WEBVTT - Easy A with Isa Mazzei 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:03.760 On the Beck dol Cast, the questions asked if movies 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:07.440 have women in them? Are all their discussions just boyfriends 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:11.840 and husbands? Do they have individualism? The patriarchy? Zef in 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:16.680 best start changing it with the beck Del Cast. Hello, 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:18.680 and welcome to the beck Del Cast. My name is 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:21.639 Jamie Loftus, my name is Caitlin Toronte, and this is 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:24.760 our podcast where we look at how women are portrayed 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:27.720 in movies. Wow. I was trying to think of a 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:29.760 fun intro for today, and then all three of us 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:32.320 realized that none of us had actually read The Scarlet Letter, 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:34.559 and so it was impossible to reference it because we 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:38.600 never read the book, nor had I seen the Demi 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:42.319 Moore version of it. Nor have I Yeah, I kind 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:45.120 of want to now based on the description that she's 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:48.400 like naked in the bathtub and doing a fake British accent. 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:50.800 I do love a bad accent in a movie. It 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.360 doesn't take me out of it at all. He pulls 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:57.480 me closer, It gets me right where they want me, 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.040 and that pass the Bechdel test it which is if 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:04.440 you're not familiar. The media metric that we use as 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.760 a jumping off point, also called the Bechdel Wallace test, 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:11.800 and it requires that two female identifying characters speak to 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:13.759 each other in the movie that they're in. They should 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:18.120 have names, and they should not talk about a man. Yeah, 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:21.919 for at least two lines, which most movies, uh don't. 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:24.800 It's a lot of them just really don't. They don't 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.679 even try. We've got I'm excited to talk about the 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:31.199 movie today because we've got like a fun mixed bag 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:35.199 of of a movie. It's two thousand ten written all 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:40.600 over it. It's really having it both ways this movie. Um, 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.120 but I'm really excited. It's been like a long time request. 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:45.759 We've been getting this request for years, ignoring it for 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:49.840 some reason. And then our wonderful guest was like, how 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:51.640 have you not done this movie? We're like, I don't. 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:53.880 I don't know why. This was a hill we chose 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:56.280 to die on for so long. The Lovely movie. It's 0:01:56.360 --> 0:02:00.160 it's fun, it's fun, the teaches in it, the two 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:03.840 She's firing on all cylinders. I can't wait to talk 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.520 about the tooch. Penn, how do you say his name? 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:12.280 Penn Badgley? I don't know Bedley, I don't know. He's 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:15.280 in that very scary show that I watched all of 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.640 even though it makes me feel horrible. Which one he 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:22.400 plays a stalker? You, Yeah, it's every It's so it's 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.919 I think that that show is like so every like 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.760 over the top problematic stalker trope that I don't even 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:31.920 feel anything watching it. Like it's just so it's all 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:35.839 of them at once. It's crazy. Probably won't watch it, Yeah, 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.400 probably don't. Um. We teased our guests, but then we 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:40.919 didn't actually introduce her, so let's do that now. She 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.160 is a screenwriter, producer. She's the writer of the film 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:48.120 cam on Netflix. She's the author of the upcoming memoir 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:53.480 cam Girl, coming out on November twelve. It's mataiea. Hi, 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:57.080 Hi guys, welcome, Thank you so much for having me 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:03.560 where cam Heads. We're so excited you're here and we're 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:08.119 talking about easy a Yes, two thousand ten teen comedy 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:11.680 is then we were short in this. Yeah, Emma Stone's 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:16.320 first starring vehicle. Remember the World before Emma Stone, I 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:20.600 barely do. And it's also Amanda Bindes is last. Yeah, 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.480 and Lane is in it for a second. Yeah, she 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:29.040 is from Lizzie McGuire. Yeah, Miranda, she shows up for 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.400 one line. Yeah, she doesn't even have a name in 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.720 the movie, like her credit is just girl on the 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.840 Street or something. Yeah that I forgot about that, but 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:40.200 it's every like I checked Lilane's I am dB. Maybe 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:42.560 we'll say once a year. It occurs to me to 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.400 just check in and I always see that credit. I'm like, 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:48.600 I have what was that? And now I know? Very good. 