Your first glimpses of Easy A may lead you into believing that it is yet another teen movie. The high school comedy, with a compilation of stereotyped characters, love conquests, and school ‘dramas’. But don’t let your intuition drive you away from this movie, or in other words – don’t judge a book by its cover. Not many films can top some of the high school greats – 10 things I hate about you and American Pie, but Easy A is a certain exemption from some of the tacky high school flops, and its inclusion of post modernism and post feminism alongside the ‘typical’ high school drama add depth to the film.
The first I heard of Easy A was from the boyfriend. He mentioned watching it and actually enjoying it. Despite his evident liking for Emma Stone he was adamant that she wasn’t the alluring factor and that he truly enjoyed it. Baffled as to why he ditched the guns and fighting for a high school comedy I was intrigued into catching up with this movie.
Olive Penderghast (Emma Stone) like many high school students just wants to be popular, and become the object of her colleges desire. In a matter of weeks the dwindling violet reforms into the girl shes always wanted to be. She is a virgin, but who goes along with a rumour sweeping her school - that she slept with a college guy. As the rumour grows and Stone is unable to deminish the tab hanging ears and luring looks. She decides to go all-out with her new persona and ‘dresses to impress’, until her newly formed stipper image and similar mentality results in people assuming she is somebody in which she is not.
Stone’s character is adorable and easy to relate to. She speaks directly to the audience via a webcam sitiuated in her bedroom where she openly records her hearty feelings (which evidently shows the post modern links). The films backbone comes from working in parallel to Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, (1840) and highlighting the irony of her modern day situation.
Easy A is an easy watch, that offers something different to vast amount of high school comedies. A film you can watch with the boyfriend, with the added eye candy of Penn Badgley (Gossip Girl’s Dan).
Release date: 2010
Certificate: 15
Starring: Emma Stone, Amanda Bynes and Penn Badgley
Director: Will Gluck
Writer: Bert V. Royal
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