Easy A is a sassy young adaptation of Nathanial Hawthorne's classic The Scarlet Letter. In this modern day retelling, Olive finds herself the victim of peer scrutiny after to agrees to help a friend escape similar tyranny for being homosexual. In this "agreement" Olive pretends to have sex with Brandon to cement his heterosexuality to get the harassment to cease. Soon Olive finds her good girl image rapidly degrading to an unanticipated lascivious state and her lies quickly spin out of control. As she helps more and more of her classmates, Olive must find a way to save her own reputation before the school's religious fanatic Marianne (played by Amanda Bynes) gets her expelled and she loses her shot at attaining her own happiness, a relationship with her long time crush, Todd.
I was personally very surprised and pleased with the witty, mature, but still relevant dialogue of the movie. Emma Stone delivers numerous one liners about not just tasteless pop culture, but important literary works, very uncommon in teen comedy's. In fact, much of the movie is comprised of homages to John Hughes, one of teen movies most influential movie directors of the eighties who focused on the hardships of simply surviving as a teen rather than mindless entertainment which frequents theatres. Such scenes include references to Say Anything, the Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Sixteen Candles. (All my favorites...)
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