homage through the lens of easy a 

I have actually saw somewhere that if you read a lot of books when young, you are more likely to mispronounce words because you learned them by seeing/reading instead of hearing/being taught them.

teacher: what's your angle [on body shaming]? julia: ....anti??? savage queen. love it.

Fun fact: one of my professors edited this film. She said it was much funnier when it was rated R.

Definitely the movie which firmly confirmed Emma Stone's status as a leading lady in the 2010's and beyond. Just like Olive, I was obsessed with 80's teen movies, and how real life didn't seem to work the same way. I quoted random lines, such as "Oh, Burn!" and "My apologies to Mark Twain" whenever I could.

So I think Easy A is homage done right. You can clearly see what they're referencing but it's its own story with interesting dynamic characters. They clearly loved John Hughes and his movies and it honestly did feel like a lost Hughes script was found and modernized. For 'homage' done wrong see Joker, a film that straight lifts plot points and entire scenes from a Scorsese film called "King of Comedy" but the director claims that it and other Scorsese films were 'inspiration' so it's fiiiiine.

I didn't even know people pronounced homage different I'm totally on your side

While it's a little unrealistic that seemingly EVERYONE at school would be that obsessed with one girl's sex life, it proved that Emma Stone could headline her own movie, and add more spark to a modern teen flick.

Homage, parody, satire, and pastiche (which you didn't mention, but it fits in with this group) are all distinct things that can but do not have to co-exist. As you talked about here, an homage draws heavy inspiration from earlier works (or just one work), typically resulting in a work that feels very similar to said earlier works. A pastiche will take it further and directly imitate those earlier works (meaning it's actually pretty hard to do pastiche without homage, but the others can exist separately). Parody is when the earlier work is exaggerated or taken to an extreme for comedic effect. Depending on how that's done you might still end up with an homage but you could also go so far with it that the work loses the feel of the original it's parodying and so no longer really feels like an homage (your Scary Movie example being one such instance). And finally satire uses humor to criticize something, which could be done through the vehicle of homage and/or parody, but it doesn't have to be. As an example Enchanted is a movie that is all four of these things at once. It is a homage to classic Disney films, especially the Disney Princess ones, while still retaining it's own story and identity. It also is a pastiche of those films at times, such as the poison apple > true love's kiss plot beat lifted straight from Snow White, down to the size and shape of the bite mark on the apple. It at times moves into full on parody of the other films, like when her singing draws in animal helpers, but being that it happens in New York City, the animals are cockroaches, rats, and pigeons. And it can also dip into satire, such as Robert criticizing Giselle for wanting to marry a guy she's known for one day, pointing out how shallow the romantic connection is between the leads in the earlier films.

As your father posting: I agree that that "Say Anything..." was important to this film in spirit and anyone who follows you should watch it. John Cusack is the absolute man, and his portrayal of Lloyd Dobler is the ICONIC teenage lead.

Olives parents are literally so funny! This movie truly is chefs kiss

i did not expect this easy a video to also be validating my long held opinion that friends with benefits is a masterpiece of cinema that had it's cultural impact besmirched by no strings attached, I'm so happy, I can finally die peacefully

your voice is so damn relaxing

They filmed this in my hometown and at my high school a year or so after I graduated, most of the extras are local kids. I created a drinking game with two other friends who had moved to the same city as me. Drink when you see a town landmark, drink when you see someone you know, drink when you see an orange. I became very sick from this game many times. The school is actually called Nordoff but they changed the name because they wanted to incorporate the town name but the school has big N's all over campus

Good to see the white board returning

and when she was needed the most, she returned

YESSS FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS thats one of my favorite rom coms bc the main characters are just. FRIENDS. like u actually get why they LIKE each other, as people, so u care about them getting together. anyway UR OPINIONS NEVER DISAPPOINT😫✊

This movie really made you feel so much a part of it. The campiness slamming into the dry humour of Juno was so fun ❤️ Also your hair is stunning!

Your lexicon is VAST, honestly one of the reasons i watch you is for learning new words and expressions

Since the connection was brought up, I need to say that when Jamie is picking up Dylan at the airport in friends with benefits one of the names in the signs people are holding uo is "O. Penderghast" and for Years that has bothered me bc i don't recognize any of the other names, so why just olive gets a shout out? it can't be a coincidence

Another excellent video Julia. Thinking about this video, rom-coms, and classics, another film came to mind. Where would you place Enchanted in this type of homage-parody scale? I'd love to see you take on this movie and Godmothered.

