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A Manic Pixie Dream Girl ( MPDG) is a stock character type in fiction, usually depicted as a young woman with eccentric personality quirks who serves as the romantic interest for a male protagonist. The term was coined by film critic Nathan Rabin after observing Kirsten Dunst 's character in Elizabethtown (2005). Rabin criticized the type as one-dimensional, existing only to provide emotional ...
When I say ‘I’m not like other girls’, I mean it. I’m referring to being autistic and ADHD, writes Charlotte Colombo
She rejects the description of Ruby Sparks as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl, calling it reductive and diminutive, whereas Ruby Sparks is about the danger of idealizing a person, of reducing a person down to an idea of a person.
In his review, Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club created the term "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" to describe the "bubbly, shallow cinematic creature" stock character type that he stated Dunst plays in the film.
The Manic […] The Manic Pixie Dream Girl — a brief and unfortunately dominant film trend depicting a certain kind of totally unrealistic woman — is right alongside them.
In the 2000s, love interests were usually free-spirited and had colorful hair. Manic Pixie Dream Girls have evolved into Manic Pixie Mean Girls - here's why.
As we're privy to Sally's unspoken thoughts here". [6] What's On in Cape Town described Sally Bowles as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl, writing "Her iconic solo, 'Maybe This Time', can be considered the MPDG theme song." [7] Bowles "believ [es] she may be in love for the first time". [8]
Zooey Deschanel rejects being labeled a manic pixie dream girl. The term, now a dated female stereotype in film and TV, became a staple in the mid-to-late 2000s to describe quirky female ...