500 days of summer
i just mean, like 500 days of summer, but instead of over one summer, it' s like 500 different days of your life .
( 500) days of summer was filmed in los angeles in united states of america .
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joseph gordon - levitt and zooey deschanel in' 500 days of summer'. © fox searchlight
( 500) days of summer
is something seldom seen: an original romantic comedy .
screenwriter ben frahm offers his take on the indie hit “ (500) days of summer. ”
500 days of summer
director marc webb, right, works with actors in the film .
zu bringen. so geschehen unter dem kommando von marc webb bei
( 500) days of summer
.
i found much to like in (500) days of summer, not the least of which is its emotional candour .
i think people are critical of 500 days of summer, not because of a personal taste in screenplay, but because of paradigms, or perspectives .
bitter sweet: zooey deschanel and joseph gordon - levitt in (500) days of summer. photograph: rex features
twentieth century fox is launching an integrated campaign to promote its new romantic comedy, (500) days of summer .
it took about 32 minutes for me to think that i was really starting to hate (500) days of summer .
joseph gordon - levitt and zoey deschanel star in the romantic comedy' 500 days of summer.' (fox searchlight )
i’m not marc webb (the director of 500 days .) i’m just a fan of the movie .
completing their ongoing narrative of classic movie - homage videos, “counting down the days” draws its inspiration from the quirky and cult romance movie of many twists (and days) 500 days of summer. view the video now here: urltoken
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tom and summer—every interaction of theirs tore at me. it’s easy to identify with only summer or only tom. but to fully appreciate 500 days of summer, i think it’s important to really feel for both of them .
endearing, fresh and funny, (500) days of summer also offers insights about fate, attraction, infatuation, heartbreak and the perseverance of hope .
did we miss one of your favorite songs from the' (500) days of summer' soundtrack? let us know in the comments section below .
zooey deschanel and joseph gordon - levitt play amorous co - workers in  (500) days of summer,  directed by marc webb .
to buy 500 days of summer on blu - ray dvd, click here. scroll through the gallery below to see what joseph gordon - levitt and the rest of the cast are up to these days !
much like annie hall did for a previous generation, (500) days of summer may be the movie that best captures a contemporary romantic sensibility .
london - fox searchlight has launched an online campaign created by digital pr agency jam to promote its latest film' (500) days of summer' .
i rewatched 500 days of summer recently. i’ve seen it a few times but i feel like this was the first time i really “saw it. ”
thank you 500 days of summer for making a movie that took place downtown. you showed a part of los angeles that not even some living in santa monica knew existed .
“ (500) days of summer” is rated pg - 13 (parents strongly cautioned). it has a very mild sexual vibe and some equally mild profanity .
( 500) days is a funny, seductive, and surprisingly honest dramatization of the ways we snooker ourselves into incompatible love .
that’s the whole guy - centric point of “ (500) days of summer, ” though. sometimes you never, ever truly figure out why these mysterious creatures break your heart .
later. tom and summer back at the table. summer is humming something .
one of 2009' s best films, (500) days of summer proved there is a way to bring something fresh and new to one of the most cliche and often frustrating genres – the romantic comedy .
( 500) days of summer is a perfect example of effective use of music in a movie. never overshadowing the action unfolding on screen but always providing a boost, the music helped communicate both the ecstasy and the heartbreak that tom experiences over the course of the movie. while there were good performances and an extremely witty script, an impeccable use of music was one of the integral reasons why (500) days of summer was one of the surprise movies of 2009 .
the story switches back - andforth as tom tells about his 500 days with summer in such a clever way that you are completely drawn into the story of this ordinary but delightful couple .
500 days of summer is directed by up - and - coming filmmaker marc webb, of only a few music videos previously. the screenplay was co - written by first - time writers scott neustadter and michael h. weber. this first premiered at the sundance film festival earlier this year to a standing ovation. fox searchlight is bringing 500 days of summer to theaters everywhere starting on july 17th this summer. don' t miss it !
all of 500 days of summer talk isn’t to say it’s “bad. ” well made, well acted – just deeply suspect. ” so, maybe it isn’t misogynistic? faraci goes on to say “ i suspect
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by the 501st day, it' s hard to muster much sympathy for either tom or summer. thank goodness it' s not called 1, 000 days of summer .
tom and summer shop for music. tom excitedly shows summer a ringo starr solo album .
i just watched 500 days of summer yesterday. what a snooze fest. absolutely rubbish and a total waste of time. who cares about these people. the movie is totally unoriginal and just plain boring. next !
