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Easy A (style like easy A ) is a 2010 American teen comedy film directed by Will Gluck, written by Bert V. Royal and starring Emma Stone, Stanley Tucci, Patricia Clarkson, Thomas Haden Church, Dan Byrd, Amanda Bynes, Penn Badgley, Cam Gigandet, Lisa Kudrow, and Aly Michalka. The scenario was partly inspired by The Scarlet Letter novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Shot in Screen Gems studio and in Ojai, California, the film was released on September 17, 2010, receiving positive reviews and earning $ 75 million worldwide.

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Plot

Olive Penderghast, a 17-year-old girl living in Ojai, California, lied to her friend Rhiannon Abernathy about going out on a date to get out of the camp with Rhiannon's hippie parents. Instead, he hangs at home all weekend listening to Natasha Bedingfield's "Pocketful of Sunshine", which is played with a greeting card sent by her grandmother. The following Monday, which was pressed by Rhiannon, Olive lied about losing his virginity to a college man. Marianne Bryant, a girl with a pious Christian faith, whom Olive considered a cheerful man, overheard her tell the lie and immediately spread like wildfire. The school church group run by Marianne decided that Olive would be their next project. Olive confessed his truth to his friend Brandon, and he understood because others bullied him for his homosexuality. He then asks Olive to pretend to sleep with him so that he will be accepted by everyone as a "straight male".

Brandon convinces Olive to help him and they pretend to have sex at a party. After a row with Rhiannon over Olive's new identity as a "dirty whore", Olive decides to fight abuse by embracing her new image as a school bum. She starts wearing more provocative clothes and sews a red "A" for everything she wears. Boys who are usually unlucky with girls in the past, please Olive to say they have sex with her to increase their popularity, in exchange for gift cards to various stores, in turn enhancing his reputation. Things got worse when Micah, 22-year-old girlfriend Marianne, chlamydia contract from sleep with Ny. Griffith, school counselor, and blame everything on Olive. Olive agrees to lie to cover up the affair so that his favorite teacher's wedding, Mr. Griffith, will be spared.

Marianne's group of friends from the church youth group, which now includes Rhiannon, began harassing Olive for her to leave school. After a badly dated date with Anson, a boy who wants to pay him to really sleep with him and not just pretend like that, Olive reconnects with Todd, his old love interest, which is also the school mascot. Todd then tells him that he does not trust the rumor because he remembers when he lied to her when she was not ready for her first kiss a few years ago. Olive then begins to ask all the people who are lied to help him out by telling the truth, but Brandon and Micah suddenly leave the city and everyone enjoys their new popularity and does not want the truth to come out. Mrs Griffith also refused to tell the truth and when Olive threatened to expose her, Mrs. Griffith refused, saying no one would believe her.

Out of spite, Olive immediately told Mr. Griffith, who trusted her and split with Mrs. Griffith. After a friendly conversation with Rosemary's open-minded mother, Olive came up with a plan to finish everything out in the open. She then performs songs and dance numbers in the school rally to get people's attention to watch it through a web cam, where she confesses what she has done (web cam is a movie framing device). A variety of boys whose Olive enhanced reputation are also seen watching. Later, the Olive Rhiannon texts, apologizing for lying to him. When he finished his webcast, Todd came by riding a lawn mower and told him to get out. He resigns by saying he might lose his virginity to Todd, and proudly declares "it's no one's business". He goes outside to meet him, they kiss and both are seen riding on a lawn mower.

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Cast

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Production

Development

Screenwriter Bert V. Royal claims to have written the entire scenario, except for the last ten pages, in five days. Royal plan is to adapt three classic works into a movie and arrange them in the same high school, so some characters will appear in some movies. In addition to the The Scarlet Letter , which is the source material for Easy A , Royal wants to customize Cyrano de Bergerac and The Mystery of Edwin Drood . Natasha Bedingfield's song "Pocketful of Sunshine", which became a joke in this movie, is not in the original Royal script. He imagined "Olive", a song from Ken Nordine's 1966 album Colors, to play during the weekend montage of Olive (who introduced the song). Gluck's favorite movie is Ferris Bueller's Day Off and has some respect for it in the movie (Olive Mohawk bath, "never had a lesson"), among many other John Hughes references. According to Royal, although the word "fuck" appears 47 times in the original draft, written as an R-rated comedy, all events were cut from the last film. However, director Will Gluck took two versions of many scenes, both with and without harsh language. Although the film was cut down for a wider audience, the film still earns a ranking of 15 in the UK.

Filming

Gluck credits Stone with improvised lines about being "Gossip Girl in Sweet Valley of Traveling Pants". The entire film was taken in Ojai, California, using Panavision's Genesis and then filmed. None of the movie sets are used; even the houses in the film belong to the people of Ojai. The school used as "Ojai North High School" in the film is Nordhoff High School, and the final credits were filmed on Fordyce Road, both located in Ojai, California.

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Soundtrack

Soundtrack was released by Madison Gate Records on September 14, 2010, and is available through iTunes. It features songs from Jessie J, Lenka, Natasha Bedingfield, Cardinal Offishall, and Cary Brothers. Other songs in the movie but not on the soundtrack album are from OneRepublic, The Dollyrots, Death Cab for Cutie, and The Pussycat Dolls.

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Release

Easy A got her world premiere at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.

Home media

Easy A Easy A was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on December 21, 2010. DVD features a roll gag , Emma Stone audition recording, audio commentary with Gluck and Stone director, and preview. The exclusive bonus features of Blu-ray include: Creation Easy A , Pop Culture School: 80s Movie, Hilarity Vocabulary, and trivia songs.

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Reception

box office

The film opened on September 17, 2010, and grossed $ 6,787,163 on its opening day and $ 17,734,040 on its opening weekend, placing second behind The Town in both figures, and is already generating more than double the film with a thin $ 8. million budget. This is in line with expectations from Sony on the opening weekend of about $ 15 million. The film has earned a total of $ 58,401,464 in the United States and Canada plus $ 16,550,841 in international markets for a worldwide total of $ 74,952,305, regaining its budget more than nine times, making it a huge financial success.

Critical response

On this review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes has an 85% approval rating based on 175 reviews, with an average score of 7.1/10. The critical consensus of this site reads, "The debts are huge for older (and better) teen comedy, but proves a smart and intelligent show for a very charming star, Emma Stone. " Another review gatherer, Metacritic, commissioned a weighted average score film of 72 out of 100, based on 34 critics, demonstrating "favorable overview". Viewers surveyed by CinemaScore gave this movie an average rating of "A-" on a scale of A to F.

The Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three and a half of four stars, writes, " Easy A offers an exciting middle ground for the absolute of sexual abstinence." sleep with anyone, but just say it. It's a funny and fascinating comedy that takes Emma Stone's familiar but underrated and makes it, I'm sure, a star. "Richard Corliss of Time Magazine named the performance of Emma Stone as one of Top 10 Movie Performances of 2010, says "Stone lends a winning maturity and a gift to make a natural sounding dialogue sound. The 22-year-old is an actress-a personality - a star - about whom Hollywood can build some pretty good movies. "John Griffiths of Us Weekly gave the film two and a half stars out of four, praising Stone, states that "With his hoarse voice and fiery hair, Stone is spectacular, echoing the beginning of Lindsay Lohan", but also adds that "The story is thin, and the laughter is small".

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Accolades

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References

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External links

• Official website
• Easy A on IMDb
• Easy A in Mojo Box Office
• Easy A at Rotten Tomatoes
• Easy A in Metacritic

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