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500 Days Of Summer Analysis
500 days of summer, a romantic comedy, written by Scott Neustadter and Michael h weber, puts us in the life of a man named Tom Hansen in his mid-twenties, who meets a girl named summer Finn, who he believes is the love of his life. during their time together she gets him out of his comfort zone and gives him a different perspective on life. Summer becomes close with Tom, but in the process takes him on a roller coaster of emotions, and makes him question everything he thought about love, life, and the true meaning of happiness.

While reading the screenplay, I'd have to say I really enjoyed the way the writer gave life to the characters. Within the first ten pages, I was intrigued to learn more about tom and his situation. Why was he breaking things in an unresponsive manner? Why would his
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tom not getting his way becomes a little frustrating at some points and how tom is chasing this dream relationship that he never truly gets "It tilts the story from order to chaos, from complacency to combat. It's the point of no return". one of the best examples would be my actually be my favorite part of the screenplay is when tom is invited to a party thrown by summer. which he believes is an opportunity to win back summer. you get the chance to see his expectations of how he plans the night to turn out in his mind. but ultimately is surprised when he sees summer wearing an engagement ring. it was written creatively with a split screen showing "reality tom on the left and expectation tom on the right. although most websites such as screenwriting .info suggest using an intercut instead of a split screen because split screens are not common in today's world of script writing(screenwriting.info). even though it wasn't a direct conversation between summer and tom it was still revamped in a creative way to get inside the mind of tom during that

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