- 214 days ago by Natalie Zutter
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With Lena Dunham co-writing, it’s no surprise that Nobody Walks attacks the trope of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl (here, a compelling Olivia Thirlby) thoughtfully. More
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- 398 days ago by Molly Horan
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If you’ve ever wondered what will happen to New Girl’s Jess when she sings her feelings one time too many or to Garden State’s Sam when she dances uniquely instead of picking up the kids here’s your answer: they’ll be shipped off to the State Home for Manic Pixie Dream Girls. More
- 457 days ago by Natalie Zutter
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Poor “Kevin” had a one-night-stand with a girl who can’t take a hint. Watch their iPhone conversation go from desperate to crazy texts to utterly sad. More
- 596 days ago by Natalie Zutter
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It turns out that despite her character in Cameron Crowe‘s Elizabethtown being the direct inspiration for the movie character of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, Kirsten Dunst has absolutely no idea what a MPDG is. More
- 814 days ago by Liana Maeby
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Zooey Deschanel covers the new issue of Lucky Magazine, where she grins in a whimsically patterned frilly dress. In her interview, she discusses sunglasses, dressing up in Renaissance garb, and her love of heart-shaped hair pins. She also talks about her hatred of being called “quirky.”
“It’s an annoying word. ‘Quirky’ is like a nice way of saying weird.”
First of all, Zooey Deschanel complaining about being called quirky is like Zooey biting the hand that feeds her, using the blood she draws as lipstick, then grinning coyly to reign in the next hand that comes her way. (What? We’re quirky too!) This is because Zooey isn’t just another quirky actress — rather she defines the very term. More
- 869 days ago by Drew Grant
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After yesterday’s controversy surround our Manic Pixie Dream Girl fiction, we started to wonder: what exactly would a real-life MPDG look like? Would they be fun and empathetic, or mentally unstable? Or, most likely, all three? To find real-world examples of the manic pixie archetype, we turned our eyes to another group of two-dimensional people with paper-thin personalities: celebrities. More
- 870 days ago by Meghan Keane
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A funny thing happened today. Sarah Palin retweeted us. She picked up a tweet from our friend Mark Hemingway, who liked Drew’s awesome post about a day in the life of the manic pixie dream girl. Awesome! But then, twenty minutes later, she deleted it. What happened Sarah? Did we say something wrong? More
- 871 days ago by Drew Grant
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You guys know about the Manic Pixie Dream Girl phenomenon, right? Think Zooey Deschanel in 500 Days of Summer or Natalie Portman in Garden State (minus the epilepsy). Without much personality detail or access to their internal monologues, these characters usually work as ciphers that the protagonist can project his emotional baggage onto. But what happens to the manic pixie girl when you’re not around to play with her?
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