Saturday, December 29, 2007
JUNO... a Jewish Film?
For those of you spending late December in the movie theaters... if you go to watch JUNO, directed by Jason Reitman (son of Ivan Reitman, bar mitzvah'd at Sinai Temple in LA, active with the LA Jewish Film Festival)... watch closely when JUNO (Ellen Page) visits her teenage friend's bedroom. On the back of his door is an aleph bet poster/hanging. I mean, you had to just know that he would be Jewish... why? cuz he is the smartest student in Chemistry, a guitar playing tic tac eater, and he runs track. Plus his mother is a skeptic.
By the way... I met Jason Reitman at Sundance in mid January 2008. I asked him about the Hebrew poster. He told me to look closer. "We jew'd up the bedroom," he told me. There are probably a dozen Jewish symbols in the room, including a dreidel and his framed Bar Mitzvah Certificate. Hurray for smart noble Jewish characters who get the girl (... pregnant).
For those of you spending late December in the movie theaters... if you go to watch JUNO, directed by Jason Reitman (son of Ivan Reitman, bar mitzvah'd at Sinai Temple in LA, active with the LA Jewish Film Festival)... watch closely when JUNO (Ellen Page) visits her teenage friend's bedroom. On the back of his door is an aleph bet poster/hanging. I mean, you had to just know that he would be Jewish... why? cuz he is the smartest student in Chemistry, a guitar playing tic tac eater, and he runs track. Plus his mother is a skeptic.
By the way... I met Jason Reitman at Sundance in mid January 2008. I asked him about the Hebrew poster. He told me to look closer. "We jew'd up the bedroom," he told me. There are probably a dozen Jewish symbols in the room, including a dreidel and his framed Bar Mitzvah Certificate. Hurray for smart noble Jewish characters who get the girl (... pregnant).
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