{"id":22043,"date":"2016-07-01T13:05:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T20:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/?p=22043"},"modified":"2016-06-30T08:28:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T15:28:10","slug":"500-days-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2016\/07\/01\/500-days-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Film Inside 500 Days of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"500<\/a>I’ve never seen the film 500 Days of Summer<\/a><\/em>. And I’m not inclined to. It is directed by Marc Webb, who directed the 2012 version of The Amazing Spider-Man<\/a><\/em>, which I wrote about at the time, The Not So Amazing Spider-Man Writers<\/a>. As you can tell from the title, my problem was with the writers, not the director. But the director is generally the guy who says, “Yes, this screenplay is ready; let’s shoot!” And look: if the guy were an artist, would he be directing such dreck?<\/p>\n

But the other day, I came upon this one sequence in the film that is shot in split screen. It is “Expectations vs Reality.” The principle character is coming to the birthday party of his ex-lover. He imagines that they are going to get back together. So on the left side of the screen, we see his expectations for the party, and on the right, we see the reality. In general, I’m not a fan of the split screen. In fact, I even wrote<\/a> that I did not see a narrative reason to ever use it. Well, I think I was wrong. This is just marvelous:<\/p>\n