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Oscar-Winner Diablo Cody Mounting Zombie Movie!!
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Superscreenwriter Diablo Cody, currently batting 1000 with back to back hits “Juno” and Showtime’s “The United States of Tara,” is now venturing into George Romero territory.
The new project is based on S.G. Browne’s novel “Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament,” a zomromcom about a newly undead fellow who joins a support group.
Geoff LaTulippe, the longtime New Line script reader who wrote that studio’s upcoming “Going The Distance,” is aboard to script.
This marks Cody’s third collaboration with Fox Searchlight; they earlier teamed on “Juno” and the Sept. 18 possessed-cheerleader comedy “Jennifer’s Body.”
I love Diablo Cody and I love zombie movies and I am keen to see what comes of this.
Find all of Variety’s Tuesday story on the matter here.
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That little trifecta alone will cause mass AICN suicides.
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This sounds cool
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they HATE Diablo Cody!
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Oscar-Winner Diablo Cody Mounting Cutest_of_Borg
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but I'm getting tired of zombies
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nor do they care about their own feelings. Cutesy bullshit.
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Wow, let's apply a lower standard in evaluating Cody's work because she used to get paid to show off her jugs. Seriously, JUNO was an over-written wet-fart. This fanboy hysteria over her projects is typical and dumb. What's Kerry Conran up to lately? Or Gil Kenan? Cody is joining that list...
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...that there should be more Oscar winners brave enough to handle any kind of horror movies as follow up to their award winning work. Who else does that?
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Whether it's a serious take on the zombie genre or a comical one, it seems like there's a new entry or two every month. Still, I'm sure Cody will put her own spin on it.
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The place where Seth Rogen is talentless, "Juno" is unwatchable and Anne Hathaway is hideous!
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He is just not funny. I'm sure he has a talent or two.
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that dude should get more work. Seriously, I understand Sky Captain bombed, but he should get a job in television or something.
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Where editors have the opportunity to tell the people who butter their bread to go pound sand.
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... has shaped up to be a good show. Everyone needs to stop hating things or people just for the sake of hating. Talkback world is getting quite annoying.
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United States of Tara is rather good though.
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She isn't scripting this, nor writing it. And she doesn't know how to be a producer. In essence, they are putting her name on the project and AICN isn't smart enough to notice that.Fantastic reporting there, Herc.
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Feb 24, 2009 3:30:50 PM CST
Cody is a CLASS ACT. Doesn't let the oscar award go to her head.
by se7en
Doing Genre movies as a follow up to her oscar award. Amazing.
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This glut of zombie flicks is going to make it very hard to pitch my zombie project.
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Where did we say Diablo Cody was writing this?
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meanwhile, enjoy this obnoxious video advert.
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It is over-written in precisely the same manner that Tarantino writes. Nobody actually talks like that. QT doesn't talk like that, nor does Cody. You can't praise QT for his dialogue and then knock Cody for hers when they do have extremely similar writing styles.
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US of Tara pilot was so terrible. Just embarrassingly bad for everyone involved.
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You said that this is a Cody project. It is a fairly common Hollywood practice to attach a name who has nothing to do with the movie. QT's name has been attached to several projects well after a movie was completed, just to attach his name. If a person is simply credited as being a producer when they aren't actually doing production work, then the name is simply being attached.
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I'm waiting for you to become a reality. Bunch of disabled and mentally challenged people living in a community home face off the undead when a worldwide zombie invasion takes place. Also a movie adaption of the book Ladies Night. Sadly, I think it's too late for that... The plot synap for the remake of The Crazies sounds like the plot for Ladies night. A Father trying to get back home to save his son amist the madness after a Givorment Plane crashes releasing the Crazie juice that turns everyone nuts. Jack Kecthum should sue...
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Hahahah fuck, I'm uneducated as hell, and yes I proud of it.
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You didn't say ANTHING about what Diablo Cody was doing. At all. You completely UNREPORTED Cody's role, because you were so obsessed with shoehorning a double entendre like 'mounting' into the subject line, that you failed miserably at telling us anything at all.
