The duff book and movie

So many movies these days are adaptations of books or comics that it didnt phase me. I really disliked the duff book but loved the movie. I really liked the movie, so when i saw the book i decided to read it. Paying homage to all those john hughes movies from days gone by the breakfast club, pretty in pink, the duff tells us that underneath all the labels and inside all the cliques were really just people. The duff seventeenyearold bianca piper is cynical and loyal, and she doesnt think shes the prettiest of her friends by a long shot. It does contain some funny moments, but much of the humor is crass and tasteless. In the movie, the story goes bianca enlists childhood friend wesley to help her shed her duff label while in the book she goes to him as an escape from her issues at home.

See more ideas about the duff, the duff movie and chick flicks. I rarely see the movie version of a book before ive read the book. Though the duff is rated pg, the amount of language alone should require an r rating. The book was especially clever in showing the inspiration of wuthering heights. Watch the duff 2015 movie online in hd quality for free. Designated ugly fat friend by kody keplinger published by poppy pub date. And itd sure be great if we could all be a little nicer to one another.

In addition, there is a significant amount of crude lewd. Thats because the book is usually better than the movie its based on. Hollywood pretty much changed all the characters and the story line. It may sound cheesy, but its a good mantra to live by and one that the duff definitely supports. The duff is not the ugly one in a friend group, but instead a concept that everyone falls into. So forget the movie and curl up with the book instead. The duff featurette bringing the book to life 2015 bella thorne, mae whitman movie hd. Bianca spends a bit of the book upset by the fact that she is the duff, what she learns is that. Did the movie really have to make toby tucker a jerk. 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. Praise for the duff a new york times bestsellera usa today bestseller a wellwritten, irreverent, and heartfelt debut.

A smart highschooler gets a rude awakening to the intricacies of the pecking order in a comedy starring mae whitman. Without giving the entire movie away, the main idea of the duff title is about perception. The duff 2015 download movie for mobile in best quality 3gp and mp4 format. The duff book the duff movie the duff quotes rush quotes fat friend mae whitman allison janney romance film chick flicks. I watched the movie version starring robbie amell and mae whitman first and loved it. With mae whitman, bella thorne, robbie amell, allison janney. As it sometimes happens, i see a movie trailer and it inspires me to read a book. A movie adaptation, starring mae whitman as bianca and robbie amell as wesley and directed by ari sandel, was released in 2015. Movie tiein paperback 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. Designated ugly fat friend is a romantic young adult book about feisty bianca, who ends up falling in love with wesley. Frumpy highschool senior bianca mae whitman has a rude awakening when she learns that her classmates secretly know her as the duff designated ugly fat friend to her prettier and more.

The bourne books are horrible compared to the movies. The popular girls can be writers and hackers, the football player is kind and sensitive, and the object of a main characters. The novel begins as the protagonist, bianca piper, goes with her best friends, jessica and casey, to the local teen nightclub. If you have read the book and not seen the movie, or seen the movie and not read the book, and you plan to then just keep in mind that they are two different stories.

If they made the movie exactly like the book, it would be rated r, but it is a really good story, and. In the book, biancas mom is the one who leaves, in the movie it is her dad. The movie the duff, starring mae whitman as the titular character, hits theaters february 2015, and today kody keplinger, the author of the ya novel upon which the movie is. In the movie, mom has a career as a motivational speaker that keeps her emotionally distant from.

Just a little warning though, for those who liked the movie, if you are strictly a pg person, this book is not for you. High school like comment share high school movies are often cultural distillations of the current generation. Wesley lives next store to her in the movie instead of the mansionlike house in the book. The duff book and movie are very different from each other, but they are still both are good in their own formats as the main message stays. Poppy hachette book group 237 park avenue new york, ny 10017 visit our website at. The characters arent nearly as dickish in the book. Kody keplinger was born and raised in a small kentucky town.

The duff 2015 trailers and clips frumpy highschool senior bianca mae whitman has a rude awakening when she learns that her classmates secretly know her as the duff designated ugly fat. The duff falls into this wonderful category, along with its older. A high school senior instigates a social pecking order revolution after finding out that she has been labeled the duff designated ugly fat friend by her prettier, more popular counterparts. The duff comes across as the typical teenage fare that hollywood has produced for the last two or three decades. As the duff in many a friend circles in high school i found this book refreshing. The idea that someone actually is a duff isnt possible because everyone sees. I was listening to a literary podcast and i have to disagree with the assertion that the book is always better than the movie.

Also stream the duff on your mobile, tablets and ipads plot. Dont waste your time because, the fact is, i am the duff. People seemed to buy into the concept of the duff way more than they did in the book. A high school senior instigates a social pecking order revolution after. A high school senior instigates a social pecking order revolution after finding out that she has been labeled the duff designated ugly fat friend by her. It also undermines some typical teenmovie stereotypes. The duff was a yalsa top ten quick pick for reluctant readers and a romantic times top pick. The idea of writing a book with duff in the title started as a joke, but when i realized that my friends felt like duffs, too, i knew i had to write this story. The duff doesnt achieve teenmovie greatness, but offers enough of a postmodern twist on the genre to recommend and boasts typically great work from star mae whitman.

I am quite annoyed at how different the movie is from the book. The duff is a new york times bestseller and a major motion picture starring bella thorne, mae whitman and alison janney. They emulate the high school environment into a microcosm that foreshadows the role of the future generation. 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. 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. The duff, by kody keplinger, is a novel of transformation and offers the reader a myopic view of life as a teenaged outsider.