the criminally underrated costume design of Jennifer's Body

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  @artatmidnight · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  i hope Megan Fox will do similar roles in the future, she's so great in this 💗also, I forgot to mention this, but I love how the girl Needy fights with in class is wearing Low Shoulder merch

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  @AstraeaAntiope · 2 years ago (edited)

  I actually find it a significant detail that Jennifer is on the flag team, which they repeatedly say in the movie. They also show her &quot;Flag Team&quot; magazine on her bedroom floor being spattered with blood. Color guard/flags do not have the same social caché as cheerleading. Cheerleading also implies a certain level of practice and effort: learning to dance, stunt, and tumble. Color guard reads as a low-effort alternative (if you do competitive color guard, trust that I know that is not true. It&apos;s just what people think.) Late in the movie, Needy insults her by saying she was Snowflake Queen two years before, when she was still &quot;socially relevant.&quot;<br><br>Jennifer is a second-tier hot-girl at best. She is only Queen Bee to Needy. We see boys respond to Jennifer Check, but no other girls trying to impress her or court her favor. She does not have an entourage. She is not captain of the flag team. She just has Needy, and she works hard to keep Needy focused on her.

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  @Bubbles603 · 2 years ago

  Jennifer Check I think is a great critique of the perfect victim. Society is so quick to turn their backs on victims of assault and take advantage of young women. The bartender sees the x on her hand and still gives her drink because of her outfit, the band can CLEARLY tell she’s in high school because of her giddy crush but only view that as confirmation that she’s “pure”. Jennifer is not a good friend but just the thought that one of the girls who bullied me in high school has/will be assaulted fills me with dread. Great video

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  @insanepoet9 · 2 years ago

  Needy&apos;s prom dress also looks really princess-like in its poofy pink-ness, so I thought it was a fun way to look like a princess is the one who&apos;s off to save her boyfriend

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  @jaminavestajugo3456 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I thought the heart-printed hoodie and heart-shaped earrings were a great touch because they suggest that Jennifer was making fun of romance, attraction and everything that supposedly comes with them. &nbsp;It shows how she has become detached from normal human emotions--a process that was finalized by her becoming a demon, but was going on throughout her short life. &nbsp;And considering that her crush on the band was used against her, it&apos;s her twisted way of claiming those weapons for herself.

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  @kittycatcitycat · 2 years ago

  Needy&apos;s prom dress is interesting in many ways at once. &nbsp;Jennifer wears pink when powerful in almost every other instance, but here she needs that innocence and sexual allure manipulation she uses so badly that she simplifies it all the way to black and white - the same look from the bar before her transformation. &nbsp;Needy probably assumes Jennifer will be in some wildly over-the-top pink number, or even a red dress and, while she&apos;s still staying within the less sex-laden style we&apos;re used to seeing her in, she goes big and hot, shiny pink, which feels competitive with Jennifer. &nbsp;She&apos;s kind of awesome in her doll-like ridiculousness. &nbsp;I&apos;m sure everybody wants Jennifer&apos;s heart hoodie from this film, but I&apos;m kind of in love with the nutsness of this dress. &nbsp;One big, puffy, loud, hot pink frill attack in my size, please.

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  @talmi · 2 years ago (edited)

  I&apos;d like to add that at the end of the film when Needy stabs Jennifer, her dull appearance fades away and the real Jennifer resurfaces as she dies. I think at that point Needy realizes that as she just killed her the monster before her eyes, she had also killed the Jennifer she loved. I think that despite the entire film presenting how awful Jennifer was in Needy&apos;s point of view, it does not address the fact that she is &quot;possessed&quot; and wasn&apos;t actually Jennifer. I understand that Jennifer had been severe in many aspects before becoming a demon, but I think that after being sacrificed it made her into the worst parts of what she already was. I think that once Jennifer acted out, it confirmed all the unconscious views Needy had towards Jen that she had never addressed, and it gave her to opportunity to do the right thing and fight back. But in fighting back she lost her best friend and it had been too late. Amanda and Megan do an incredible job as actresses portraying the insecurity, loss, and love for each other in their eyes. The humor was incredibly witty and even though Jennifer acted dumbed down, her addressing the reality of being taken advantage of is sincere. I love everyone analysis and interpretations because this movie is so profound.

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• AD

  @adrielayson749 · 2 years ago

  I couldn&apos;t agree more, I&apos;ve been so used to horror movies or supernatural ones where the teens dress so.. dark and dull.. Seeing Jennifer&apos;s Body and the main character Jennifer dressed up in fun pastels with hearts is something I to this day love!!

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  @susanthefish2559 · 2 years ago

  I always interpreted Jennifer as bisexual, given that she literally says she swings both ways but I don&apos;t think she&apos;s interested in Needy and is only kissing her to play with her feelings

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• WO

  @woodanemone9758 · 2 years ago

  I never noticed how Needy And Jennifer wear outfits that are kind of the modest version vs the intentionally appealing version.

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• AL

  @alllisda_idiot7087 · 11 months ago (edited)

  Another detail that should be noted is that a lot of the clothes she wears in the movie are actually from the kid&apos;s section, including the pink hoodie! I think it might be indicative of the fact that she weaponizes the naivete that initially victimizes her, and is her way of taking back the girlhood and innocence she lost. But I think it&apos;s also terribly sad that the only way she feels like she can reclaim what her assault took from her, is to initiate the same violence upon others. It shows that she&apos;s never healing, and only becoming worse as time goes on. An insecure girl hiding her insecurities and pain and hurt inner child behind sexual allure and a false maturity, so essentially weaponizing her own trauma to give the same trauma towards others. <br><br>It&apos;s pretty fucked up, but I think it&apos;s these little details that really make this movie stand out as a compelling, well-thought-out and ultimately tragic story.

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  @morrismmm · 2 years ago

  I do remember the ad being sexualized and giving that lesbian feel for teenage hetro boys, and i like girly films, so in seeing the ads, i found it to be indifferent, thinking it would be a sexy lesbian parody of a scary movie. Until one day in my college years, i gave in bc i saw mama mia with Amanda Seyfried, and wondered why she was in a movie like this. And omg, i did not except the movie to actually be funny, but deep and dark. It was so bada$$, and tragic and yeah, the marketing was disappointing and glad that a lot of people are seeing and talking about the deep layers to the film. It has become a favorite chick flick

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