Watched this last semester when picking a movie to discuss for adolescent lit. Out of the options I picked the Half Of It, a brilliant movie, but found this one intriguing even despite something about it rubbing me the wrong way. I'm excited to watch your video about it!

I NEED you to do a video about Dawsons creek when you’re finished. I started watching this year as well and I have no RU-vid commentary to relate with.

of course satire can be homage! some of the best satire is the kind that loves what it tears down

This was a fun look at HO-mage I wasn't expecting but really enjoyed! It's been so long I've been compelled to dissect something as a personal passion project but you've nailed yours and making me think it's time to try video essays out again :)

Girl i didnt even know homage WASNT said that way wtf. Im totally with you though, that is the most fun way to say it!

As long as The Final Girls have been brought up, I can't but admit its directors' consistensy in kinda not getting the source material. Although I did like this movie, it's very clear that it doesn't get 80s aestetics and references. Say, the side character of a "80s" slasher mentionned Bon Jovi as a legend, although the fake slasher was set in late 80s, Slippery When Wet barely came out (sic!). Then some early 90s songs were thrown in (wait what?), Paula wears CLEARLY modern hip torn jeans (want some old school in this respect? Watch Whitney Houston's I'm Your Baby Tonight music video, for example)...and there is more and more such as wrong hairstyles and shooting angles. Aestetics matters, otherwise an hommage falls apart.

absolutely iconic of you to completely forgo a conclusion and just end with an ad read i love it

I feel like the idea of a Pastiche fits in quite well in this video, as it generally referential to previous works, but unlike parodies it celebrates the subject rather than mock it. (First example off the top of my head is Hoodwinked! The early 2000s classic)

Never let anyone make fun of your pronunciation - you have the most percussive "t's" I've ever heard. Your speech is so precise.

I think Friends with Benefits could be categorized more as referential to ideas and actors than homage to specific films or scenes. Like an allegory needs 1-1 comparisons, homage needs specificity in order to be effective. I also agree with you that homage needs to have an actual purpose in the story instead of carelessly being tossed in for relevance or inside jokes.

I'm old enough to remember watching the Dawson's Creek finale live on our old CRT TV. In other news, I'm ancient. I'd like to see your response to the entire show.

My theater teacher used to say that parody is mocking. But satire is punching up.

You look incredible Julia, your hair is BEAUTIFUL! Just wanted to let you know, now I'm excited to watch the rest of the video, i love Easy A!

I really really love your video essays. As an English major, I think your connections and references are so well-founded. You definitely deserve more recognition for your eloquence.

I’ve been patiently waiting for someone to make an analysis video of Easy A. Thank you Julia!

i missed your vids so much 😭 i’m glad ur back queen

oh my god friends with benefits is one of my favorite movies and i'm SO glad people are liking it now!!

i love easy a so much, glad that you’re taking about it :))

man ive missed Julia uploading I love your personality and takes on movies

i grew up thinking that nathaniel hawthorne and theodore dreiser and fyodor dostoevsky and etc were so verbose because they got paid by the word, but i have no clue if that's actually true or not. someone should fact check me.

I love easy A! I watched it for my first time last year and I was so entertained by the concept and humor of the movie. It’s a really good movie and made me happy to watch and made me think. I also love your videos because they dissect everything with a light-sounding voice with deep critiques and humor that never fails to make me laugh.

Easy A is my ultimate comfort movie so glad you made this 🥰🥰

I know this is an old video and i'm late to it but her part about mispronouncing names/words, SO true!! I used to look at Persephone and read it as "Per-sa-phone" and Antigone as "Anti-gone"

As another former speech and debate kid, “what’s your angle” hit like a bus 😂

GIRL I've ALWAYS pronounced it as 'Oh-pee-dee-us' and never as it's properly said, and I constantly forget it's Proper Pronunciation. I feel so validated

omg I havent even watched this yet but its already the best commentary video I've watched

i've always pronounced homage the way you do, but then again, i am a native french speaker

I was loosing the will to live trying to find a video to watch... And then I was blessed

Queen -- you speak the truth on every occasion.

This was a really good video! I need to rewatch easy a now lol

pausing the video because i felt compelled to tell you I could listen to your voice all day 😍

I said aesthetic like “ay-ass-thetic” in high school and it’s the only word someone has corrected me for saying wrong. I pride myself on knowing how to “speak well” and that word basically killed it for me.

i JUST watched this movie for the first time last week, perfect timing

I remember I was in high school when Easy A came out and I actually can relate to being slut shamed even though I did not have sex when I was in high school.

