Diablo Cody
"When you're in a competitive environment, always give out the impression that you don't care. It makes people want you more. If you act desperate, it's over. I think a passive attitude is helpful. It comes naturally because I'm lazy."
— Diablo Cody
— Diablo Cody
Born Brook Busey but best known by her pen name "Diablo Cody". She mostly known for her script of "Juno." She was first known for her candid chronicling of her years as a stripper in her Pussy Ranch blog and her 2006 memoir, "Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper. Cody won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Cody had an interesting upbringing, which included quitting her day job and becoming a full time stripper. After writing her memoir she was approached by Mason Novick to write her first screenplay. Within months she wrote "Juno." Juno is a movie about a coming of age teenager who becomes pregnant. Juno is filled with laughter and tears. “You make this really unexpected, half-cocked decision and all of a sudden it creates this weird energy that turns into something else,” she said during lunch. A self-described geek who had led a very insular life, she said that getting naked for strangers was her version of self-improvement, a way of transgressing her upbringing and opening up other doors. Unlike many strippers who resemble balloon smugglers with very large hair, Ms. Cody is a crisscross of tattoos and post-punk fashion, sort of Suicide Girl meets Riot Grrrl. Cody has admitted that her writing style is said to be seen in the future as outdated. However she doesn't care, she write what she wants and how she wants it. She enjoys having scenes play out and making references to old movies. Her vision for "Juno" was for it to be not like any other teen pregnancies movie or shows out there. She wanted to make a dark comedy about a teen pregnancy. Cody is said to be "a cool screenwriter, with a cool haircut and good taste in music." After doing research and finding out Cody's background, I have respect for her. She didn't think she could ever amount to anything except a stripper and she became so much more. It is great to see a women screen writer have a voice and not care about boundaries. She does this because she loves this. She creates real stories that can be seen today and not outdated material. I think she is brave for telling her story of a stripper and that not letting her from following her dreams. "Juno" was such a stepping stone for her and I only hope to see many more great things from Cody. In Juno and her other work, since she is not the director, she is a part of the auteur view and voice. Cody has had a definite strong voice in her work and she shows great creative control over her works. In the reading "Feminism and Film" it is stated, "A fresh and sophisticated span of feminist literary thought which can be broadly useful for film study. In the 1990's feminist literary theory is extensive and reflective, receptive to all those nuances of framing , inflection and particularly authorial viewpoint which intensively concern critics of women's films." This main viewpoint of this article and I think that has the most moving meaning behind why we need more women director and screen writers is this, "will enable women today and in the future to see, to express, to name their own truths, because as Astonia points out , if there is no heaven ' this is the only dance we dance'." (Donovan 1987)
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