Ellen Page: today's Winona Ryder

2007's debatable Juno was a break out role for a young Ellen Page. This quirky comedy of a small town teenage girl carrying a child, however was not Page's first starring role, though definitely one of her most humorous. Juno made over $130 million in the United Stated. The humorous plot surrounding Page's character was so simple, yet Page brought such talent to the role she made the movie so much bigger than it was, between her hamburger phone and orange Tic Tacs.




Page originally broke into screen in the role of Maggie in Pit Pony (1997). Though her most intense role was most likely Haley in Hard Candy (2005). Hard Candy is a thriller about a thirty-two-year-old Internet pedophile and a young fourteen-year-old girl's revenge on him and other men like him bringing harm to young women. This chilling plot twister is a pure piece of genius with small dosages of dark sarcastic humor. Her intensity in this role cannot help but remind this blogger of a young Winona Ryder as Abigail in the Crucible (1996). Though the roles were rather differing both characters could be debatable considered crazy, more importantly though both actresses played these roles with such strength and passion. Though the plot of these two films could be compared as well, the roles these young women so beautifully captured were more importantly like wise.



It is clear Page and Ryder both are amazingly compassionate actress it would seem they choose similar roles too. Both are remembered for their more quirky roles such as Page's Juno (2007) and Whip It (2009) and Ryder's roles in Beetlejuice (1988) and The Heathers (1988), their more serious roles are what truly show them as great actresses. I find that Page's strongest roles include Haley, Hard Candy (2005) and Tracey, The Tracey Fragments (2007). My favorite roles of Ryder's include Abigail in The Crucible (1996) and Jo in Little Women (1994), both are filled with intensity and compassion I find.