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Re: Juno vs Knocked-Up
Probably the fact that Rogen's character is a grotesque 26-year-old pretending to be a boy while Page's character is a teenage girl who got pregnant by her equally young bandmate. In all honesty, the level of goodwill being shown towards the conceit of Juno, with nary a word about the politics of (non) abortion (save for Ann Hulbert's. which ...
Posted to Movies by Paula26 on December 19, 2007
Re: The politics of romatic comedies
''Most romatic comedies I've seen don't accurately portray men (and don't really accurately portray women, either). It's not the point of the genre, which generally appeals to simple fantasies and benign stereotypes.'' This comment basically defends the movie on the grounds that it neither can nor should be taken seriously. I would guess that the ...
Posted to Culturebox by lcuckovich on June 11, 2007
Let's think about how this really must have gone down....
Judd Apatow makes comedies...screwball, outrageous, fart-joke-ridden comedies, often with very little romance even. So I assume that as he sets out to make a movie, he is most concerned with humor. What's funny? Pregnancy - graphic images of crowning - fears the fetus will be scarred during sex - the difficulty of adjusting to a surprise pregnancy ...
Posted to Culturebox by elisamanda on June 10, 2007