[ … ] transformation montage into a twelve - episode arc. get joseph gordon - levitt on the horn and tell him (500) days of summer is back and painfully longer than [ … ]
come on, level with me. as your best friend, who tolerated a whole month of talk talk talk about this girl, nothing but summer this, summer that, summer summer summer, i mean you were practically stalking her ...
( 500) days of summer is the cinematic equivalent of a song. if you want to get specific, it’s the cinematic equivalent of a belle and sebastian song: self - consciously quirky, certainly, but wry, winning and full of irresistible hooks .
scott neustadter, writer of 500 days of summer, really wants to make sure that the manic pixie dream girl who broke his heart understands that she destroyed his soul and inspired him to make great art capital g capital a .
( 500) days of summer
is the subject of press film critic john serba' s movie - discussion series my 2 cents, 1 p. m. sunday at celebration cinema north, 2121 celebration drive ne .
most days of the year are entirely unremarkable. they begin and they end without creating a single lasting memory. most days have no real impact on the course of a life .
joseph gordon - levitt' s turn as tom in
( 500) days of summer
instantly solidified his standing as a heartthrob with an everyman twist, but the actor cautions against taking tom too seriously .
‘this is not a love story, ” warns the omniscient narrator of “ (500) days of summer, ” which opens with a breakup on day 488 of what may well turn out to be generation y’s answer to “when harry met sally. ”
500 days of summer was also my favorite movie this year, and also this decade! i love the tv show idea they have! and i had to idea that marc webb directed that maroon 5 video, i love that. and to the person above me: you think 500 days is unoriginal? ? well, then go watch lame hollywood movies !
note: the movie’s poster insists the title is
( 500) days of summer .
led by variety, every single film critic whose review i could find has simply ignored that punctuation. good for them .
the screenplay by scott neustadter and michael weber (the credited writers of “the pink panther 2”) draws the audience in by cleverly skipping back and forth through the 500 days between tom and summer’s first and final meetings .
jason solomons talks to (500) days of summer star joseph gordon - levitt and to the star of new eco - swimming film big river man. xan brooks reports from the venice film festival, plus reviews of district 9 and bustin' down the door
i could go on. every actor in 500 days is underrated. (and, of course, we would have nothing without writers scott neustadter and michael weber. )
almost as appealing: there' s not one explosion in
500 days of summer ,
not one robot, not one boy wizard or evil - one - whose - name - must - not - be - spoken - - but still it' s one of the most satisfying movies of the summer .
those days of beating australia in six successive white - ball matches have disappeared rapidly ...
now (500) days of summer is about to be released here, and for once it is the man in the romcom left licking his wounds. here, scott reveals why it definitely is not a love story .
( 500) days of summer ,
which webb says was made for just over $ 7 million, has brought in about $ 15 million so far at the box office since it opened in mid - july .
in the post above yours (no. 13), jose id’s the cat! take on “ (500) days of summer” genre! have a different idea? post it! but we did answer zee question !
( 500) days of summer is a story of a man, tom, and a woman, summer, and, to put it simply, their relationship. the narrator tells the viewer in the first 5 minutes of the movie that though the story is about a boy and girl, it isn’t a love story .
500 startups founding partner, dave mcclure, speaking at 500 batch 8 demo day (back when the most colorful thing at demo day was dave’s language) .
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the universe is meaningless, (500) days of summer said to me. relationships are what matters, though. not necessarily that one falls in love, but that one learns from another, picks up good traits from another .
in “500 days” there’s also the parts where tom, during the phase where he’s high, he describes various characteristics of summer’s as endearing / attractive; when he’s low he describes the exact same characteristics in different terms, as flaws .
those days of beating australia in six successive white - ball matches have disappeared rapidly into the distance .
here’s a look back at lessons we’ve learned from the last 7 demo days, and how 500 startups stumbled upon creating the unique pitch day in silicon valley .
another downtown los angeles location that my fiancé and i stalked this past weekend was the famous bench from 2009’s indie hit (500) days of summer. a few weeks ago, fellow stalker eileen emailed me to tell me of the bench’s location and to send me the above photograph of herself and her roommate taken while there. i should mention here that i didn’t especially care for (500) days of summer. actually, it’d be much closer to the truth to say that i didn’t like [ … ]
( 500) days of summer is the story of how tom meets and falls in and then out of love with an altogether more put - together pixie named — ha! — summer (zooey deschanel). she' s hired as an assistant at the card company, and it' s love at the first sight of her bewitching blue eyes .
