"The shuddering inducing and cliched, however totally false account of how I lost my virginity to a guy at a community college. Let me just begin by saying there are two sides to every story, and this is my side, the right one."
The first time I saw this uproarious movie I absolutely loved Emma stones character, Olive. I completely love her sarcasm and witty humor. I think the story touched perfectly on the ups and downs of high school life as well as life in general. The movie starts out with olive desperately trying to get out of a camping trip with her best friend Rhiannon (Alyson Michalka) and her nicely put abnormal parents. She starts a little white lie saying she has a weekend date with an imaginary guy from a community college, and can't make the trip. That small lie took the high school course through the rumor mill and soon every one is talking about olive's adulteress ways, but instead of trying to stay below the radar, olive takes on the promiscuous role that the rumors make her out to be. She takes in all of the attention that the student body is giving her and uses it to help out mistreated and bullied students by having a pretend relationship with them. Her reputation to soon takes a downward spin to a new level of lewdness. The more she helps her classmates the more tangled she gets in the lies. Olive has to detangle her web on her own before her acuser, marinne (Amanda Bynes.) gets her expelled from school and all of her lies keeps her from her own happieness. Olive penderghast the virgin student went from being anonymous to being the most depended on and the most hated girl in school. This movie plays lightly off of the book the scarlet letter... "now isn't that always the way, the books you read in class always have some strong connection with whatever antistatic drama that's going on...". the scarlet letter is a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorn and is about a girl, Hester prynne who is accused and harshly judged by her neighbors claiming her as an adulterer and is forced to wear an A on her attire for adultery. olive embraces this A and uses it to her advantage to make herself more known. "If google earth were a guy he couldnt find me if i was dressed up as a ten story building." I have to admit after watching this in theaters i bought it the very day it came out on dvd and watched it all the time. if you have missed out on watching easy A i highly recomend that you go to the nearest wallmart, or get on your netflix and buy it! thanks for reading!
I completely agree that it exhibits high school ups and downs. I love how this girl just gets sick of the stereo types and rebels using the Scarlett letter. Once I actually tried to read that book. I was bored to death in the first two pages, but her take on the book makes me want to try to read it again.
ReplyDeleteI love this movie, partially for the fact that Emma Stone is smokin' hot, but also for how it represents (and makes hilarious) high school drama. It shows how we haven't really changed from the time The Scarlet Letter was written to the present day. It kind of proves that nothing you do in high school is safe, so you might as well embrace yourself, or lock yourself in a room and throw away the key.
ReplyDeleteThis movie is such a hilarious version of the well known story, the Scarlet Letter. I absolutely love the cast for this movie and the sarcasm portrayed in each part. My favorite scene by far is when she keeps dancing to the singing card all weekend, reminds me of something that I would do.
ReplyDeleteI like this movie a lot, not just because what she does is funny and incredibly embarressing, but because it has such reality to our high schools these days. Every high school has the one girl that really is a Easy A, even if she doesn't have to pin a A on her shirt. There is a bunch of drama and also rumors. You gotta love them rumors!
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