Re: Will the Real "Juno" Author Please Stand Up?
by
blacktech
02/11/2008, 12:24 PM
Actually, yes, that's exactly what I'm saying: it's not possible. People ignorant about how a film gets made -- and I'm not because I've optioned scripts -- don't realize what it's like. And people who aren't professional writers -- which you clearly are not -- don't know what goes into writing anything, much less a script. Writing well in any particular medium takes a huge amount of skill and talent specific to that medium. You can't automatically leap from being a fairly okay memoirist to a major screenwriter. It just doesn't happen.
I rarely have this kind of reaction to a film's marketing. What it is touching is a very deep nerve about how women are treated in Hollywood. It's ugly and needs to stop. Maybe Sofia Coppola's issues are because of her gender, but I suspect it's more due to living in the shadow of her massively successful father. This, however, is purely about gender and sex, as is proof through the marketing of Cody's stripper history.