Feb
25
Sure, the slang in Juno made me want to claw out the part of my brain that provides comprehension of language, but that’s because it was cutesy and smug, not because people don’t talk that way. That seems to be a common complaint leveled against it: OMG that is NOT how the kids talk today! No one would ever really say that!
Well yeah, obviously. You think people during the Prohibition actually talked like they did in Miller’s Crossing? Or people in the 1870s threw down lines like the ones in Deadwood? This is stylized dialogue. It’s not meant to be realistic, it’s meant to be AWESOME.