Over the next few months, Hollywood's hottest writer, Diablo Cody, will see her second and third scripts rushed into development. One of those, Girly Style, is a girl's version of Superbad. The other is a horror film called Jennifer's Body, starring Transformers' Megan Fox, and it's about -- wait for it -- a cheerleader that eats boys. Literally. If you want to know what kind of mind could come up with such a thing, a good place to start is with Cody's 2005 memoir Candy Girl, which chronicles her...
She has to write the script for Candy Girl. Which was one of the funniest, interesting, moving book I have ever read. Cody is so nerdy, cute, funny and I hope she has a ton of success.
Nobody likes a tourist, and that's what the story of Candy Girl is. "Oh, I KNOW! I can strip for a little while, and then I'll string some words together using a rhyming dictionary and make a book about it!"
anonymouse said:
Nobody likes a tourist, and that's what the story of Candy Girl is. "Oh, I KNOW! I can strip for a little while, and then I'll string some words together using a rhyming dictionary and make a book about it!"
Late to the party, but this article just popped up on the front page today...
Cassiel said: She's a terrible writer, and did not deserve the Oscar. I hope her career dies.
I couldn't agree more. She's a one-trick pony who got lucky with "Juno" in having insanely good casting. If one sits down and reads the script of "Juno," it's quickly apparent how terribly overwritten and unreal it is. It was saved by the brilliance of the four main actors – Page, Cera, Bateman, and Garner, the last of whom showed that she has an amazing ability with subtlety and has been underutilized in most of her roles.
If anyone has ever read Diablo Cody's columns in Entertainment Weekly, it's clear that she is a complete and utter moron. She professes a love for shows from the morally abhorrent "Gossip Girl" to the vacant "Sweet Valley High." She tries to pass this off as a sort of funky intellectual kitsch, but it's not. No posing in the guise of intellectual slumming can justify an affinity for "Gossip Girl"; it's the moral equivalent of being titillated by "Triumph of the Will."
More to the point, her writing is abysmal and her taste is obscene. "Jennifer's Body" was one of the worst movies I have seen in the last decade. It was merely an exploitation vehicle for Megan Fox to once again distract people from her wooden acting by revealing her body. Unlike "Mean Girls" or "Heathers," a group into which Cody so desperately and transparently wants to insert this work, there is no commentary, satire, or irony to be found. The film is a piece of utter trash; "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Her column in Entertainment Weekly is horrible. I still end up reading it every time though. Not sure why. I guess I just keep expecting something better.
courtneyriot
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Los Angeles, CA
DEC 10, 2007 06:00 AM