She drinks four vodkas and sodas in a row and squeezes two limes into each. For more spiciness. She abandoned dreary middle-class prosperity for peep shows and lap dance. She ran the most popular blog about her personal striptease experience for a year. And her pseudonym has become the designation of a whole phenomenon in modern culture.
She drinks four vodkas and sodas in a row and squeezes two limes into each. For more spiciness. Born in provincial Illinois, she grew up in her parents’ restaurant with the resounding Alpine name of the Matterhorn and boar heads on the walls, bloodthirsty, tusked snouts spice up the sausage menu. She forsook dreary middle-class prosperity and a Catholic upbringing for striptease, peep shows, and lap-dance at Minna-fucking-apolis. To feel the sharp taste of freedom. She ran the most popular blog about her personal striptease experience for a year. In order to pour into the existence of a stable Tabasco society their teenage frankness and mature analyticity. She changed her name — the ordinary Brooke Busey to the dashing Diablo Cody, because the sharpness of life was coming: the blog demanded anonymity, for revelations about the mores of the Pussy Ranch club, they could «kill this mother.» To the same mother she sent an influential literary agent, whom she considered a maniac. But then she sent (already by mail) something else: instead of a script based on a sensational blog, the agent received the script “Juno” — a sad-funny, pretending to be naive story about a high school girl who got pregnant from a classmate, carefully endured, handed over the baby for adoption … and continued to live and be friends. Because she was an ordinary miracle of sincerity and sowed joy and spontaneity around herself (cancelling all social conventions) … Then there was an Oscar for Juno, interviews, columns in influential publications, and the stripper pseudonym became the designation of a whole phenomenon in modern culture — a spicy mixture socially unacceptable and mentally healing.
Diablo Cody is 31 years old, and she is all from the beginning of the third millennium, in which sexuality is open, tattoos (there are four of them on Cody herself) are an art form, sex is for sale, but is sold out sluggishly, half of the professions in demand are associated with the “virtual computer”, in it find partners (in the network and Diablo found a husband, a graphic designer) … And above all this, a sincere belief in the natural kindness of the representatives of the human race hovers. Still, Diablo Cody is damn hot. If she has a striptease, then with psychoanalysis. And humor — not like with pepper — with wasabi. Now she’s written a horror movie, Jennifer’s Body, about a young maiden, a cheerleader captain with a penchant for eating male classmates. Horror, but satirical. The genre is rare. And well done. Diabolically accurate.
«Jennifer’s body»
Directed by: Karyn Kusama. Cast: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons, Adam Brody.
Available from September 17th.