mark webb, director of
( 500) days of summer ,
presents this scenario: a group of guys are hanging out, watching a game. one turns to another and says ,
hey dude, there' s this romantic comedy you should check out .
people took notice of gordon - levitt in 2009 when he starred in 500 days of summer opposite the talented and beautiful zooey deschanel. the bittersweet story of love that is never really found showed joseph had a knack for bringing life to characters and pulling the viewer into a film .
it doesn' t star jennifer aniston, is soundtracked by the smiths, and charts the sad, slow decline of a relationship. but (500) days of summer, a huge hit in the states, contains more truths about love than any lame romcom
kate gardiner, marketing manager at fox searchlight / twentieth century fox, said :
the partnership between' (500) days of summer' and guardian soulmates is a perfect example of jam' s creative thinking and their ability to deliver on bold ideas .
in
500 days of summer ,
he plays tom, a hopelessly romantic greeting - card writer. not only is tom a firm believer in true love, but in love at first sight - - which he feels the moment he lays eyes on zooey deschanel' s summer finn .
the official trailer for 500 days of summer, starring joseph gordon - levitt and zooey deschanel. connect with fox searchlight online visit the fox searchlight website: urltoken like fox searchlight on facebook: urltoken follow fox searchlight on twitter: urltoken urltoken
i’ll never get sick of 500 days of summer ,
one person recently tweeted before another added ,
only dm me if u have 500 days of summer on dvd, no other applicants needed .
same girl, same. so, does zooey believe in true love all these years later ?
well, i' m married so of course i believe in true love! a lot of romantic comedies end right when people get together so you don' t really know what happens with them ,
she told the guardian .
so. the majority of my friends are…for lack of a better expression, having a shit summer .
and then he runs into summer again at the wedding of a mutual friend .
when they' re out of earshot, tom sees that summer is distraught .
read on for information about historic locations that were featured in the 2009 fox searchlight film (500) days of summer, courtesy of the los angeles conservancy. the film is a romantic comedy, but many have pointed out that the city of los angeles and its stunning architecture play almost as important a role as the young couple, tom and summer .
( 500) days of summer
has been rightly described as a movie fascinated by, even obsessed with, architecture. but the film' s perspective on architecture - - and on the skyline of downtown los angeles in particular - - is severely, intriguingly limited .
in the enchantingly original and romantic (500) days of summer, summer (zooey deschanel) is a girl — capricious, alluring, and not entirely knowable — and tom (joseph gordon - levitt) is the greeting - card writer who convinces himself that she’s ”better than the girl of my dreams. ” five hundred days is the duration of their relationship, but the movie presents those days out of order, as an impish romantic flipbook, so that we keep skipping forward and back? from, say, day 8 to day 154. most romantic comedies have half a dozen situations at best: meet cute, infatuation, pop song montage, contrived mix - up, angry breakup, and final clinch. ? (500) days of summer is about the many unclassifiable moments in between .
( to the table) everyone this is summer, my new assistant. summer just moved here from ...
the los angeles of 500 days is an eternally sunlit corporate paradise of beautiful apartments and chic bars just waiting to be constructed. in one scene, hansen draws his architectural vision of the city: more skyscrapers, neatly arranged next to one another .
you can find more new cinemash videos at: urltoken. this cinemash video above was actually directed by marc webb who also directed 500 days of summer. future videos include cheech and chong cinemashing tron and milo ventimiglia cinemashing oldboy. hope you enjoyed this cinemash !
in the last segment of music in the movies, i focused on quentin tarantino’s use of music and his penchant for presenting songs as diegetic sounds. in (500) days of summer, the music is presented as non - diegetic but it still effectively serves the filmmaker’s goals. (500) days of summer is a quirky, clever, and incredibly honest romantic comedy that was released in the summer of 2009. very witty, often quite humorous, and paced extremely well, the film was lauded by critics and landed on a number of “top ten” year - end lists of 2009. it starred joseph gordon - levitt as tom, a hopeless romantic, and zooey deschanel as the oft - distant summer. it featured a soundtrack filled with the best that the indie rock, alternative rock and folk rock genres have to offer. more important though, instead of just being thrown into the movie randomly, these songs were employed extremely effectively, enhancing the emotionality of a number of scenes. the soundtrack fully captures the “hipness” and offbeat postmodernism that (500) days of summer so embodies .
