Sentences with phrase «pixie dream girl»

The third season, with its plots of backstage TV politics, decidedly manic Manic Pixie Dream Girls and paternal anxieties (as both a father and a son), pushed an already acclaimed show into the stratus, and it's a delight to finally have it on hand.

Likewise, MacLaine's charming portrayal as the damaged, yet lovable Kubelik would provide the model for manic pixie dream girls for years to come.

Waitress could easily have been a daydream about the perfectly tactile, wistful, eager - to - feed Manic Pixie Dream Girl of your dreams.

Much all there is to that manic pixie dream girls for years or more and are required.

However, the patient and imaginative way in which Goob's perspective is fleshed out starkly contrasts with the hollow presentation of his summer lover, Eva — a Manic Pixie Dream Girl who skips through the mud with a cool bowl haircut and vintage wardrobe, and who seemingly exists to save this fella from terminal boredom.

As for The Apartment, if anyone is a Manic Pixie Dream Girl in that movie — it's Jack Lemmon.

The protagonist is such a profoundly boring and uncharismatic character, as played by Jack Lowden, that it falls to these successive manic pixie dream girl archetypes to push him into doing really anything at all, and when his efforts fail - which they almost always do - they are cast aside.

The romance that follows strays close to Manic Pixie Dream Girl territory — Madeleine, a college dropout with a background in macroeconomics, is convinced the apocalypse is nigh — but her quirkiness is grounded by genuine contempt for Arnaud.

The manic pixie dream girl trope has been annoying for years but at least that archetype gave (young) actresses something «fun» to do.

It's revealed that she's part of an alien enclave touring earth — not so much manic pixie dream girl as robotic alien dream girl — and (for some inexplicable reason) she becomes enamoured with Enn, absconding from her extra-terrestrial cohort to spend time «doing punk» with Enn and his friends.

Given how many Manic Pixie Dream Girl roles Deschanel must have been offered after playing the mysterious object of Joseph Gordon - Levitt's obsession in 500 Days of Summer, one can imagine her frustration.

And, um, this is what Manic Pixie Dream Girls wear these days, right?

Knightley's character flirts with Manic Pixie Dream Girl preciousness, but imbues the character with a humanity that transcends the type; she's got a lovely monologue at a key moment in their arc (concerning her love of vinyl, of course) that moves the film into the realm of pathos with an almost invisible dexterity.

While Poots has a charismatic way, her variant of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl gets irritating quickly.

That said, Aimee is not your average Manic Pixie Dream Girl stereotype who exists solely to help the male lead be a better guy.

They have the classic Manic Pixie Dream Girl scene where they are frolicking around in the world and the Manic Pixie teaches the uptight star how to embrace his inner child.

The Manic Pixie Dream Girl 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.

Ruby Sparks wants to wag its finger at the Manic Pixie Dream Girl ideal while still having lots of fun with the Ruby character and pouring out a lot of sympathy towards poor old troubled Calvin.

Over at Movieline their piece «Ruby Sparks Blows Up Manic Pixie Dream Girl Myth» gets at something similar:

What makes Ruby Sparks so promising is that it is directly challenging the Manic Pixie Dream Girl construct that critic Nathan Rabin identified in his 2007 article on the Cameron Crowe film Elizabethtown:

As the tormented writer Calvin, Dano perfectly embodies the kind of young man who the Manic Pixie Dream Girl appeals to.

Judd reunites with a local skating instructor who always had a crush on him and just happens to have stayed in town all these years, as if she were waiting for him to return (Rose Byrne plays this manic pixie dream girl on ice).

The only hitch is that Arthur has just fallen in love with a happy - go - lucky working - class girl named Naomi (Greta Gerwig), whose quirky outfits and chin - up sense of Manic Pixie Dream Girl integrity inspire him to make himself a better man.

A dreamy orphan (Henry Hopper, channeling Papa Dennis's brooding»50s period) and an ailing gamine (Mia Wasikowska, taking the obligatory spin in the Manic Pixie Dream Girl carousel) are the teens flirting with the Reaper, meeting cute at a funeral and cementing their love by visiting morgues, drawing critters at the cemetery, and laying down on chalk outlines.

