Clayton Davis Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman” reinvents the revenge thriller, giving the cinematic treatment for woman reclaiming their power.
On page 20, Cassandra (played exquisitely by Carey Mulligan) is approached by a former college classmate Ryan (played by the charismatically brilliant Bo Burnham).
After Ryan delivers a man’s all-too-familiar rude and passive-aggressive questions regarding expectations about what a woman should and should not be doing, Cassandra’s quick question bends the genre and harnesses the power in seconds. “You didn’t mean what’s a promising young woman like me doing working at a shitty coffee shop?” she asks.Ryan responds, stammering, “No, I didn’t mean…I just thought…Oh man.
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