these easy characters is the fact that writer's have probably never set foot in such a place, and they build it to fit whatever torture these "characters" are set to endure.
I know that by now you are asking me, "Wait, Rebecca, didn't you write a play set in a mental institution?"
My answer: yes. I did. And I am ashamed of it. I live in agony over it every day! While The Mentality Club was funny, it was a quick production. I needed a play for school and that was easy to come up with. It is, sadly, my cop-out play. It is my bastard child. I just kind of have to put up with it until it's old enough to live on it's own.
I'm confused about my feelings for Diablo Cody now. I know why she wrote this movie, she had a hit with Juno, and she's looking to create her sophomore script. I understand it. I can sympathize with it. But that doesn't mean I will forgive it.
The movie opens and what is the premise? A girl, in a mental institution is telling how she got there. After that, I didn't give one care about the movie.
No no no no no no no! Diablo Cody, even I thought you were better than that.
Allow me to explain...
It is my belief that whenever someone writes a story, play, movie, whathaveyou, that focuses on a character in a mental institution, it is just a half-assed story. It is a cop-out. Crazy people are easy to write about because you can give them their crazy flaws without explaination. The characters aren't deep, they just provide something to write about.
What I hate more about these easy characters is the fact that writer's have probably never set foot in such a place, and they build it to fit whatever torture these "characters" are set to endure.
I know that by now you are asking me, "Wait, Rebecca, didn't you write a play set in a mental institution?"
My answer: yes. I did. And I am ashamed of it. I live in agony over it every day! While The Mentality Club was funny, it was a quick production. I needed a play for school and that was easy to come up with. It is, sadly, my cop-out play. It is my bastard child. I just kind of have to put up with it until it's old enough to live on it's own.
I'm confused about my feelings for Diablo Cody now. I know why she wrote this movie, she had a hit with Juno, and she's looking to create her sophomore script. I understand it. I can sympathize with it. But that doesn't mean I will forgive it.
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