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"  In one fell swoop, Bridesmaids\u2014starring Kristen Wiig (who cowrote the script with Annie Mumolo) as a down-on-her-luck thirtysomething tasked as maid of honor by her newly engaged best friend (Maya Rudolph)\u2014does away with the lamebrain notion that there are no choke-on-your-popcorn-hilarious movies about women. Director Paul Feig (Freaks and Geeks, Arrested Development, The Office) talks to ELLE about making the anti-chick flick.  The characters in Bridesmaids actually talk to each other the way real women do.  That&amp;#039;s what we were going for. So much in comedy comes off as fake because it&amp;#039;s so amped up, overly clever, and overwritten. Kristen and Maya are friends in real life, and we knew they&amp;#039;d have a shorthand that would come across without needing to do lines like, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve known you for 10 years! You&amp;#039;re my old best friend!&amp;quot; You immediately go, &amp;quot;Okay, these women are friends. I buy it.&amp;quot;   I especially appreciated that they talk about sex without sounding like punny caricatures. Most of that wasn&amp;#039;t even scripted\u2014they would just run with it. We knew we wanted to make this R-rated for the very reason that we wanted to be honest and play real for women. I know plenty of women and when they get talking about that stuff, it&amp;#039;s not PG.   I also loved that the romantic story line plays second to the friendship. Was that a choice? Very much. In an online comment, someone wrote about the trailer, &amp;quot;Oh great, another movie about how all women want to get married, and they&amp;#039;re mad at their friend.&amp;quot; And I wanted to write, &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not about that!&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s the opposite of that.   What did you learn about women from making the movie? I don&amp;#039;t want to say that I learned women are funny, because I \u00ADalways knew women are funny. I learned a lot about how much fun a \u00ADfemale friendship can be. When you&amp;#039;re married, you always hear about who your spouse is fighting with. Guys sometimes don&amp;#039;t know if women have as much fun together. Just something as simple as watching Kristen and Maya hang out was so eye-opening.   How do you feel about people calling Bridesmaids &amp;quot;the female Hangover&amp;quot;?  Once you see the movie, you realize it&amp;#039;s not. But The Hangover made so much money, I hope to God we&amp;#039;re the female Hangover. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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