12/28/2023 0 Comments Manic muse salonLet’s call her the Manic Bossy Nightmare Girl. No wonder Louie keeps stumbling on the Manic Pixie Dream Girl’s polar opposite. Her dewy skin, her irrepressible joy at being alive, her giant doll eyeballs that are not the least bit bothered by that thick fringe of bangs stabbing them repeatedly, have an uncanny ability to incite homicidal urges in four out of five regular, plodding, non-pixie-like mortals. Whether she takes the form of Natalie Portman in “Garden State,” Kirsten Dunst in “Elizabethtown” or Zooey Deschanel in pretty much anything, she is an admonition to “Lighten up!” (and “Carpe diem!” and “OMG look at the stars!”) in human form. This plucky, delightful muse was first introduced by Nathan Rabin at the AV Club as a love interest 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.” But the MPDG has always had a special talent for generating contempt. They’re filled with loud garbagemen and spoiled children and chubby dudes who pointlessly consume two meals in one sitting.Īnd without a doubt, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl’s time has come. The woods are not filled with dream girls and fairies and magical unicorns. is concerned, it is definitely not all good. Who else but our reigning skeptic, destroyer of widely held delusions, and enemy of the smug “it’s all good” carelessness of American culture, to blow this bit of male wishful thinking out of the water? As far as C.K. If anyone was going to kill the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, it had to be Louis C.K.
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