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You are just baiting a flame war by referring to Diablo as a Superscreenwriter. Even if you like her screenplays there is no justification for that hyperbole. There isn't even the body of work yet to support such a claim.
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My Boyfriends Back (1993)
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to a stray kitty that kept showing up at my door. One day, kitty wasn't there. Never came back. I cried. Being attached is sometimes sad.
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Where the few people on Earth dwell who watch Joss Whedon tv shows. My take, Seth Rogen isn't talentless, he just needs to be told that not every one of his improv bits is a gold nugget, Juno is a very good movie even if the dialogue maybe a little unrealistic for some (i.e. too witty for it's own good at times, and Anne Hathaway looks like a female Mr. Potato Head.
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Anne Hathaway is pretty if you like extremely pale skin. I saw her in person and she is as white as a ghost. Her face is beautiful, though.
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Just Announced...he's reuniting with Conan.
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She is very pretty, but I wouldn't call her sexy. I'd say the same with gals like Keira Knightly and Natalie Portman.
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I recently saw the movie and basically the characters all speak as if Joss Whedon and Brian Michael Bendis sired a kid, and that kid grew up to be Diablo Cody. Not saying it was bad, because I enjoy wordplay like that, but that was my impression upon seeing it for the first time.
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I don't hate DIablo Cody, I just think she's extremely overrated, and I think it's ridiculous how she is lauded for her dialogue. Like Kevin Smith, Tarantino, and many others, she does not write dialogue per se. She writes lines that she hopes will be repeated breathlessly and listed in the "memorable quotes" section of IMDB. Face it, the "hate" is a product of the ridiculous gushing about her.
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Chris McQuarrie won an Oscar for his second script Usual Suspects. I suppose you could have called him a "superscreenwriter" after that, but you'd look pretty stupid considering everything he's done after that has pretty much bit.
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Yeah, that's pretty much why I hated Juno. The irony is that an indie comedy with the same plot and more realistic dialogue would have probably done a lot less business.
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her demo on here anyway so it's bound to piss folks off on here. This is a Sex and the City type thing going.
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I LOVE that flick - every bit as good as Usual Suspects
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I actually kind of enjoyed it. I thought it was a cute little movie. But, it definitely did not deserve to be nominated for Best Screenplay, let alone Best Picture. Anyone who says otherwise is lying to themselves. And I think the Juno hate is derived from the miscarriage of overratedness. At least I never have to watch Juno again, because it will remind me of the girl I was seeing at the time.
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hit the ground runnin on this one eh? Awesome possum! Seriously, after finally watching Juno I must say that the screenplay gets in the way of a decent little movie only a couple times. Jennifer Garner has a freaky looking giant head that is remarkably shaped like a lightbulb (she should never ever pull her hair back again). Jason Bateman should get lots of more work along with JK Simmons (and probably Cera too). Paige is great, should get more work, but some of the dialogue was cringe inducing-ly distracting (not Paige's fault of course). But yet there are lots of kewl little nuance (one and only vice of orange flavored tic-tacs, etc). And from the pictures I've seen, Cody is quite easy on the eyes and I love any hint of goth/riotgrrl in a woman. But having a line where someone says "shenanigans" or "homeskillet" in a very self-conscious manner when you're not supposed to be acting in a self-conscious manner, is just distractingly stupid.Does this mean I'm a fanboy Diablo Cody lovin jackass or a Diablo Cody hater?You guys seem to have your finger right up the butt and on the inner ass-pulse of what is ok to hate and what is ok to love so what is it?And yes, Herc, calling Cody a "superscreenwriter" right at the start is somewhat bait-worthy yes? But game on! You set em up! Frothing TB'ers knock em down! On and ON and ON, in da BABYLON!!!The Bale TB has popped over 10,000 fucking posts! Historical!
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I haven't seen it - just clips of Sarah SIlverman ragging on some guy. Maybe it's' a good movie, my point was that he kind of fell off the radar after a big splash... So it's a little premature to call Cody a "superscreenwriter," especially when so many people disliked the dialogue in Juno.
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Feb 24, 2009 4:01:40 PM CST
15 minutes of fame up in 5..4..3..2.......................
by stuntcock mike
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ALl I know is I wanted to smack Rainn WIlson after the homeskillet line. Also, her columns for EW are pretty wack.
