![]() ![]() sorry to put it so plainly, but wright puts it exuberantly, in the vibrant tones and hyperbolic style of both comic books and video games. The humor in scott pilgrim feels so good because it is about something: the romantic pangs of adolescence as understood by scott (michael cera), a 22-year-old who plays in a toronto rec-room rock band and is beginning to discover that his desire for affection gives him inward and outward obligations-to the needs of others and to his own slowly-maturing self-respect. the difference is that tarantino's pop-referencing movies extract all social and political contexts, while edgar wright, who directed scott pilgrim and co-wrote its screenplay (based on graphic novels by bryan lee o'malley), is also a social satirist. the world, i realized: this elation must be what tarantino fans want to feel when watching one of his pop culture marathons. Midway through grinning at scott pilgrim vs.
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