I was wondering. What teenage girl talks on a land-line?
One whose parents refuse to add an unnecessary extra expense to the monthly budget when there’s a perfectly fine landline the teenager can use?
Why use a cell phone when you’ve got a hamburger phone?
That’s who she is.
Besides, it might have interfered with certain plot points for a cell phone to be readily available.
I could be wrong - I haven’t seen the movie yet.
I have a feeling that a cell phone simply wouldn’t be in Juno’s character - it’s a 90-min movie, so there’s limited time to introduce any complexities beyond those that are specifically relevant to the plot.
She listents to 70s punk, uses out-dated slang, dresses in retro 80s tees and high-top Chucks, drives an ancient van, and drinks Sunny D (the only thing more retro would be Tang). The hamburger phone was a much better choice in terms of establishing the character as a not-so-ordinairy teenager.
The movie only requires the characters to talk on telephones a couple of times and both times are when Juno is at home, in her room, with her hamburger phone. Why does she have a landline in her room instead of a cell phone? I’m guessing because the director liked the look of the hamburger phone and the quirkiness it gave to the character. It aso added a bit of irony to the scene where she was calling Planned Parenthood to “procure a hasty abortion” to have her talking about something so serious on such a whimsical piece of equipment.
It’s also true that, even in this day and age, not all parents find it necessary to pay for their teenagers to have cell phones.
If the kid is talking to Planned Parenthood, it’s probably safer to do it on a landline than a cell phone. You can’t hide what numbers you dial on your cell phone because it lists it right on the bill.
BTW, my kids have cell phones because they’re old enough to go to movies, etc. on their own and I want to be able to track them down like dogs. However I don’t pay for texting. It’s annoying, distracting, unnecessary and diminishes interpersonal skills such as the ability to look you in the eye and answer basic questions like, “How are you?” When they get a job and can pay for their own thumb communicators, they’re more than welcome.
My kids hate me.
I’m 19, and I’ve never owned my own cell phone and never had a huge desire for one. I love talking on the phone, but a landline serves my purposes just fine.
I didn’t get a cell till this year when I moved and didn’t want a land line, Im 23!
As someone who sends and receives hundreds of text messages every month, I can attest that this is not the case.
As for the movie, I just chalked it up to the whole quirky retro aesthetic it has going on.
I read an interview with Diablo Cody, and she seriously had a hamburger phone growing up.
The notion of “why didn’t she have a cell phone” never entered my mind during the whole movie.
Not only did Cody have a hamburger phone, I think I read that they used her actual hamburger phone for the movie.
They don’t have cell phones in the city of Juno, either. Perhaps because it doesn’t exist? [/snark]
Paulie had a hamburger phone, too. I noticed it in the background when Juno comes over for a visit…