{"id":48148,"date":"2023-11-20T04:20:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T04:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/?p=48148"},"modified":"2023-11-19T15:42:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T15:42:48","slug":"story-of-scott-pilgrim-takes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/story-of-scott-pilgrim-takes-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Anime, Trauma &#038; Regret: The Story of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_48152\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Scott_Pilgrim_Takes_Off_poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48152\" class=\"wp-image-48152 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Scott_Pilgrim_Takes_Off_poster-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX \u00a9 2023<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI feel like as I get older, regret just becomes part of the fabric of life, &#8221; claimed Bryan Lee O\u2019Malley in a 2014 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2014\/07\/interview-with-scott-pilgrim-writer-bryan-lee-omalley-about-his-new-graphic-novel-seconds.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">interview with Slate<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This statement helps form a picture of a man internally tunnelling through the caves of the past, analysing the curves and edges of the rock around him, pondering on how they could have been formed differently. In a way, the action we take in the present can at least project a different filter onto the past, providing a context that softens the sharp corners of those mistakes. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scott Pilgrim<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Takes Off<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a mission to achieve just that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regret is found in the fabric of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Takes Off<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through its subversions of its original story. We have mostly the same setup; Scott Pilgrim is a pretty shitty slacker guy in his early 20s who is dating a high schooler. The introduction of Ramona Flowers sees Scott fall head over heels before being forced to fight her seven evil exes to win her love. However, at the end of the first episode, Scott is removed from the spotlight entirely. The rest of the characters are left to analyse themselves and their choices in his absence, a representation of O\u2019Malley and his collaborators looking for something new in this almost 20-year-old story.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dLvRvqByxUI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt&#8217;s a complete story from my 20s and early 30s and we&#8217;re exhuming the corpse, bringing it back to life and finding new things to do with it,\u201d O\u2019Malley tells Skwigly. \u201cThe addition of BenDavid [Grabinski] and Science SARU sparked new things for me that I would never have thought of on my own. And the animated medium allowed us to focus more on action and this magical, weightless feeling that animation can give you. Balancing that with the emotions that anime is so good at gives it new life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Grabinski was fundamental to the writing process, Science SARU are responsible for injecting <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scott Pilgrim<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Takes Off<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with fiery, colourful kineticism. The show is endlessly stunning, reinventing itself visually as the characters find new versions of themselves within the story. Adapting O\u2019Malley\u2019s comic art was something the original creator wanted to leave to the animation team. As he puts it himself, \u201cWhen you hire Science SARU, you don\u2019t tell them how to do it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48149\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Scott_Pilgrim_Takes_Off_subspace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48149\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48149\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Scott_Pilgrim_Takes_Off_subspace-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX \u00a9 2023<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eunyoung Choi, president and CEO of Science SARU, was struck by the many shades of O\u2019Malley\u2019s comic, having only been familiar with Edgar Wright\u2019s 2010 live-action adaptation before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/tag\/netflix\/\">Netflix<\/a> contacted them about <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Takes Off<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cThe comic stood out with its eclectic mix of humour, a true manga essence, and a video game-like feel, all set against the backdrop of Toronto,\u201d Choi tells Skwigly. \u201cWe even visited Toronto to get a real feel of the place that inspired the comic.\u201d There\u2019s something ironic about a personal, specific story from a Canadian needing to travel across to Japan in order to find its home in the medium of animation, but Science SARU succeeded in making <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Takes Off<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> feel like a natural evolution of Scott Pilgrim.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Much of that success is thanks to series director Abel G\u00f3ngora, who was precise and detailed about translating 2D comic characters into animation. \u201cWe had long conversations with character designer Shuuhei Handa about the look of the characters,\u201d G\u00f3ngora explains. \u201cHe decided to carefully study the comics and adapted it for animation with his personal touch. The drawing style of Bryan evolves quite a lot in the comics, so I suggested to follow the last books, where the characters look maybe cleaner and closer to an animated look, but really it was Handa-san\u02bcs decision and taste at the end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs usual in these cases, we needed to find a more logical approach to the characters\u2019 volume and three-dimensionality. The nose turning from a profile to a 3\/4 view might have been the most challenging part, because it has a very 2D logic.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was Handa-san\u02bcs idea to have different hands for male and female characters and for the highlight in Ramona\u02bcs and Scott\u02bcs hair to be different from the rest of the characters, shaped like lightning. I think this is a little bit different from the comics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48153\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Scott_Pilgrim_Takes_Off_lightning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48153\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48153\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Scott_Pilgrim_Takes_Off_lightning-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX \u00a9 2023<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Much like O\u2019Malley and Grabinski\u2019s dissatisfaction with a simple retelling of the familiar Scott Pilgrim legend, Abel was keen to reinvent how the show looked and to push the studio\u2019s capabilities. We see action set pieces flow in and out of movies at a video rental, flashbacks with different aspect ratios and colour grading as well as an entire mockumentary episode changing the perspective of the camera.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But for G\u00f3ngora, the most difficult sequence to execute was an elaborate, skateboarding escape from the show\u2019s ninja-like paparazzi, \u201cFights in general require a lot of effort, but the skateboard sequences with Lucas [Lee] versus the paparazzi were very heavy because there were lots of characters and movements of those characters and backgrounds and effects like water and smoke. We mixed 3D and 2D to make it possible, something we had never done at this level before.