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Easy A 2010 DVD Movies
Easy A 2010 DVD Movies
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Easy A is a frothy, fizzy, and funny romantic comedy for teens–and adults will love it too. Not since Clueless has a high-school heroine been able to delight both audiences, and Easy A’s Olive (the sparkling Emma Stone) is a stellar young star. But Easy A benefits from a great script by writer Bert V. Royal and assured direction by TV veteran Will Gluck. Olive is a smart girl happy to stay in the shadows of high school, until her good friend, Brandon (Dan Byrd), who’s gay, begs her to pretend to have sex with him so the rest of the school will stop picking on him. She obliges, but soon she picks up not one but two reputations–as the girl who sleeps around, and, on the down-low, as the girl who’ll pretend to sleep with a guy so he won’t be branded a virgin. Soon Easy A’s complications pile up higher than the entrance of Olive’s high school, and her two story lines, neither of which reflects the real Olive, take on lives of their own. There are backlashes and blacklists and repercussions galore. “I always thought pretending to lose my virginity would feel a little more special,” muses Olive. “Judy Blume should have prepared me for that.” Stone is accompanied by a strong supporting cast: Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson as her bemused parents, Gossip Girl’s dreamy Penn Badgley, the freshly unretired Amanda Bynes, Thomas Haden Church, Lisa Kudrow, and Malcolm McDowell. And it’s to the cast’s and the writer’s credit that the audience is kept engaged, and guessing, till the very end. Easy A should be awarded exactly that. –A.T. Hurley
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OLIVE AN AVERAGE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT, SEES HER BELOW THE RADAR EXISTENCE TURN AROUND OVERNIGHT ONCE SHE DECIDES TO USE THE SCHOOL’S GOSSIP GRAPEVINE TO ADVANCE HER SOCIAL STANDING.
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Reflecting on the conflicts and stresses of adolescence,the movie dissected the phase of “role identification” to the nitty-gritty details.
It all starts with the confusion and uncertainties of growing up. Some fellows like to see others venture into uncharted territories for the sake of testing the limits. Others have the imagination and shrewdness to create fictional scenarios that help them get along with peer pressure. When fiction and realities collide, the herd gets a sense of the loose boundaries of their relationships. Each member of the heard has his/her defense mechanisms. Some are more comfortable with their confusion than others.
Confusion about sex, God, love, friendship, and their role in society was a product of family, teachers, media, and the obligation of conforming to the school rules. One child’s family that was excessively promiscuous led to a child that is obsessed with her parents’ delusion. Another child with religious upbringing struggled between reality and the abstract of religion.
Both youth and adults faced different challenges, but all challenges were compounded with the views imposed by others rather than the immediate combatants. Even though the movie ended with the slogan “whatever I do is not of your business”, it apparently proved beyond doubt that peer pressure and public opinion have greater impact of the people than what some may contend otherwise.
Easy A, for awesome, was truly awesome.
Rumor has it that even God was rolling in laughter at the insightful sleights leveled at the overly righteous inquisitors that are found lurking in every backyard. Witness this Pastor’s line: “The Christian Church recognizes the existence of hell. Right below our feet, right above the Orient.” For those of you who are not up on stereotypic & racially charged terms – Orient, and it’s derivatives is one of those terms. Of course, the location part is funny in it’s own right.
Or, this line about finding the Bible in a bookstore shelved with Twilight. Does that mean it’s shelved in the popularity section and competing for attention with vampires. Or, does it mean it’s in the myth section.
Or, is it in the Biology section subcategorized under sucking-life methodologies.
But, the best line was the comment about reading 600 pages of single spaced Bible text: “And as every war that’s ever been fought can tell you, there are many ways you can interpret it.” “Except the civil war. That was pure racism.”
Religious fervor aside the script and acting were top notch with expressions, gestures, insights, comebacks and retorts constantly coming at you at the highest creatively intelligent level.
Easy A is one of those movies that successfully portrait the high school universe, a universe that was magical for some of us, less so for some others. The movie has been receiving many positives reviews and rightfully so. What makes the movie work is without a doubt Emma Stone as Olive Penderghast. Stone was in the movies Superbad, House Bunny, Zombieland and a few others but I think Easy A is be the movie that will truly makes her a star. I always loved Emma and it’s great to see her as the lead role in Easy A, she was just a perfect fit for the role and brings a lot to the table. Olive is one of those movie characters I wish I could be friends with. Her lovable, very open-minded and funny parents (Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson) are wonderful and supportive of their daughter. Her little brother doesn’t get much screen time but he’s funny and charming. Amanda Bynes who usually plays the good girl plays a not-so nice Christian girl, Olive’s nemesis Marianne. The cast of characters are funny, likeable and some are very 80′s-ish if there is such a thing.
I really liked he 80′s tribute part of the movie, good call on that one. In fact, the older and more experienced viewer might get the feel that the Easy A was going for a 1980s John Hughes teenage type of movie and in some ways it is the case. At times it really remembers those classics Hughes movies and captures some of the feel, not completely but very close, as close as it will get today at least. It’s certainly nice to have nostalgia in the movie and you better bet that you’ll want to be watching some of those classic teenage 1980′s comedies again. It’s also very clear that Easy A has been highly influenced by those 80′s comedies.
It would be nice if Easy A would be considered a classic in the future, it deserves to be. I think it has a lot of emotional appeal and is just an overall excellent movie and I believe, one of the highlights of 2010. Easy A gets an A in my book and I strongly encourage you to watch this movie, it’s very entertaining and worth your time. I’ve seen it twice as of writing this and I will no doubt watch it some more once it is released on DVD and Blue-Ray.
I first took notice of Emma Stone in “House Bunny” where she played an ugly duckling sorority girl turned swan. She more than held her own with Anna Faris which is no small accomplishment. She was good in “Zombieland” but that was more of an ensemble film that didn’t allow her to stand out. “Easy A” is not only a starring vehicle for Stone but allows her to spread her wings and shine. The film is basically a retelling of “The Scarlet Letter” by way of John Hughes. Stone plays Olive, an independent thinking high-school student whose iconoclasm stymies her efforts to fit in. Olive embellishes to a friend a tale of her losing her virginity and the ensuing firestorm takes her by surprise. At first Olive is bemused but then decides to use her newfound notoriety to her financial advantage. As her reputation as a tramp escalates Olive feeds the flames but the results begin to backfire on her. “Easy A” makes some interesting points about the teen class system, sex, and morality. This is easily the best comedy of the year. Stone was recently nominated for a Golden Globe in the Comedy-Musical category. It’s not a stretch seeing her nominated for an Oscar this year even though the actress category is going to be highly competitive.