Diablo Cody has a very intriguing and unique approach to writing. It begins with her name of Diablo Cody, Diablo meaning bull in Spanish and Cody, which she got from passing through a town called Cody in Wyoming. This is just the beginning to Diablo’s super open and eccentric lifestyle.
After graduating college, Cody began to strip for money but also continued to write. Because of the feeling of being afraid to fail, Diablo opted for the internet after working from some local newspapers because then no one could tell her what to write or deny any of her writings. As Katherine Sall Field states in her article, “I teach the kids how media works and how powerful it can be, and how they can use for their own ends.” She began her blog on the sex industry and stripping and shortly after became very popular on the internet. Even earning the interest of Mason Novick, the producer. At first Diablo wasn’t interested on writing for Hollywood but was convinced and then began her script for Juno.
An auteur sees beyond the film, beyond the script but bring there life into the story and writings. That is exactly how Cody came up the script for Juno. On writing the script she called it, “a spontaneous thing.” Writing from a vision, Diablo said in an interview, “thinking about the image of a teenage girl sitting across from uptight yuppies and basically auditioning to be the parents of her unborn child. And I was like that is usually the most awkward thing I could imagine, and it is therefore hilarious.” As easy as that an award winning script was developed.
Because of the fear of failing and the sense of optimism Diablo’s success on the internet ignited her career. In Debra Zimmerman’s article, she says that she was moderating a panel of film makers in San Francisco and the film makers were trying to do something different with the films but the audience didn’t like it. Diablo, although, as the auteur of Juno does exactly that and that is why she has won awards.