I’ve been having kind of a rough week so I decided to turn to something that always makes me happy, 500 Days of Summer! I love this movie and I heart the two leads (Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zooey Deschanel) more than words can express.

How could you not heart these two?

This movie is great for reasons other than the actors. It’s a romantic comedy weaved into a coming of age tale told in a non-linear fashion, meaning that it jumps between the 500 days. So one scene you may be on day 12 and leap to day 233 and come right back to day 36. It’s a fantastic way to show a relationship which isn’t always perfect (cause really, which ones are?).

There is one particular scene that will turn this movie into a new generation classic. Here is how it was originally written in the script:

INT PARTY – NIGHT
Tom and Summer are in a LARGE CIRCLE OF PEOPLE at a party. TIME CUTS reveal that Summer is talking with, laughing with, drinking with, and possibly flirting with many of them. Tom notices, smiles, pretends it doesn’t mean anything, but he’s clearly jealous, not in a sexual way but of the attention they’re getting from her. It’s been a while. He misses that attention.
Now what the filmmakers chose to do was film this in split screen showing us Tom (JGL)’s expecations vs the reality. As you can see in the video below, the translation from the screenplay is amazing. The use of split screen to show what he is actually feeling versus what he wants to feel is a bold choice from the filmmakers and paid off.

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