indie ,
here, is used strictly in the sense of being technically independent from a major studio: for all its rhetorical whimsy and hipster dressings, (500) days of summer is a thoroughly conservative affair, as culturally and romantically status quo as any jennifer aniston vehicle .
e seines filmes auf den kopf zu stellen. immer durch die zahl des aktuellen tages (1 - 500, also die 500 tage, über die sich die erzählung des filmes erschreckt
the girl, summer finn of shinnecock, michigan, did not share this belief .
where annie hall had the famous subtitled scene in which woody allen and diane keaton said one thing and thought another, (500) days of summer has a similarly clever split - screen segment, with half of the screen devoted to
reality
and the other to
expectation .
are tom and summer going to get back together? we can only hope. summer invites tom to a party she’s having…
right. michigan. well, summer, everyone. everyone, summer. excuse me, i have to take this .
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but where (500) days of summer sympathizes with the gradually estranged lovers, seeking to grasp how things fall apart, audiences may well grow bored with the relentless emo - chic of these two privileged, self - involved hotties, acting out their twee little dramas and faux - naif antics .
the new leader of mexico has spent the days following his landslide election win promising to create an austere ...
i totally agree that (500) days of summer was totally snubbed this year. it should have been nominated for best picture. it is definetly one of the best films i had seen for quite a long time. for me it would have taken the place of district 9 – i didn’t like that at all .
in 500 days of summer, tom hansen (joseph gordon - levitt) is a successful employee at new hampshire greeting cards, a los angeles - based hallmark proxy. a prominent graphic designer with dreams of becoming an architect, hansen befriends summer finn (zooey deschanel), a new employee, who tells tom on their first company outing, “i don’t feel comfortable being anyone’s girlfriend” and “there’s no such thing as love. ” of course, hansen falls head over heels for the elusive lady, and the film goes back and forth in time highlighting the 500 days of their courtship with equal doses of humor and heartbreak .
boy gets girl and boy loses girl in convoluted, sometimes cloying but ultimately winning fashion in “500 days of summer. ” stylish feature debut by longtime musicvideo director marc webb goes out of its way to take an unconventional approach to telling one of the oldest stories in the book, only to prevail by embracing the [ … ]
screenwriters michael h. weber and scott neustadter co - wrote
500 days of summer
and sat down with makingof to discuss their writing process. here they break down two scenes - the
ikea
scene and
tom' s greatest day
. watch more at urltoken
as a sort of complement to
( 500) days ,
webb (with backing from fox searchlight) came up with a new video featuring the film' s stars gordon - levitt and deschanel. like most of the scenes in the
at the end of the batch 17 demo day, a flash mob of the 500 team appeared from the audience and started dancing on stage with dave. the big screen started playing videos of venture capital investors and founders of successful 500 portfolio companies around the world wishing dave a happy birthday. the b17 demo day happened to be dave’s 50th birthday and our 500 family planned a surprise for dave .
it' s been nearly one decade since we first watched tom and summer' s relationship crumble in 500 days of summer — and it' s still our favorite non - love story ever. joseph gordon - levitt and zooey deschanel are perfect as the ill - fated couple, and joseph understands why viewers might blame his character for their breakup .
the (500) days of summer attitude of' he wants you so bad' seems attractive to some women and men, especially younger ones ,
the actor said .
but i would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is .
doesn' t seem likely, does it? that' s why webb a) had a hard time finding a studio to pick up
( 500) days of summer ,
and b) when he found one in fox searchlight, the company struggled with the marketing campaign .
while other days - lots of days - were unforgettably awful. eventually, she told me what i had always known deep in my heart: that this thing, whatever it was, simply wasn' t going to work for either of us .
movie review -' (500) days of summer' - it' s nora ephron for the hipster set style and surface are very much the point of marc webb' s aggressively hip romantic comedy, but under its cool - kid trappings, it' s as culturally status quo as any jennifer aniston vehicle .
