Dear Anna Kendrick, thank you for existing! Or, thank you for being the kinda awkward love interest in an indie dramedy who is neither manic or pixie.
I watched 50/50 a few days ago, and I adored it. Since the last film I saw with Joseph Gordon-Leavitt was 500 Days of Summer and he plays a character similarly out of touch with his own emotions, it was hard not to compare her to Zooey Deschanel, who has ascended to new levels of manic pixie nightmaredom on New Girl. I’m sympathetic to the idea behind 500 Days — the mistake of believing someone is the person we want them to be — but damn was that an aggressively quirky movie. It acted like someone trying way to hard to impress you with their taste in culture.
Anyways, it’s refreshing to see female characters who don’t need their awkwardness to be cloaked in quirk to be made palatable to males, age 18 to 24 and 25 to 40. To Anna Kendrick’s character and her awkward seal flap! Though it’s not that awkward in this photo than it was in the movie.
