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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 ...
On June 16, 2017, Doll Skin released their full-length debut album Manic Pixie Dream Girl. It debuted on the Billboard Heat-seeker chart at No. 6 and moved up one spot to No. 5 in week two.
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.
When I say ‘I’m not like other girls’, I mean it. I’m referring to being autistic and ADHD, writes Charlotte Colombo Voices: ‘Manic pixie dream girl’: Why the trope isn’t just ...
The early 2000s will be remembered for many things: low-rise flared jeans, flip phones, and young people having a chance at becoming homeowners, to name a few. The Manic Pixie Dream Girl — a ...
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.
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.
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 ...