Easy A
This astonishing 110-page movie script was written only in five days without an outline, with an exception of a two-week break to finish the conclusion.
The passionate play-writer Bert V. Royal is a big fan of teenage comedies like “Mean Girls,” “Clueless,” and “Can’t Buy Me Love.” He was homeschooled for his high school years but from watching the teenage dramas he had empathy for the kids in high school.
This inspires him to write a script where his feelings are expressed about judging other people and how important it is to keep a person’s life private. “The rumor mill can really mess up people’s lives; I left college because of rumors,” Royal told Dylan Callaghan in an interview posted on Writer Guides of America website.
Royal named his script “Easy A.” His main character is a girl, Olive Pendergasht. An ordinary girl who’s not noticed by peers in her school until a lie creeps in about how she lost her virginity. Olive uses her shocking reputation to escalate socially and financially by helping out several guys in school to become discern, in return of payment. Ironically, in school they were studying “The Scarlett Letter” and Olive ties a connection of the novel’s issue into her school drama. Soon her little lie gets out of control.
Originally “Easy A” was rated R for the extensive use of the “F” word, but when Will Gluck directed the movie he changes the rating to PG-13. The change is made because he wants to expose more of an optimistic method on how to handle drama. Gluck is not promoting abstinent for high school teens. “I'm not choosing a side, I'm just presenting it,” Gluck said in an interview with Katie Rich on Cinema Blend website.
Gluck admits to Katie that he desires to produce movies that center mostly on a person’s character. In the 92-minute movie, Gluck put a lot of effort to make Olive more than just a girl with problems. In its place, a girl that can courageously face her mistakes without beating herself down.
Emma Stone’s brilliant acting skills bring out that fearless high school girl. There is a mistake made in the movie that Gluck would take back. He uses Christian evangelist as an abstract idea instead of describing what Christianity really means. The point that he tries to make is that teenagers tend to think they know a lot about the world and push their ideas into other people’s minds.
Despite errors made by Gluck in the film, this is a launch for future success for both Gluck and Royal. Royal plans to keep on writing and Gluck is on his way filming another movie called “Friends with Benefits” staring Justin Timberlake. Nevertheless, “Easy A” came out in any AMC or Cinema theaters on Sunday, Sept. 17.
I recommend watching this movie. It will make you laugh and keep you wondering what will happen at the end.
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