Friday, March 26, 2010

500 Pop Culture References of Summer


500 Days of Summer (2009, Marc Webb) - Boy meets girl.
Woody Allen - nay, Nora Ephron (replete with five or eight music video montages) - by way of Tarantino (minus violence) and Kevin Smith (minus porntalk and gratuitous cameos), this is another film geek pastiche, every scene lifted from some other pop movie (seconds into You Make My Dreams Come True sequence, I was thinking Fletch Lives, and two minutes later, the cartoon birdie appeared), with the kind of clever, precious dialogue (same writers wrote Pink Panther 2) wherein a ten year-old references Freud and everyone references pop culture.
There's also a narrator.
For yuppies too young to remember Rushmore, let alone The Graduate.

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