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Meanwhile, the character of Debbie is painted as an awful, nagging shrew, despite being played by the director’s own wife. He’s given a group of friends, played by a coterie of Apatow perennials (Jason Segel, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, and Martin Starr), who provide some of the film’s funniest moments Alison is merely given co-workers (including both Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig.) The film is pretty clearly told from Ben’s point of view, and not Alison’s.
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Heigl certainly has a point- and she may have paid for that point since her run as a movie star was over not long after that. “I’m playing such a bitch why is she being such a killjoy? Why is this how you’re portraying women? Ninety-eight percent of the time it was an amazing experience, but it was hard for me to love the movie.” It exaggerated the characters, and I had a hard time with it, on some days,” the actress said.
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“It paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys. Was the movie sexist? Its own lead actress would say so, in a Vanity Fair interview the following year. That may be true, but then again that’s not what the movie was about (a comedy about a woman in a similar situation having an abortion, The Obvious Child, would be released a few years later, and the movies have since become a lot less squeamish about characters having an abortion.) It’s been argued, at the time of the film’s release and more recently, that it’s unrealistic for Alison to not have an abortion.
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But there’s a lot about the film that left bad tastes in people’s mouths.
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The film is undoubtedly hilarious, thanks to a cast full of very funny people, a winning concept, and some legitimately funny moments. So despite nearly everyone involved probably voting for Democrats for their entire lives, the films ended up upholding conservatism. (It’s also a perennial for Seth Rogen- in 2019’s Long Shot, released 12 years after Knocked Up, he’d still be playing the immature schmuck, in a relationship with a tall beautiful blond who’s way out of his league.)Īpatow, like the Farrelly brothers before him, made a habit of making movies that were filled with raunch, and bodily fluids flying around everywhere, only to eventually embrace traditional social values.
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And in Apatowland, this nearly always involves embracing career success, monogamy, and the nuclear family. Like just about every movie Apatow has ever directed, Knocked Up is the story of an immature protagonist, who needs to find a way to grow up and reach mature adulthood. The film’s secondary couple consists of Alison’s sister Debbie (Leslie Mann) and her husband Pete (Paul Rudd) their relationship would be the focus of the later Apatow movie This is 40. Knocked Up featured a very specific high concept: Schlubby guy Ben (Seth Rogen) has a drunken one-night stand with a beautiful, out-of-his-league Alison (Heigl), leading to her pregnancy, and their uneasy, mismatched courtship.