Juno starring Ellen Page

http://www.foxsearchlight.com/juno/

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I had the luxury of watching this movie last evening as a reward for finishing my studies for the day. The verdict: this movie is a disappointment to me. However, Ellen Page is a commendable actress. The story line is thinner than paper thin.

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The amusing part was that Juno MacGuff was highly articulate for a 16 years old holding very pragmatic views for her most unfortunate and unexpected situation, being impregnated by her best friend, Paulie Bleeker. Most girls at that age would have understandably freaked out.

She was in total control of the situation. After a failed attempt at abortion, she got occupied in her attempt to find a suitable couple to adopt her still unborn child. The nice twist was when she and the child’s father-to-be got on quickly like a house on fire.

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Don’t expect any pole dancing and you can terminate any hopes of dance or artistic scenes immediately. This is a sadly way too typical “teenager got pregnant, shit now what” kinda show.

The only reasons I would agree to sit myself down for this show was

1- The writer was and might in the near future continue to be a pole dancer. This by itself was a huge acknowledgment that pole dancers are NOT bimbos. Not all anyway.

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2- Being a literary student, I am caught up with the name “Juno” who, in the Greek mythology, is the wife of the chief god, Jupiter.

My consolation is, the song that the show ended with was a wonderful song that I fell in love with very quickly.

So there you have it, Juno the very unsexy movie written by a most unlikely stripper.

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Off the Stripper Pole and Into the Movies

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A few years ago, Brook Busey-Hunt was typing copy at a Minneapolis advertising agency and walked by the Skyway Lounge, a skeevy strip bar where desiccated women grind out a living a dollar at a time. Good Catholic girl that she was, Ms. Busey-Hunt saw an ad for amateur night and had a naughty epiphany. And the rest is, well, a stage name, a blog, a book and a screen writing career.

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Now named Diablo Cody, she wrote a screenplay that became “Juno,” a film directed by Jason Reitman set for release by Fox Searchlight on Wednesday. The story of a maniacally verbal 16-year-old girl who becomes pregnant and decides to give the baby to a childless couple, “Juno” is on most every short list for an Oscar for original screenplay.

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Sitting recently at the Rainbow, a restaurant on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles draped in rock history, Ms. Cody, 29, did not pretend that her life was anything other than a fairy tale, albeit one where the role of the glass slippers is played by a pair of stripper’s stilettos.

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“You make this really unexpected, half-cocked decision and all of a sudden it creates this weird energy that turns into something else,” she said during lunch. A self-described geek who had led a very insular life, she said that getting naked for strangers was her version of self-improvement, a way of transgressing her upbringing and opening up other doors. Unlike many strippers who resemble balloon smugglers with very large hair, Ms. Cody is a crisscross of tattoos and post-punk fashion, sort of Suicide Girl meets Riot Grrrl.

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Those trips down dimly lighted runways, followed by a short stint as a phone-sex worker — “You have to convince them that your parents don’t know you are on the phone and that you are just aching to get with your physics teacher” — became an unmentionable titled blog. Mason Novick, a talent manager from Benderspink, a Los Angeles agency, came across the blog and eventually put her in touch with a New York literary agent, who sold “Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper,” which was published in 2005. Mr. Novick suggested she give screen writing a crack, and she bought a copy of the “Ghost World” screenplay so she could correctly format what became “Juno.”

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The movie has all the hallmarks of an art-house film — endlessly quirky dialogue with a soundtrack to match — but contains an old-fashioned moral center. At a time when many films about teenagers are a mess of machinations and hookups, “Juno” ends in a very tender hug.

Ellen Page, the young Canadian actress who starred in “Hard Candy,” plays Juno, a teenager who can’t get through a sentence without coining a metaphor. Juno becomes pregnant after a single sexual experiment born of ennui and friendship, and proceeds to waddle her increasing heft through the rest of the film while using her mouth as a plaything and weapon.

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In one instance she turns it on Michael Cera (from “Superbad”), who plays her so-geeky-he’s-sweet boyfriend. When she finds out he is going to the prom with a girl he admits “smells like soup,” she is livid and trapped. “I am wearing a fat suit I can’t take off. I am a planet,” Juno says, a huge belly protruding under her vintage T-shirt.

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Apart from the pregnancy, the character is heavily autobiographical, with her thrift-store fashions and kitschy taste; Ms. Cody’s beloved hamburger phone gets a cameo. And like Juno, Ms. Cody has an ability to capture the human transaction between genders and generations. In Ms. Cody’s case, she understands the nature of the compact between the demanding lout with a dollar in his hand and his objectified temporary fantasy. Stripping, she wrote in her memoir, required her to “bounce like the phantom cheerleader in the vault of every man’s memory.”

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Ms. Cody smiles plenty, but she is all done preening for the benefit of others. She now prefers creating characters on the page as opposed to the stage. Especially after her first script fell into such eager, talented hands.

Her new life may not always be so sweet, but the work is plentiful. Her future includes another book; a pilot for a series about a woman with multiple personalities called “The United States of Tara,” which was conceived by Steven Spielberg for Showtime; and several more features. (The Hollywood writers’ strike, however, has put a temporary hold on her movie and television work.)

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“I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating,” she said, her hand absently stroking a Hello Kitty necklace. (“Tarina Tarantino. I bought it for $75 at a trashy mall in the Valley. I bought $220 jeans that same day and my cheeks burned with shame.”)

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“I plan on hanging on to my soul, but I am not precious about writing,” she added. “I am here to work and make money.”

