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Hot take: Edgar Wright missed the point of the comic so hard he miscast Michael Cera as Scott.
Haven't watched the new show yet hope it's more faithful to the source material
Thank fuck someone said it
There’s 2 parts
Part 1, no knock against Michael Cera, he’s a talented actor, but he kinda gets perpetually typecast into his role from Juno: awkward nerdy white guy wondering why life is happening to him
Part 2, Scott in the comic is, I can’t emphasize this enough, an asshole. He appears to be a Michael Cera character wondering why life is happening to him- except that he’s actually fully self-aware, and he’s just lying to himself and putting on the dopey act just so that he can get away with all his toxic bullshit. It’s only after he basically confronts himself on his own bullshit that he can move on with his life and relationships
Because the comic wasn’t done by the time the film started production, the movie basically misses out on most of the important parts of the ending and we were left with the cliff notes version.
Yep. The fact that the movie doesn't understand that Scott is the real bad guy (and needs to learn to be good) was it's biggest flaw.
I haven't read it, and this probably isn't what CriticalOtaku meant but someone elsewhere in the thread said Scott is supposedly the top fighter in Toronto. I take it Scott is confident, maybe even arrogant, based on the comments here.
I'm now imagining Michael Cera playing a douchey UFC champion bideo bamer.
Scotts also cool and popular in the comic. He really doesn't have any of Ceras awkwardness
More faithful to the comic it isn't, at least not in any literal sense, but if you want an arc that apologizes for the original casting of Michael Cera (despite itself still casting Michael Cera) this is probably the best you were ever going to get.
Making Michael Cera apologize for being Michael Cera is probably the most Michael Cera thing you could do to the poor bastard
It's faithful in the ways that matter (the characters and their arcs/motivation).
The fact that even with the massive plot differences everyone is actually exactly how they should be speaks to understanding the characters on a real level.