GITS Script Reading & Analysis: “Juno” — Dialogue

This week we are analyzing the screenplay for the 2007 movie Juno [written by Diablo Cody]. It won an Academy Award and a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay.

You may download a February 6, 2007 PDF of the script here.

Today we discuss the script’s dialogue, one of the movie’s most notable features. Here is what Cody had to say about the subject:

“I didn’t really look at it as teen-speak but more like weirdo language! Ellen Page just presents it in such a saucy way too and I’m kind of immature myself and although this sounds kind of cheesy, being on the internet a lot, as I am, I’m actually obsessed with it to the point I’m undergoing hypnosis to cure my internet addiction — I’ll spend 19 hours a day on the internet if you let me. Because of that, you get immersed in the youth vernacular. Every week I learn some new word the kids are saying and I try to integrate it into my vocabulary like some pathetic old person!”

Here Diablo Cody and Ellen Page talk about taking risks:

For Day 1 of our analysis, go here.

For Day 2 of our analysis focusing on structure, go here.

For Day 3 of our analysis focusing on characters, go here.

For Day 4 of our analysis focusing on themes, go here.

See you in comments to discuss Juno.

For all of the other screenplays and commentary in the GITS Script Reading & Analysis series, go here.

NOTE: THE USE OF THESE SCREENPLAYS IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY.

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