Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is admittedly an older film from 2010 that can honestly never get old to me. Some of you may have seen this film before, for those who haven't, I am happy to provide a brief overview of the story. (SPOILER ALERT!) The protagonist in the story, Scott Pilgrim, is a teenager who met the love of his life named Ramona Flower. However, in order to keep their love, Scott must defeat Ramona's seven deadly ex boyfriends. Throughout the story, the exes became deadlier and deadlier, but using his tremendous love for Ramona and his crazy ass kicking skills he is able to defeat all of his opponents. The reason I find this film so interesting is due to it's use of animations to express specific emotions tones and motifs. The film used many animations in order to exaggerate emotions, making the film closer to the story telling of a comic book or video game.
From action packed fight scenes, to its cheesy comical remarks, the director of this film, Edgar Wright, did not mind veering away from the stereotypical story line of a teen love story.
Edgar Wright purposely strayed away from the orthodox love story path, which made his movie authentic. Usually in a love story, there are two teens that are naturally kind, well spoken or confident, and generally suave. Which is the way teens wish their love was. However, Mr. Wright strayed from this by putting two socially awkward teens together and including all the authentic elements of falling in love, like the awkward silences during the first impression.
Mr. Wright used these little awkward details, because those are the flaws that made Scott and Ramona's relationship more realistic. Teens wish for a picture perfect first impression and relationship, but in truth there is always a certain awkwardness that goes into the experience. Like I mentioned before, many animations were included in this film, but they were not only utilized in the fight scenes, but it was used to express other emotions like:
Love
&
Confusion
The use of these animations give the audience a visual reference that is easier to relate to so they can get a better idea of the character's feelings or ideas. Mr. Wright seems to understand how extreme teenagers emotions may range. So in order to properly express the intensity of the emotion, he made the characters emotions which are intangible into tangible visuals in the film. For these reasons, I truly believe that this film is a great teen film overall.
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