EASY A poster: Emma Stone is a cheap, easy, floozy tramp biting her lip
EASY A poster: Emma Stone is a cheap, easy, floozy tramp biting her lip
Jul 01
The typical formula for a teen comedy involves a group of guys trying to get laid, usually with some kind of bet to see who can have sex first. So, what if we tried to swap genders? Wouldn’t the resulting film involve ladies trying to score the hottest guys in school? Nah! We all saw how The House Bunny turned out.
Cast one hottie and call her an adulteress (hence the title, Easy A) because she scores all the guys… and we’ll keep it safe because she’s not actually doing anything naughty, just pretending. That is, until she finds the right guy (I’m sure).
Easy A‘s trailer didn’t try too hard to oversell itself and painted a picture of what should be a tolerable teen comedy. The poster does similar things: simple, straight forward and intriguing. Plus any image of Emma Stone biting her bottom lip, no matter how goofy she looks, is alright with me.
Easy-A is released 11 November 2010 in Australia, almost two whole months after the States (17 September).
Same pose, same type of movie as “Mean Girls”.
At least they managed to spell rumour right.
Misogyny, yay!
The usual flip American crap pretending to be socially cutting wit. Unfortunately, the enduring stereotype of the female human being labeled a whore, while the filthy & promiscuous boys are not is not ever examined or challenged: How does an act that requires 2 people leave only 1 ‘dirty’? This worthy successor of the equally glib & asinine “Juno” has no connection to actual human reality, especailly not that of women or girls (neither of which ever has an improved reputation for sexual promiscuity).
I haven’t actually seen the movie but I’m pretty sure the antagonists are the ones calling the main character a whore, and the message of the film is (hopefully) that casual sex isn’t the evil thing the church has been trying to push it as for the past few centuries.
I don’t know any thinking or caring adult who would advocate casual sex as good, especially for an adolescent. My point was that I’m tired of the label “Whore” being used for the female sex. It would be more trenchant and insightful for an American movie to question the misogyny behind that social practice & to hold the real whores–the boys–responsible, rather than imply that there’s nothing wrong with children fornicating.