John Green has written that his novel Paper Towns (the basis of the new film), “is devoted IN ITS ENTIRETY to destroying the lie of the manic pixie dream girl” (emphasis Green's). Manic Pixie Dream Girl, for those who are unfamiliar, is a term for a female character who “exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.” The writer who coined the phrase, Nathan Rabin, is "sorry" to have made it up in the first place, and wrote about a year ago that “calling a character a Manic Pixie Dream Girl is nearly as much of a cliché as the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope.” But there's another, bigger question to ask, one that represents the filmmakers’ biggest challenge: How do you make a movie that tries to kill the idea of a Manic Pixie Dream Girl while also featuring a character who is seen as one herself for most of the movie? That question is at the center of Paper Towns, which plays with the trope of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. And the question you’re not asking yourself is: Did that girl want to be gotten?” When you’re young, you think your problem is just that you’re just not bold enough - and if you had been, then you could have gotten that girl, or whatever. “There were plenty of girls I used to idolize. “I wasn’t all that cool in high school,” he told Refinery29. Warning: Minor spoilers for Paper Towns ahead!ĭirector Jake Schreier could “easily relate to” the protagonist of Paper Towns, Quentin Jacobsen.
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