16 Facts About Jennifer's Body

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Jennifer's Body is a 2009 American dark comedy horror film written by Diablo Cody and directed by Karyn Kusama.

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Jennifer's Body seduces the school's football captain and disembowels him.

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3.

Jennifer's Body became hungry and Ahmet, a foreign exchange student, who was thought to have died in the fire, was her first victim.

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4.

Jennifer's Body had intended to eat Needy as well, but left because she could not bring herself to hurt her best friend.

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5.

Jennifer's Body takes him to an abandoned pool and begins feeding on him.

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6.

Jennifer's Body is the follow-up to writer and producer Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman's collaboration efforts on Juno.

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7.

Jennifer's Body wanted to "honor that, and at the same time, [she] had never really seen this particular subgenre done with girls and [she] tried to do a little of both".

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8.

Jennifer's Body wanted to show the "almost horrific" aspect of such devotion and its relation to parasitism.

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9.

Jennifer's Body said they appreciate "those kind of effects in older movies and [questions] sometimes how much more effective it is to use a ton of CG" and that they "always started with a practical effect and then moved forward from there to lay a groundwork of something that's actually physically, materially there".

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10.

Jennifer's Body said that "when it came time to shoot any of these jaw moments, [Fox] would act out in rehearsal how she was going to attack her victim and [they would] fine tune that blocking so it was relatively locked".

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11.

Jennifer's Body agreed with Fox that she was uneasy about acting out the scene.

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12.

Jennifer's Body credited Fox's portrayal as showing "a comic flair" that Transformers "never investigated".

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13.

Joe Neumaier of New York Daily News said, "Fox merely needs to look either vacant or evil, which the Transformers boy-toy does spookily well" but "[w]ords and story are still the lifeblood of a movie, and Jennifer's Body is filled like a Twinkie with half-fleshed-out ideas".

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Jennifer's Body reasoned the "movie's partially redeemed by Seyfried, who makes her character more than a repository for audience sympathy" and "her make-out scene with Fox is handled with more suspense and care than anything else in the movie".

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15.

Jennifer's Body, he said, wants "so badly" to be a Heathers-esque dark comedy, "but its shortcomings makes you appreciate why that earlier film was so great".

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16.

Jennifer's Body mainly learned about the characters through the script.

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