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(500) Days of Summer drops Friday, Michel Gondry’s new Marc Webb’s first feature film. They’re selling it as a romcom with atypically creative mise en scène.

The plot looks like a reverse When Harry Met Sally, which itself borrowed heavily from Annie Hall. That pedigree brings you pretty close to the beginnings of the circa-now incarnation of the genre (but see also Diarmuid and Gráinne, etc — the Irish invented romcoms). That’s a lot of hype for any story. Here’s hoping it doesn’t suck.

“New”, relatively different directors are interesting, and music videos — Webb’s done lots, including MCR’s Teenagers — are clearly the proving ground of The Yolked Eye* (eg, Cunningham, Gondry, Jonze).

Plus: Zooey Deschanel. Cute, and she pulls off the trick of sounding ditzy, which is hot.

* You can’t Google this, it’s mine. “Yolk” is intentional, a play on “yoke” and broken eggs, in turn a reference to the artistic idea of “breaking open the eye” — thinking visually in new ways — “seeing differently” — “directors who harness (yoke) the broken-open eye (yolk)” — add a little poetry to grout over the linguistic compression artifacts — “The Yolked Eye”.

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July 16th, 2009 at 9:57 pm

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  1. The review on Salon.com certainly makes it sound interesting:

    But everything that’s wrong, on the surface, with “(500) Days of Summer” pales in light of everything that’s going on beneath its surface.

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    Of course, none of this happens in sequence, a storytelling technique that accurately mirrors the post-breakup postmortem, that period when you’re trying to piece together what happened when, and what you might have done differently to change the outcome. Webb and the screenwriters approach the subject of heartbreak with a seemingly paradoxical freewheeling exuberance, and somehow, the tactic works. They draw inspiration from myriad sources — both Woody Allen and Jean-Luc Godard figure in their crazy-quilt mosaic.

    Don

    17 Jul 09 at 7:25 am

  2. [...] As you get the visual metaphor it gets more complicated until it starts getting you to intentionally misperceive the depth of field. Very nice — I’m trying to misperceive depth of field more to help break my eye. [...]

    Commercial Photography: American Express « MentalPolyphonics

    25 Dec 09 at 5:37 pm

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