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Diablows Cody is a fucking horrible writer. Juno, United States of Tara
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All the irony and snappy dialogue with a soft spot for horror and sci-fi. Plus she used to be stripper.
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For real.
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Really? REALLY? Don't be fucking with me please... Really?
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Diablo Cody is the goods. No one creates more three dimensional characters on the page these days.
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three dimensional characters? was the asian girl who was protesing the abortion clinic in a broken english that would be embarrassing to Charlie Chan a three dimensional character? the aforementioned idiot played by Rainn WIlson? Any of the teenagers other than Juno and her best friend and Michael Cera? I'm not a "hater," I just think there's nothing to her.
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I love the fact that I've seen a few talkbacks in the last few days where Harry and the boys come in and lay the smack down on the growing "i hate everything" group, mostly Harry and the boys are right. Some of you people are insufferable.Oh yeah, and if it's really that important to you to have all the movie news first, and AICN doesn't have it first on a consistent basis, why do you bother reading the site? Keep in mind that many of us come here, and only here, for this type of news, and they'd be more remiss for just saying nothing than they are for being late. As if two extra weeks of knowing about this news that you cannot stand would somehow have made your life more palatable.
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In all fairness, when a character appears in a movie for all of two minutes, you can't expect much from them. The Asian protester knew Juno. She was conflicted about wanting to express her beliefs and yet act friendly to the person she was calling out as a dirty sinner. She seemed to be a decent human being, albeit a bit naive. That is more depth than most characters would get in such a short appearance.
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Every time Diablo Cody comes up you see the same argument. People complain about the dialog being ridiculous then other people step up to defend it by citing Tarantino, Whedon and Smith. There is a huge difference in the subject matter though.
Tarantino write for extreme characters in unrealistic situations.
Whedon wrote about vampires and space cowboys.
Smith self endulges in nerd musings filling the gaps with dick and fart jokes.
Cody wrote about teenage pregnacy.
The suspension of disbelief is higher and more acceptble when dealing with the fantastic or absurd. When you have an overly hipster pregnant teen it just doesn't jive for a lot of people.
If you love Cody or hate Cody, whatever just use a better argument when attacking/defending her work.
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As was There Will Be Blood. And No Country For Old Men. 2007 was a good year for overrated films.
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my friends all tell me I am, but up until now I just haven't believed them.
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pretentious writing and sorry acting. She's not batting 1000, more like striking out.
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yeah, but she didnt have to say "all babies want to get borned" I mean, what, is she a fricking exchange student? It seemed like a cheap shot.
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I don't see how Cody can be blamed for acting when she didn't act, nor direct.As for Kevin Smith's writing, my friends and I actually do talk like that.
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So, you're saying that she *didn't* write the pidgin english for the girl? Everything else in the script was hers but Reitman decided "fuck it, I'm going to make this girl a racist stereotype just for shits and giggles?" bullshit, that line was written by Cody, therefore she's responsible.
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Ostrich girl. That ain't hate, either. Her appearance simply does not work FOR ME.
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That's just silly-talk, not Asian-stereotype-silly-talk. If she'd wanted to use an Asian stereotype she'd have had the chick say "You no kirr baby! You baby want rive!"
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If you're upset with the dialogue, then say so. But saying the acting is bad, and then blaming the writer for the acting doesn't make sense.As for the Asian girl, stupid is stupid. A Charlie Chan type character doesn't know English because it isn't their first language. She didn't speak with an accent. I think she was just meant to be a stupid individual, and I think it was political posturing on the part of Cody to suggest that Pro-Life people are idiots. I don't think it was racist subtext.
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Why isn't he here defending his woman?
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Yeah, I'm sure abortion protestors don't know how to speak proper english.
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Does the script even call for that character to be Asian, or was that Reitman's casting?
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the character's name is su-chin, seems pretty obvious to me. In any case, why would Reitman insert a cheap racist shot on his own? Seriously, why defend something like that?
