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anotherbeastarsblog · 1 year

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I just saw scott pilgrim fanart and anytime anything makes me remember Scott Pilgrim my brain goes into overdrive about how bad the movie was for the story, actually.

Great movie it deserved to be successful but hooooooooly shit they just removed like, every actual part of Scott figuring out his problems and confronting them and trying to be a better person. Scott Pilgrim is one of those top-tier "shitty dudes idolize him for entirely wrong reasons" but unlike Tyler Durden or Tony Montana or whatever it's not that the deconstruction fundamentally fails to target the object of deconstruction, it's literally just what the movie shows.

#Scott Pilgrim #He had an alcoholic phase in college and routinely rewrites his memories to make the women he fucked over the aggressors #You can kinda forgive it cause the 6th book was still being written but they cut Gideon's ex girlfriends that made the parallel like #really fucking obvious #I cannot even begin to imagine what O'Malley thought the message he was sending when he originally wanted Scott to end up back with Knives #But honestly *not* ending up with Ramona would've been a starker conclusion to his character arc #Not that it's bad as is and if Ramona leaves you run the risk of putting her in the position of a tool for a man's character arc anyway but #you know what I'm saying right? The whole 'power of love' 'power of understanding' thing?#and the movie replaces the understanding sword with a self-respect sword centering Scott EVEN MORE #Not making Ramona the crux of his development because that's not her job like #She deserves happiness to and after deconstructing the manic pixie dream girl thing she can actually have that #I dunno I'm torn on it #my bullshit #seriously though wtf was the message of the initial Knives ending supposed to be

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