The duff soundtrack music complete song list tunefind. Shes also way too smart to fall for the charms of a manslut and slimy school hottie wesley rush, who calls bianca the duff the designated ugly fat friend of her crew. One friend began reading the book at the same time i started listening. Bianca is a cynical girl, but her friends dont mind it. I sipped my cherry coke, watching the clock above the bar. Bianca is insulted and devastated, but she soon realizes wesley is right. People exploit the duff to get to the popular people. The duff does not actually have to be ugly or fat, he explains, its just the person in a social group who is less popular and more accessible than the others in the group.
Nonetheless, its filled with psychologically complex characters, lots of subplots, and tons of important detailsso dont zone out, blink, or skim passages, because you very well might miss something. The popular girls can be writers and hackers, the football player is kind and sensitive, and the object of a main characters. We can already declare the duff to be the worst movie of. Teens have sex, use birth control, and worry about pregnancy. A high school senior instigates a social pecking order revolution after finding out that she has been labeled the duff designated ugly fat friend. The duff the movie, the book, and how my opinion has changed. Watched 50 shades, jupiter ascending, hot tub 2 and the duff. Gone girls ending is different from the book in these.
We texted back and forth as she had a hard time getting into it while i loved it from the start. With mae whitman, bella thorne, robbie amell, allison janney. If you read gillian flynns smash bestseller gone girl, then im sure youve also been up on the questions surrounding the ending, and youre eager to. A smart highschooler gets a rude awakening to the intricacies of the pecking order in a comedy starring mae whitman. Abby believes she has enough distance from the darkness of. Gone girl is a pretty gripping story, the kind where just one more page easily turns into five more chapters, and in this respect, its a pretty easy read. Everyone in town knows the dickinsons are a bad lot, but bo doesnt care. Diary of a pissed off book fan why the duff movie didnt. But read the book and tell me how the book doesnt do the opposite of that. Seventeenyearold bianca piper may not be the prettiest girl in her high school, but she has a loyal group of friends, biting wit, and a spoton bs detector.
New york times and usa today bestselling author of the duff kody keplinger is back with a stunning new ya novel about the risks well take to save our friends. Not that she knew about being the duff until the schools player, wesley rush, told her in a club and she threw a drink in his face. Designated ugly fat friend is a romantic young adult book about feisty bianca, who ends up falling in love with wesley, a boy she hates but cant help hooking up with. This title makes biancas head spin, and she goes into a small identity crisis. The first half of the book was great, she built up the suspense masterfully. I really wish there was a wesley pov from beginning to end of the duff. I want to know his thoughts and emotions as he was starting to fall in love with bianca. Find all 28 songs in the duff soundtrack, with scene descriptions. The characters arent nearly as dickish in the book. The duff, by kody keplinger, is a novel of transformation and offers the reader a myopic view of life as a teenaged outsider. Listen to trailer music, ost, original score, and the full list of popular songs in the film. Of all those movies, the duff was easily the best one. This study guide consists of approximately 42 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of the duff.
Sharp, hot, thoughtful, and searingly honest, the duff is one of the best young adult novels to come along in ages. Run by kody keplinger hardcover book the parent store. A film based on the novel, also entitled the duff, was released in 2015. The novel begins as the protagonist, bianca piper, goes with her best friends, jessica and casey, to the local teen nightclub. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read lying out loud. Especially when highschool manslut wesley rush tells her shes the duff, her friends designated ugly fat friend, and tries to cozy up to her in order to get into her friends pants. People seemed to buy into the concept of the duff way more than they did in the book. The theme of transformation is found through out the entire book.
Keplinger was 17 when she wrote the novel, which was released on june 7, 2011. Granted, the other movies were painfully badly written, but i still think the duff was a good spiritual successor to mean girls. The duff remains one of the best books in my opinion while the movie is the worst book to movie remake in my opinion, again. So, i gave it a shot and hoped that i shared my ideas clearly. I found myself not even caring what happened to the characters after a while, i kept reading expecting it to get better, to match the first half. I met the author my first year at the book expo in 2010 she was 17 at the time 2. A companion to the duff ebook written by kody keplinger. Which i wish i wouldve known when i was in high school.
