Easy A

Hot and Bothered

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Vanessa Zoltan and Hannah McGregor meet at the Lobster Shack in Ojai, California to record this week’s episode of Hot and Bothered, all about Easy A.

This week we discuss what makes a 'rom-com' a 'rom-com', male writers' depictions of female friendship, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. We finish the episode with an interview with Professor Megan Hunt about the depiction of Christianity in this film.

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0:00.0	Today's movie is the 2010 EasyA starring Emma Stone.
0:08.4	It's a retelling of the Scarlet Letter, but it also makes significant mention of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and is a pastiche of 1980s John Hughes-style rom-coms, with allusions to Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Can't
0:24.0	Buy Me Love.
0:25.9	EZA is about Olive Pendergast, played by Stone, and is narrated through a framing device of a vlog,
0:33.1	a direct-to-screen monologue that Olive is giving with flashbacks of her story.
0:38.9	Let the record show that I, Olive Pendergast, being of sound mind and the low, average breast size,
0:47.4	swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing about the truth.
0:52.5	Olive is a 16-year-old who doesn't want to go away with her best friend's family for the
0:57.3	weekend. She lies to that friend Riannon, saying she can't go. She's got a date. But instead
1:03.7	spends the weekend with her super fun parents, played by Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson,
1:10.2	her brother, and her dog.
1:12.6	When Riannon pumps Olive for details about her fake date on Monday morning,
1:17.9	Olive lets Riannon think that she lost her virginity.
1:22.0	We did it.
1:23.8	Yes!
1:25.1	Finally!
1:26.0	Now you're a super slut like me.
1:27.4	I don't think letting Peter Headland motorboat you behind a bed bath and beyond really
1:32.3	makes you a super slut.
1:33.3	There were a lot of people walking past, okay?
1:35.3	Someone could have easily seen.
1:37.3	The rumor spreads and the Christian group on campus, led by Amanda Bynes, starts viciously
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