That movie represents a much more explicit look at the concept of molding a woman in your image of what you want her to be, positioning itself as a rebellion against the manic pixie dream girl tendencies of films like (500) Days of Summer or Garden State, often the result of lazy writing that had a tendency to treat women simply as a formula to complete the man's desires.

Most pleasant surprise Ruby Sparks The ads for Ruby Sparks consciously attempted to draw in fans of quirky rom - coms about sad - writer types and Manic Pixie Dream Girl saviors.

It was written as a Rageful Pixie Dream Girl, and easily could have played as a caricature.

For every era, there's a Manic Pixie Dream Girl perfectly suited to the times.

But the lovably quirky Daisy (a Manic Pixie Dream Girl if there ever was one) hasn't a clue of any of this (as she is quite pleasantly clueless) until Chabot puts her under hypnosis.

I've never warmed to Tautou, the original Gallic Pixie Dream Girl — but aged 37, and 13 years after Amélie, it doesn't entirely suit her to be gamining around, all wide - eyed and bubbly.

She outwardly fits the manic pixie dream girl mold, but The Big Sick gives her plenty of definition to make her a real character.

Not here, for here we live in the real world where manic pixie dream girls hurt people — and were probably hurt themselves.

One day, a Manic Pixie Dream Girl named Tess (Fabianne Therese) walks into his life and yet neither her sunny personality nor her hotness can get him away from the games too long.

But Crowe cuts corners in establishing their chemistry: Instantly and inexplicably smitten with her charge, Allison emerges from the same fantasy factory that produced the Kirsten Dunst character in Elizabethtown, for whom this very site coined the Manic Pixie Dream Girl title.

She is, in short, a Messianic Pixie Dream Girl.

The dialogue in Duck Butter, on the other hand, is unremarkable, and occasionally downright grating: a mix of narcissistic patter (from Naima) and Euro Pixie Dream Girl inanities (from Sergio), with little satirical perspective — the movie takes the duo's flailing bid for emotional and erotic authenticity oh - so - seriously — or real, relatable feeling.

Tom Hollander steals the few scenes he's in as the bitter playwright who serves as Tim's first roommate, while Lydia Wilson is borderline cringe - inducing as Tim's Manic Pixie Dream Girl sister.

But the more the cultural myth of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl expanded, the more my ambivalence about it grew.»

You could say elements of the manic pixie dream girl sprout from this type of character, in terms of being fun and fancy - free.

There is a moment in the early second act where Jesse (Radnor) and Zibby (Olsen in full manic pixie dream girl mode, and yes, she goes by Zibby instead of Liz or Elizabeth because that makes her quirky or something) exchange letters that include such chestnuts as «I was listening to the overture and as the music began to swell I suddenly realized that: I had hands.

Tellingly, just as DiCaprio's best role in the last decade was as a charming man - child in «Catch Me If You Can,» Portman's best turn was playing the manic pixie dream girl in Zach Braff's «Garden State.»

Subverting the Manic Pixie Dream Girl archetype as she did in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Knightley's Greta is also coming up out of a tough split with her well - meaning but douchey ex boyfriend (Maroon 5's Adam Levine in an understated acting début) and she has an arc outside of merely being discovered by Dan.

It is because of the strength of her performance and willingness to lay herself bare that her character doesn't stray into manic pixie dream girl territory — she's much too fully realized, even as a fantasy, to be rendered that shallow of a stereotype.

She is crucial to both Stephen's and Johnson's con, the obvious mark and the quirky manic pixie dream girl who is soon revealed to be too strange to be fake.

But you wouldn't know that from the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope.

Emma Roberts also has strong chemistry with Wolff, though she's somewhat saddled with a Manic Pixie Dream Girl role.

Tully is the manic pixie dream girl of overtaxed mothers.

It's among the most common protagonist types in all of horror; but hey, manic pixie dream girls in tank tops can do anything they put their minds to, and that's a lesson that bears repeating.