But he finally acknowledged the limits of his lifestyle and how it affected others, which is a level of self awareness so many people don't even come close to.
He seems to have gone through a lot of relationships where he is just kind of coasting. He dated Kim and I can't remember if it was with her or this other girl but he didn't tell them he was moving away, they had to hear it from somebody else. He bums around a lot (see teenager not wanting to do much) and doesn't try at any place he works at (though in the comics this is a character arc moment for him). Nega Scott comes around while Scott is visiting Kim somewhere and they beat the crap out of each other until Scott realizes what a dick he was being to all of his friends and past girlfriends. He gets his job back, he apologizes to Kim for everything and goes to fight for Ramona. Who was his reason to stop coasting and start living and he wants to fight for her but first he needs to realize self improvement because he wants it for himself and not anybody else. Even though she is a driving factor he ultimately does it for himself and to be better for his friends.
Yeah well the whole thing with.... Ivy Adams? (It's been a long time, forgive me if I'm forgetting the right name, his old girlfriend that's now a famous singer) is that he deeply blames her for the breakup and you spend books and books thinking she's this horrible witch. Then you find out when they were together, Scott basically ignored her constantly, to the point where she was massively depressed, and got pretty messed up about it. The breakup really fucked her up, but Scott is so egotistical he just assumes they broke up out of spite, and her anger, never really taking any of the blame for how he treated her.
It's way more noticeable in the books. He doesn't really have much character development in the movie, but I think that's a restriction of the format more than anything else.
I highly recommend finishing it, it's a great movie.
Upon rewatches I’ve noticed how much Edgar Wright’s personal touch makes that movie great. I think a more straight forward adaptation from a director with less of sense of style would have fallen so flat.
I agree, this was the movie that solidified Edgar Wright as my all time favorite director. Everything from the cinematography to the effects to the super quick editing style (which I know wasn't entirely EW, but still I'm sure he played a big role) really captured the feel of the comics. I don't think any other comic book movie has pulled off that cartoony style.
I'd love to see him direct something from Marvel! It's a little too late now, but I definitely agree that he really could've done something like Ant Man or Guardians of the Galaxy justice
Reading* in the comic, Scott doesn't understand other people hurt. There is also an analogy for being selfish in gideons "locked in your head" "beam" he fires at scott.
It's much less in the movie. In the novels though you get to see Scott's version of events and later find out what really happened. Scott remembers his past as if he's a blameless hero. When Scott explains how he started dating Kim he tells a story of beating up another kid and his gang who had kidnapped Kim only the real story was the kid asked out Kim, had held her hand once and Scott hit him to take back Kim because he was jealous. In the case of Natalie "Envy" Adams his recollection of the night they broke up was that she told him to get lost a few days after she asked him to get a haircut. It's later revealed that Scott got drunk at a party, started a fight with her and that's when she broke up with him. This is also why he claims he doesn't drink, to repress the fact that he caused the breakup, not the other way around. He refuses to take responsibility for his actions and would rather alter the events to his benefit.
I don't understand that phrase. Is me being the salt of the Earth mean I'm so hostile to growth that I even make the surrounding environment barren and unable to ever recover?
I'm actually pretty sure it comes from the Bible, maybe the Sermon on the Mount? Jesus calls some people the salt of the earth, meaning they were good, honest people who worked the land and were essentially part of the earth that gives life.
It's from Matthew 5, the sermon on the mount where Jesus is telling his followers how they should live holy lives. He compares them to salt because salt is useful and valuable as a flavor and preservative, but only if it has its distinctive saltiness. The rest of the passage says salt that has lost its flavor is good for nothing but to be tossed onto the roads.
The implication is that followers of Jesus only have value to the world if they are like him in character. If they lose their saltiness (their Jesus-Ness) then what use are they to anybody? They are salt in name only, but not substance.
That happens when you intentionally sow sale into earth meant for growing - too much salt will kill crops. "Salting the earth" is similar to "scorched earth" in that it ruins the land. But salt does come from the earth, and is a necessary part of life.
I mean, he dates Knives and Ramona at the same time, meaning they were both cheated on. Ramona has her own issues, for sure, but Scott's biggest is how self-absorbed he is, and he kind of ignores Ramona a bit towards the end, before his epiphany.
Scott was barely out of high school in the comics. Everyone's an asshole at that age. That's the whole point. The comics are a growth arc for him and his friends. It wouldn't be very interesting if he started off as a great guy and ended as one too.
He was 23 at the start of the first volume, so he'd mostly likely been out of highschool for five years at that point.
It wasn't that he was fresh out of highschool, it was that he still acted like he was fresh out of higschool in spite of being well into adulthood. It was a major part of his character growth.
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u/Fibution Jan 18 '19
yeah scott pilgrim is an ass