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:52.920 She shines Lisa Coudras in this movie. Yes she is, 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:55.280 and I think a role that we'll get to. But 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.720 it reminded me a lot of the Jessica Williams role 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.440 in books. Aren't oh sure the way that it plays 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.720 out and how much I didn't care for it. But 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:10.280 Amanda Binds is basically playing the same character that Mandy 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:16.480 Moore does. Yeah, yeah, which is I love Amanda Binds 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:18.239 to the end of year, but the Mandy Moore character 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:21.400 is way better. Sure, I need to rewatch Saved, but 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.560 saved it a long time. That would be an interesting one. 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:31.280 We've gotten requests, man, We've just we've ever well, the 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.440 thing is we just stop ignoring people. It's not that 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.800 we're annoying people, is that we've gotten requests for probably 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.960 every movie ever made. We've gotten thousands upon thousands of 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:46.440 requests were so cool and popular. Made a short film 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:49.120 fifteen years ago, and while it doesn't have much of 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:51.640 a cult following, I think there's a lot to discuss. 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:53.839 You're like, well, we'll get there. This podcast is going 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.400 to go on for five years and we'll get there. Uh, Sosa, 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:01.920 what's your history relationship with the movie? Easy? Um, it's 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.359 hard to say. You know, I don't like remember the 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:06.560 first time I saw it. Um. I know we had 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:08.880 it on DVD, and I remember it was a movie 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.560 that like my sister and I watched over and over 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.359 and over and over again. Um, both because we liked it, 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.400 but also because it was like one of the last 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.280 DVDs that we bought that we had, you know that, 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:20.840 Like it was right at the kind of the end 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:24.600 of like buying dv shots. And I just I remembered 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.880 really really relating to Emma Stone in it like a lot. 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.920 So yeah, So that's kind of like been my relationship 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.880 with it. It's been a movie that I've revisited a lot. 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:38.080 I would say, since it came out, Jamie, what about you. 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:42.080 I remember seeing this movie in theaters. It came out 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.599 when I was like like my senior year in high school. Um, 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:47.640 and so I went to see it with all my 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:50.840 friends and we were, I don't know, like we loved it. 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.760 We were really hyped on Emma Stone, and I think 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.440 in some ways like it. It felt like pretty different 0:05:56.560 --> 0:06:00.560 to most of the team comedies that you see. And yeah, 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:02.240 I don't know, I really liked it. I've seen it 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:06.480 maybe four or five times before this, but never was 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:08.960 thinking about it as hard as I was this past time. 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:11.400 And I think that this is like one of my 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:16.039 favorite Stanley Tucci roles, Oh my goodness, and Patricia Clark said, 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:20.239 is great. That's the mother right, Yeah, she's so good. Yeah, 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:23.000 I and I forgot Ali. This is really the most 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:26.520 two thousand ten movie of all time. Ali Michalka of 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:34.320 Ali and the dental break up song. Okay, wait to 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.560 church Church something like that. It's really good. Do they 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.600 just released a song that I heard and I had 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.359 no idea with them and it's actually incredible. That's awesome. 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:52.039 Wait what character does she plays? She plays Rhiannon. Oh yeah, yeah, goodness. Yeah, 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:53.880 so it is the most two thousand time movie of 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:57.080 all time and uh for that, I have no choice, 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.520 but too, I mean class at two dozen tend gettle 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.200 of it. My goodness, what's your history? I saw it. 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.440 It came out when I was I guess, like probably 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:10.600 twenty four, and I wasn't necessarily like the target demo, 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:16.920 having aged out of being a teenager brag, But um, 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:19.800 I liked it. I remember thinking like, the jokes were 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:25.840 pretty funny, the dialogue was like quippy, and I enjoyed it. 