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once upon a time, working a PEEP BOOTH for guys to jack off to you and having simulated sex for $60 a pop (as she proclaimed) and taking off your top and showing your boobies… did not a writer make.
Anyone defending her is just a horny guy.
our culture sucks. i certainly don’t think it’s a good message to send to young girls: you want to be a writer (once the domain of intelligent chicks) — here’s a plan — BECOME A STRIPPER.
she’s lame, as in grrrrrl 1999 lame.
Juno and Diablo Cody are jokes. No one talks like the people in her “movie” and if there are people like that, God help them. If you want a good movie, watch Ghost World.
her next project is Jennifer’s Body starring Megan Fox. It’s a comedy / horror flick about a couple of girls who roll around in the sack together one too many times… oh boy!!!
Have any of you Diablo lovers seen her blog, Pussy Ranch? It is the most self involved vanity blog I have ever seen.
Unfortunately, because of reading her blog before I had seen the movie, it was the one DVD out of all the DVDs sent to me that I just couldn’t watch. I was just to predisposed to hate it.
I’m sure I’ll eventually watch it, but I found it hard to root for her.
Get a grip you jealous bunch of wannabeeees.
Diablo is way cooler then you and me for that fact. She wrote something great. She won an Oscar. Congrats. For all you jealous writers, keep on working on your next Brady Bunch movie sequel. Or perhaps, your next piece of crap for Ben Silverman and NBC. I do miss my mentor Brandon Tartikoff.
After seeing Juno for the first time several weeks ago, I thought it needed at least one more rewrite. Unfortunate.
Oh, you bandwaggon hopping star f*ckers crack me up. The only reason people knew about her before all this was because it was trendy at hipster coffee shops to be seen reading her book. She is soaking up her 15 minutes of being “the face of the writers strike” and belle of the ball that beat out screenplays about a cartoon rat, yet another lawyer movie, and two films that I don’t even think the Academy saw. Don’t even get me started on the shoe story. She is sticking her overexposed face in every camera to whine about million dollar shoes shoes. If she was really “at a time where I really want to hide” like she said on her myspace, instead of just saying that for the sympathy and attention then maybe she would actually go away instead of contacting newspapers to ask them if they want to interview her. She is like that girl in college that never stops talking about how she was a high school cheerleader. Ted Bundy played football for Polk High and you were a stripper, we get it.
You know what? I have at least eleven things in common with Diablo Cody and I think that’s a GOOD thing. I’ve been using that to promote my story under difficult circumstances for a while and I wouldn’t do it unless I believed in her talent and her voice. You can read what some of those things are here:
http://www.myspace.com/rodneywga
http://www.cuttingconfessionsfilm.blogspot.com
hilarious.
If you can’t annoy somebody, there’s little point in writing. – Kingsley Amis (1922 – )
What is the deal with all the hype over this person? Sorry, but her writing is not Oscar caliber. Thankfully she will fade away in a year or so, after she cranks out some stinkers and we won’t have to endure watching her try so hard to be “bad ass” and different and hip. The cardinal sin of being “hip” is trying. And boy, is she.
She needs to disappear for awhile and learn to write.
As for everyone being haters and wanting to BE her?
You’re kidding, right?
It’s only the nerdy dweebs in this town who think she is stylish or hip.
I seriously am not trying to work a 1997 Betty Page-Goth look. That Rockabilly thing was over at the first light of 2000.
Diablo Cody is a hack. Juno was a moderately cute movie, but like some others I found the dialogue to be obnoxiously overwritten. I’ve heard most of it was improve anyways. It seems like every year or two a movie comes out that people want to label as the “underdog” and give it the people’s support. Juno was okay, but other movies this year had more heart, more laughs, and better acting. Ellen Page – Oscar candidate? Sure, for Hard Candy. Not for this dreck. And whomever thinks “Diablo” Cody is hot needs to get off the pipe. That tattoo, that Oscar dress, that terrible makeup? Trash. Pure trash. Can’t wait for this one to disappear like so many flavors of the month before.
Haven’t seen Juno yet so can’t comment on its quality, but it seems DC is getting 95% of her publicity off the fact that she was a stripper.
A stripper turned screenwriter – that’s a great story.
I predict a 5 year career flame-out.
Am I jealous? Damn fucking right I am!!!
I agree with “D” and others – too much envious vitriol for Brook-cum-Diablo. She seems nice enough, even if she’s ripened fruit for parody at the moment given her successes.
Diablo Cody is boring and Juno, while cute, is hardly a great piece of art. It’s success speaks more to the fact that the Hollywood machine is pumping out nothing more than garbage these days than it does to the film’s quality.
