Movie Analysis of Scott Pilgrim and When Harry Met Sally

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Elizabeth Heflin DFST 3313 – Spring 2015 Scott Pilgrim vs. The World When Harry Met Sally Movie 1: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Synopsis: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World follows Scott, an unassuming, 23 year old man child with the mental reasoning of a 15 year old. He’s in a band, dating a barely-legal high schooler, and mooching off anyone that will let him. He’s still recovering from a crushing break up with a long-term girlfriend who left him for someone with much more ambition. And then he meet Ramona. This mysterious “foreign” roller-blading delivery girl with pink hair and goggles, and decides nearly instantly that she’s his dream girl, with no other prior knowledge about her. Eventually, they start dating, and Scott learns that if he wants to stay with Ramona, he has to defeat (as in, murderously destroy) her “Seven Evil Exes”, pretty much all whom she cheated on or gruesomely dumped. The movie continues on to depict Scott’s battles with Ramona’s exes as she nonchalantly places nearly all past relational fails on previous partners, with small comments of “wanting to start over”. Eventually, Scott learns the power of self respect, starts placing his worth in his own ability, defeats the final “Ex”, along with a past version of himself, and more or less walks off into the sunset with Ramona. For this film, I will be analyzing the romantic relationships between Scott, Knives, and Ramona. Theoretical Analysis: Through the lens of attraction theory, I want to first analyze Scott’s communication and interaction patterns. Attraction theory discusses the ways in which we are attracted to others, and how most often there is a combination of physical, social, and task attraction between partners (Leventhal, 2015). Scott is an incredibly self-serving individual for nearly the whole movie, and while he slowly starts to grow out of that, I believe attraction theory

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