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I just want to say that I'm Pro-Life. Despite that, I want to punch all the protesters I see in front of Planned Parenthood. In some states they do abortions in PP, but in most they don't. That is where girls go to get birth control, or STD tests. You're harassing girls who want go get birth control, which might in turn lead to them getting an abortion later down the road instead.And frankly, showing off pictures of babies killed via abortions isn't going to change strong political opinions, but it will annoy the fuck out of people.As for people who are the middle of the road whose opinions you might actually sway, you actually convince them of the opposite by annoying them. People lose sympathy for annoying protesters and tend to side against their views.Stop harassing girls trying to get birth control. Stop with the disgusting pictures. Stop bombing clinics in the name of "life".You really aren't helping your cause.
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Cody's script got Megan Fox virtually naked for Jennifer's Body. For that, she should be off limits to critisism for the near future.
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TV is the place where character development happens, if you want to write a bunch of stereotypes (a teenager, and redneck and a 50s housewife was it?), write a movie, where you only have 3 hours at the most.
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Warped mirror or something. Of course I would.
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If one Asian character is stupid, that isn't racist. That is just one character who is stupid.This reminds me of the protesters who railed against the Lion King because Scar had a lisp, and they said the message of the movie was to convince kids that all gays are evil (is that entire theory based off the assumption that Jeremy Irons is gay?). And the two hyenas that could talk were played by minorities, so all minorities were evil!That is backwards, asinine logic. Next you are going to suggest that the point of Basic Instinct is that all lesbians are secretly pickax-wielding murderers.
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someone made the decision to have the character talk in broad pidgin english. I remember checking before and noticing that the actress was born in raised in Canada, so I seirously doubt she talks like that normally. Why do that, other than as a cheap joke.
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there was no reason for having the girl speak like that other than to make a cheap joke and have another cute line for IMDB. Either COdy wrote it or Reitman changed it to be funny, which I doubt. No, I don't think Cody thinks all Asian characters are stupid. I just don't know why she included such a cheap joke other than to be clever.
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I'm not changing the subject. It isn't racist to have an Asian who happens to be stupid. It is racist to use racist stereotypes for comedy.By your logic, then any movie that has a stupid character is racist against whichever race the stupid character comes from.Wait, that logic makes you sound stupid! Clearly, this is actually a racist ruse where you are trying to make your race look bad.
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I already explained why she was meant to look stupid. The author was taking a shot at Pro-Lifers. She wanted to portray protesters who stand in front of clinics as stupid. That isn't racism.
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Sometimes looks hot when she shows off her 'girls' but other times she looks to mannequin-like. She still prettier than most of the actresses in her age group and a hell of a lot more talented.
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bullshit. you think that Cody meant to have a white girl (from Minnesota) speaking in broken english? It was a cheap shot, period. (and actually, she isn't meant to be stupid. After all, Juno ends up listening to her). I'm pro-choice, have no truck with anti-abortion protestors, but that was just plain offensive.
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wookie1972 clearly WANTS to be offended by this character. By the way, if you read the actual dialogue http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0055655/quotes "all babies want to get borned" is the only poor English the character speaks. It's not like she's the chick from MadTV or something.
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I love Script Girl too! Give me a woman who loves what she does and has a great time doing it over someone who will watch TV and get old with me, anyday. I've got a life to live myself, and anyone passionate and talented enough to interest me in what she's up to is bringing something into my life. I'm crushin' on you, Diablo! Damn your man for being so goddamn awesome! How can you guys not be inspired and excited by these women? Are you f*cking dead? Are you Beavis and Butthead, or what? Are your television and your couch that important?
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I love Anne Hathaway too! She's creating a new breed of actress, and other women starting in the lap of family entertainment had best pay mind.
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Where film reviewers post their review in big red unreadable fonts or talk about their entire day leading up to the film
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Yes, I think that Cody intended for the character to use broken English to convey that she was stupid. That is precisely my point. It only took me explaining it something like seven times until you got it. Meanwhile, you insist that a writer is not allowed to make a character stupid unless they are racist. I've come to the conclusion that you are an idiot.