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.400 But I think I only had seen it that one time, 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:32.400 and then revisiting it this time, I was like, oh, okay, 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:34.680 you you tried to do something and then you only 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:36.720 got part of the way there, and then he made 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:40.960 a bunch of missteps movie. So I'm excited to talk 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:44.280 about it. Yeah, yeah, I'm psycked. Um should I just 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:47.880 dive into the recap? Yeah? Okay and easy. You can 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.160 inter at the recap whenever you want. It's the best part, 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:57.040 every word. I have a lot to say. So the 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:02.680 story is told partly via Army Characters video blog or 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.000 vlog is the kids are calling it these days. I 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.920 love how prototypical it is in this movie, where there 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:12.800 she's like, you have to go to free alive dot com. 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:15.960 There's a live stream happening there. It won't be saved 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:23.080 six pm sharp. It was so it was great. And 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:26.960 what she's doing in this vlog is recounting the events 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:31.440 of the movie. So we meet all of Pendergast. That's 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:35.839 m A. Stone's character. She starts out, your average invisible 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:40.920 teen girl about to graduate from high school in she's 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.320 not like the other girls. She's not like the girls. 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:47.960 Um yeah, and OHI, yes, California. Ever heard of it? Um? 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.760 Probably not. That's a weird place I've never been. If 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:54.319 you don't feel like my writing partners from OHI, and 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:57.880 it's like very like mine and and all you OHI 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.840 heads dive into my mentions if I'm getting is completely wrong. 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:05.640 But there's a huge class disparity where it's like the 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:09.880 surfer class and then just insanely wealthy people. Just so 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:12.560 that there's and there's a lot of camps there. Oh sure. 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.720 It's like on the edge of like a huge national park, 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:19.640 I think park. It's a weird, fun place. My writing 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.719 partner's dad is in a surf cult in OHI. Oh 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.920 that's the guy who's in a surf called the Barbecue Surfers. Yeah, 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:30.240 I remember this from our point breakup star. Oh yeah, Okay, 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:33.080 I'll shut up about the barbecue surfers. We've rehashed this before. 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.680 That was quite all right. So they're in Ohai, California, 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.200 and Olive, yeah, she's, you know, not like the other girl. 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.960 She's invisible, and to avoid going camping with her best 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:48.800 friend Rhiannon and her weird family, she lies and says 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.680 that she has a date that weekend with this guy 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:55.720 named George, who we know she just made up um 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.800 and Rhannon becomes convinced that all of lost her for 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.800 ginity with this guy, but she instead she was doing 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:06.360 that really funny Natasha Beddingfield. But I've got a pucket 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.000 full of sensions. I still love at it playing it 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:14.040 from a greeting cars, so funny, great montage. Emma Stone 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:17.959 is really good. I like, I fluctuate on her so much, 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:20.839 but she's amazing in this movie I tend to agree with. 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:25.480 And so Rhannon thinks this about Alive and for some reason, 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:28.439 all of for reasons that she says she doesn't even understand. 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.400 She's like, yes, that did happen. I did have sex 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:35.800 with him, which is overheard in the bathroom by Mary 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:39.480 Ann Bryant. That's the Amanda Bind's character she's like the 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:44.120 like holier than now religious extremists, like goody two shoes type. 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:50.160 She's very like oppressively religious stereotype. And she starts spreading 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:54.120 rumors all over school about all of having sex. And 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.600 then suddenly everyone is paying attention to Olive because they 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:01.000 think that she has sex, and she tries to tell 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.880 Marian that she was just lying about having done that, 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.719 but it doesn't work. But also, like Olive admits that 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.480 she's like kind of enjoying the attention she's getting for 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:14.439 the first time because before this she was invisible. And 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:18.120 then during an English class discussion about the Scarlet Letter, 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:24.040 Marian Thomas Hayden Church cool guy teacher. Yeah, the adults 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:28.080 in this movie are maybe too cool, but we can 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:33.960 talk about that later. Yeah, unrealistic adult portrayal, because as 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:38.240 an adult right now, I am extremely uncool. I've never 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:40.439 I Also, there were a few times, I mean, and 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:42.440 it's like a teen movie, so it's like who cares, 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:44.199 But there were a few times where Thomas Hayden Church 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:47.320 was doing something dorky that was being very well received 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:51.640 in class, Like you would have been annihilate at Brockton 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.600 High School, Sir. He was like, let me wrap about 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:56.640 Jess kids and guys, I'm like, you would have been 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:01.160 on the floor, have been just People won't stand for that. 