Easy A The Rewatchables
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Easy A

What’s Aged the Best?

YouTube and vlogging; Ojai location; mocking California hippies; Emma Stone's wardrobe; the one-liners; Emma Stone's performance; webcam framing; act signs

In the discussion (14)
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  • Number one with a bullet: YouTube and vlogging, foundational to the film; Stone reportedly auditioned via a webcam reel; it does not feel dated.
  • Vlogging was also first on another host's list, a moment of community; Stone could be a YouTube star or TikToker.
  • Second: choosing Ojai as the location was prescient.
  • Ojai is described as about 100 miles north of Los Angeles off the 101 toward Santa Barbara, a wealthy, hippie-rooted second-home enclave like Woodstock or the Hudson Valley, with the pink moment sunset seen when Olive and her mother sit on the car roof, and pixie tangerines. — Amanda Dobbins
  • Ojai first registered from Brothers and Sisters; it has a resort, golf course and spa and the outdoor Bart's Books, where Olive reads the Bible; the town is called boring, now an Architectural Digest mainstay, and as a commuter suburb like Ferris Bueller's it is off base. — Amanda Dobbins
  • Making fun of California hippies never gets old.
  • The California setting did not register for a non-Californian; the opening sign seemed only to show a small population of about 8,700; reading it as a hat tip to John Hughes suburbs is plausible. — Shea Serrano
  • Emma Stone's wardrobe: both regular and supposedly slutty outfits fit today's fashion.
  • The script's clever one-liners, especially Tucci and Clarkson scenes, though some jokes fall flat or have not aged well. — Amanda Dobbins
  • Returning to an original pick: Emma Stone's performance, tracing her rise from Superbad to Zombieland to carrying this film.
  • The performance is called undeniable but a cheat; another voice says it is not a cheat and agrees it aged best, but since Stone will win 45 categories adds webcam framing as a 1A, because teen technology usually ages poorly and this still feels spot on.
  • In 2010 vlogging marked a high-school stereotype; now it is ubiquitous. The webcam echoes Peyton's broadcasts on One Tree Hill, and it reinvents narration.
  • Her held-up act signs work as analog counterpoint to the odd landscape-text credits.
  • One host changes their answer to the signs device, likening it to 500 Days of Summer's early setup; the hosts agree, one out of 18 things so far.