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Sorry, buddy, but it don't make sense. A kid who goes to school with Juno would probably not be speaking in broken english (and I would think that someone who is protesting at a clinic would probably know how to say the word "born"). There is no reason for having her talk that way unless it was to make a rather cheap joke. It was just a stupid, pointless line that drew attention to the script, like most of the rest of the script.
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Yes, a kid going to public school couldn't possibly use broken English for one line. It is beyond all reason. You have validated your initial stated opinion that the script is racist.
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I didn't say it was unwatchable. I mean, I've watched a lot of wet farts in my time, more than I'm glad to admit. Don't go running away with that Herc-hyperbole now.
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I await your next nugget of wisdom. I seek further enlightenment.
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See, Cody plays to that sort of demographic. Chatty, overwritten characters making automatic-fire pop-culture references that would make Dennis Miller want to vomit.
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I meant that the line was in there for no other reason that to put up the person for ridicule, and the way Cody did it was with a pidgin english stereotype. It called attention to itself, as does nearly every other line Cody writes, both onscreen and in print.
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In summation:* Any time a character is portrayed as stupid, it is racist.
* A kid in public school is not allowed to be stupid.
* Jokes serve no purpose in a comedy. The writer should be ashamed of making jokes.
* Even though borned has never once been used as a stereotype of pidgin English, you insist it is. And we can't question your vast knowledge.
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Nobody is saying Cody isn't allowed to over-write her stuff whereas others (Tarantino, etc.) get a free pass. Bad writing is bad writing, no matter the genre. It appears more obvious when you have a supposed teenage girl running around pregnant making way too many cool references to be believable. Sure, I've not spent a lot of time with pregnant teens to confirm they don't sound like Juno, but have you? No, because we don't need that experience to say it doesn't work onscreen.
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I've never complained on a talkback about late movie news, but I start to see the complainers point. Cause now I'm getting movie news in a Swedish evening newspaper. News that days, sometimes weeks later end up here on AICN as just NEWS. Still, I come here for the talkbacks, which are hiii-larious!
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I love her too... even if she is a smelly Hawkeye!
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The only difference between Cody and Tarantino, is that Tarantino wrote a couple of good scripts to make a name for himself, Cody has never written anything. It is well known that Juno was MASSIVELY REWRITTEN by a hired studio hack. Right now, Tarantino is just as bad as Cody, if not worse. He has not written a decent original script since Reservoir Dogs, that's sad. He co-wrote Pulp, adapted Jackie Brown, rest after that is shite.
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Despite (not because of) it's pretentious hipster nonconformity, I really enjoyed Juno and could tell the cast a lot of fun with it as well. I tend to think writers like QT and even Bendis are considered "fun to work with" precisely because they're not writing realism. I can dig that and Juno still holds up, in multiple viewings for me.
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...that thick, juicy dumper of hers.
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fucking whore turned screen writer.
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Everything, EVERYTHING that happens in Juno was scripted right down to the goddamn hamburger phone and, yes, even the Asian girl saying "borned" instead of "born". That doesn't make her a racist. The fact that you even remember that Asian girl who was on screen for all of two seconds is a testament to someone who can create detailed characters and not just shells for actors to inhabit.
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I think you are confused. The WGA is usually pretty protective of giving credit to every writer who adds two lines to a movie. It isn't uncommon for others to polish or rewrite a script, but they get credit for it. I'm not sure where you get this notion that other people wrote Juno, given that Reitman insists he fell in love with it from the first draft, as does every single actor who first read the script.QT however plagiarized Leonard. When he was caught later, he said he put his own spin on the work, which is fine, except you can't claim a screenplay is original if you're adapting someone's book.
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Feb 24, 2009 6:09:26 PM CST
Juno was overated shit. Cody should go back to pole dancing.
by stalkeye
And who gives a fuck what Herc/Necray says?I wouldn't even torrent this pretentous upcoming garbage.And yes, I too love Zombie films.
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A script shouldn't say what is in a movie! The movie should all be improv!Read the Pulp Fiction script, which many praised as the best script in a decade. It also includes tons of specific details, specific songs playing in the background, and even how the dialogue should be delivered.
