http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_A
The most important scene occurs in chapter 13 of the movie
Easy A, when Olive’s mother enters and hands her a gift from Brandon, who she
pretended to have sex with the night before at Melanie Bostix’s party. She had
told him that if he pretended to be straight he would be accepted by their
peers. Inside the gift box she finds a vibrator and a gift card to Target along
with a card saying, “in case you don’t like Target you can go screw yourself.”
Rhiannon, Olive’s best friend calls to verify the previous night’s events and
tells Olive that “everyone and I mean everyone, thinks she is a skank.”
Outraged Olive says, “If people thought I was a dirty skank, fine, I was going
to be the dirtiest skank they’ve ever seen” and goes out to buy red fabric and
skimpy clothing that are two sizes too small. She stays up in her room cutting
out and sewing red A’s onto her entire wardrobe as reference to The Scarlet
Letter, which is a book that Olive is reading in her English class.
I feel this is a very important seen because it’s after this
scene that sets the audience up for the rest of the movie. Without this scene
viewers would be lost. The rest of the movie unfolds with Olive receiving gift
cards from several guys for sexual favors that are never actually performed.
People really believe that she is a skank and is selling her body for money
when in reality she is still a virgin. It shows how words can truly affect
someone’s image and that person has to live with the consequences of events
that haven’t occurred.
