Terry on Me on Juno

Last updated on: January 29, 2008 at 3:29 pm by Barbara Nicolosi

Terry on Me on Juno 2008-01-29T15:29:00-07:00 Barbara Nicolosi

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Astute friend and Internet buddy, Terry “Get Religion” Mattingly, has kindly included some quotes from this blog in his current piece on the movie Juno. Terry is wondering in the piece if the fact that pro-lifers are rallying around the movie will sink its chances of winning prestigious awards, and specifically the Oscars.

Here’s a snip or two:

Every year or so, a Cinderella movie leaps into the ultimate Hollywood A-list — the Academy Award nominees for best picture.

The sleeper this time around was “Juno,” the sweet but edgy story of Juno MacGuff, a geeky teen who gets pregnant after a sort-of-bored sexual encounter with a friend. The movie also drew Oscar nominations for Canadian Ellen Page, 20, as best actress, for director Jason Reitman, 30, and former stripper turned screenwriter Diablo Cody, 29.

Now it’s time for the winner-take-all round of campaigning, which often includes behind-the-scenes maneuvers in the tradition of Niccolo Machiavelli. Do not be surprised if rival studios try to hurt “Juno” by circulating shocking rumors that many religious conservatives who oppose abortion have praised this movie.

It helps that the rumors are true.

And then,

The key is that “Juno” is about people struggling to make real decisions in the real world, according to screenwriter Barbara Nicolosi of Act One, a group that trains Christians to work in the Hollywood mainstream. This isn’t a connect-the-dots sermon targeting true believers. The movie doesn’t preach, because it wasn’t created by preachers.

But “Juno” can be called “pro-life, in the way that just about every Gen-X movie about pregnancy is pro-life,” wrote the former Catholic nun, at her “Church of the Masses” website. “I would say ‘Juno’ is a cultural message movie without being a political one. Certainly, that will be an inscrutable nuance in contemporary Christendom in which almost everything is politics. …

“The movie is also anti-divorce in the way that just about every Gen-X movie about family is anti-divorce. And people with faith are here too, in a decent and gritty way that shows mere secularism to be selfish and shallow.”

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