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A script depends on its writer. It's up to them how much detail they want to include. It's up to a director to decide how much of that detail makes it into the film. The film you saw is the film she wrote. You want all improv? Watch a Judd Apatow movie. You want a writer who can create that world on the page and have it exist on the page just as three-dimensional as the film, Diablo's the goods.
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Any movie that features zombies that talk or chill out or get depressed or whatever is at best a parody of real zombie movies, and almost without exception these deviant zombie movies suck balls. This movie will be dead on arrival. With such a stupid premise nothing can save it.
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I wonder if all the nutjobs who are just OUTRAGED that scriptgirl's videos show up on this site, are the same ones that are OUTRAGED that Diablo Cody is getting films made (with accolades).
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Is going to be fucking epic on an epic scale. I can't wait to see it. It's going to be the big-budget epic zombie story that Romero never got the chance to make. It's going to start a new golden age of horror films.
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Feb 24, 2009 6:33:50 PM CST
Remove the gaps and read all about Juno's inherently flawed stru
by dogstardude
http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/08/47/juno.html
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Wow. The best possible reaction to that article would be http://xkcd.com/451/
First off, Garden State is a fantastic movie that is entirely about ennui, and so is I Heart Huckabees. Juno is not. Juno suggests it was boredom that led her to sex, but I doubt that was the case. The resolution of the film is the resolution of her relationship with Paulie. The movie is actually a fairly typical rom-com, except for two major differences. The first is the dialogue. The second is the romantic angle, but most rom-coms try to put some type on spin on this.Ennui films don't have resolution because there is no real answer for a person who can't answer the questions introspection has left them with.It is absurd to assume this is a film about ennui when Juno is fairly unique in cinema as a strong female character who makes decisions for herself.Females in movies are either window dressing, or the now cliched anti-cliche, of a kick-ass woman who doesn't need rescuing (like Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Juno has moments of doubt, such as initially heading down to the abortion clinic, but the entirety of the movie is predicated on her taking action and accountability for her decisions. She instigates sex. She pushes her relationship. She decides to keep the baby. She find a family. She makes the adoption work, even with that couple gets divorced.That article goes farther in depth in bullshit posturing, saying that specific jokes are misdirection about the real message that it provides none. First off, that author completely missed what messages do exist in the film, and the supposed opposing jokes aren't opposing themes in the movie, nor are they really oppositional at all.In depth analysis is predicated on contrasting and comparing, so the author of that essay was looking for contrast where there was none.The article tries to make sense of her parents minor role in her life, which not only is completely outside the realm of the movie, but also complete BS. Juno has an extremely open relationship with her parents. She is very forthcoming with them. Her parents attempt to offer her advice and guideance (which the author insists they don't) which she somewhat ignores, because Juno makes her own decisions. Some work out, and some are naive (such as trusting Bateman's character not to hit on her, but the fact that they show her putting on lipstick before visiting him reflects her fickle female nature, to want him to be attracted to her, even if she doesn't want him to actually seduce her).In summation, the XKCD comic says it better than I can.Oh, and dogstardude, that article isn't about structure. The article is about theme. -
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Showed her tits for money? Won an Oscar? Likes Zombies?! She's like Orson Welles.
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All the posts in talkback are gone.
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Why this site continues to give plaigiarist diablo cody press boggles my mind. I'm still waiting for her to americanize another korean movie and get it called "original" at the oscars again... everytime I hear her name I wanna vomit... scriptgirl has more credibility than that hack whore cody...
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So it's all cool.
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There is one website, with fans putting subtitles over a trailer, except the comments say the subtitles are fake. I'm pretty sure with the internet being what it is, shit like this tends to blow up huge if there is any validity to it at all. However, QT was caught plagiarizing, though he claims it is original because he shuffled the material out of order.
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in addition to attempting to ruin the zombie genre (after apparently having run entirely out of ideas for 'romcoms' (thank god for that)), they are so bereft of ideas for titles that they are using a HOLE song. what next? NOTE: there is nothing wrong with strippers (unless they are crackheads, junkies, psychos, or some combination thereof). oh, they're OK for a lapdance, but let's not have them getting uppity (sarcasm, in case you can't recognize it)
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Thanks for cutting off my title aintitcool. The rest read: "...structure from the perspective of a giant wanker"
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Diablo Cody is fun.
