It's a metaphor for the supreme challenge of life. The challenge of self-worth.Rocky is a guy whom life has passed by. His number never came up. Watch Young Adult Movie Online
For most of us, it never does.As a consequence, Rocky lives in uncertainty as to what exactly his real worth is.Maybe he is just another bum from the neighborhood. Maybe he was lucky to be spared an opportunity to prove himself. Maybe he would have failed the test anyway.
Maybe he's just another worthless piece of human garbage.Guess who was going through precisely these emotions during the writing of the script? A lumpy-faced, speech-impaired, struggling actor named Sylvester -- not yet Sly -- Stallone.Stallone was a guy who liked to work out, and enjoyed following the sport of boxing, but he was not a fighter himself in any conceivable way. He was a wannabe pretty boy actor. On the most obvious level, there was no way he could understand the travails of a character like Rocky, whose entire life was devoted to the urban Philadelphia fight game.
Except he did understand. While he didn't resemble Rocky -- Stallone was bright whereas Rocky was dim-witted, Stallone was a charmer whereas Rocky was a lonely introvert -- Stallone resembled Rocky in the way that mattered most. They were dealing with the same issue in life: the demon of failure, and the ensuing crisis of self-worth.It was this very paradox -- Stallone's similarity to and difference from the character of Rocky -- that made the movie a deeply affecting parable of the struggle for achievement; its real pitfalls, and its real rewards.
It's hard to imagine Stallone could have written a more honest script if he had written about a struggling actor. It would have been too close to reality in the superficial ways. There would be no metaphor for the artist to filter away inconsequentials.Which brings us to Diablo Cody and her new script, Young Adult.
Like Stallone, Cody broke into Hollywood by writing about a character who seemingly had nothing in common with her -- a pregnant sixteen year-old named Juno. But underneath the surface, the two were close kin. They both coped with insecurity by employing a caustic wit and keeping others at an emotional distance
This paradox made Juno rich, interesting and universal the same way Rocky was. It wasn't the details that mattered, it was the substance. It was the humanity.
Cody's next script was Jennifer's Body, about another teenaged girl whose best friend experiments with and consequently turns into a blood-sucking fiend. An experience Cody probably knew nothing about and, simultaneously, probably knew everything about.Jennifer's Body was pretty good, despite a lambasting from critics who wanted it to be a dramedy instead of a horror flick.
Now we have Young Adult, a movie written by Cody, produced with Juno partner Mason Novick and directed by Juno helmer Jason Reitman.Good chance of catching some magic again, right?
Too bad Young Adult is about a female writer in her thirties returning to her small town roots in rural Minnesota.The Cody stand-in is Charlize Theron, a wonderful actress who gives her best Diablo Cody impression, walking around her apartment in sweat pants, swilling Diet Coke out of a two-liter bottle and tapping away on her laptop the latest chapter of her pop novel about a teenaged girl.
The story takes Diablo Cody -- oops! I mean Charlize Theron -- back to fictional Mercury, Minnesota, where the successful but romantically unfulfilled Theron aims to woo back her high school sweetheart, the ruggedly handsome but happily-married-with-a-baby Patrick Wilson. Watch Young Adult Movie Online
Theron is a flagrant anti-hero, and an inept one at that, clumsily plying her wares as a seductress to a man who isn't the slightest bit interested. Meanwhile, fellow high school classmate and schlub, comic Patton Oswalt, provides sarcastic and judgmental commentary.
It's a dull little piffle with utterly no claim on the audience's emotions.The reason is that Cody is not and never has been a vain, homewrecking loser whose best days are irrevocably behind her.If she were, Young Adult might have been a great movie.But she's merely a female writer of teen-centric fiction with roots in Minnesota. Who wears sweatpants and drinks a lot of Diet Coke.The superficial details of reality are faithfully represented in Young Adult, but the inner truths are completely absent. To View The Full HD : free movies online for free
For most of us, it never does.As a consequence, Rocky lives in uncertainty as to what exactly his real worth is.Maybe he is just another bum from the neighborhood. Maybe he was lucky to be spared an opportunity to prove himself. Maybe he would have failed the test anyway.
Maybe he's just another worthless piece of human garbage.Guess who was going through precisely these emotions during the writing of the script? A lumpy-faced, speech-impaired, struggling actor named Sylvester -- not yet Sly -- Stallone.Stallone was a guy who liked to work out, and enjoyed following the sport of boxing, but he was not a fighter himself in any conceivable way. He was a wannabe pretty boy actor. On the most obvious level, there was no way he could understand the travails of a character like Rocky, whose entire life was devoted to the urban Philadelphia fight game.
Except he did understand. While he didn't resemble Rocky -- Stallone was bright whereas Rocky was dim-witted, Stallone was a charmer whereas Rocky was a lonely introvert -- Stallone resembled Rocky in the way that mattered most. They were dealing with the same issue in life: the demon of failure, and the ensuing crisis of self-worth.It was this very paradox -- Stallone's similarity to and difference from the character of Rocky -- that made the movie a deeply affecting parable of the struggle for achievement; its real pitfalls, and its real rewards.
It's hard to imagine Stallone could have written a more honest script if he had written about a struggling actor. It would have been too close to reality in the superficial ways. There would be no metaphor for the artist to filter away inconsequentials.Which brings us to Diablo Cody and her new script, Young Adult.
Like Stallone, Cody broke into Hollywood by writing about a character who seemingly had nothing in common with her -- a pregnant sixteen year-old named Juno. But underneath the surface, the two were close kin. They both coped with insecurity by employing a caustic wit and keeping others at an emotional distance
This paradox made Juno rich, interesting and universal the same way Rocky was. It wasn't the details that mattered, it was the substance. It was the humanity.
Cody's next script was Jennifer's Body, about another teenaged girl whose best friend experiments with and consequently turns into a blood-sucking fiend. An experience Cody probably knew nothing about and, simultaneously, probably knew everything about.Jennifer's Body was pretty good, despite a lambasting from critics who wanted it to be a dramedy instead of a horror flick.
Now we have Young Adult, a movie written by Cody, produced with Juno partner Mason Novick and directed by Juno helmer Jason Reitman.Good chance of catching some magic again, right?
Too bad Young Adult is about a female writer in her thirties returning to her small town roots in rural Minnesota.The Cody stand-in is Charlize Theron, a wonderful actress who gives her best Diablo Cody impression, walking around her apartment in sweat pants, swilling Diet Coke out of a two-liter bottle and tapping away on her laptop the latest chapter of her pop novel about a teenaged girl.
The story takes Diablo Cody -- oops! I mean Charlize Theron -- back to fictional Mercury, Minnesota, where the successful but romantically unfulfilled Theron aims to woo back her high school sweetheart, the ruggedly handsome but happily-married-with-a-baby Patrick Wilson. Watch Young Adult Movie Online
Theron is a flagrant anti-hero, and an inept one at that, clumsily plying her wares as a seductress to a man who isn't the slightest bit interested. Meanwhile, fellow high school classmate and schlub, comic Patton Oswalt, provides sarcastic and judgmental commentary.
It's a dull little piffle with utterly no claim on the audience's emotions.The reason is that Cody is not and never has been a vain, homewrecking loser whose best days are irrevocably behind her.If she were, Young Adult might have been a great movie.But she's merely a female writer of teen-centric fiction with roots in Minnesota. Who wears sweatpants and drinks a lot of Diet Coke.The superficial details of reality are faithfully represented in Young Adult, but the inner truths are completely absent. To View The Full HD : free movies online for free
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