{"id":2248,"date":"2009-12-20T14:30:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T14:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/?p=2248"},"modified":"2009-12-20T14:30:43","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T14:30:43","slug":"nancy-meyers-its-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/nancy-meyers-its-complicated\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Meyers &#8211; It&#8217;s Complicated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2252 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/150;margin: 5px;\" title=\"Meyers77014585_150\" data-src=\"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Meyers77014585_150-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Meyers77014585_150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2252\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Meyers77014585_150\" src=\"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Meyers77014585_150-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Meyers77014585_150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/noscript><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/20\/magazine\/20Meyers-t.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1&amp;emc=eta1\">The\u00a0New York Times has a wonderful article about Nancy Meyers and women directors<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PART AND PARCEL of (her) uniqueness is Meyers\u2019s focus on making films that both feature and speak to middle-aged women, a demographic that studios traditionally ignore for fear of not bringing in the all-important opening-weekend numbers by which a movie\u2019s position is assessed and its future success seemingly foretold. The simple truth is that any movie that is not aimed at 15-year-old boys, who come out in droves on Friday night for movies like \u201cTransformers,\u201d is seen as something of a risk. Movies like \u201cIt\u2019s Complicated\u201d unfold at the box office in a different pattern than movies that are skewed younger; their success is based more on long-range playability and word of mouth than on instant impact. Still, in a movie culture consumed by youth and its trappings \u2014 vampires, werewolves, stoners and superheroes \u2014 Meyers\u2019s decision to pay attention to a part of the population that is often construed (and often construes itself) to be invisible stands out in bold relief. The fact that this decision has proved to be commercially shrewd says something about her instincts as a moviemaker but also says something about a previously unsatisfied hunger, composed of two parts daydream and one part hope, that is finally being addressed. \u201cShe\u2019s a pioneer with regard to representing older women,\u201d Diane Keaton said over lunch at the Beverly Hills Hotel. \u201cShe\u2019s the only one delivering the fantasy for women over 55. You\u2019re beautiful, charming and you get two guys instead of one.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/20\/magazine\/20Meyers-t.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1&amp;emc=eta1\">Full New York Time article about Nancy Meyers and It&#8217;s Complicated here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PART AND PARCEL of her uniqueness is Nancy Meyers\u2019s focus on making films that both feature and speak to middle-aged women, a demographic that studios traditionally ignore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[25,26,27,28,30,31,32,33,919,34,216,35,36,37,38,39,40,920,41,42],"class_list":["post-2248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies-character-development-screenwriting-screenplay-script-blog","tag-character","tag-characters","tag-emotional-toolbox","tag-etb","tag-film","tag-films","tag-laurie-hutzler","tag-movies","tag-nancy-meyers","tag-nine-character-types","tag-rom-com","tag-screenplay","tag-screenplays","tag-screenwriting","tag-script","tag-scripts","tag-scriptwriting","tag-transformers","tag-tv","tag-writing"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",960,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-768x576.jpg",768,576,true],"large":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",960,720,false],"ttshowcase_normal":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",125,94,false],"ttshowcase_small":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",75,56,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",960,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",960,720,false],"Image Size 500x500":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",500,375,false],"woocommerce_thumbnail":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-300x400.jpg",300,400,true],"woocommerce_single":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-600x450.jpg",600,450,true],"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-100x100.jpg",100,100,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Laurie Hutzler","author_link":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"PART AND PARCEL of her uniqueness is Nancy Meyers\u2019s focus on making films that both feature and speak to middle-aged women, a demographic that studios traditionally ignore.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}