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Like I said in another thread, AICN offers 1996 web technology in 2009. They seriously need to rewrite the site.
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Fucking hippies.
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USoT is LAME!!!
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Her half-baked writing is ham-fisted and manipulative. Three dimensional?.. more like "Three sheets to the wind".
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Tara is fantastic and I tend to agree that most of the people ripping on it haven't watched more than one episode, if even that.
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It's Brooke Something-or-other.
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Who gives a fuck about another cheap "rom zom com"? Shawn of the Dead was already done and it was lame and only mildly funny.
Nobody cares about these low-budget pointless wastes of celluloid/videotape.
Just give us World War Z, or some other, better, bigger, more epic, more bleak, realistic, horrific apocalyptic movie. Nobody has done it yet.
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it has been done before has it not?
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I always felt films like the Dawn of the Dead remake started off interesting with everything suddenly and chaotically going to hell but unfortunately they never show enough of it before going to a bunch of people stuck in a room or somewhere where they can't see what's going on.
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cameos on 30 ROCK, where absolutely nobody will notice neither the annoying actor or the sitcom (30 ROCK needs "provocative" p.r. where the head writer is portrayed as a bullet-ridden chimp. The show may crack the Nielsen 101+ level of visibility).
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I can respect her doing a zombie movie.
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"Who gives a fuck about another cheap "rom zom com"? Shawn of the Dead was already done and it was lame and only mildly funny."
LOWLY DOG! BOW YOUR HEAD!
SHAUN OF THE DEAD was a bona fide classic. If you want to see a misfire, wait until LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS comes out, it's going to be truly shite.
That said... There is a movie that truly delivered an apocalypse. It's called THREADS, was made in the UK in the early 1980s, written by Barry Hines (who wrote KES) and was properly, gut-wrenchingly, terrifyingly REAL. It also followed the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust through to fifteen years later, and it is the single most depressing and horrifying movie you'll ever see. I watched REQUIEM FOR A DREAM for light relief after THREADS. Then I went and rang the Samaritans, and had to watch FAMILY GUY for 24 hrs straight just to convince myself life was worth living again.
Seriously, THREADS is one authentic apocalypse movie. It's not filmed on a global scale, but there's no more final end-of-the-world movie out there. It's grim. -
Can't wait to see that though - done properly, with the requisite amount of respect for the material. Especially the Battle of Yonkers...
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...Anne Hathaway is hideous in the real world too. I got some fucking sick fetishes, but I'm not gonna write anyone up as crazy for not indulging them with me. Its cool that you like your bitches looking like a Mr Ed in drag, but most functioning penii don't go that way.
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cody wouldn't be so fucking ridiculous if she hadn't come up with such a fucking ridiculous name. juno, like little miss sunshine, was all hype and no substance. mediocre movies marketed as great indie efforts. sorry, not buying it. juno was marketing. "juno, written by former stripper diablo cody" sounds a lot more catchy than what it should have been marketd as, "juno, written by former secretary brooke busey." because seriously, people. she worked IN a strip club part time for less than a few months. she was never a "stripper" in the sense that you could take a lunch break and head out to the strip joint and see her juggs. bs, bs, bs. when people stop falling for it, i'll stop hating on the fuckers who perpetuate it.
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i would bang the shit out of anne hathaway. that girl is a piece of ass. who cares if she's got a big mouth. the better to fit my fat lenny in.
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Oh, the fat pimply shit in his mom's basement is the judge of whether Anne Hathaway is a lovely young woman or not? (for the record, she is, to more people than not, so really, what makes you think you're the final arbiter? You're a joke.) As for Diablo Cody's writing skills, if people enjoy what she writes then she's a good writer. if you don't you can go promote who you DO like, not try to tear down what you don't, you sad, pathetic, weak-souled little twitburgers.
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LOL.
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People that get pissed when others express an opinion on something. Boo-hoo. I don't like the flims (sorry. 1 film) of Diablo Cody. But beyond that? I don't like the fact that she used the fact that she was a stripper for a month to sell herself to the public like she was New Coke or something. I understand that everything in Hollywood comes down to marketing these days, but the Diablo Cody "brand name" and the blatant crass cynicism behind it makes me wanna puke.
