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r black woman onscreen was shareeka epps in half nelson 2006 and where have the roles gone for epps in the meantime if any of you doubts the perversity of this trend consider one of the prevailing cultural anxieties appearing in major media of the past six months the idea that boys are falling behind girls or in hanna rosin s trademark hysterical terms the end of men at the same time that we watch smart boys and hot girls onscreen we re also supposed to feel anxious about the fact that girls do better in school and young women are going to college in vastly larger numbers than boys they make up roughly 60 of college populations this has prompted rosin and her ilk to proclaim that women are winning some kind of battle against men thus the fact that our films persist in peddling some kind of retro fantasy about boys smartness seems to reject our anxieties that girls might be pretty and smart and reassures us that smart dudes will always bag the hotties if you need an explanation for my bleak mood it s because i just finished reading gary shteyngart s incredibly disturbing dystopian novel super sad true love story in this america of the future women wear clothes made by the juicypussy brand total surrender panties which pop off at the push of a little button and have their hotness level perpetually broadcast to everyone around them via a version of a smartphone called an äpparät it s a brilliant characterization of the future i cringed and laughed at the fact that the hero s love interest eunice park majored in images and minored in assertiveness in college we all know that s where we re heading but ultimately one that reiterates that tired trope shlubby bookish imperfect aging hero falls for very beautiful very young very anti intellectual woman and wins her at least for a while you know what i love shlubby men in real life hi honey but i have grown to despise their perpetual appearance in narratives so to cleanse my palate of the oily aftertaste of super sad i ve plunged myself into muriel barbery s wonderful novel the elegance of the hedgehog which moves back and forth between the interior monologues of two brilliant women the autodidact renée who hides behind her mask as an unkempt sullen concierge in an elegant paris apartment building and paloma the precociously intelligent 12 year old who lives upstairs and despises the pretentions of her family teachers and classmates they seem to be on a path to discover one another but i m at the point in the novel when i m so enjoying just listening to them think out loud that i m not sure i care whether the narrative goes anywhere paloma has a diatribe about why grammar is about accessing the beauty of language that s so wonderful i m thinking of plagiarizing it for use in my classes here s what it would take to cultivate a generation of young actresses known for their braininess just jettison the smart vs hot binary for women onscreen already if i see glasses used as the smart signifier one more time write some stories in which young women aren t just interested in dudes all the time but have wholly stand alone loves of language art math con artistry biology music sports comic books religion killing demons other girls or food even drugs or booze for gods sake just like actual women stop resigning smart girls to the sidekick position in kids films like harry potter cloudy with a chance of meatballs and tv shows like buffy etc show that smartness isn t just a magical quality endowed by nature but is something that takes work show that smartness can pose a problem beyond scaring off potential dudes when young women face idiotic paternalistic bosses teachers too tired to teach to the top 1 of a class or families in which no one has ever gone to college let girls play brilliant anti heroes along the lines of jesse eisenberg s take on mark zuckerberg or hell just weird antisocial types like lisbeth salander let girls play funny let young female actors fail occasionally in a part the way we just keep forgiving failures by jonah hill zach galifianakis ashton kutcher even robert downey jr the list goes on without career consequences give me a central female character besides the girl with the dragon tattoo who s a computer whiz display explicitly feminist characters onscreen and have them explain their opinions maybe then we won t experience that odd whiplash of suddenly having our actresses arrive at the age of 35 and suddenly become smart does this read as unattractive and or ball busting to male viewers i wonder i for one am looking forward to my movies looking a bit more like reality posted by didion filed in 2000s films 2010s films an education carey mulligan easy a emma stone female ambition gary shteyngart gender gap girl who kicked the hornet s nest girl who played with fire girl with the dragon tattoo half nelson hanna rosin helen mirren holly hunter jennifer lawrence jesse eisenberg jodie foster mia wasikowska movies books you need to know and probably don t 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watching it made me realize two things about this genre that these films rely on perversity to explain the absurdity of high school but that viewers credulity can only be stretched so far oh it starts so well olive stone is smart overachieving and pretty but invisible in her ojai ca high school smart in a good way that is when her english class is assigned the scarlet letter she rants to us that all her peers have rented the demi moore adaptation which she explains isn