![]() ![]() ![]() I am a huge fiction reader and nonfiction is always a huge hit or miss with me-especially when it's not an audiobook. I will start by saying that this is not my typical kind of book. Thank you to the publisher for sending me a copy in exchange for a review! This did not affect my rating in any way. ![]() I'll be interested in checking the movie out soon. ![]() I liked reading about the friendship between Megan Fox's and Amanda Seyfried's characters. I thought the music as a meta commentary section was SO interesting and the part about the casting of Adam Brody in particular. I loved hearing what Kusama and Cody had to say about the movie and the post #MeToo resurgence the movie had. I never knew about the Fox Atomic brand at all (and for someone like me who fixates on teen culture and media of yesteryear like ABC Family, The N and its website, The WB, teen magazines, and so on, I never really thought about the impact of different film companies and labels) and I was sad that their cross promotional materials like books and websites weren't enough to save it. Maybe because I've seen too many gifs and photosets from this movie that it feels cliche to me, but I liked the insight and analysis Blichert had for the movie. Now I just thought of her because of her relationship with rapper Machine Gun Kelly.Īll of that being said, I was surprised at how much I liked this book. Although she stopped feeling as big in the mainstream by 2012, my Tumblr dashboard still loved her and she would be included in viral compilations with quotes about bisexuality or feminism and the same corny "everyone thinks she's just a beauty but she has brains too!" caption would easily get you 6 figures of notes and Jennifer's Body was already vindicated as a cult classic and I would roll my eyes at people acting like they just learned that for the first time. I remember being on her side when I was a teen and she had her interviews about Michael Bay and I remember when classmates would objectify her I would roll my eyes but I never watched anything she was in besides Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen so I didn't really care either way. I haven't seen Jennifer's Body yet but the book was in the Hoopla Bonus Borrows section for February so I checked this out (not the most glowing start for the review but I promise it gets better!) not knowing what to expect. With insight into the genre's cinematic tropes, our current cultural reckoning with misogyny, and an original interview with director Karyn Kusama, Extra Salty solidifies the status of Jennifer's Body as a cult classic. The movie could have been to the aughts what Heathers was to the eighties, and it's finally getting its due - whether in the flood of tenth-anniversary praise, the parade of Jennifer Halloween costumes, or Halsey's nod to it ("Killing Boys") on her platinum-selling album. In Extra Salty, Frederick Blichert flips the script on how Jennifer's Body was labeled a failure to celebrate all that is scrumptious (as Jennifer would say) about it: supernatural horror, dark comedy, queer love, and a nuanced handling of gendered violence. Megan Fox, a diabolic indie rock band, toxic friendship, fluid sexuality, feminist reckoning, and a literal man-eater in the body of a high school cheerleader: Jennifer's Body has it all What would be an easy sell in 2021 - women at the helm (screenwriter Diablo Cody, director Karyn Kusama), a bankable cast (Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried), and a deceptively complex skewering of gender politics - was a box office flop in 2009. ![]()
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