Mr. Reitman said Ms. Cody would do just fine in Hollywood.

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“Just look at the name she chose for herself,” he said. “Yes, this is a fairy tale, but she is going to jump on every opportunity that comes her way. Her writing is both original and real, which is very rare in Hollywood.”

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The blow back from such immediate success did not take long to materialize, including a suggestion by Rob Nelson, a hometown film critic who once edited her newspaper work, that she is a self-conjured confection. “It’s as if the kid wrote her own Wikipedia entry before living it,” he wrote in The Rake, a Minneapolis monthly.

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While Ms. Cody said she was enjoying the success of “Juno,” the criticism can sting. “Stripping toughened my hide,” she said, “but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal.”

Her hair may be a riot of colors — red is usually featured, but it can change almost depending on her mood — and she may have once made a living letting it fall in the faces of her lap-dance clients. But Ms. Cody has mastered the fan dancer’s art of showing much and revealing little.

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“I’m totally a person who hides in plain sight,” she said. “I think there’s a lot written about me being totally candid and outrageous, when I’m actually pretty cagey.”

Part of the mystique came from an appearance promoting her book on “Late Show With David Letterman,” during which she referred to herself as the “naked Margaret Mead.” She went on to assert, “Everything is prostitution in a way.”

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As with her history as a do-me feminist, she makes no apologies for what she said. “I actually think everything is prostitution. We’re kind of constantly bartering with our dignity in life,” she wrote in an e-mail message after the lunch, adding that she always thought it was hilarious when strippers would draw the line at certain activities. “Same goes for people’s ideas, talents, emotions, etc. There’s a price on everything.”

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Michael Tortorello, who edited her when she brought her blog and writing to City Pages, an alternative paper in Minneapolis, senses a mixture of honesty and artifice in her transformation from Brook to Diablo.

“My impression is that once she started blogging and writing, it was if somebody popped a cork on a Champagne bottle and it has not stopped overflowing since,” Mr. Tortorello said. “She is a sweet and honest person, but there is also a mythology, a kind of self-invention by someone who grew up in suburban Chicago.”

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Ms. Cody, who just moved to Los Angeles with her husband, Jonny, a graphic designer, has ambitions beyond writing. She said she would like to direct at some point, partly because she loathes the way women are portrayed in most contemporary films.

“The attitude toward women in this industry is nauseating,” she said. “There are all sorts of porcine executives who are uncomfortable with a woman doing anything subversive. They want the movie about the beautiful girl who trip and falls, the adorable klutz.”

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Ms. Cody, who said she was less than graceful when she first went to work as a stripper, has her boots pretty firmly planted on the ineffable terrain of Hollywood.

“Obviously this is a very image-conscious industry, and I have mine to contend with,” she said. “I answer a lot of questions in meetings here other people probably aren’t asked.

“I show a little leg. But of course I am speaking metaphorically.”

Source – David Carr

The New York Time Movies

Joy says – The review totally intrigues me. What a refreshing angle! I can’t wait to watch the movie!

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Closer -Julia Roberts & Natalie Portman

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Natalie Portman scene in a strip club as a stripper:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQHTYEw-wYM

This is a wonderful show overflowing with difficult situations, complicated relationships and heart breaking dialogue.

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Both actresses Julia Roberts and Natalie Portman have awesome facial features. This is probably one of the considerations for the actress roles bearing in mind the amount of close up shots that is required.

There were basically two main scenes of her in the strip club. Though she doesn’t do much pole dancing as far as I’m concerned, she did carried herself off very much like a stripper, all the clean yet suggestive mannerisms in basic body language.

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Having been to strip clubs in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Hong Kong, I have noticed that strippers irregardless of the style and status of the club they work for have certain identifiable mannerisms.

For instance, the deliberate way that they move when they are with a customer, the angle they face the customer, the way they tease and so on.

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Natalie was in true stripper fashion and I especially love the way she sat on the table in a kitty manner leaning forward to listen to Clive Owen in his feeble attempt at seduction.

And of course, the whole world celebrates the fact that she was suitably naked not once, but twice for Clive’s (sorry, not yours) viewing pleasure. Haha!

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The lines in this movie are often filled with subtleties and come across as cold and calculated to me most of the time. Makes it a movie that have you hanging sometimes for the response of the other party in conversation.

As what Peter Travers from Rolling Stone would say, it is indeed a show vibrating with eroticism.

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From Dusk Till Dawn – Hot Exotic Moves

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This is a really old movie and you know it the moment you see handsome and awfully young George Clooney. I especially love his lines. Simple, forceful, to the point. I like it. ,op.

There are NO pole dancing scenes (sorry!) but plenty of split second shots on the exotic dancers doing their thing. There are quite a number of them grooving at the same time.

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Some half naked, some in interesting attires and one doing her shadow dance. The scene that I care most about is obviously when sizzling Salma Hayek did her hypnotic snake dance in the seedy Mexican bar.

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And she did her item to a song I really love, After Dark by Tito & Tarantula. That famous whisky leg feeding scene have probably blasted many a male viewer’s mind right into outer space! Check out that kiss my own beautiful leg act too. True diva in her self obsession. haha!

Salma Hayek Foot Fetish Scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMpnLaEFc34

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Quentin Tarantino was a credible act too as a sick psycho rapist. He is wonderfully talented I must say. The rest of the movie is in its typical good old fashion choreographed ways. Bloody and too organized in its chaos actually!

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From Dusk till Dawn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Dusk_Till_Dawn

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