(500) Days of Summer

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Movie
German title (500) Days of Summer
Original title (500) Days of Summer
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2009
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 6
Rod
Director Marc Webb
script Scott Neustadter ,
Michael H. Weber
production Mason Novick ,
Jessica Tuchinsky ,
Mark Waters ,
Steven J. Wolfe
music Mychael Danna ,
Rob Simonsen
camera Eric Steelberg
cut Alan Edward Bell
occupation

(500) Days of Summer is an independent romance film from 2009 . It was written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber . The protagonists Tom and Summer are played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel .

action

On January 8th, Tom Hansen meets Summer Finn, his boss's new assistant. Tom studied architecture, but works as a greeting card designer in Los Angeles .

After a company karaoke evening, Tom's work colleague McKenzie finds out that Tom is attracted to Summer. Summer and Tom get closer over the next few months. Summer initially tells him that she doesn't believe in "true love" and that she doesn't want a real boyfriend.

Tom shows Summer his favorite place in Los Angeles. It's a park bench that has a view of an array of buildings that he likes, even if they are surrounded by a few parking garages. A couple of weeks later, on a date, Tom becomes involved in a scuffle that was triggered by Summer. This triggers their first argument.

On Day 290, Tom and Summer break up with each other after watching the movie The Maturity Exam , a movie that means a lot to Tom. Tom is not coping well with the breakup, and his friend calls his younger sister Rachel to calm him down.

Summer quits her job at the greeting card company, and Tom's boss points out to him that while his depression he should rather design cards on sad occasions.

Months later, Summer and Tom are invited to a wedding. They meet on the train, start talking and later dance together. Summer even catches the thrown bridal bouquet. As they sit next to each other, Summer invites him to a party in their apartment. Tom hopes for a lot from this invitation, but is ignored by Summer. After seeing Summer show her engagement ring to a friend, he leaves the party.

Tom falls into a deep depression and only leaves his apartment to buy food and alcohol. After a few days he shows up at work drunk and quits. He resolves to go back to work as an architect and begins applying and interviewing.

On day 488, he meets Summer at his favorite place, the park bench, where they talk about their relationship. He wishes her marriage and life all the best. When he was invited for an interview in an architect's office twelve days later, he met a woman who was also waiting for the interview. Before he goes to the office, he asks her if she would like to have coffee with him afterwards. When he asks her name, she replies Autumn ('autumn').

The frequent jumps in the chronology of the relationship between Tom and Summer are introduced with short animations in which one sees a tree in its different annual vegetation phases and the number of the day on which the following action took place. The expulsion is symbolic of the beginning of the relationship or the emergence of Tom's first feelings for Summer; the leaf fall accordingly for the end.

Awards

Gordon-Levitt and Deschanel

Trivia

  • On day 34, the day after Tom and Summer first spent the night together, Tom looks into the window of a car the next morning and sees Harrison Ford in his mirror in his role as Han Solo.

Soundtrack

  1. A Story of Boy Meets Girl - Mychael Danna and Rob Simonsen
  2. Us - Regina Spektor
  3. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
  4. Bad Kids - Black Lips
  5. Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths
  6. There Goes the Fear - Doves
  7. You Make My Dreams - Hall & Oates
  8. Sweet Disposition - The Temper Trap
  9. Quelqu'un m'a dit - Carla Bruni
  10. Mushaboom - Feist
  11. Hero - Regina Spektor
  12. Bookends - Simon & Garfunkel
  13. Vagabond - Wolfmother
  14. She's Got You High - Mumm-Ra
  15. Here Comes Your Man - Meaghan Smith
  16. Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want - She & Him

Worth mentioning

The film had a budget of 7.5 million US dollars . The worldwide box office result was around 61 million US dollars.

criticism

"The film convinces with its good actors and the careful, imaginative staging, which cleverly uses the cinematic means from split screens to musicals, without them becoming an end in themselves."

- Lexicon of International Films

“One of the great achievements of the film, however, is that it knows how to keep the balance between drama and comedy without becoming superficial or adopting destructive-pessimistic attitudes. [...] Webb's leadership and the light, inconspicuous and harmonious interplay of different stylistic elements give the film an unpretentious charm that knows how to emotionally involve the audience. "

- Critic.de

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for (500) Days of Summer . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2009 (PDF; test number: 119 024 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for (500) Days of Summer . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Hollywood Film Festival & Hollywood Awards News ( Memento from August 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ (500) Days of Summer (2009) - Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 11, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Critique of (500) Days of Summer at critic.de, accessed on February 18, 2011.

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