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:06.319 Teens will not stand for teachers wrapping. They won't um. 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:10.439 So then in during class, Marian's friend calls all of 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:13.679 a skank, and all of response by calling her a twat, 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:16.719 and it gets her sent to the principal's office. And 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:20.280 then she gets detention with this kid, Brandon, who is 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.199 being bullied for being gay, and then they talk about 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:26.679 the idea of like standing out and blending in, and 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:31.320 based on an idea that all of gives him, Brandon 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:35.319 decides to pretend to be straight at least until like 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:39.599 they all graduate and leave this town. And he convinces 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:42.880 her to help him make people think that the two 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:46.760 of them have sex, and she's like, okay, fine, there's 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:48.920 a party tomorrow night. Let's go and pretend to have 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:52.000 sex at this party. And then like everyone will overhear 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.520 and they'll think you're a stud, and they do just that. 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:59.760 Another funny scene jumping on the bed and screaming. Right, 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:03.319 the premises flawed, but the scene in the payoff is funny, 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:08.760 And then afterwards everyone does think that Brandon is a stud. 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:12.679 But then they're looking at Olive and they're like except 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:19.040 for Todd the pen Badgely he's not like the other boys. 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:23.400 He's the Mascot's the mascot. She's had a crash on 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:26.760 him since she was in eighth grade. They almost kissed 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.480 back then, but then they didn't because he wasn't ready 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.719 to kiss yet. And they're friendly and they chat and 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:36.480 then also maybe he even likes her question mark pen bag. 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:40.920 Really he was on Gossip Girl, right, I never watched that. 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:44.480 I don't know either. I think he was Okay, I 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.520 think so, which is funny because they she references that 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.760 show in this movie. Do you think pens in the 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:56.439 audience like Hollywood's crazy? I do think that he's like 0:13:56.520 --> 0:14:02.280 that all the time. So then she receives a gift 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.520 card from Brandon, which one does. She I was trying 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:07.480 to keep track of who gives her what gift card 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.320 because that target compelling to me? Okay, targeting hundred dollar 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.400 I think target gift card. And he gives her a vibrator, Yeah, 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:17.640 he vibrator, which is good looking out sure in high 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:22.200 school though, like I don't believe that, right, is there 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.440 a sex shop in OHI or did he have to 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:28.760 drive down to Los Angeles their seniors in high school? Right, yeah, 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:33.160 they don't have they are because she gets the Natasha 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.720 Beddingfield card that she gets is a graduation card. It's 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:41.960 like congratulations yeah from her grandma. It right. So she 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:46.720 hears from Rhiannon that everyone thinks that all of is 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:49.200 a dirty skank, and then they're getting a big fight 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:52.080 about it, and then all of decides to double down 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:56.520 on this quote dirty skank image. So there's a sewing 0:14:56.600 --> 0:15:01.920 montage because women be sewing. And then she shows up 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:05.400 to school in this very sultry outfit with a big 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:09.160 red as onto her tongue or like what a dork 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:14.640 just making a literary reference in her outfit. Yeah, And 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:18.440 then she gets approached by this kid, Evan, who knows 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:22.920 the truth about what happened with Brandon, and he offers 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:26.000 all of another hundred dollar gift card to also spread 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:29.960 rumors about them doing sex stuff, and it turns out 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:33.640 to be from auto Zone. I think it's later confirmed. 