If Lucas and Moore were inclined to defend the sexism in their screenplay, then that defense would likely argue that Ghosts of Girlfriends Past “deals” with sexism without actually being sexist. It’s the kind of early career role that Stone would never agree to play again. But playing a 1980s teenager with a head full of hairspray and mouth full of braces, there’s really nothing she can do to make the character any less annoying. The first of the three is the titular “Ghost of Girlfriends Past” (played by Emma Stone). The film’s plot is built around Connor Meade (McConaughey) being visited by three ghosts on the night before his brother’s wedding. Related: Best Matthew McConaughey Comedy Movies, Ranked In fact, even famous for it.” That is actual dialogue from the film. Meade is a famous photographer and serial womanizer described by other characters in the script as, “The Great Connor Meade,” and, “the biggest jerk ever. The film’s protagonist Connor Meade (McConaughey), functions as a sexist reimagining of Ebenezer Scrooge. And with Robert Forster’s supporting role as Sergeant Volkom looking uncannily like The General character in White Christmas (1954), Ghosts of Girlfriends Past cannot escape the shadow of Christmas.Īside from removing Christmas, screenwriters Jon Lucas and Scott Moore kept the spine of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol largely intact. The resulting setting is not exactly a far cry from the snowy London streets of A Christmas Carol. Yet, the film takes place in a snowy castle in New England whose interior walls look as though they’ve been stripped of any decorations that might be perceived as Christmasy. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past substituted Dickens’ Christmastime setting with a contemporary wedding, swapping Christmas Eve and Christmas Day out with the day before and the day of Meade's brother’s wedding. But some took offense to the film’s blatant misogyny, which, surprisingly, was not something that screenwriters Jon Lucas and Scott Moore took from their 19th century source material. Upon its release most critics dismissed Ghosts of Girlfriends Past as a cheap Dickens knockoff. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is a loose adaptation of Dickens’ Christmas Carol.
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