Not exact matches
Much all there is to that
manic pixie dream girls for years or more and are required.
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.
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.