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:37.040 He offers her a different one, but then when she 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.840 confronts him later about it, she's like, it was from 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:45.200 Autozon and I don't even have a car, like if 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.040 cards are funny because they were all like there was 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.800 like the home depot, there was auto zone. It's like 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:54.960 you're like, what is in this? For one was like 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:59.600 a bed bath then beyond cupan yeah yeah, yeah yeah. 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:03.640 Not a great negotiator, and she eventually agrees to this, 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:06.680 and then she starts doing it for several other boys 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.200 in her school as well, and then the rumor that 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:13.280 all of solicits sex for money also starts spreading rapidly 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:17.040 throughout the school. And then things take a turn when 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:20.720 she learns that one of her classmates, Mica, which is 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:28.280 Maryanne Bryant's boyfriend, got claimidia from the guidance counselor Mrs 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:35.400 Griffith Lisa Trudre Thomas Hayden Churches his wife, and all 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:37.520 of agrees to take the fall for it, saying that 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.560 she's the one who gave Mica clamidia so that Mrs 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:44.160 Griffith doesn't get fired for having sex with a student. 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:49.480 And then people are protesting all of led by Marian Bryant, 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.200 and they're trying to get her expelled. Ran And joins 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:59.680 in for some reason, Yes, that absolutely, it's because Olive 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:02.560 goes on the date with the guy that she likes. 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:05.880 But I think she turns on her way before that though, 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:10.560 why But I feel like she joins the Amanda bindsafter 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.800 on that. I think that makes sense. Yeah, And then 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:22.040 meanwhile Todd the Woodchuck boy Penn Badgeley, yes is uh. 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:25.400 He keeps popping up And then she's trying to figure 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:28.080 out if she should come clean about everything. And then 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:31.159 this guy Anson asks her out on a date and 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:32.919 it turns out that he just went out with her 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.359 so that he could say that they had sex, and 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.160 he tries to give her the two home Depot gift card, 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.399 and then he tries to kiss her. She has to 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.400 fight him off. And then Todd shows up right then 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:45.399 and he gives her a ride home and he's like, 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:47.600 I think you're great and maybe I can, like I 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:49.920 don't know, help you out with this whole thing. 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Right, So 0:21:56.280 --> 0:21:59.840 the movie, thank you so much, thank you for giving 0:21:59.880 --> 0:22:05.160 me this platform. I'm reclaiming my time. Thank you. Um. 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:12.480 This movie does some things right which are progressive and feminist, 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:14.919 and then it does a lot of things that are 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:17.639 very wrong because one of the themes of the movie, 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:22.560 it's like the core message, let's say, is the double 0:22:22.640 --> 0:22:26.800 standard of sexually active men being considered studs and sexually 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:30.560 active women being considered sluts. In the movie draws attention 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:33.800 to that, calls it out, and we're like, whoa, yeah, 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:37.080 But the movie only goes so far with that message 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:40.760 because it ends up like demonizing the idea of women 0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:43.760 having a lot of sex and having multiple sexual partners 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:49.879 through various lines of dialogue and different attitudes that characters have, etcetera. 0:22:50.359 --> 0:22:53.080 My main thing with this movie that well, there was 0:22:53.160 --> 0:22:55.680 first of all, like, in most respects, like I thought, 0:22:55.800 --> 0:22:57.760 especially when I first saw the movie, I thought Emiston's 0:22:57.840 --> 0:23:00.720 character was like the fucking coolest person the world. I 0:23:00.800 --> 0:23:02.960 was like, I wish I were more like this character. 0:23:03.160 --> 0:23:05.920 She was so cool. But most of the other women 0:23:06.480 --> 0:23:09.440 outside of her mom, who is like, I feel like 0:23:09.600 --> 0:23:13.440 pretty positive and supportive, but like all the other female 0:23:13.520 --> 0:23:18.960 characters in this story are like vicious and trophy in 0:23:19.080 --> 0:23:21.440 a lot of ways, and you get some shades of gray, 0:23:21.480 --> 0:23:23.720 like with you get a little bit with the Rhiannon character. 0:23:24.200 --> 0:23:26.320 You don't really get that much with the Marianne character. 0:23:26.480 --> 0:23:29.520 But it's it's like this weird. I don't know, it 0:23:29.640 --> 0:23:32.159 just felt a little off to me the way that 0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:35.560 she is basically like, it seems like the movie has 0:23:35.640 --> 0:23:38.680 decided like, well, women will turn on each other and 0:23:39.240 --> 0:23:42.480 call each other sleds and this is the main problem, 0:23:42.680 --> 0:23:44.399 you know what I mean, And whereas I feel like 0:23:44.480 --> 0:23:47.800 kind of the guys end up looking a little more 0:23:47.960 --> 0:23:52.480 goofy rather than very much a part of it. And 0:23:52.560 --> 0:23:54.639 even the mom is kind of like sled Shaney, Like 0:23:54.720 --> 0:23:57.160 when they have that conversation on the car, her mom 0:23:57.280 --> 0:23:58.680 is like, you know, I used to sleep with a 0:23:58.800 --> 0:24:00.960 ton of people and it was because I had really 0:24:01.040 --> 0:24:03.600 low self esteem and then I met your dad and 0:24:03.720 --> 0:24:06.119 now I'm like fine. And so even her mom, like 0:24:06.280 --> 0:24:10.560