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Lady Bird
Ten years ago this month I launched this blog after seeing the movie Juno. Diablo Cody ended up winning an Oscar for writing the Juno screenplay about a pregnant high school student. Last night Lady Bird’s writer, Greta Gerwig, won a Golden Globe award for best musical or comedy.
I’m sure someone out there has pointed out the similarities (and differences) between Juno and Lady Bird. They’re at least film cousins. And there’s no reason that its success doesn’t translate into an Oscar-nomination or two for Gerwig.
I think I’ll spend a few days pulling some quotes from Gerwig as she talks about her screenwriting process.
“In the first line of the script, I wrote: ‘Marion is making the bed in the hotel room,’ because even though it’s such a little moment, it says everything about Marion’s character and who she is. I like to look at behaviors that only a specific type of person would do, and to me, this tells me that Marion is a person who takes care of things. She is a mother. The only person in the world who makes a hotel room bed, is a mother — and one from a particular generation.”
Greta Gerwig
Script magazine interview with Andrew Bloomenthal
Here’s a link to the entire Lady Bird script. What an incredible year end of the year A24 had with the release of The Florida Project, The Disaster Artist, and Lady Bird.
P.S. Those of you who are long time readers know that when I started blogging I intended to turn this into a book. I am finally in the final stages of doing so and if you have the time please vote here on the book cover you prefer.
Related posts:
Juno has Another Baby (Emmy)
The Juno—Iowa Connection
Screenwriting from Iowa 
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