This is the author's "tribute" to a specific girl

Casey 2022-04-23 07:01:04

I don't know how many people noticed a subtitle from the author at the beginning of the movie:



And

then the movie starts


. It's obvious that this movie is the author's "homage" to a girl named Jenny Beckman.

The author's true intention is obvious, and there is no need to over-interpret it.

PS: The author himself wrote a column on this passage after the release. The prototype of Summer, Jenny, is an English girl whom he met in London in 2002. He was "breaking up" with this Jenny classmate After counting together), with the mood of "crazily, madly, hopelessly in love", I wrote the script of 500 days of summer.

Later, Jenny suddenly came to the United States from the UK to find him. They ate by the beach, just like the "old friends reunion" depicted in the movie, but Jenny didn't mention their relationship with each other. Parting at the airport, he sent the draft of the movie script to Jenny himself with mixed feelings. Jenny finished reading the script of 500 days of summer on the plane back to London, and then happily wrote a letter to the author, saying that she loved the script, because she thought the hero Tom in the story was "a really nice guy" what". In the end, the author reluctantly wrote in the column "Yes, incredibly, Jenny hadn't recognised herself as Summer at all."

Brothers who have met a girl like Summer, must be able to understand the author's feeling of being compensated at this time.

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Extended Reading

500 Days of Summer quotes

  • McKenzie: This Friday, all-you-can-karaoke at the Mill.

    Tom: No.

    McKenzie: Come on!

    Tom: They're not gonna let you back in there after last time.

    McKenzie: Yeah... I wasn't that bad.

    Tom: Dude, you threw up on the stage, you tried to fight the bartender, you threatened to burn the place down.

    McKenzie: But I didn't burn the place down.

  • McKenzie: So, do you have a boyfriend?

    Summer: No...

    McKenzie: Why not?

    Summer: 'Cause I don't want one.

    McKenzie: Come on. I don't believe that.

    Summer: You don't believe that a woman could enjoy being free and independent?

    McKenzie: [robotic voice] Are you a lesbian?

    Summer: No, I'm not a lesbian. I just don't feel comfortable being anyone's girlfriend. I don't actually feel comfortable being anyone's anything, you know?