Fountain of Joys

                              
                                                                                
                                                                                              
這是一夕成名的故事，
這是醜小鴨變天鵝的故事，
Diablo Cody的名字隨著Juno這部片，
震撼今年的奧斯卡。
                                                                               
(以下此文是去年多倫多影展時的報導)
                                                                               
It’s the Cinderella story of this year’s Toronto Film Festival.
Girl is born in Chicago, grows up, graduates from college, moves to
Minneapolis to join her boyfriend Jonny, who she met on the net.
Works in advertising, finds it boring. Starts working as a stripper,
doesn’t find it boring. Changes her name to Diablo Cody. Starts a blog.
Works as a phone sex voice. Writes book, Candy Girl: A Year in the Life
of an Unlikely Stripper. Quits the sex biz, marries Jonny, moves to
suburbs. His daughter is their flower girl at wedding.
                                                                               
這是今年多倫多影展的灰姑娘故事。
這個女孩在芝加哥出生、成長、大學畢業，
然後搬到明尼阿波里斯與網路認識的男友同居。
原先在廣告業上班，等到覺得無聊之後，
開始了脫衣舞孃的工作。
                                                                               
她把名字改成Diablo Cody，開始寫部落格，
一邊從事色情電話，出自傳書：「糖果女孩」。
之後她辭掉了所有情色相關工作，與男友結婚，
搬到郊區，男友的女兒成了她們婚禮上的花童。
                                                                               
That’s all boiled down from her bios at IMDb and Amazon. But now we get
to the Cinderella part. I am hearing about it from Jason Reitman, the
director of “Juno,” which in my guess is the most popular film of the
festival, and is written by Diablo Cody.
                                                                               
這些都是我們自IMDb或Amazon查出來的資料，
現在才要開始進入灰姑娘的部份；
這是我從Juno這部據我猜測是今年影展最受歡迎的電影的導演，
Jason Reitman口中聽來的，
而我們的灰姑娘小姐，正是這部片的編劇。
                                                                               
“She met this guy, he was supposed to be a producer, she wasn’t sure,
but he tells her she should write a screenplay,” Reitman tells me. “It
takes her two months. She sends it to Hollywood, where it goes all over
town and everyone wants to make it. It is one of the best screenplays
around.”
                                                                               
當她遇到Jason時，他原先應該是當製作人，她不確定；
而Jason告訴她，「你應該寫一個劇本的。」
花了兩個月的時間，她把寫好的劇本寄到好萊塢，
結果所有人都都想拍這個劇本，
這大概是最近看過最棒的劇本之一了……
                                                                               
                                                                               
有這麼豐富的經歷，
難怪可以寫出這麼古怪又討喜，
卻不失觀眾緣的電影，
而成為(可能是)本屆奧斯卡的最大驚喜。
                                                                               
我想現在所有觀眾，
應該都在熱切期待的她的第二部作品。