It seems like most of this video talked about other films besides Easy A. Still a thoughtful video but I feel somewhat mislead.

i'm obsessed with the way you pronounce your t's

Once again the best YouTubrer uploads

Iconic to mispronounce pronunciation while defending your pronunciation

I think one of the best shows that fully incorporate the art of homage was the show Community. (Besides season 4) Community always made sure that there homage fit in line with the narrative and each characters motivation, a big factor for why their homages work is largely in part with the character Abed, who has study movies and TV so much that he believes that he is a character in a television show.

Can you do The Duff and/or Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen?I love hearing your input on teen movies.

I have a little bit of beef with youtubers not understanding how to properly use prepositions (a fault I have yet to find within your work). However, I found your pronunciation and your dedication thereof most delightsome. Also I adore you and your videos. Like… it’s a enamored OF (I know language is ever changing and nowadays this point is basically moot)

I literally just finished watching easy a to understand what your video

Getting into your channel seems to have opened me up to the god damn booktube algorithm... I've gone weeks without hearing about a book that didn't start out on Wattpad... So many hockey romances. Even a page out of the Scarlet Letter made me feel a skosh less devoid of intellect... So thank you.

i saw this movie in the first few months of my freshman year of high school with all my new high school friends. phenomenal way to set up expectations that wouldn't even come close to coming true for my high school experience

Can you please talk about derry girls? In your Bridgerton video you mentioned you've watched the show and I'm really dying to hear you talk about it

Off point, but man your hair is gorgeous!! So nice and shiny, mine never does that!

You’re saying homage right sis ❤️

This video feels like there is 2 hours more of it

Oh my gosh - this look :D

Your hair is so extraordinary gorgeous it might need its own channel 😍😍😍

"is not a croissant, is a quackson" my marvel fanatic ass: i understood that reference :)

fuck the transition to the ad was *chef's kiss*

"Eupedis" is great haha. i used to pronounce "ableist" as "ab-leist" until i've heard someone say it in a video.

I fucking love Emma Stone. I’m so happy this film exists

I love this movie so much

You should rewatch No Strings Attached; it’s genuinely really good

I also write long af sentences with a lot of asides and I will never ever stop. If I have to languish over my interminable thoughts when confronted by a topic/the blank page then I will feel compelled to try to make that some kind of shared or communal aesthetic experience. You also get to go 'haha I thought of that already (so stop doubting/interrupting me)' which can be sort of fun in like a rhetorically lively way or something idk. Interestingly this is also called a maladaptive attachment/ self-justification for anxiety j/k.

Our queen bee is back 🥳🙏🌟

Are you going to do Kissing Booth 3

Rachel Oates has a video essay on Parody so maybe it can be an interesting check point on the "is it homage" part

I love the art-hoe pronunciation of homage

Technically, "Opedius" kind of sounds like it's definition, which is swollen foot. So I count that as a win.

Good thing I just got some food

LMFAO THE NO STRINGS ATTATCHED HATE PAGE !!!

i've only gotten to "the definitive pronunciation and interpretation of the term at issue" (which btw, is pronounced like you do it) so idk if you mention this later, but when mila kunis goes to pick up justin timberlake at the airport, she grabs a used name plaque from someone else and writes his name on it in lipstick. the name that was originally on it is "O. Penderghast", literally from easy a !!!

hiiiiii

Have you read the off campus series? I have had it for the longest time but was always too lazy to read it and I read it finally this week and am obsessed

ive never really thought about it but I was today years old when I realised that was the same word pronounced different ways

love how you accentuate your t’s especially in the context of you being a utahn lmao

The way you say homage sounds so much better and that's how I say it. Omaž

HOW THE ACTUAL FUCK DID I MOT REALISE THE PARALLELS OF ROMEO AND JULIET AND NEW MOON. IVE WATCHED THAT MOVIE 300 TIMES AND I HAVE A FILM DEGREE. I wanna die.

fun fact: I watched this movie in the days between the election and when we found out Joe won, and I was so un edge that I cried at the end of this. That, and Pen Badgly is so fucking hot it made me cry

psst your hair looks AMAZING. the layers and curls together work so so well !!!!!!!!! and the new color too fuck yeaaa

Pls make a video on hes all that

9:55 I never watch any of those movies so I don’t know 🤷‍♀️ I been living under a rock for thousand of years 😂

Mhhhhh, YUM! If you get that reference, congrats!

talk about american royals i see it on the book shelf

You are beautiful and fantastic, I love Easy A, I love your channel, and I love this video 😊

Do you want to know what's really funny, i hit the bell yet youtube still didn't give me your video. I'm glad I found it though.

YEEEEEEEES