t just unfaithful to the book but a bad movie especially compared with the original film a 1926 silent with lillian gish you see how much this was working for me but this isn t a geekfest it s a sex comedy she then proceeds to tell us both to her webcam and in a series of flashbacks how everything changed one day in the girls bathroom olive finds herself making up an elaborate tale about having sex with a college guy rather than admit she just didn t want to go camping with her best friend rhiannon and her nudist parents it convinces rhi but is overheard by the school s sanctimonious queen of the super christians amanda bynes and soon the word is out as the camera pans to find everyone on campus whispering and texting furiously first misstep who ever heard of a high school where no one is having sex much less in ojai ca but for the moment i suspended disbelief because this is where high school sex comedies invariably take us they explain for us the perverse and surreal internal logic of its cliques unspoken rules hopeless crushes humiliations whether it s john cusack trying to kill himself over and over in better off dead 1985 or winona ryder hooking up with a jack nicholson esque christian slater to kill their high school s douchebags in heathers 1989 these stories work because high school is so bizarre on its own it makes sense in easy a that olive not only shoulders her new reputation but uses it to poke her fellow students in the eye when her friend brandon who s tired of being harassed for being gay begs her to pretend to be his girlfriend again in ojai why not set the story in idaho if you need an anti sex homophobic locale she agrees but ratchets it up a notch they show up to a big party lock themselves in a bedroom and pretend to have the noisiest most raucous sex they can muster she s saved brandon s reputation by turning herself into a full fledged school slut so being a wry irreverent smartypants type she buys a bunch of naughty bustiers pins on a big red a and wears them to school okay so the literary tie in doesn t work because it s not possible to translate the scarlet letter into a high school sex comedy especially when our heroine hasn t had sex at all this is no clueless 1995 for which director amy heckerling translated jane austen s emma nor is it 10 things i hate about you 1999 a movie that improved on shakespeare s misogynistic taming of the shrew if you ask me but the movie goes beyond high school perversity when all manner of overweight acne scarred hopeless boys at school ask olive to work her fake slut magic on their reputations and she agrees but only if they ll give her gift cards that is in exchange for a 50 gift card from beds n things she ll say she made out with you for a 100 card for macaroni garden she ll say you had sex why gift cards because it somehow keeps it outside of the formal definition of sex work the movie doesn t know what to do with this and neither do we it s a bad weird mistake if the movie is so eager to tell us that olive is a virgin why does it turn her into a prostitute by having her demand gift cards from eager johns most of all i wished i knew more about olive s motives we re vaguely aware that she sort of likes todd penn badgley the improbably hunky guy who humiliates himself publicly and frequently as the school s woodchuck mascot despite being characterized as sort of a lovable dweeb todd shows off his ridiculously beefy torso and huge biceps way too frequently he hardly ever seems to have his shirt on to pass as a high school student i walked out of the theater spluttering that he looks like he s 32 years old but in fact the actor is not quite 24 still remember grease in which all the actors look like the parents of high school age kids but olive s interest in todd doesn t really emerge clearly till the end nor is it clear why all the adult characters and what actors patricia clarkson lisa kudrow stanley tucci in the film are living such happy sex lives but their kids are so puritanical all of this strains credulity so yeah it has its problems but it makes you look back fondly on a lot of those earlier films if i were the filmspotting guys i d host a marathon of great high school sex comedies to think more broadly and theoretically about what works and with that in mind let me tell you some of my favorites that lie just a little bit outside the genre but ultimately make it better flirting australia 1991 with noah taylor and thandie newton as the luminous leads gregory s girl scotland 1981 with john gordon sinclair as our bony awkward hero dazed and confused austin tx 1993 ensemble cast of a generation american graffiti calif 1973 a beautiful film rushmore houston 1998 in which max fischer stole my heart saved middle america 2004 in which the christians learn to ease up on the dogma but maybe for the short term i ll watch say anything again and relive my high school fantasies about john cusack as lloyd dobler and then give myself a dose of clueless as if posted by didion filed in 1980s films 1990s films 2010s films easy a emma stone romantic comedies tags clueless easy a emma stone penn badgley romantic comedies say anything 3 comments pages about didion feminéma best films ever lists in progress recent films and books i ve loved and which i didn t have time to write about search for top posts the hair piece or the subtle significance of hair onscreen the eternal beauty of a mouth with character marriage hell the forsyte saga 2002 the radicalism of a real nose the 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