' (500) days of summer' is due for release in the uk on september 2. the offbeat romantic comedy is about a woman (zooey deschanel) who doesn' t believe true love exists, and the young man (joseph gordon - levitt) who falls for her .
top photo: joseph gordon - levitt and marc webb. credit: gary friedman / los angeles times. middle photo :
best morning ever
scene from
( 500) days of summer. credit: chuck zlotnick / fox searchlight pictures. bottom photo: chuck zlotnick / fox searchlight pictures
the wife and i saw (500) days of summer last night before we caught inglourious basterds. very different movies, with very different messages. but since i’m a dating and relationship coach and not a revenge coach, i’m going to focus on the offbeat romantic comedy just for a moment .
this knockout of a movie expertly blends bliss (a dance number complete with an animated blue jay after tom spends his first night in bed with summer) and the blues (a split - screen segment in which tom’s expectation of winning back summer clashes with reality). the ending is tidy and way too cute, but (500) days is otherwise a different kind of love story: an honest one that takes a piece out of you .
and now, you and me, 8 days in mexico... best spring break ever !
final image: the sequence begins on a bench, the same scene as in the opening, but now we understand that the wedding ring on summer’s hand is not tom’s — it’s from another man. summer is married. tom and summer talk for the last time. this is the title card (# 500). this is the final day that tom knows summer .
what sets (500) days of summer apart from its derivative rom - com brethren is its subtle mocking of convention and its charmingly heartfelt story presented in a way that' s both breezy and innovative. with singular creative touches, first - time director marc webb invigorates what is essentially a boy - meets - girl story .
tom is listening to headphones. summer enters the elevator and tom actively puts on a show to ignore her. summer hears the music .
anyone who works in marketing knows that freebie giveaways are always a great way to build huge crowds. but there' s a difference between just giving freebies away to the masses and actually getting positive buzz out of it. this is exactly what fox searchlight has done today - they' ve created even more positive 500 days of summer buzz because they gave people something to make them extremely happy. and when you put all that together, well, it works wonders, especially for an incredible movie like 500 days of summer. bravo, fox searchlight, you' ve pulled off a great promo that proves again how ahead of the curve you always are .
as the narrator of “ (500) days of summer” tells us in its opening, “this is not a love story. ” that may be but it’s certainly one that’s in love with its own storytelling. the biggest frustration is that while that storytelling is phenomenal, the story it’s telling is thin, unemotional, and isn’t worthy of marc webb’s brilliant direction .
as the heading explains, one thing i got from
500 days of summer
is that everyone is going to have their “500 days” no matter what you are going through. what i mean by that is you’re going to have situations in life that vary both in time and scope. some will last longer than others; maybe it’s 200 days, 98 days, or even just two weeks. tom and summer’s time together (whether in a relationship at the time or not) lasted for 500, and throughout the film it takes a look at many of these days; searching back to see what led to certain points in the story or, for example, if there was a turning point on day 12 that led to where he was on say, day 135. your “500 days” are going to be all over the place. some days within it will be more significant and memorable than others. you’re going to go back and forth through them in your mind, seeing the decisions you made and how they might have changed the course of “your timeline, ” but in reality they really haven’t, because one of the main concepts the film deals with is fate. and yes, i know everyone has their own opinions on this. some believe in it while some have a hard time coming to terms with the idea. however, i’m one of those who firmly believes in the concept of “everything is going to work out the way it’s supposed to, ” which is why this film affected me the way it did. that being said, from my point of view, you’re never really altering your timeline with the decisions you make because whatever happened was meant to be that way, and something about that is comforting. the point of this was whether it' s 500 days, 70 days, or 14 days, you’re going to get through it and arrive back to day 1 after it’s all over .
i’ve heard that other audiences, especially the ones at sundance, found “ (500) days of summer” to be a delight and a romance in the vein of “annie hall”. i couldn’t find the emotional truth buried beneath the stellar direction so while the story left me cold, i have great hopes for webb and his future endeavors .
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i think it would be really easy to say that (500) days of summer is a sad movie. tom doesn’t end up with summer. summer so coldly refuses to define her relationship with tom because she “doesn’t believe in love” only to break up with him and end up engaged to another man. we’re forced to see tom go through this heartache and ultimately lose hope in meaningful, true love. yes, no doubt about it. parts of this movie are sad .
so here' s where it all starts to make some sense. the promo item (seen to the right) was usually a shirt that said
it' s official… i' m in love with summer .
those of you that have already seen 500 days of summer know that that is actually a great line from the movie. and if you think about it out of context, it' s a great way to just say
i love the summer .
the way searchlight is saying that is by giving out free food. one hell of a treat, eh? ! so the promo was just giving away free items to people in 6 cities? that' s it? well, the buzz it created on sites like twitter and facebook was immense - people can' t stop thinking about 500 days of summer now .
at least, director marc webb does - - and has - - with his clever and sweet debut ,
500 days of summer ,
a warm - and - cozy romantic stroll that, aside from a few modern flourishes - - some swear words here, a shower scene there - - could have been plucked right out of james stewart' s body of work .
