Sentences with phrase «pixie dream»

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.

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.

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

The character Jesse, played by Skylar Astin, in the film Pitch Perfect (2012) embodies the Manic Pixie Dream Boy trope.

Further, the film's male characters seem purposefully two - dimensional, and it even features its own Manic Pixie Dream Guy, a studly musician that Cheryl meets and has a one - night stand with in the final act.

Two of a Kind — A short - lived television series starring Mary - Kate as Mary - Kate and Ashley as Ashley, polar - opposite twins raised by their straight - laced professor father (Christopher Seiber) and manic pixie dream nanny Carrie (Sally Wheeler.)

While there, Kai stumbles upon manic pixie dream mermaid Lu (Christine Marie Cabanos), who provides Kai and his friends» garage band with a much - needed X-factor element.

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So maybe there is something to the idea of a Manic Pixie Dream Sister, then?

Sleeve labels for limited - edition 16oz cans of Manic Pixie Dream Beer reflect the brew's unconventional formulation with a subtly sexy packaging design in four versions.

The Manic Pixie Dream Jew.

A Manic Pixy Dream Doula.

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

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 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.

As a friend of mine pointed out, it's also entirely possible that he counts as a manic pixie dream boy, which surely must be a cinema first.

He is a Manic Pixie Dream Guy, the male iteration of Natalie Portman in Garden State.

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.

Tully: Young Adult power players Jason Reitman, Charlize Theron and Diablo Cody reunite for a dull, empty drama about an exhausted mother whose life is recharged by the arrival of a manic pixie dream nanny (Mackenzie Davis).

As Kai struggles with his self - imposed isolation, he befriends Lu (Christine Marie Cabanos), a manic pixie dream mermaid wrought in miniature.

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Solondz takes a premise that could be some kind of Apatowian studio comedy — overweight man child falls for pixie dream girl — and really gets into his central character's psyche, to the extent that much of the second half of the film is set entirely within it.

The Manic Pixie Dream Boy trope has also been pointed out in sitcoms such as Parks and Recreation and 30 Rock.

The lead female character is the embodiment of the «manic pixie dream girl» that 2018 has come to condemn.

A sort of bizarro counterpart to the manic pixie dream girl (the manic impish goth girl?)

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Have you always dreamed of looking like a Manic Pixie Dream Girl?

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

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

The scientist is Dr. Ian Gray (Michael Pitt in an unfortunate bow tie), whose love affair with a manic pixie dream girl (Astrid Bergès - Frisbey) begins in a strangely dreamy fashion when he spots her masked on a New York City balcony, showcasing her dazzling multicolored eyes.

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.

As the bob - haired Johanna, newcomer Yasmin Paige is the rare manic pixie dream girl who doesn't trade her own interior life for a kiss: a more grounded Juno, without the catchphrases.

While GARDEN STATE arguably gave birth to a lot of things - such as the «manic pixie dream girl» and hipster soundtrack - that became indie film clichés, it shouldn't be held responsible for setting the mold.

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

Plus The Big Sick (charming — the Zo (e, ooey) s — Kazan and Deschanel — are certainly manic pixie dream girls).

Director Jake Schreier and author John «The Fault in Our Stars» Green lay the Manic Pixie Dream Girl to rest in this insidious piece of YA hokum starring Cara Delevingne as an enigmatic free spirit.

Paula (played by the phenomenal force of nature Laetitia Dosch) is messy and quirky, but never a manic pixie dream girl.

They're the parents of Manic Pixie Dream Girl.

Dirty Dancing, undeniably shot through the female gaze, casts Patrick Swayze's Johnny Castle as the male equivalent of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl.

Plaza brings a collision of her already - established personas; pretty slacker meets manic pixie dream girl (with manic being the operative word) in a seemingly comical ham - up of Linda Blair's turn as possessed pre-Exorcism Regan.

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.

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.

Recently there has been discussion of a male version of this trope, the Manic Pixie Dream Boy or Manic Pixie Dream Guy.

She explained to Mary Pols of Time: «Like I am «offbeat» and I'm not «conventional looking» and I have unconventional tastes and I feel like if I was a character, people would be like: Manic Pixie Dream Girl!

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.