Zooey Deschanel has long been something of an emo-dork wet dream for more than just her striking features, lilting voice and commanding screen presence. Since her 2003 breakthrough All the Real Girls, she has emerged as one of cinema's preeminent man-child foils -- an idealized romantic counterpoint to a roster of young, mopey, quirky, vulnerable men whose paths to self-actualization travel directly through her (and, usually, her character's vagina). This week's (500) Days of Summer is only slightly different, featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a slight twist on the boy-meets-Zooey folklore. Considering how difficult it can often be to parse this phenomenon -- with its emotionally stunted love interests, sidekicks, family and other variables of masculine inertia -- Movieline offers the following aid to help learn how we got here and determine where we (and Miss Deschanel) might be headed next: |
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