when tom, a hapless greeting card copywriter and hopeless romantic, is blindsided after his girlfriend summer dumps him, he shifts back and forth through various periods of their 500 days
together
to try to figure out where things went wrong. his reflections ultimately lead him to finally rediscover his true passions in life .
a movie soundtrack has more or less the same goal as a great mix tape: it needs to put a scene in the listener’s mind, produce an emotional response, and introduce an amazing new song or two. considering how integral music is to the plot of (500) days of summer, a lot is riding on the film’s soundtrack .
for anyone interested, i' ve included a transcript of the complete interview below, in case you' d like to read the interview instead of watch it. 500 days of summer is already out on dvd and blu - ray right now - pick up a copy on amazon. i tried to cover ask last question about 500 days of summer i could, since these guys are not only the ones behind the story and the concept, but they know what' s behind the jenny beckman reference at the beginning of the movie, they chose almost every song that was used in it, and were the ones who were inspired by woody allen' s annie hall. i think the interview turned out pretty incredible. enjoy !
summer and tom sit on the steps which offers a stunning view of the city' s architectural marvels .
and then by the end summer switches to being an external. “color my life with the chaos of trouble”
in the past few years, gordon - levitt has given excellent performances in films like brick and the lookout. (500) days of summer allows the actor to show a far more lighthearted side (when tom' s not in his morose moments that is), and gordon - levitt proves to be very charming and likable in this type of role .
( visit: urltoken) “500 days of summer” screenwriter scott neustadter talks about how he and his writing partner, michael h. weber, came up with the offbeat script and how they find the true voice of characters. recorded on 10 / 12 / 2014. series :
script to screen
[ arts and music ] [ show id: 28922 ]
( 500) days
contains essences of
annie hall
( and oates) and
memento ,
of all things, managing to navigate the neural tightropes linking thoughts and emotions, and doing so with heart and humor. and it has the best closing line of any movie so far this year .
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his is not a love story ,
a voiceover warns, as a super - 8 film of a young couple swoons across the screen. (500) days of summer is anti - love, a meta - romcom, which begins at the end of the pair' s relationship and romanticises only the heartbreak of underhand rejection and the modern confusion of sex without commitment .
nothing is meant to be ,
we discover. everything we' ve learnt from sandra bullock and kate hudson, from the last 15 minutes of every
girls' night in
, is all wrong .
( 500) days is the first great cinematic romance of the facebook generation ,
wrote one critic .
emotion - porn ,
said another .
500 days is different love story, and worth watching. i would have rated it higher, but i found the non - linear presentation confusing. it felt like taking shakespeare in class and having to read it a couple of times to figure it out .
the waitress comes out with the food. tom and summer stop their discussion until the meal is served and the waitress leaves. summer starts to eat .
summer: i named my cat after springsteen! tom: what was his name? summer: [ pause ] bruce. tom: that makes sense .
setting the
500 days
snub aside, i have to say i' m really impressed with the majority of the oscar line - up this year. it' s not just about just congratulating excellence, it' s about congratulating range — so for the carey mulligan' s and
district 9
s out there, the line about
it' s an honor just to be nominated
really has to hold true. but, for the original and quirky
( 500) days of summer ,
there' s something to be said about not getting nominated at all .
reblogged this on pilosopong antukin and commented: captivated by its phenomenal soundtrack, the chemistry of jgl and deschanel, and the movie’s realness (except the you make my dreams come true dance sequence which involved animated birds), i was compelled to consider (500) days of summer as one of my all - time movie favorites. i mean, come on! who wouldn’t love this amazing film ?
my only notable quibble with (500) days of summer is the portrayal of tom' s little sister, rachel (chloe moretz – soon to be kicking ass in kick - ass). filled with precocious, wise - beyond - her - years advice, the character just comes off as false and overly cute in a way the film doesn' t need .
tom, greeting - card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off - guard when his girlfriend, summer, suddenly dumps him. he reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, tom rediscovers his true passions in life .
last week, i finally got my hands on a copy of the serendipity magazine' s summer 2010 issue. i did concept design, styling and florals for a photo shoot for the magazine, inspired by the film (500) days of summer. i shared photos from the incredible sarah yates here. it' s so fun to see the final print version after months of planning and preparation! please pick up your own copy today and help support the print magazine industry !
in our past demo days, we always focused on the pitches, not wanting to take away from the big day of our batch companies. however, the thematic timing forced us to look at the demo days from a different angle. we decided to make demo days more entertaining. we added the halloween theme to our demo day, aka “demo - ween” — presenting the
during one of the final scenes on the park bench, summer' s hair keeps changing styles and falls both in front of and in back of her shoulder many times .
