USING A SOURCE

Marco Medina

3/26/19

MVC 201

Blog 5: USING A SOURCE

The structure of the Romantic comedy has been played out for years. Hollywood has a formula where the protagonist must win the love interest surrounding some type of conflict. In the film (500) Days of Summer (Webb 2009), this is a unique approach that stirs up the traditional way of telling a “Love story”. For the sake of argument, most of these romantic stories have to do with a heterosexual relationship.Roger Ebert in his movie review explains the Hollywood trip “When we realize she is not required to in this movie, because it’s not playing by the Hollywood rules, we perk up; anything could happen. The kaleidoscopic time structure breaks the shackles of the three-act grid and thrashes about with the freedom of romantic confusion” (Website). The audience throughout the film is not given the traditional beginning, middle, and end of the film. The movie is broken up in days that the protagonist is in some type of relationship with the female love interest. This gives the audience barely any indication of how the events of this romantic roller coaster of a relationship will play out. This keeps the audience captivated by the idea of will they or won’t they.

(500) Days of Summer Movie Review (2009) | Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert – https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/500-days-of-summer-2009