[FOK MOVIE TRIVIA] - Juli 2014 - deel 9

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Op woensdag 30 juli 2014 16:14 schreef Kaneelstokje het volgende:

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Heel goed.
Ik had zelf totaal andere films in gedachten grappig wel.

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The Manic Pixie Dream Girl (MPDG) is a stock character type in films. Film critic Nathan Rabin, who coined the term after seeing in ***** (2005), describes the MPDG as "that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures". MPDGs are said to help their men without pursuing their own happiness, and such characters never grow up; thus, their men never grow up.

The "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" has been compared to another stock character, the "Magical Negro", a black character who seems to exist only to provide spiritual or mystical help to the (white) protagonist. In both cases, the stock character has no discernible inner life, and usually only exists to provide the protagonist some important life lessons.

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Op woensdag 30 juli 2014 16:22 schreef GradB het volgende:
Hook (tinkerbell)
500 days of summer?

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Although Zooey Deschanel's Summer is often identified as an MPDG, the movie can be seen as a deconstruction of the trope because it shows the dangers of idealising women as things, rather than respecting them as real people with their own complex outlooks

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Op woensdag 30 juli 2014 16:22 schreef GradB het volgende:
Ruby Sparks?

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Op woensdag 30 juli 2014 16:23 schreef Kaneelstokje het volgende:
Klinkt als een Zooey Deschanel karakter.

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Op woensdag 30 juli 2014 16:44 schreef GradB het volgende:
Scott Pilgrim against the World?

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Op woensdag 30 juli 2014 16:47 schreef DragonFodder het volgende:
Elf? Met zooey
Michelle trachtenberg in eurotrip?
Julia roberts in hook?
Dat paarsbarige meisje in Scott pilgrim vs the world?
Kirsten Bell in forgetting sarah marshall?

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Op woensdag 30 juli 2014 16:48 schreef GradB het volgende:
Mona?

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Op woensdag 30 juli 2014 16:48 schreef DragonFodder het volgende:
Phoebe Cates in fast times at ridgemont high?
Kelly lebrock in weird science?

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in *** *** ******* is zany, tiny, and cute. She literally falls into Bruce Willis's lap and begins reshaping a life that was on a downward spiral through adventure and mayhem.

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's character in ****** *****. A fantastic representation of this trope. The main character is a guy on anti-depressant and mood stabilizers, she's a bubble of quirk who floated into his life, who randomly shakes about like a kid at one point "doing something that's completely unique, that's never been done before" and advises him to laugh all the time. By the end, he's screaming into abysses and doing dramatic runs through airports in the name of love.

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in ****** *** ***** is an unusual example in that she's about 60 years older than the man. A vivacious, eccentric and well-traveled woman, she teaches to live life to the fullest and get over his morbid obsession with death.

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A truly disturbing example in the form of , who could perhaps best be described as what happens when the Manic Pixie Dream Girl grows up. is dirty, living in poverty, and clearly suffering some form of mental illness, and gets into a fairly unhealthy relationship with . The narrator is dissatisfied with social norms and consumerist trends, but lacks the will to break out of the mold on his own, leading to his association with . actually infuriates the narrator because she simply doesn't care about anything. She even calls him out on all his selfish justifications for his behavior being no worse or different than her own.

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In Cameron Crowe's gilded memories of being a teenage rock critic on assignment for Rolling Stone magazine, his protagonist's muse is an idealistic groupie named . With blinkered idealism, the boy-critic gets all starry-eyed at her visions of the power of music, the freedom of life on the road, and the fantasy of staying young and beautiful forever. Even though 's incandescent charisma gets tarnished by that sex she claims she isn't having, not to mention an overdose that might not have been accidental, Crowe's stand-in has been transformed enough to defend her version of rock 'n' roll against the cynicism, infighting, and weariness of the band who won't return her devotion.

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Op woensdag 30 juli 2014 16:57 schreef sasquatsch het volgende:
Die laatste is Almost Famous met Zooey Dechanel

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Op woensdag 30 juli 2014 16:58 schreef sasquatsch het volgende:
En die eerste The Fifth Element met Milla Jovovich?

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Op woensdag 30 juli 2014 17:10 schreef DragonFodder het volgende:
Zooey in yes man
Charlize theron in november nogwa?
Fight club?

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Op woensdag 30 juli 2014 17:15 schreef Kaneelstokje het volgende:

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Ramona Flowers O+

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Kirsten Dunst?