#diablo cody wanted to cast pete

[meat-wentz]

should i watch jennifer's body. i'm so intrigued by all your posting

it’s my firm belief that everyone should watch jennifer’s body because it’s a unique portrait of best friendism that leans into eroticism that leans into murderous desire, the push and pull of being so close and yet growing up and growing apart and hurting each other because it’s the only relationship you have where being the worst is permitted simply because you don’t know how to live without each other. ALSO it’s a great story about competition between girls and how girls eat each other and how girls are victims and how girls can tear everything apart and how girls are mean and cruel and how girls can know each other so much they can feel each other in their bodies and it’s about how we look at popular girls and how we treat high femme girls and how girls love each other and how girls hold each other and how girls are hungry. it’s everything to me.

#not to mention a lot of decaydance rep #panic and cobra on the soundtrack #diablo cody wanted to cast pete #great time capsule if you love the late 2000’s #it’s everything to me and if you watch megan fox in convo with diablo it’s just chefs kiss #and directed by karyn kusama my wife #ask #anon

[souryogurt64]

Re: Jennifer's body, I don't think these people understand that just AWFUL women are like, fun, it's OK to like a villain, it's fine, it's really OK. It's fun actually. Try it.

i want to preface this by saying its OK to like jennifer and ship her with needy or whatever, plenty of popular male ships like hannigram or whatever is going on with breaking bad (?) is equally toxic and people create jokey content, but there seems to be this tongue in cheek awareness that is totally absent with jennifers body.

first off, jennifer is really mean. she treats needy very badly— shes physically violent with her, puts her down constantly, and even controls what she wears. i see myself and my toxic homoerotic high school friendships in jennifer and needy. its a beautiful and tragic story, one thats sympathetic. but shes MEAN

shes also racist. she makes a comment about needing to find and asian chick to do her nails, and before shes turned she makes a comment about ahmeds dick being a sea cucumber and wanting to hook up with him solely because of this, exoticizing him.

secondly, i dont like that jennifer is a passive victim. yes, she is a ritually sacrificed teen girl that has to choose between dying or eating human flesh. but the broad tumblr narrative of jennifer as this innocent victim that kills bad men is not true to the story. obviously its fine to have this girlboss killing evil boys moment and headcanon— its fun. but people are so serious about it and its NOT the movie.

the first person jennifer kills is a nerdy foreign exchange student who she made a racist comment about. yes, shes hungry, but ahmed didnt do anything. jennifer lures the grieving football player into the woods and is extremely forceful. all the emo guy does is politely ask her on a date. ahmed is a lost and innocent foreign exchange student.

its also obvious in the movie that there is something wrong with jennifer, like shes fated for something higher than being a small town high schooler that screws older cops. first, in the original script, during the van scene nikolai mysteriously produces a bottle of peach schnapps to assist in luring jennifer, which jennifer said earlier to needy was her favorite drink. almost like it was fate.

then theres the blood drinking scene from their childhood, which may explain why she and needy share a psychic bond before their final conflict that transfers some of jennifers powers to needy. /there is something wrong with jennifer,/ and low shoulder are just what sets the dominoes in motion.

jennifer does not give a shit about low shoulder and what theyve done to her because she likes having powers and she likes being gorgeous and able to seduce and kill people weaker than she is. jennifer wanted to have sex with the guys in low shoulder and she adamantly wanted to get in the van. yes, shes a teenager and concussed, and the scene in the bedroom demonstrates that being murdered obviously traumatized her. additionally, low shoulder are not motivated by sexually exploiting jennifer— theyre solely driven by greed and cruelty. during the van scene, nikolai easily could have taken both girls, sacrificing needy after sleeping with jennifer (who wants to fuck them), but they dont care because they dont want sex.

but low shoulder are PLAYING PROM. jennifer has the perfect opportunity to exact revenge on her supposed abusers— but she doesnt care. she is focused solely on murdering needys boyfriend. yes, jennifer is bisexual and in love with needy, and her motives are sympathetic, but she also wants to hurt needy and be possessive over her by killing the person closest to needy because she cant have needy.

ITS NEEDY that then goes on to use her powers for good— exacting revenge on low shoulder for turning her friend into a succubus, all in search of fame and money.

at no point in the movie does jennifer kill evil men. jennifer is focused on killing weak high schoolers and possessing needy. because shes an antagonist. a sympathetic and tragic and lovable antagonist, but an antagonist. people try to paint needys boyfriend as some sort of bad guy to justify this narrative, possibly because the sex scene is so disturbing. sure, hes a jealous, kinda dumb, insecure high school boy, but hes close with needy and obviously cares about her and her well being, and needy loves him.

and thats okay, because girls can be sympathetic bad guys sometimes, and its okay for girls to have an american psycho movie lol not everyone has to be a sweet little joan of arc

#do not get me started on diablo cody being an ex groupie from chicago #where a lot of pop punk bands like fob and starstruckk got started #and the fact that this is a pop punk sex movie from the posters to the soundtrack #they wanted to cast pete wentz but he was on tour #i lie awake thinking about the fueled by ramen journals where pete was complaining about jenny8675309 constantly #and wonder if that was the inspiration