Saw She & Him in Chicago, and I kept quizzing people to see if they can name three movies she's been in. Most knew "Elf" (seven years ago!) and many knew "500 Days," but few got a third. For the life of me I couldn't figure out why she was suddenly very famous*. Very weird.
*One person remembered she was in "Almost Famous!"
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 July 2010 13:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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― the food has a top snake of 1 (ulillillia), Monday, 5 July 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Her film roles often fall into the category of the “MPDG” (manic pixie dreamgirl), a cinematic trope defined by the Onion AV Club as “that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that 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 food has a top snake of 1 (ulillillia), Monday, 5 July 2010 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
that listicle was some real OTM stuff (ie, Bringing Up Baby) and a bunch of other movies they kind of wrote around when they couldn't find enough to fill a list (ie, Annie Hall)
― endless dougie (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
greenberg sends this whole phenomenon up imo
― j/k lol simmons (history mayne), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:18 (thirteen years ago) link
around "almost famous" + "all the real girls" era i found zooey deschanel really charming and an enjoyable actress, but after the third person told me that she's their 'celebrity crush' i've started to find her much more annoying. it seems kinda unfair, because it's not her fault, but an actress wonderful in small doses can quickly become really tedious on centerstage. she's cute, i guess, but i don't find her particularly compelling.
― Mordy, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
It's her eyes.
― Beach Pomade (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't know anything about her, haven't really seen any of her movies I don't think (except for Elf?), haven't heard her sing. I just thing she's purdy is all.
― lil' (Z S), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
also, she has a doppleganger who once kissed a girl + liked it.
― Mordy, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
i think there's something inherently annoying about her beauty, but she is undoubtedly beautiful.
― janice (surm), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
… haven't heard her sing.
Oh, except in Elf, I guess. That film was really a gamechanger for me
― lil' (Z S), Monday, 5 July 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I decided to be more pragmatic and have an interest in her sister, instead. I mean, she's no pixie but she has some acting chops, a major network tv series, and can sing.
― mh, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Love her sister!
― Mordy, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
her best role to date was in The Good Girl. I forgot she was even in Almost Famous. She needs to make a horror film or something.
― akm, Monday, 5 July 2010 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Wouldn't Hot Tub Time Machine qualify as a horror show?
― Aimless, Monday, 5 July 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
^That's Lizzy Caplan
― sofatruck, Monday, 5 July 2010 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Thank god!
― Aimless, Monday, 5 July 2010 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
― Mordy, Monday, July 5, 2010 4:24 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
ugh so not the same
― janice (surm), Monday, 5 July 2010 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Slideshow: Katy Perry & Zooey Deschanel - Twins?
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Monday, 5 July 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh
― the food has a top snake of 1 (ulillillia), Monday, 5 July 2010 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I kno, it's a heartbreaker to find out teh indie chick u love looks exactly like the popular girl u hate
― Mordy, Monday, 5 July 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
actually, she doesn't, even tho there is a strong resemblance. perry's face is all sorts of fucked with regard to proportion, it's like her eyes are 2 close together or her features are scrunched or something. not cute, and her style is even stupider
― janice (surm), Monday, 5 July 2010 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i dunno if zooey gets to be indie in a meaningful way after starring in 'the happening'
she is prettier than katy perry tho
― j/k lol simmons (history mayne), Monday, 5 July 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
some serious narcissism of small differences to say that Perry is substantively different in either looks or style from zooey
― Mordy, Monday, 5 July 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
bigger boobs
― a cross between lily allen and fetal alcohol syndrome (milo z), Monday, 5 July 2010 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Russell Brand v. the guy from that indie band
― Mordy, Monday, July 5, 2010 7:03 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
not really. zooey's fey and trendy shtick strikes me as quite different from perry's over-effort in the vein of bold fashion, and the proportion of perry's features is much more out of whack than zooey's.
― janice (surm), Monday, 5 July 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
and i don't even like zooey deschanel, just sayin!
― janice (surm), Monday, 5 July 2010 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
the true doppelganger:
http://thepittfamily.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/alexis-bledel-gg02.jpg
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 5 July 2010 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
how had I not noticed that our Zooey looks scarily similar to Sean Young in Blade Runner, when Sean Young in Blade Runner was my #1 girl when I was about 15 and Zooey is there or thereabouts now?
http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/1982_Blade_Runner/982BLR_Sean_Young_013.jpg
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 7 November 2010 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I prefer Selma Blair's face over Zooey'shttp://img219.imageshack.us/img219/6703/selmablairselmablair201.jpgI think it comes down to fox eyes vs. doe eyes
― Life! The Story of Life (CaptainLorax), Sunday, 7 November 2010 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Selma Blair is incredible looking. Zooey is alright.
― nate woolls, Sunday, 7 November 2010 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i watched tinman this week and zooey look like a muppet the whole time
― sleepingbag, Sunday, 7 November 2010 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Selma Blair looks like a young Kris Kardashian in that pic, ha.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 7 November 2010 02:12 (thirteen years ago) link
she looks like an old selma blair in most everything else tbh
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Sunday, 7 November 2010 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
ey take it to the Selma Blair thread you lot. Oh that's right, there isn't one becuz she's no Zooey.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 7 November 2010 02:17 (thirteen years ago) link
That's the worst photo of her I've ever seen.― milo z (mlp), Friday, September 15, 2006 12:03 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban PermalinkSRSLY, she looks like Margot Kidder or something there.― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, September 15, 2006 12:04 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark
SRSLY, she looks like Margot Kidder or something there.― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, September 15, 2006 12:04 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark
― quique da snique (bernard snowy), Sunday, 7 November 2010 02:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I must admit, the crush was so on after first seeing her as the counter girl in the Good Girl. Great role.
― the bhagavad geeta (rip van wanko), Sunday, 7 November 2010 03:12 (thirteen years ago) link
selma ftw
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 7 November 2010 06:06 (thirteen years ago) link
wkiw
I wouldn't drop acid w/ her tho b/c her eyes would probably go all 'Precious Moments' & that would be hard to deal with.
― so imagen what we can do with the rest of our brain...right buddy's?? (Pillbox), Sunday, 7 November 2010 06:24 (thirteen years ago) link
OTMFM
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Sunday, 7 November 2010 08:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Had forgotten about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kenF3_77774
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 21 February 2011 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Every time I see a picture of Ben Gibbard I am like, "how how how why why why" all over again.
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 21 February 2011 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Ben Gabbneb
― buzza, Monday, 21 February 2011 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
never saw that video. so young!
― Nhex, Monday, 21 February 2011 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Forgot how gross the Offpsring got after a while.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Monday, 21 February 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Sitcom in the fall on FOX:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMULuNE8Kyw
― jaymc, Thursday, 19 May 2011 14:17 (thirteen years ago) link
(Looks terrible, but whatever.)
Zooey, Get: One New Agent.
― Handjobs for a sport (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 19 May 2011 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
It took me so far into that promo to realize that they're really selling a sitcom about a girl who is so awkward and ridiculous that she repulses men and is coached by a group of male friends. It's worked with the gender roles the other way around for years, but I have no idea why they think this is a good idea.
― mh, Thursday, 19 May 2011 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link