Monday, August 10, 2015

Day 24: Your Favourite Movie And What It's About

"You gotta break out the 'L' word."
"Lesbian?"
"No, the other 'L' word."
"Lesbiansss?"
"It's love, Scott, I wasn't trying to trick you."

Scott. Motherfucking. Pilgrim.

Scott Pilgrim started as a comic by writer/artist Bryan Lee O'Malley. Set in Toronto, Canada, Scott is the best 23 year old ever. He plays bass for Sex Bob-omb. He doesn't have a real job. And he's dating a high schooler. But then, Ramona Flowers takes a stroll through his dream, and Scott realises, she's the one. Only catch is...

He has to defeat her seven evil exes if he wants to date her.

With references the Canadian Indie Rock scene, retro videogames, pop culture... It's a goddamn awesome film. Also, Michael Cera is Scott. Romance, Ramona's hair, action, Ramona's hair, battle of the bands, Ramona's hair, Chris Evans, Ramona's hair, a soundtrack featuring Beck and Metric, Ramona's hair... This is the goddamn best film ever made. Attached to the best graphic novels. And has one of the best beat-em-up videogames. And holy god, the fan art is... Sublime. Visually fun, quirky, progressive AF... I wanna make love to this movie. And Ramona's hair.

A list of reasons you should see this film:
Ramona's hair
Ramona's hair
Ramona's hair
Ramona's hair
Ramona's hair
Ramona's hair
Ramona's hair
Ramona's hair
Ramona's hair
Ramona's hair
Ramona's hair
Ramona's hair
Ramona's hair
Ramona's hair
Ramona's hair

Also, it's got like swords and stuff.

"Wallace, what's the website for Amazon.ca?!"
"Amazon.ca"
"Dude! This thing claims I have mail!"
"It's amazing what we can do with technology."

The dialogue slays me every time. I cannot get enough of this film. I have seen it so many goddamn times. I do Matthew Patel's introduction whenever possible. This film is the stuff of dreams.

"If I peed my pants would you pretend I just got wet from the rain?"

Literally though...

"That's young Neil."
"What do you play?"
"Zelda, Tetris... That's kind of a hard question..."

If you haven't seen this movie... Go and watch it. NOW.

Interesting Trivia About Scott Pilgrim:

1. Scott was named after a Plumtree Song. He is seen wearing the band's logo on his shirt.

2. The final graphic novel had not been published at the time of filming. A different ending was filmed, but upon reading O'Malley's ending, the crew agreed that the source material's ending tied up the story better.

3. Michael Cera can actually play bass!

4. For the tea scene, Winstead was offered a list to read from. She refused, and memorised every kind of tea. That is probably Michael Cera's actual face of awe. "You made some of those up, didn't you?"

5. Knives and Kim have a lesbian moment in the comics! The game makes a hilarious nod to this with Kim's special.

6. The Yeti scene was not in the comics! The twins simply kidnap Kim.

7. Brie Larson overdubs the version of Black Sheep in the film. On the official soundtrack, Emily Haines of Metric does the vocals, but the music video and the film have Brie Larson's vocals on it.

8. There are only six novels. Despite there being seven exes, the twins only get one novel, as Ramona dated them at the same time. Oh well!

9. Ramona named her Cat after Gideon.

I don't know what more I can say. Just... Go watch this damn movie.

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