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  1. career (career): Easy A → Crazy, Stupid, Love. The next year Stone was in Crazy, Stupid, Love and The Help, a sign Easy A launched her.
    “And then the next year, she was in Crazy Stupid Love and the Help.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:03:02 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Easy A → Superbad. Easy A is described as coming straight off Superbad in Stone's rise.
    “Yes, so Emma Stone, she's come to us. Straight off, super bad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:03:11 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Easy A → The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Like that film's setup, the premise turns creepy without its star; Emma Stone's gravity holds Easy A together.
    “It's like a very similar thing with the setup for the 40-year-old virgin, without Steve Carell in that movie, it becomes exceptionally creepy.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:05:19 · Shea Serrano (0.85 sure it was them)
  4. industry (industry): Easy A → Mean Girls. Easy A bridges the 1997-2004 wave of teen movies (peaking with Mean Girls) and the Netflix-era revival.
    “from 1997 to like 2004-ish peaking with mean girls.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:07:27 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Easy A → She's the Man. Amanda Bynes's last film is Easy A, a bookend to a career that included the cult classic She's the Man.
    “she's the man is like a cult classic now.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:09:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Easy A → Hairspray. Amanda Bynes was very good in Hairspray too.
    “she also was very, very good in hairspray”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:09:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. lineage (lineage): Easy A → Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Director Will Gluck has said Ferris Bueller is his favorite movie, and Olive's Mohawk and guitar bits echo it.
    “I think the director, Will Gluck, has like talked about how Ferris Bueller is, I think, his favorite movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:12:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  8. lineage (lineage): Easy A → John Hughes. Easy A is in open dialogue with Hughes: Olive says her life is not a John Hughes movie and the finale has a Hughes montage.
    “But also she, like, literally says in the dialogue, my life isn't a John Hughes movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:12:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  9. theme (theme): Easy A → Mean Girls. Both are self-aware teen comedies that know the tropes, though Easy A is far less vicious.
    “You know, like in a way that mean girls does, though it's far less vicious than mean girls.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:13:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  10. craft (craft): Easy A → Clueless. Both have an archness and literary references that make them play for adults and kids at once.
    “I think that there's like an archness to both EZA and clueless that make them feel like they're for multiple generations.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:15:42 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
  11. verdict (verdict): Easy A → Clueless. Clueless sits at number one for Amanda; Easy A's Emma Stone is her number two among teen-movie leads.
    “Number 2 for me is Emma Stone.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:18:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  12. contrast (contrast): She's All That → Easy A. Written through a male normative gaze, She's All That feels like a different world from Easy A, Clueless and Mean Girls.
    “there's such a, like, kind of, um, normative gaze in She's All That that does not feel as present in some of the other movies we're discussing.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:19:18 · Juliet Litman (0.55 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Easy A: Shot on location in Ojai at a local high school; the production wasn't prepared for the lack of indoor hallways and had to improvise the direction.
    “they weren't prepared for the lack of indoor hallways, so they had to do a lot of on the on the scene, um, improv”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:23:05 · Juliet Litman (0.80 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Easy A: Bert Royal allegedly wrote almost the whole script in five consecutive days; the 'blacklist' story doesn't really check out.
    “good old Bert allegedly wrote almost all of it in 5 consecutive days.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:23:28 · Juliet Litman (0.80 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Easy A: Most rewatchable scene: the Pocket Full of Sunshine bed montage, about two minutes that makes you root for Olive.
    “By the end of that weekend, the scene is, what, a minute and a half, two minutes long, but by the end of it, you're like,”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:24:56 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Easy A: Amanda's pick: the Knock on Wood performance is pure star quality and needed in a teen comedy.
    “And you always need a musical number in a teen comedy, in my opinion, or some sort of performance.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:26:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Easy A: Shea's pick: the confessional is where you know Stone can do everything; she weaponizes her giant eyes.
    “she really, like, weaponizes her eyeballs, these gigantic eyeballs that she has”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:28:37 · Shea Serrano (0.80 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Easy A: Shea picks the twat kitchen scene as his most rewatchable; the family also calls out the T-word guessing game.
    “my most rewatchable scene is when she has to tell her parents that she used the word twat”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:29:20 · Shea Serrano (0.55 sure it was them)
  19. theme (theme): Easy A → Book Smart. Book Smart (like Easy A) has supportive parents who show up, played by Will Forte and Lisa Kudrow.
    “Like we saw this in book and book smart.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:31:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Easy A: Emma Stone famously auditioned via YouTube, sending a webcam reel.
    “Emma Stone famously auditioned via like YouTube.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:36:11 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Easy A: Ojai has 'pink moments', branded sunsets on the mountains; one shows when Olive and her mom talk on the car roof.
    “they have what they call the pink moments”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:38:58 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Easy A: Bart's Books, the outdoor Ojai bookstore, is where Olive goes to read the Bible.
    “Barts books featured in EZA.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:40:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  23. craft (craft): Easy A → One Tree Hill. The webcam broadcasting echoes Peyton on One Tree Hill, so there was a precedent.
    “There's 2 pieces of this movie that have strong callbacks to one Tree Hill.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:47:17 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about Easy A: Webcam framing and the hand-held signs combine analog and digital to structure the film into acts.
