BLOG POST 10)

PART 1)

Scene selected: The lunch room scene after the picnic-with-a-boy auction.

Character: Fellow students of Julie and Bryce.

Script: Was it finally happening? 

We all knew it was going to happen soon enough. 

Julie and Bryce had been on-and-off, head-over-heels, relentlessly stubbornly in love with each other. They just didn't realize it. 

They were so completely oblivious as to how strongly they felt about each other. 

We all knew the timeline...Julie was infatuated with Bryce since the second grade. At that point, Bryce was, no doubt, disgusted with Julie. He could make her his easily. So then he pursued that other blonde, popular, girl. But of course, that didn’t last. 

He loved Julie.

Rumors soon spread around the school that Bryce had been daydreaming into Julie’s eyes. 

At this point, it was clear. But for some reason…

for whatever reason the student body wasn’t sure of, Julie’s eyes didn’t light up around Bryce anymore. 

They were filled with hate and loathing. 

It was so frustrating to watch them take affections to one another on different timelines. 

But here we were. All sitting in this lunchroom, aware of the competition between the blonde girl and Julie to win Bryce’s lunch basket. And Julie didn’t bet? Was she really over Bryce? No, it couldn’t be. We were all rooting for them since second grade, she couldn’t give up now. 

Bryce: Julie, I need to talk to you.

Julie: What is it, Bryce?

We all eagerly lean in as she see Bryce awkwardly grab both Julie’s shoulders to steady her and squeezes his eyes shut. As a look of confusion plasters across her face, he slowly leans in, lips puckered, ready to steal, what was rumored, Julie Baker’s first kiss. 

Suddenly Julie breaks from his grip and turns around and darts out of the lunchroom. 

Bryce: Julie!!

Though we didn’t want to, we all knew it was middle school normal behavior. 

We could feel a plummeting drop from our hearts into our stomachs as shallow, cold hearted laughs erupted from our mouths. 

As soon as they escaped our mouths, we could seen the ashamed and hurt expression upon Bryce’s face. 

He bolted after Julie, his friend Garrett following. (Who we all hated for his opposition to the Julie and Bryce love affair.)

Garrett: No, Bryce stop!

As soon as they left, the lunchroom fell silent. 

We all looked at one another, repulsed by the agonizing behavior we had just produced. 

Eddie Truman, the boy Julie Baker bet on, looked sad. 

We all felt horrible. Julie and Bryce were meant to be together, yet silent support was all we knew. 

QUESTIONS

The movie does a phenomenal job with telling different perspectives throughout the story. At times, it would get confusing to have to realize that the director was backtracking the story to retell at scene from the other main character’s point of view. But overall, they did a wonderful job successfully using alternating viewpoints.

I believe Bryce’s family was more uncomfortable than the Bakers. They had a more dysfunctional social aspect to them. The overbearing judgment of the father, and his abuse towards his daughter, it ultimately differentiates from Julie’s father, and their acceptance and help towards his brother. 

I believe character is ultimately more important in Flipped. I think the plot relies on character. As Julie’s affections towards Bryce evolve, the plot follows those changes. Without her realization from her father about the entire painting having a completely different meaning from the small aspects of it, the plot would have nowhere to go. Overall, without that, the movie would be of Julie’s continuing infatuation for Bryce.