"Scott Pilgrim Against Everyone" - the next film adaptation of the comic. However, no, the epithet "next" does not fit this film at all. It cannot be called ordinary even with a stretch. This is one of those works that is free from all sorts of cliches and stereotyped templates. "Scott Pilgrim Against Everyone", whose actors worked hard, is worthy of viewing and discussion. But who are they, those who presented the bold, albeit a little clumsy Scott, the bright, unforgettable Ramona, the insidious Gideon and other, no less important and memorable characters?
Scott Pilgrim - Michael Cera
Michael Cerah honorably opens the cast of Scott Pilgrim Against Everyone. Actors were selected with particular care. It was Michael who played the main character of the comic book action movie.
The character of Sulfur is a kind of semi-idiot. He is twenty-two, but in appearance it is difficult to give more than eighteen. And Scott behaves accordingly, at the very beginning of the film even meets with a schoolgirl, grieving for the former, who made her way to the big stage. And yes, Pilgrim with his friends plays in a rock band whose name is Sex Bo-Bombs. Scott lives with his gay friend Wallace and even sleeps with him in the same bed (there is nowhere else, in fact).
All these facts should have exposed Pilgrim not at all as a guy whom girls fall for, but Serea needs to be given credit: there is either charm in him, or charisma, which he conveyed to his character too. Otherwise, how to explain that the girl of his dreams nevertheless paid attention to him?
Ramona Flowers - Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Mary Elizabeth Winstead and embodied on the screens the beauty Ramona Flowers - Scott's dream girl. She literally breaks into his life (or rather, rides on rollers), and not only into her, but also into his dreams, which in a strange way correlate with the real world.
The main feature of the film is connected with Ramona, because in order to get it, the Pilgrim must first defeat her seven evil exes in the battles! Well, who said it would be easy?
Mary Elizabeth Winstead with her purple, blue and green hair (depending on the moment at which the film is included) plays the character Ramona in the film "Scott Pilgrim Against Everyone", the actors and roles of which will be discussed below.
Wallace Wells - Kieran Culkin
The non-traditional neighbor Scott, who is not too involved in the main plot of the film, was so good at Kieran Kalkin that it is difficult to forget him when listing the actors of the film we are considering. The actors of the film "Scott Pilgrim Against Everyone" generally did a great job. Each of them got used to the image and endowed his character with unique features that together create a unique atmosphere of the film.
Nintendo, rock and roll and problems on the love front
Speaking about the atmosphere, you need to stop and focus on this. At first, "Scott Pilgrim ..." seems ordinary. Only the screensaver in the style of old video games is alarming. The viewer writes off everything to the director’s whim. But when Scott begins a fight with the first evil ex (Matthew Patel performed by Sathya Baba), the realization comes that this is something completely different, and the cinema has no analogues. For each hit, Pilgrim points are awarded. He has several lives, and the defeated Patel crumbles into coins. It seems like magic realism, only a very special interpretation of the genre.
Gideon Gordon Graves - Jason Schwartzman
The seven evil exes of Ramona make up the League of Evil Exes. And it is headed by Gideon, a concurrently successful producer, whose contract they dream of getting all new rock bands, including Sex Bo-Bombs. Jason Schwartzman, sleek and glossy, in the role of a negative character causes hatred and irritation, which means that he coped with his task perfectly.
League of Evil Former
The other actors and the roles of the film "Scott Pilgrim Against Everyone", members of the League of Evil Exes, are:
- the already mentioned Matthew Patel;
- Seth and Keita Saito, who embodied the Katayanagi twins on the screens;
- Lucas Lee, based on the Wallace sexual dream, a former skateboarder and famous actor played by Chris Evans;
- Todd Ingram, Scott's rival on both the love front (the ex-girlfriend of the Pilgrim left for him) and the worker (Todd is the bass player of a successful rock band), who has remarkable strength due to his veganism; the performer of the role of Ingram is Brandon Routh.
- May Whitman, in turn, played the "experiment" of Ramona - the evil former Roxy Richter.
"Scott Pilgrim Against Everyone": cast (actors), director
It is worth noting the high professionalism of everyone involved in the creation of the film. After all, “Scott Pilgrim Against Everyone”, the actors and the director of which gave the world a wonderful movie production, looks easy, it is funny and unusual, simple and to some degree frivolous, but careful preparation is hidden behind it. The fights were beautifully set, and the director Edgar Wright demanded that the actors perform the tricks to the maximum themselves. Computer graphics in the film look very organic, the style and atmosphere are well-maintained, dialogues are thought out, the plot develops linearly.
Reviews and reviews
To find a negative review of the film "Scott Pilgrim Against Everyone", you probably need to try very hard. The film is praised in all respects. They wonder how he failed at the box office when his target audience is youth.
However, there are those who do not like “Scott Pilgrim ...” to their liking: they blame the cinema for the lack of dynamics, uniformity and even predictability. However, it is interesting that even they celebrate the game of Mary Elizabeth Winstead in the role of the mysterious color Ramona.
It is important to note other girls from the film, for example, Nives Chow (a schoolgirl, Scott's girl), who is trying hard to please him. Her role was played by Elleng Wong. She did a good job with her.
Alison Pill (Kim Pine) ideally fit into the role of a somewhat pessimistic rude drummer, which only confirms the talent of the actress, because photos from Alison's life produce a completely different impression.
And let “Scott Pilgrim ...” didn’t pay off on the cinema screens (“The Expendables”, which appeared at the same time, simply didn’t leave him a chance), he seems not to be forgotten. In the circle of comic book fans, the film is slowly but surely moving towards becoming a cult, because it is one of a kind.