Sadly, the continued success of “indies” such as Juno and Little Miss Sunshine is just going to make it harder for true independent filmmakers (the Hal Hartleys and Jim Jarmusches) to get their films made and distributed.
And jealously has nothing to do with it.
Wait, so humor is not allowed anymore?
Hilarious.
Why is everyone getting so upset about people making fun of Diablo? Being in the public eye makes her fodder for jokes just as much as the next guy.
“No one would bother if they didn’t like her (or wanna be her…)”
Hmmm… is that why SNL spoofs GW Bush? They want to be him? Haha… sometimes it’s just fun to lampoon somebody you think is a ridiculous hack. Not all of us like the slang fest twee-calculated hit of the year (and it’s not all backlash.) Get over it and move on…
And to think all those poor screenwriters were following Syd Field when they should have simply become pole dancers in some titty bar in order to make a sale and land the job of writing a TV series for Spielberg!
Agreed with most of the commenters above.
Diablo wasn’t a real stripper. She was a college-educated, upper-middle class girl that got bored of working in a cubicle. So she started stripping so she could get some life experience and at the same time condescend to everything and everyone around her. Real classy.
This crap about her being “edgy”, “real”, or “hip” only works with the same geeks that JUNO was carefully packaged and marketed directly towards. Her personality, hipster-posturing, and horrid nude photos (how old was she in those pics? Like 26? A little old to be taking teenager emo pics, eh, honey?) are no different than what you’ll find in Silverlake on any given night. In short, about as edgy as vanilla iced cream.
And the notion that the dialogue of JUNO somehow had its finger on the pulse of the “ISpeak” generation only further proves that this town wouldn’t know a real teenager if one bit them on the ass. They only know posturing posers trying to re-live their teen years through screenplay.
I’m glad her contrived backstory with its superb marketing hook got her the Oscar, because this is sadly where the train stops.
Hope you had a fun ride, Brooke. Now please get off. And please–grow up. Just because you waited until 25 to have any kind of social life doesn’t mean the rest of us have to pay the price for the supposed street cred that you and your publicist bought and paid for.
As a screenwriter myself and someone who wishes there were more female screenwriters so there might be some halfway decent female characters for talented actresses to play, I have to say that I can’t stand Diablo Cody. Not because I’m jealous of her (bitch, please!) but because I just find her whole “act” altogether rather strained and therefore tiring.
As soon as she started “writing” for Entertainment Weekly, I decided to not renew my subscription and it’s since lapsed. I’m not going to pay to read her drivel. I see and hear enough of that tattooed tramp everywhere else.
And I love how that shoe designer (the one she was bitching about) came out and said she co-designed the damned things with him. So it’s not like he was some stranger who was forcing her to wear his multi-million dollar shoes. Diablo Cody is a lying bitch who just wants attention much like a two year old who throws tantrums in the candy aisle at the store if Momma doesn’t fill her arms with Snickers.
i love old english…
teasing is not hating..
Diablo Cody is an attention-hog ripe for parody, but this piece of parody just wasn’t very funny.
She’s also a really sharp writer. Juno was brilliant writing. And a lot of kids do talk like the characters in the movie. Just because they don’t talk like that everywhere doesn’t mean no one talks like that.
I liked her Oscars dress. If anyone deserves wardrobe mockery, it’s Tilda Swinton (who is otherwise very cool).
The stripper-turned-writer thing has gone stale, particularly since she’s really a middle class college girl turned writer, with some dabbling in stripping along the way. However, it is a sufficiently memorable story to help her turn her into a brand, when most writers fail to draw notice except from movie people and serious fans. If her future work is as brilliant as Juno, she’ll maintain the celebrity she enjoys now. If she’s used up her supply of talent, she’ll fade.
She didn’t particularly deserve the Oscar, but her writing did. That’s just the opposite of a lot of Oscars.
Thank you for this post Brian M. You are what we call a fan boy. An annoying stupid little idiotic fan boy who likes overrated crap like Juno and other indie pseudo witty bullshit that’s been over hyped like the commercialized crap they are. Not only is this video Spot on about how Diablo Cody is a hack, it’s also gut busting funny. The fact that you support the Oscars, an award show that focuses more on popularity rather than actual filming and artistic merits shows how ignorant you are to the world of Cinema and true artistic merits.
This clip was not only funny, but it said more about overrated stupid writers who relied on mundane pop culture references as well as pseudo hipster language then that two hour of a mess you oh so covet like the hack you are. Learn a thing or two about Humor kid.