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
\nPJ: starting a new job, going to new york, etc
\nBRAIN: good point
\nBRAIN: maybe returning home is important thematically, since it occurs in so many of these
\nPJ: \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 so if both returning home and starting from scratch in someplace new are both played out\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\nPJ: is there a way to have the advantages of both without too much of the disadvantages of either\/both?
\nPJ: following family\/friends\/job to a new locale?
\nPJ: \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 god, that starts to get a little uncomfortably close to *my* life story
\nBRAIN: Then again,
\nBRAIN: I wouldn’t discount something because it’s played out
\nBRAIN: “safe” scripts sell
\nBRAIN: so played out might also mean “proven winner”<\/p>\n
PJ: Melissa’s suggestion >> the ‘hero’ is going to graceland! NIKK: Manic pixie lady is escaped from the psych ward?
\nBRAIN: elvis as patron? Like in True Romance<\/a>
\nMATT: Paul Simon on the soundtrack!
\nPJ: nice!
\nMATT: So nostalgic.
\nPJ: so does that mean the female lead will have diamonds on the soles of her shoes?<\/p>\n
\nPJ: that punctuates the ‘manic’ part
\nBRAIN: that was called Mad Love<\/a> with Drew Barrymore
\nNIKK: So\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 she played herself?<\/p>\n