The ending of the duff is the films strongest, most. I just finished listening to the audio book gone girl and am disappointed in the ending. The duff 510 movie clip its go time 2015 hd duration. Warning the ending to these books will be revealed. Back in january, entertainment weekly ran a cover story on the then upcoming adaptation of gillian flynns bestselling novel gone girl. The articles author stephen lee quotes director david fincher the social network, se7en on the authorpenned screenplay for the filmwhich stars ben affleck and rosamund pike as nick and amy respectivelyindicating. Read on for flynns explanation as to why gone girl s ending is the only one that would have worked. From then on, bianca was feeling insecure about herself and applying the term everywhere until she managed to overcome it towards the very end of the book.
Bianca spends a bit of the book upset by the fact that she is the duff, what she learns is that everyone is a duff. The book revolves around duff bianca, however has a lot of other entwining characters. The duff book, to me, was about finding oneself and learning how to stand up to the hard things in life. The duff is smart, sassy, and spirited exactly what youd want in a comingofage high school movie as long as youre ok with some crude, racy humortalk. Gone girl author gillian flynn talks murder, marriage, and con games gone girl author gillian flynn to write her first young adult novel amazon picks its 10 best books of 2012. Shes also way too smart to fall for the charms of manslut and slimy school hottie wesley rush. Downing cherry cokes and watching her two best friends hoof it out on the dance floor of the local teen club doesnt make 17yearold bianca piper feel good about herself. New film the duff is based on the premise that every group of female friends has a designated ugly fat friend whose sole purpose for being in the group is to act as a gateway to her prettier companions. I know its most definitely not grammatically correct, but im trying. Bo dickinson is a girl with a wild reputation, a deadbeat dad, and a mama whos not exactly sober most of the time. A companion novel lying out loud was released on april 28, 2015 and is set in the same world as the duff. The second hand seemed to be frozen, and i prayed the damn thing was broken or something.
Yep, this is a real movie, produced by cbs films and for some reason costarring. I wouldnt ask casey and jessica to leave until eleven. Many of the main characters go through some form of. In the book, at least desis mother goes to the police, hysterical, saying that amy killed her son even though shes whisked away, theres the faint hope that maybe the. One night when all three are out, bianca finds herself near the school manwhore wesley, who proceeds to educate her on the fact that she is the duff. She doesnt drink or swear, and she has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe.
Gone girl is the movie flynn fans hoped for and sets pike up for a worthy oscar nomination but fincher disappoints in failing to improve upon the alreadybrilliant book. The duff seventeenyearold bianca piper is cynical and loyal, and she doesnt think shes the prettiest of her friends by a long shot. Bianca is the duff, the designated fat friend but only by comparison to her two modelgorgeous best friends. And, like you i though what they did to toby in the movie was tragic, they made him that typical guitar, indie playing guy. Elizabeth scott, author of living dead girl and the unwritten rule the duff is both hilariously snarky and emotionally turbulenti thought about it long after i put it down. Heres how gillian flynn defended the ending of gone girl. Spoiler page for gone girl by gillian flynn book journey. When school manwhore wesley informs bianca that, compared to her group of beautiful friends, she is the duff designated ugly fat friend17yearold bianca is horrified, outraged, and cant stop thinking about the label i couldnt believe he was making me worry about such stupid, pointless, shallow bullshit. As gone girl rolled through production, there was talk about director david fincher and screenwriter gillian flynn tinkering with and possibly changing the ending. As the duff in many a friend circles in high school i found this book refreshing.
It also undermines some typical teenmovie stereotypes. A comedic snapshot about what its like to be a teen today. The book spoiler is always looking for a nice little synopsis including the ending of any current best selling book. The ending of gone girl is a big point of contention for a lot of readers. Watched the movie and was hella disappointed with how much the plot was changed.
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