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">O\u2019Malley was keen to stress the autonomy of Science SARU, \u201cI&#8217;m gonna have to keep explaining to people that I gave so few notes. I really didn&#8217;t tell them how to visualise it. What happened was we just wrote these scripts and I was very focused on that, on giving the characters life. Back in the day, when I was working on the comics, these characters felt very alive to me but for years they&#8217;ve been dormant. So my focus was on bringing back that feeling and bringing them back to life and having those themes tie into the tone of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt has to be from myself now. I can&#8217;t be myself 20 years ago, I don&#8217;t remember who that guy was. It naturally becomes this process of looking back at the old work, which represents my old self, and reconciling it with my current self and my current approach to work.\u201d Bringing these characters back as an older, different person meant refracting them through a more emotionally mature prism, altering the decisions they make and getting closer to a true representation of who these characters are.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48151\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Scott_Pilgrim_Takes_Off_characters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48151\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48151\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Scott_Pilgrim_Takes_Off_characters-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX \u00a9 2023<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Removing Scott from the plot lets those more true representations shine in ways O\u2019Malley wished they had in the original comics and in Edgar Wright\u2019s film. In particular, Gideon gets more of a backstory with his more pathetic core being revealed under his brittle billionaire surface, but in the comics\u2019 initial run, O\u2019Malley had barely thought about the character before arriving at the final volume.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI remember when we started the movie process, I met Jason Schwartzman. He asked to have lunch with me and talk about Gideon,\u201d O\u2019Malley recalls. \u201cGideon hadn&#8217;t even been in the books yet. I sat down with him and I realised I knew almost nothing about this character. I realised for the kinds of things that an actor would want to know about these characters, I had so little. That was a real eye opening. As a writer, it&#8217;s like, how do I get more inside these characters&#8217; heads even the ones that are villains or that feel peripheral to me? Or feel so opposite from my viewpoint? I still have to understand them and get inside them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Scott Pilgrim Takes Off | Final Trailer | Netflix\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WAlPGYYyhUw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Much of that process of getting under the skin of these characters was born from a balance of creative control and collaboration. \u201cWith Edgar Wright&#8217;s movie, I was a tourist in that world. I had no idea how movies were made. I participated, I helped where I could, I worked in the art department, I gave script notes, I helped with casting, I was involved. But at the same time, it was not my project. So [<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Takes Off<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">] got to be something that I was in charge of, which had never happened before, other than my solo project. I&#8217;d never been a boss before and I&#8217;d never been a collaborator with this many people at this level. The collaboration to me was the essence of it, and was the most beautiful thing about it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The agency felt by O\u2019Malley in creating the story is reflected by the enhanced role of Ramona in it. During the comics\u2019 initial run and even more so in the aftermath of the film, Ramona\u2019s character was saddled with the label of the archetypal \u201cManic Pixie Dream Girl,\u201d a character without an inner life, a pretty face existing only to give sage wisdom to a male main character. The way in which that male protagonist is removed from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Takes Off<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a very pointed subversion of what people know that character to be.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48150\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Scott_Pilgrim_Takes_Off_Ramona.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48150\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skwigly.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Scott_Pilgrim_Takes_Off_Ramona-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX \u00a9 2023<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt&#8217;s been around for a long time, people have formed lots of different opinions. I&#8217;ve seen completely polar opposite readings of what it all means so it was fun to play with that aspect as well, to corral the fan response and the legacy of the series into [<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Takes Off<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">] itself was very appealing to me,\u201d says O\u2019Malley. \u201cNot necessarily overtly commenting or responding to anything, but just to kind of poke at the characters and find new avenues to them or try the opposite of what a character was and see how that plays.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even if not intended as a direct response, that particular change makes <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scott Pilgrim Takes Off<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a more appealing story to a new generation of potential fans who are looking for more depth to their stories, who want something without well-trod tropes that can feel like relics of a past era of storytelling. Though <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Takes Off<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> remains a mid-2000s story, existing in, as O\u2019Malley describes it, \u201ca pocket dimension of Scott-Pilgrim-time,\u201d it tactfully removes the sharp-edged prejudices that were normalised at the time and appear in both O\u2019Malley\u2019s comics and Wright\u2019s film.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Scott Pilgrim Takes Off | Official Clip | Netflix\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/68OueL-Iv2o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe&#8217;re trying to make it speak to everyone from my age, on down to teenagers who have never necessarily seen it before. The goal was to create something layered enough that you could experience it completely cold and still get an entertaining story and the information is all layered in,\u201d states O\u2019Malley. \u201cBut also, if you&#8217;re familiar with the books and the movie, then it adds a whole different layer for you and those scenes really hit in a different way. If you&#8217;re deeply familiar, or if you&#8217;ve been reading it for a year or 10 or 20 years, it\u2019s in you at some point and hopefully this show can tap into that. That&#8217;s kind of been my dream.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Takes Off<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Scott Pilgrim story achieves wider appeal, not by sanitising itself but by ploughing deeper emotions for every character involved. Despite there being plenty to enjoy from the comics and film, if you didn\u2019t see yourself in Scott, there are few other characters with complete personalities for you to invest in. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scott Pilgrim Takes Off<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a display of an entire spectrum of emotions, lives and stories all bound together by the universality of anime, trauma and regret.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Scott Pilgrim Takes Off<\/i> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81153115\">available now on Netflix<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI feel like as I get older, regret just becomes part of the fabric of life, &#8221; claimed Bryan Lee O\u2019Malley in a 2014 interview with Slate. 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