Easy A

Two of the films have 85% Rotten Tomatoes scores.

We're talking about 21 Jump Street and Easy A.

Easy A released in 2010.

85% directed by Will Gluck, starring Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes, Thomas Hayden Church, and Patricia Clarkson.

Do you want the tagline? Go ahead.

It's the Scarlet Letter.

Exactly.

So you got fun facts for Easy A?

But in movies, they're very segregated classes.

And I think Booksmart shows that turn that kind of happened towards the late 2000s, early 2010s, starting with movies like Easy A and different things like that, where it went from aspirational to relatable.

So we're getting movies where people are like, yeah, that's what my high school experience legitimately was like.

that's exactly what my friend group was like or that's what i was like

High school stuff.

I mean, Easy A, that was a big...

I love Easy A.

Easy A coming out when we were in high school hit like crack.

Yeah.

That was incredible.

What do we have in it? We have, uh, She's All That-

She's All That, Practical Magic, Easy A, and-

Love Potion Number Nine

...

... last I checked it was in the lead too.

But-

Close second, Easy A, though.

Yeah.

So for a movie, you passed on that.

You could have said E.T., Eat, Pray, Love, Elf, Easy A, among others.

But you

know what?

I

tend to agree.

I think he's an easy A.

Yeah, I'd agree.

Milk.

So next movie night, Easy A, Mean Girls, obviously.

Ooh,

sick.

Double feature.

Double feature.

I haven't watched Easy A in a long time.

Oh, my God.

It's a movie that is fully aware of its own existence.

You are referring to the 2010 film Easy A, starring Emma Stone in a phenomenal breakout role.

Yes.

Easy A is a brilliant evolution of the teen adaptation genre because it doesn't just quietly adapt the source material in the background.

The characters inside the movie are actively aware of the source material.

It hides the adaptation in plain sight by making it the text of the movie itself.

Right.

But this is where the adaptation creates this fascinating, sparkling friction with the original text.