Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
六月 14, 2017
Firstly, the character that I would like to discuss is the main male character, Scott. He is caring about his girlfriend, and trying his best to get whatever he wants. There is one thing that I dislike about Scott Pilgrim. Besides how jerk Scott is, he ditches a Chinese girl, Knives that just begin their date, and find another girl that just appear in his dream who is Ramona. He actually a little bit changed his mind when he saw Ramona changes the hair colour from purple to blue. I am wondering he is falling with his dream girl or just his dream girl’s hair colour. What a weird.
The next character is the Chinese girl, Knives Chao. She is so lovely. Perhaps she is still young, everything in her eyes are so wonderful and amazing. She shows her love toward Scott in a very direct way. When Scott cheated on her, and ditched her, she did not do anything to hurt Scott. In the last scene, she actually cooperates with Scott to defeat Ramona’s evil ex-boyfriend, and let Scott goes to Ramona. I really think that she is really cute.

Second, my mood when watching the whole story. From the very beginning of the movie, the universal opening credit match with the video game sound. It shows the movie is about video gaming.
Next, it introduces the opening of the story. It used a typography that is san-serif. The typography is giving me a sense of gaming or something that are so sci-fi. It is not straight forward and serious, but a little bit of fun.
I also noticed that, the introduction for every character is according by name and age. Sometimes it added extra information, like rating and the nickname. The rating is like the level status of player in a game while the nickname is presenting the character personality. The typography is also san-serif, to make sure that the audience can read the information.

When the main characters are starting their band exercise, noticed that there are some special effects. For example, when the drummer is beating the drum, some illustration is coming out. This effect enhanced the visual effects; I slightly feel that the music rhythm is stronger.

Coming to the opening credits, they only using the illustration as background and add some typography. The background is interesting. They are so colourful, perhaps is telling about the brisk life of the characters – their love toward someone, their passion toward music… Those illustrations are including guitars, drums, skulls and some knives. Guitars and drums are relating to the main character – Scott – he is having his own band. The skulls and knives perhaps is telling there is some battle scene In the movie.
Starting the story, there is a lot of choppy scene, like from scene A jump to scene B, and chop to scene C. I think this is the interesting part of the film. Actually I am so confuse with the choppy scenes, like cannot catch up. But then, the jump out effect is still smooth, and it’s all connected logically.

From the scene above, they are introducing the stuff of owner. The tidy stuff is all belongs to Wallace, while the messy stuff is belongs to Scott. The scene can tell the different attitude and personality between Scott and Wallace. In my opinion, I think that Scott is an individual that cannot take care of himself because of the clothes on floor and stuff. From the lame poster, I feel that he is a person that unceremonious. He doesn’t really understand that what he wants and just according with what he wishes. For Wallace, his stuff is neat and complete. Even his coat is placing better than Scott. In my opinion, Wallace is an individual that requires the cleanliness. He might is a person that doesn’t give the council of others’ vision, a kind of “You are you, just do yourself.” I feel this from the way he talks.

There is one part of the scene from the movie I like the most, because that part literally made me get into the movie, which was when Scott battling with the second ex-boyfriend – Lucas Lee.
When they are battling, some CGI graphics which somehow looks like what you saw in a video game had exaggerated the action. Although it was already exist from the beginning of the film, but I like this part the most. When battle with the first ex-boyfriend, there is also the same effect came out, but at first I feel strange with that. The exaggeration for the battle scene I cannot get into it. Somehow, I feel it is anticipation for me to the next battle. So, when it comes to the second battle, I can follow the flow.


Lucas Lee is an actor, he also a skateboarder. Scott have to slay Lucas Lee, he asked Lee to perform a dangerous stunt. The shot is low angle shot, and the whole armrest cover with the snow. That low angle shows the danger, and the snow enhanced the sense of danger (it is slippery). When back to Lee’s shot, he actually hesitated. He is a proud man, he is confident of his skating skill. He saw there is a lot of reporter, he wanted show he will be the winner. He lifted his head and said “Somebody get my skateboard.” He did it. The scene is full of comic visual effect and strong background music. When back to Scott, it back to normal and without background music. The contrast show Lee is performing his best while Scott confirmed he will be the winner. Lastly, Scott won.
Link -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co8kbz2NM6M (start from 1.52)
Link -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co8kbz2NM6M (start from 1.52)
In conclusion, those battle scenes are quite nice with the video game effect but it repeated so many times, it makes me feel bored.
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