MPDG and Elvis

PJ: and I’m blanking on specific examples, but I feel like the, “leaving everything behind and going someplace new” has been used a lot
PJ: starting a new job, going to new york, etc
BRAIN: good point
BRAIN: maybe returning home is important thematically, since it occurs in so many of these
PJ: … so if both returning home and starting from scratch in someplace new are both played out…
PJ: is there a way to have the advantages of both without too much of the disadvantages of either/both?
PJ: following family/friends/job to a new locale?
PJ: … god, that starts to get a little uncomfortably close to *my* life story
BRAIN: Then again,
BRAIN: I wouldn’t discount something because it’s played out
BRAIN: “safe” scripts sell
BRAIN: so played out might also mean “proven winner”

PJ: Melissa’s suggestion >> the ‘hero’ is going to graceland!
BRAIN: elvis as patron? Like in True Romance
MATT: Paul Simon on the soundtrack!
PJ: nice!
MATT: So nostalgic.
PJ: so does that mean the female lead will have diamonds on the soles of her shoes?

NIKK: Manic pixie lady is escaped from the psych ward?
PJ: that punctuates the ‘manic’ part
BRAIN: that was called Mad Love with Drew Barrymore
NIKK: So… she played herself?

BRAIN: she is especially annoying in that one
BRAIN: she’s doing that creaky-voice thing the entire movie
MATT: Who would win in a fight between Drew Barrymore and Melissa Joan Hart (or whatever her name was, the girl who played Clarissa and explained it all)?
BRAIN: Drew Barrymore, because I’m sure she has fight experience from her childhood years scrapping for cocaine

PJ: so… going to graceland because he’s an elvis nerd, or does he believe that his grandmother was an elvis groupie and he’s actually an illegitimate descendant?
PJ: or main character is hipster and going to graceland ironically
MATT: I’m kind of getting into irony ironically.

BRAIN: maybe he’s on irony burnout, and he’s on a misguided search for “the real america”
NIKK: Oooooooh.
PJ: I like that
PJ: if he’s roadtripping there, you get all sorts of opportunities for teaparty-encounter-hilariousness

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