early in “ (500) days of summer” the omniscient narrator who intermittently (and somewhat annoyingly) comments on the action cautions that the movie is “not a love story. ” the print advertisements qualify his words, describing this slight, charming and refreshingly candid little picture as “a story about love. ” which it is: a story about how love can be confusing, contingent and asymmetrical, and about how love can fail. given all this, it’s somewhat remarkable that “ (500) days, ” the feature directing debut of the music video auteur marc webb, is neither depressing nor french .
thank you to scott and michael for this opportunity and for answering all of my questions! don' t forget, if you haven' t seen 500 days of summer yet, or if you loved it as much as i did, you can buy it on dvd or blu - ray right now via amazon. i can' t wait to see their next movie !
the movie fast forwards to day 282, with the two of them hanging out at one of the many retail locations of swedish furniture superstore ikea. tom is fiddling around with some sink displays. he says to summer that “all of our sinks are broken. ” summer looks bored .
garden state, eat your heart out. this year' s designated romantic comedy for young people who are disillusioned by life and love in a vague - yet - meaningful way, 500 days of summer, has a soundtrack that aims to change lives via heartbreaking songs with winsome melodies and pretty, dark - haired girls armed with acoustic guitars .
dark night of the soul: summer has left her position at the company as an assistant to tom’s boss .
so what' s next for the director ?
i would love someday to do a broadway musical; i' d rather do that than a sequel
he says, mentioning there was also loose talk of doing a musical version of
( 500) days .
(
a kind of meta - musical about the making of the film .
)
tom types at his desk. summer approaches the cubicle tom shares with mckenzie .
summer, hold on... you don' t believe in love ?
tom helps a nearly comatose mckenzie exit the place. summer is with them .
not you. you. (beat, to summer) he likes you .
i should have listened to you, summer. you were right all along .
my favourite thing about the movie 500 days of summer was the soundtrack. this coming from someone who, when i first watched it, found most older songs to be well, boring. oh, how i' ve changed my mind. i love every single track, even zooey' s cover of the who - her voice is so cute, it matches the song .
actress and musician zooey deschanel has been plastered on the side of london buses for the last month or so to promote her latest tv program new girl. no doubt with that in mind, channel 4 broadcast the movie 500 days of summer last night, where she stars alongside joseph gordon - levitt. one suspects that channel 4 were hoping to entice a new army of fans to new girl by giving them a taste of deschanel in movie form .
just then, summer abruptly comes out of the bathroom. paul realizes that summer has been here the whole time. he quickly excuses himself, and tom asks if summer heard any part of their conversation. she says she didn’t, but makes a joke that reveals she did, and let’s move on .
as much as i’d love to dog pile on faraci some more (and why not, he appears to completely miss the misogyny in g. i. joe) i would rather just say that based on my one viewing of 500 days of summer, i found it to be an entertaining romantic comedy that tended to be more clever and insightful than i expected. detailing the 500 days of his on and off relationship with the titular summer, joseph gordon levitt’s tom gives us his point of view on how things went down between the two of them. their relationship is at times playful, guarded, and finally sadly ended, and mostly seemed pretty accurate to me. getting into spoiler territory, summer’s revelation of marriage to another man, after declaring wholeheartedly a lack of interest in a long term relationship, is something called real life. real talk. people are flawed. they change their mind, break promises, say the unsay - able. if the character of summer never feels as fleshed out as tom, it’s because the film isn’t about her as it is about summer’s effect on tom, how their relationship and her choice to end it made him reevaluate his decisions. to get back to faraci, perhaps all the women (and men) he has dealt with in his life have been very forward and honest in their feelings, and never got mum or evasive. that must be great. tom is flawed, summer is flawed, thus is life. and y’know, 500 days of summer isn’t even that realistic. but it felt more honest than one tends to find in a movie with high production values. are we all sheep, prey for the hidden wolf of misogyny under 500 days of summer ‘s sunny exterior? or is it just a funny romantic comedy that doesn’t completely insult our intelligence and contains characters with actual good taste in music? if i wanted to find some misogyny, i would start with the last couple katherine heigl flicks .
suddenly, the sound of a toilet flushing is heard. from the bathroom emerges summer, dressed to go out .
this was the site of a deleted scene from the film, in which tom and summer are shopping for fruit .
