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I'm Elvis Mitchell. Welcome to the treatment, which you can also hear at KCRW.com.

If you were to filter the scarlet letter through Clueless and election and thrown a few other more self-aware things,

you probably would have the new comedy EZA.

Its director, Will Gluck, brings the sex comedy back to Home Room, and he's also here in the show today.

Will, thanks so much for being here.

Thank you.

It's my pleasure. Well, I may have given away a little bit of the movie in the introduction,

but let the audience know what the EZA is about. Well, it is. It's quite loosely based on the Scarlet Letter, but it's basically a movie about reputation. A girl, played by Emma Stone,

is falsely accused of being promiscuous. And instead of denying all these rumors, she realizes that it raises her

social standing in the school and the town. And she takes this newfound promiscuity on as kind of a badge

of honor. And meanwhile, in school, she's reading the scarlet letter. So she goes full Hester Prynne and

dresses kind of inappropriately and puts an A on her wardrobe and sees her social standing raised immediately in the town.

But then, of course, it falls just as hard.

And she learns a valuable lesson about reputation.

And it's also a sex comedy with no real sex in it. It's a sexless sex comedy,

which is why it's PG-13. There's absolutely no sex in this movie, but it's all about

talking about sex and how young 17, 18-year-old boys and girls think about sex and how they're

perceived in their society about it.

Now, did you get a chance to reread Scarletters before you guys start work on the movie?

That's a great question.

Scarletter, we've found out, is one of the books that everyone has claimed to have read,

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