Amanda Seyfried and Adam Brody defend Diablo Cody
Watch: our chat about 'Jennifer's Body' starts with some spirited words
You try sitting across from Amanda Seyfried showing two miles of leg and keep your mind on the interview. Go ahead. I dare you.
Seyfried really is the lead in "Jennifer's Body," even if they're using Megan Fox to sell the film. And Adam Brody sort of steals every moment he's in, including the best-ever reference to Maroon 5. So sitting down with the two of them to chat about the film was easy enough, and a pleasure.
But just as I sat down, they were discussing the reviews of the film in Variety and Hollywood Reporter, and they were both visibly wound up at the way Diablo Cody had been treated in the reviews. As a result, they started the interview in a very defensive place, and it sort of set the tone for our brief chat.
For the record, I think Cody draws more insane rage than almost any other screenwriter, and it seems like people review her more than they review what she writes. It's fine if you don't like her films, but listen to the language the most rabid of her detractors use, and you tell me if you think they have issues with women or not. It's a little scary.
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"Jennifer's Body" opens Sept. 18th.
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Login or create a HitFix account Login Signupwitchyflickchick I agree completely. I'm a fan of Diablo's work and I think she has a style that's clearly going to alienate some people, but, by and large, the criticism I read attacks her a lot more than her work and I find that endlessly frustrating both as a writer and as a woman. If you don't like the movies or the TV show or you think someone else deserved the Oscar that year (don't they usually), fine, bitch about that, but when even professional critics reduce their critiques to name-calling, it's just infantile.
September 17, 2009 at 9:58PM EST Reply to CommentJoe No Country? I gotta check out that band
September 18, 2009 at 2:38PM ESTDennis Cozzalio Witchyflickchick: I thought this when Drew mentioned it in his interview, and you bring it up again, so I have to wonder about the caliber of reviewers you are reading that allegedly refuse to review the movie but instead take the opportunity to jump all over Cody. I can personally testify to several very smart reviews written by the likes of Glenn Kenny and Stephanie Zacharek who found the movie terrible on its own terms, terms which include Cody's shallow facility with dialogue. I highly recommend Ms. Zacharek's piece, which very accurately reflects my own distaste for the movie. It has nothing to do with the gender of Diablo Cody or Karyn Kusama... unless, of course, you believe the spin they themselves put on the movie as some sort of groundbreaking feminist take on horror films. The only thing that proves is that women can deliver a steaming load just like men can.
September 18, 2009 at 3:54PM ESTsamantha Yeah that song Through the Trees is amazing. No Country huh....
September 18, 2009 at 2:41PM EST Reply to CommentDennis Cozzalio Witchyflickchick: I thought this when Drew mentioned it in his interview, and you bring it up again, so I have to wonder about the caliber of reviewers you are reading that allegedly refuse to review the movie but instead take the opportunity to jump all over Cody. I can personally testify to several very smart reviews written by the likes of Glenn Kenny and Stephanie Zacharek who found the movie terrible on its own terms, terms which include Cody's shallow facility with dialogue. I highly recommend Ms. Zacharek's piece, which very accurately reflects my own distaste for the movie. It has nothing to do with the gender of Diablo Cody or Karyn Kusama... unless, of course, you believe the spin they themselves put on the movie as some sort of groundbreaking feminist take on horror films. The only thing that proves is that women can deliver a steaming load just like men can.
September 18, 2009 at 3:52PM EST Reply to Commentdrew Perfectly valid, Dennis. I do think there is a very strong anti-woman vibe to much of fandom. For example, they'll sit through any Tarantino movie about dudes sitting around talking about pop culture, but try it with girls, and you get a lot of "I wish those bitches would just shut up and get killed!", which depresses me. If someone dislikes "Jennifer's Body" as a film, that's perfectly fine. I'm just tired of reading reviews of Diablo Cody instead of reviews of the movie.
September 18, 2009 at 6:39PM ESTDalyn This is more a reply to drew's reply, because I was thinking about this very thing earlier tonight. I, like many others, didn't like Juno for many reasons, but one major one being the dialogue. It just feels like I'm there at the keyboard with her as she is figuring out some quirky hip slang to write. It's a big fucking distraction for me.
September 22, 2009 at 12:52AM ESTThis is also my exact same problem with almost all of Tarantino;s movies. Granted, I haven't seen Inglorious Bastards yet. But the other day my girlfriend and I were watching the Kill Bill movies, and I just kept getting annoyed because everyone was speaking in that annoying "everything's cool, daddy-o" language. Every goddamn character to me just became Quinten Tarantino talking to himself, just in different bodies. Rip off everyone's skin and underneath every one of them it was QT with a martini in one hand, and a pistol pointed at his own hand in the other. And it isn't just the Kill Bill movies either. Pulp Fiction and Death Proof are also movies just starring QT as evert character.
So yeah, how does DC get shit on by everyone, and people think QT is one of the greatest screenwriters of our generation?