. joseph gordon - levitt plays a hard - working greeting card writer who believes there' s one specific woman out there for him and that he' ll know it the minute he finds her. zooey deschanel is summer - as in' (500) days of' - a free - spirited woman who doesn' t believe in love at first sight .
( 500) days is like a mood ring cued to the ups, downs, and confusions of modern love. it’s a gen - y annie hall made by a new - style wes anderson who uses his cleverness for humanity instead of postmodern superiority. none of it would work, though, without such lived - in performances. deschanel makes the lovely, sensuous summer just precocious enough to know what she wants without coming out and saying it, and gordon - levitt, with his junior springsteenian chin jut, ? lets you read every glimmer of hope, pain, lust, and befuddlement beneath his nervy facade. it’s a feat of star acting, and it helps make (500) days not just bitter or sweet but everything in between. a
joseph gordon - levitt may be the star of the unexpected hit of the summer, but he has his mind on bigger things. catherine shoard hears all
, 500 startups demo day is more than a pitch day, it’s a festival where everyone has fun and gets deals done .
tom and summer, who have ridden together to work, stand outside the building .
summer starts walking ahead and tom notices for the first time she' s furious .
summer' s resistance is futile. and the rest as they say is history .
that' s easy to forgive though because (500) days of summer is overall a wonderful film. the much talked about big hall & oates dance number - - tom' s in - head perception of how things are going with summer - - is easily one of the most fun, impossible to resist sequences you could hope to see. and while the film is very much character driven, webb' s music video past serves him well in several visual tangents the story takes, showing different facets of tom' s pov on what is occurring.
500 days of summer ( stylized as ( 500 ) days of summer ) is a 2009 american romantic comedy-drama film directed by marc webb from a screenplay written by scott neustadter and michael h. weber , and produced by mark waters . the film stars joseph gordon-levitt and zooey deschanel , and employs a nonlinear narrative structure , with the story based upon its male protagonist and his memories of a failed relationship . as an independent production , the film was picked up for distribution by fox searchlight pictures and premiered at the 25th sundance film festival . it garnered favorable reviews and became a successful " sleeper hit " , earning over $ 60 million in worldwide returns , far exceeding its $ 7.5 million budget . many critics lauded the film as one of the best from 2009 and drew comparisons to other acclaimed films such as annie hall ( 1977 ) and high fidelity ( 2000 ) . the film received best original screenplay and best screenplay awards at the 14th satellite awards and 25th independent spirit awards , respectively , as well as two nominations at the 67th golden globe awards : best motion picture – musical or comedy and best actor – musical or comedy ( gordon-levitt ) . 
500 days of summer (stylized as (500) days of summer) is a 2009 american romantic comedy-drama film directed by marc webb from a screenplay written by scott neustadter and michael h. weber, and produced by mark waters. the film stars joseph gordon-levitt and zooey deschanel, and employs a nonlinear narrative structure, with the story based upon its male protagonist and his memories of a failed relationship. as an independent production, the film was picked up for distribution by fox searchlight pictures and premiered at the 25th sundance film festival. it garnered favorable reviews and became a successful " sleeper hit ", earning over $ 60 million in worldwide returns, far exceeding its $ 7.5 million budget. many critics lauded the film as one of the best from 2009 and drew comparisons to other acclaimed films such as annie hall (1977) and high fidelity (2000). the film received best original screenplay and best screenplay awards at the 14th satellite awards and 25th independent spirit awards, respectively, as well as two nominations at the 67th golden globe awards: best motion picture – musical or comedy and best actor – musical or comedy (gordon-levitt).
500 days of summer (stylized as (500) days of summer) is a 2009 american romantic comedy-drama film directed by marc webb from a screenplay written by scott neustadter and michael h. weber, and produced by mark waters. the film stars joseph gordon-levitt and zooey deschanel, and employs a nonlinear narrative structure, with the story based upon its male protagonist and his memories of a failed relationship. as an independent production, the film was picked up for distribution by fox searchlight pictures and premiered at the 25th sundance film festival. it garnered favorable reviews and became a successful " sleeper hit ", earning over $ 60 million in worldwide returns, far exceeding its $ 7.5 million budget. many critics lauded the film as one of the best from 2009 and drew comparisons to other acclaimed films such as annie hall (1977) and high fidelity (2000). the film received best original screenplay and best screenplay awards at the 14th satellite awards and 25th independent spirit awards, respectively, as well as two nominations at the 67th golden globe awards: best motion picture – musical or comedy and best actor – musical or comedy (gordon-levitt).