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Just Venting: Hipsters.
We're in a society so fucked up that the happy go-lucky person who starts conversations with strangers is actually refreshing. The person who gets involved in society is actually different. Maybe in mainstream media this personality would be portrayed as the bitchy popular type and nobody wants to be perceived as that. But to go the polar opposite and adopt a Juno-esque personality doesn't make you 'different'. Sorry to break it to you.
It just bothers me when I walk past a large Starbucks window and see the many late teens-mid twenties hipsters with their chai latte and laptops venting out their frustration about mainstream society with the belief that they themselves are different from that. If only they could look up and take in the environment around them they would notice that what they're doing makes them a part of mainstream society. I just want to grab them and yell "YOU'RE JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE! WITH YOUR AMERICAN APPAREL HOODIE THAT HAS THE WHITE ZIPPER AND YOUR IPOD FILLED WITH 'OBSCURE' INDIE BANDS WITH THE SAME FUCKIN' SOUND AS EVERY OTHER 'OSBCURE' INDIE BAND."
Hispters sit there all smug with this 'I-don't-give-a-fuck' attitude when in all honesty they do give a fuck. They want to give off this notion that they are these broody, creative types as they sit there with their too small band tees and slightly groomed 5 o'clock shadow. They go deep into the shallow depths of their creativity to pull out some emo-ladened saying, each word dripping with cries of pity-me to update their Facebook status with. Oh yes, they want to advertise just how wayward thinking they are to all their friends. It's their big 'fuck-you' to a society that's not even listening anymore. Like a parent who has gotten so used to their attention seeking toddler that they just block out the annoyance and wait for them to grow up.
I mean, had they've done this 10 years ago then yeah they may have been different but no they decided to adopt this behaviour when it has become socially acceptable and therefore OK to deviate from the norm. It's mainstream. If you had gotten that nautical star tattoo on your wrist/neck/hipbone in the 80's then yes m'dear you would have been unique. Now it's just another initiation into hipster acceptance along with the spacers and the thick rimmed black eye glasses. It's just so ridiculously absurd as each girl strives to be the next Juno, Norah or Summer and every guy practically lives to become Michael Cera or the kid with the faux hawk (because he's not different enough to get an actually mohawk), wayfarer Ray Bans, dark skinny jeans and ridiculously large, non prescription, lensless glasses frames.
So to all you hipsters: You are not different. You are not unique. You are like every other person who tries to digress by adopting the ways of everyone else who strives to be the person you are trying to become. Don't get me wrong, there definitely are people out there who are genuinely creative but when you sit there and take somebody's thoughts and re-word them using thesaurus.com so you can sound deep and intelligent you are perpetuating the notion that you are not creative. Your actions are cancelling out the very person you aspire to portray. You're just perceived as a try hard. Sorry.
i’m obsessed with them 🙏😗
Edward geeking out about bella having a vague knowledge of classical music (which was basically recognizing Clair de lune, which is one of the most popular compositions ever) has the same energy as tom from 500 days of summer nearly losing his marbles over summer listening to the smiths
Summer Flynn is an Aromantic Queen!
Doesn't want a relationship
Has had relationships in the past but never "fell in love"
Doesn't believe in Falling in Love™
Doesn't believe in True Love™
Just wants to focus on herself and her own issues
But most (unfortunately) relatable:
Gets her choices second guessed and made fun of
Treated like a bad person for not wanting a relationship and not falling for the Nice Guy™ protagonist
Manic Pixie Dream Girl? More like Strong, Independent, Aromantic Woman!
Excerpt from (500) Days of Summer.
The anti-romantic angle throughout the plot gives it that ironic edge... but this scene has such a sweet tone. I know the inertia of its irony comes from denying that you believe in love. Only a “hopeless romantic” could write this, and that’s what makes the movie so super endearing.
Astro profiles for Movies
--(500) Days of Summer-- debuted on the 7th month which is CANCER season. I interpret this as the ASCENDANT, setting the placements of the characters which are interpreted as PLANETS. The characters move through the story like Planets move through a chart. The lessons portrayed in the story are rooted in an overall theme, which reflects to me a natal placement rooted in a chart. For example:
The theme of (500) Days of Summer revolves around; unrequited love, dealing with romanticism and unclear boundaries. This reflects to me themes of the MOON. So while each character experiences the lessons of this theme, they express it in different ways... The characters revolve around the theme/natal MOON, while they express/transit in the story/chart. So the lesson they learn, expresses to me as the natal SUN placement.
TOM believes that he will be happy if he finds his soulmate = MOON in the 7th house. He is learning to define what love feels like = SUN in the 2nd house. SUMMER believes in undefined/casual intimacy = MOON in the 5th house. She is learning to be aware of her desires = SUN in the 6th house.
This is something of a soft launch of my own original concept...
An excerpt from 500 DAYS OF SUMMER (2009) Screenplay
This movie is very playful with the graphic effects. Of course it ties into Tom’s imagination and point of view, but the descriptions here on the page are so characteristic of the narrator. I love a screenplay that reads more than an operation.
Excerpt from 500 DAYS OF SUMMER (2009) Screenplay
I laughed so hard at this bit here. In this short scene, we’re shown how Tom’s emotions about Summer are affecting his work-- but we’re just as quickly defused from thinking that it will be an issue. Summer is his co-worker, but their conflict is not implicit in their relationship as co-workers. That movie would be way more dramatic.
The (500) Days of Summer attitude of “He wants you so bad” seems attractive to some women and men, especially younger ones, but I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is. He develops a mildly delusional obsession over a girl onto whom he projects all these fantasies. He thinks she’ll give his life meaning because he doesn’t care about much else going on in his life. A lot of boys and girls think their lives will have meaning if they find a partner who wants nothing else in life but them. That’s not healthy. That’s falling in love with the idea of a person, not the actual person.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (via pratfall)
I'm summer finn.
my toxic trait is " I can give pages of logical arguments on why Summer Finn did the right thing".
summer only becomes more understandable as years go by. maturing is realizing she didn’t do anything with the intention to hurt him.
i was your Tom and you were my Summer, but it's been two years and the Autumn still haven't come.