    “It was a really good combination of like analog and digital”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:48:18 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
  25. craft (craft): Easy A → (500) Days of Summer. Like 500 Days of Summer, Easy A sets up a structuring device early (the signs) and repeats it all movie.
    “I really like in the movies, when they like set up a device early on and you know they're doing it”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:48:33 · Shea Serrano (0.60 sure it was them)
  26. theme (theme): Easy A → One Tree Hill. Mary Ann's clean-teen Christianity recalls the virgin-professing 'clean teens' of One Tree Hill.
    “And that also reminded me of one Tree Hill, where they had the clean teens”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:49:20 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
  27. fun, about Easy A: Shea grew up with the FCA at school and sees Marianne's clique in it.
    “if you were in the FCA, you behaved exactly like she behaved in this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:50:09 · Shea Serrano (0.90 sure it was them)
  28. lineage (lineage): Easy A → The Scarlet Letter (Demi Moore version). The movie nods to the Scarlet Letter and its puritanical heritage; Olive jokes about watching the Demi Moore version.
    “does its best or at least at times nods to the Scarlet letter and kind of like, you know, the puritanical heritage”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:52:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  29. lineage (lineage): Easy A → Election. Olive's unbothered, stronger-than-the-bully stance continues the Tracy Flick character through Book Smart's Beanie Feldstein.
    “the Tracy Flick character that we have seen just grow and grow all the way up to like the most recently book smart with Beanie Felsian's character.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:56:33 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
  30. fun, about Easy A: The chlamydia subplot: Thomas Haden Church's marriage ends; Shea feels bad for him, the movie skates through.
    “she gives the student chlamydia.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:57:50 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  31. what-if (what-if): Logan Lerman → Easy A. Logan Lerman auditioned for Brandon, which would have made the movie very different.
    “Logan Lerman auditioned for that.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:02:45 · Juliet Litman (0.70 sure it was them)
  32. what-if (what-if): Jennifer Lawrence → Easy A. Jennifer Lawrence auditioned for Olive; the panel doesn't think she could play the unbothered goofiness.
    “Jennifer Lawrence auditioned for the role of Olive.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:03:01 · Juliet Litman (0.70 sure it was them)
  33. industry (industry): Easy A → Black Swan. Stone should have been nominated for the 2010 Best Actress race against Black Swan, The Kids Are All Right, Rabbit Hole, Winter's Bone and Blue Valentine; the Oscars don't acknowledge comedy.
    “However, the Oscars... Don't really acknowledge comedy.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:26:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  34. verdict (verdict): Easy A → Emma Stone. Easy A isn't Stone's peak, but she doesn't reach it without this movie.
    “it's not technically her Apex Mountain, but she doesn't get to her Apex Mountain without this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:26:57 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  35. theme (theme): Cruella → Easy A. If Easy A's unlikely premise worked, maybe a Cruella movie for kids can too.
    “And they made it work.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:29:46 · Juliet Litman (0.45 sure it was them)
  36. career (career): Will Gluck → Easy A. Easy A is probably director Will Gluck's peak.
    “Probably the director well Glock's peak, in my opinion.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:31:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them)
  37. career (career): Easy A → Peter Rabbit. After Easy A, Will Gluck made Friends with Benefits and then the live-action Peter Rabbit movies.
    “he makes friends with benefits and then he does the live action Peter Rabbit movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:31:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  38. fun, about Easy A: Nitpick: Olive's 8th grade was only three years ago, and younger actors with Stone's voice flash back.
    “The way that Olive remembers 8th grade, which was just a few years ago, is so completely stupid that I can't get over it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:32:12 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
  39. fun, about Easy A: Best quote: Olive improvised the Gossip Girl in Sweet Valley of the Traveling Pants line.
    “she said, yes, I believe so if I was the gossip girl in Sweet Valley of the Traveling Pants”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:39:01 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
  40. people (people): Easy A → Twilight. A bookstore clerk in Easy A was also in Twilight, a joke about Twilight sits beside the Bible.
    “Oh, that's in bestsellers right next to Twilight.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:40:58 · Shea Serrano (0.50 sure it was them)
  41. theme (theme): Easy A → Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Characters like Olive, Beanie Feldstein in Book Smart and Ferris Bueller let parents trust they will be okay.
    “Beanie Felstein and Booksmart, Ferris Bueller, these sorts of like, they're going to be okay.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:42:25 · Shea Serrano (0.60 sure it was them)
  42. industry (industry): Easy A → Stranger Things. Netflix has launched careers (Millie Bobby Brown) but teen movies now go straight to Netflix and skip the group theater experience.
    “All of the recent teen movies are just Netflix releases.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:43:35 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
  43. programming (programming): Easy A → Marvin's Room. Juliet's first coed theater outing was Marvin's Room, in contrast to seeing teen movies with friends.
    “The 1st movie I saw with like boys and girls, like it was like a co-ed group outing was Marvin's room, which is so depressing.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:46:09 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
  44. fun, about Easy A: Unanswerable: no one meets Olive's brother in college; Shea doesn't know who gave whom chlamydia.
    “Why don't we get to meet her brother in college?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:48:18 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
  45. unmapped (overqualified lead): Mean Girls → Easy A. Emma Stone in Easy A is the other candidate for an actress overqualified for a teen movie, alongside Lohan.
    “Emma Stone would be the other candidate for just, Completely overqualified to be in one of these movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:07:52 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)