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JUNO was AWFUL. Absolutely awful. Forced, fake, crypto-conservative bullshit with some of the WORST dialogue I have ever heard in a movie. NOBODY talks like that in real life, and nothing in the film smacked of insight or reality. An abysmal film. How it was nominated for anything other than the cut-out bin at Wal-Mart I have no idea.
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Your right, Juno would have been much better if she waited 'till she was 8 1-2 months, then aborted the shit out of that mass of cells.
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I would give up a year of my life to buy Anne Hathaway a cup of coffee, she's that classy and beautiful. Not that that could happen.
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...but Cody is a creature of pure marketing. "I'll get some tattos, dye my hair black and comb it into Bettie Page bangs, work in a strip club for a month, then write about it & use it to break into the biz." Hipster-poser with halfway decent writing skills. *Yawn* She could at lest do better than produce a zombie flick.. Zombies are this year's vampires... played out and terminally boring an lame. True blog!
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...is almost a better stripper name than "Diablo Cody" ever was (sounds like what a writer for an afternoon soap would think is an appropriate name for a pole dancer). No imagination.
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The way the actors portrayed the characters.
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Feb 25, 2009 2:36:10 PM CST
Oscar winning Diablo Cody mounting my 7 inch mushroom tip
by iwasredempted
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part 3. search your feelings. you know this to be true.
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The shaft must be humongous!
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I'm actually changing the direction of my zombie webcomic, just because all of these stupid hack zombie movies coming out. Not that my idea is some great serious piece of art, but still... Zombies with feelings. Doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose. If anyone's interested in my take on the zombieverse, just Google "Bear Versus Zombies" and you will be bestowed with Over the top zombie webcomic stupidity.
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"Oscar winning Diablo Cody mounting my 7 inch mushroom tip" ha, only took a few seconds.
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the dialogue of teens is way more realistic in Ultimate Spider-Man than Juno.
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Feb 25, 2009 4:13:58 PM CST
The thing that is wrong with Juno is the critics who called it
by most excellent ninja
"hilarious". Now hilarious is a word I would put next to movies like "Naked Gun" or at least "Superbad". So I go in there expecting to laugh my ass off. A chuckle doesn't make a movie hilarious. It just proved that so many critics are old cunts with no sense of humor.
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And we hate her.
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yeah the shaft takes up the rest of the 12 inches. strange i know but the ladies enjoy it.
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Why all the hate towards Cody? She was a stripper. She has tattoos. That means she's sub-human? Jesus, how judgmental are you guys? I thought Juno was okay, but just barely. Not one of my favorite movies. But US of Tara? I really like it. Now this Oscar-winning writer wants to do a zombie flick? What's not to like? Is all the hate based on the fact she's a girl, rather than a guy? Are you giving too much weight to the Star Wars action figures talking into your ears?
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very sweet girl. of course she was going under the name sister slipstream at the time. i tucked a fiver under her g-string and asked her to marry me. she always did have talent.
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doing this kind of thing better and for longer?
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Normally I don't like all the hate on AICN forums, but I'm about to do some hating of my own. I truly loathed Bottle Rocket. Rushmore kept me interested, but there was no ending and not once did I remotely laugh. I don't think it was funny. I've skipped most of his work since, though I did see the Hotel Chevalier short, which I really didn't like either. The writing was terrible, and the Natalie Portman nudity was disturbing given how skinny she was then. It was like seeing a naked Skeletor.
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It is entirely possible that many of you are like the Kevin Smith haters, and just extremely jealous that a geek managed to become popular and successful while you're just hating on the internet.However, in your defense, I'm sitting here really trying to digest what Juno so great, and a big part of it could be attributed to Ellen Paige's performance. Cody could be getting some credit for Paige here, but I happen to dig the dialogue and the performance actually.
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That "defense" was right up there with being in prison and getting ass-raped by a member of the Aryan Nation instead of getting shived by a Crip. Douche.
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I LOVE her, and want to put my pee-pee into her poo-hole. JUNO was a'ight.
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