This week I mainly focused on reading and watching Scott
Pilgrim. In the past Scott Pilgrim was an all time favorite comic that I used
to read. When the live action film came out I was so pleased with it. It’s
unfortunate how many films these days are being created from graphic novels and
comics. The only reason I think it is unfortunate is because how unimportant
comics are. Most people stay away from creating them or do them as side
projects, because of how time consuming they are and chances are the work won’t
be recognized. Especially in the indie comic world, being known is a really
hard thing to do. With all that being said, people still make comics and it’s
great, because the love for comics is still really relevant.
I chose to read Scott Pilgrim because my love for the punk
rock thrasher comics. I love when comics are over the top with everything they
are presenting, because it makes it more enjoyable. We take more away from it
then we would if it was written as a book or children’s book. Scott Pilgrim is
a great example of over the top; Scott falls in love with this American
delivery girl Ramona Flowers and must defeat her seven deadly exes in order to
date her. The comic itself does a great job at making it very punk and over the
top with visuals and dialog, but on the other hand the movie featuring Michael
Cera is OVER THE TOP.
Let me explain, the visuals created for this movie make it
play exactly how you would read a comic or play an old style video game. There
are several scenes where different little visuals will appear to explain a
situation or just glorify it. The best example is the scene where Scott kisses
Ramona for the first time, the screen turns pink and little hearts are all
around them. Even when Scott fights Ramona’s first ex boyfriend they are
fighting as if they were in a game of street fighter, ITS AMAZING. I hope more moviemakers
take something from this film, because the way they adapted a comic is genius
and makes the world of Scott Pilgrim even better.
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