Academy Award winner Diablo Cody (JUNO) claims that she has written a screenplay based around the theme involving her real life situation where she has become the subject of much hatred by journalists, fanboys and critics because she has been successful in the industry in such a short time from an unusual background.
Which if you don’t know, is that she worked a variety of jobs many would find degrading such as being a stripper and working on a sex phone line before trying her hand at writing and being extremely successful at it.
She doesn’t go into details, doesn’t even let us know if she finished it, whether it was a t.v. script or a feature.
The claim came as part of an astonishing attack on her very own blog voiced directly towards those who have taken a disliking towards her. The highlights are below…
I may have won 19 awards that you don’t feel I earned, but it’s neither original nor relevant to slag on Juno. Really. And you’re not some bold, singular voice of dissent, You are exactly like everyone else in your zeitgeisty-demo-lifestyle pod. You are even like me. (I, too, loved Arrested Development! Aren’t we a pretty pair of cultural mavericks? Hey, let’s go bitch about how Black Kids are overrated!)
I’m sorry that while you were shooting your failed opus at Tisch, I was jamming toxic silicon toys up my ass for money. I get why you’re bitter. I took exactly one film class in college and– with the curious exception of the Douglas Sirk unit—it bored the shit out of me. I also once got busted for loudly crinkling a bag of Jujubes during a classroom screening of Vivre Sa Vie. I don’t deserve to be here. We’ve established that. But I’m here. Five million 12-year-olds think I’m Buck Henry. Accept it.
I’m sorry to all those violent, semi-literate fanboys who hate me for befriending their heroes. I can’t help it if your favorite writer, actor, director, or talk show host likes me. Maybe you would too, if we actually met.
I know my name is fake and that it annoys you. What, do you hate Queen Latifah and Rip Torn, too? Writers and entertainers have been using pseudonyms for years. Chances are, you’re spewing bile under an assumed screen name yourself. I’m sorry if you think I’m like some inked-up quasi-Suicide Girl derby cunt from 2002, but I like my fake name. It’s engraved on an Oscar. Yours isn’t.
Listen: I’ve been telling stories my whole life. Even when I was a phone sex operator, I was the Mark Twain of extemporaneous jerk-off fiction. I took every perspiring creep on a fucking journey. I don’t know how to do anything else.
I’m going to make more movies and shows. I doubt they’ll all be good, but that’s the nature of this life. Even though the public only knows me from one book, one movie, and several aborted blogs, I’ve spent the last few years hustling like Iceberg Slim out here to prove myself professionally. The people I currently work for, and with, are more than pleased with my post-Juno output. My pilot was so good (thanks, Toni Colette!) that it got picked up for series. That is rare, children. That is blue-rare.
In summation: you try it.
Cody’s second script developed is JENNIFER’S BODY, opening sometime next year and starring Megan Fox as a newly possessed cheerleader who specializes in offing her male peers.
via – /film
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If I wrote crap like Dia-BLOW Cody I wouldn’t want a film career. Her story is as simple as it is disgusting. Essentially it’s a huge joke being played on cinema.
She’s the whore who some film-wonks thought it would be cute to give some recognition to, merely because of her “background,”…or should it be “back door?”
She says she only took one film class –it certainly shows! I wonder how many blowjobs she had to give to “pass” that course or did she miss having plastic toys rammed up her ass and decide to drop out?
The tragedy of Dia-BLOW Cody (and the masturbation-addicts who defend/pimp her to the world) is that her critics are more right about her than they know. She’s a living metaphor now. A walking, talking, SUCKING benchmark of how dim-witted and irrelevant the so-called Academy (is it driving Academy now?) awards have become, why nobody listens to film critics anymore, and what filmmaking in the 21st century has degenerated into.
I for one hope she does write (or at least hires a competent ghost writer this time ) a screenplay about all the folks who can’t stand her or what her “success” has done to an industry already inundated with hacks like Bay and Ratner, and low-accounts idiots like Judd Apatow.
It promises to truly require “a cast of thousands.”
I didn’t see Juno until after the Oscars. I never thought it looked that great from the trailers. But after all the attention it got and winning an Oscar, I thought, hey maybe there is something to this movie.
So I watched it. And my original thoughts came back. Perhaps it just wasn’t a story that appealed to me, but I didn’t find it entertaining at all. In fact I found it quite boring.
I’m not trying to bash diablo cody for being an ex stripper or anything like that, I just didn’t like the movie she wrote. Big whoop! I didn’t think it was that good. So what if she did all that stuff before hand and then suddenly “made it.” Who cares. She’s in the movie industry and she should realize that she’s not going to have every person in the world be a fan of hers.
And if nearly everyone says she’s no good, then perhaps there’s something too it.
I thought Juno was just OK. Great soundtrack, but some wanky dialog. That said, I think Diablo Cody is rad. I’d rather hang out with her than some pretentious “genius” like David Lynch or Oliver Stone. And she definitely has talent. I don’t understand why she gets so much shit when there are sooooooo many others much more deserving of it in Hollywood.
i’d bang her
Gee…she sounds like a really cool chick. What she doesn’t GET is that we don’t like her vibe. She’s got the whole”life is meaningless” attitude down pat. Thus, that is why she was pushed up the line. Nothing to do with her writing…Everything to do with giving the sheeple another weak example to follow.
can some journalist look into this: Her career in sex work has been grossly exagerated ala Jt leroy.
Me? Didn’t knowor dislike her ’til I read that blog…
She self-righteousnessly and callously holds herself above those poorer, while soliciting the respect and compassion reserved for skid-row buskers by constantly, fraudulently relaying her (largely fictitious) background ho-ing. To whatever extent she slung tit, it was always her “project” her “choice,” whereas most women do it because they are choiceless.
Unlike them, she has a loving middle class family, a tony private school background and a college degree. So her constant “outsider” “noble victim” preening hits like a shot of Ipecac
if half the world can condemn Diablo, then i think they either hate her ,are jealouse of her or she is really really not ok as a script writer.There is one thing Diablo should learn,i.e THE MOST SUCCESFULL AND FUFILLED MAN IS NOT HE WHO HAS NEVER BEEN CRITICISED?BUT HE WHO HAS BEEN CRITICISED A MILLION TIMES BY A MILLION PERSONS AND CORRECTED HIMSELF A MILLION AND ONE TIMES
I just want to thank all u guys who have criticised this writer, it will help her.
And to you Diablo,get improved and suit your audience and readers, meanwhile i recommend you as my model.You are……..
JOHNSCOTT