Scott Pilgrim Movie and Comic Comparison 

Just Scott casually accepting the fact that he's a sorta shitty person at times

Look guys I'm just taking a quote from the comics...

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@@gob9658 You can still be an asshole, and be the nicest guy she ever dated. People who are nice don’t need to tell people about how nice they are.

"YOUR MA-"

Really? That's a funny thing to add after killing an ex.

Tf? Does this applies to Gideon too ? XD

@@lean4470 i believe so

That's what happens huh , pretty neat.

@@lean4470 yeah it was stated that nobody in the series dies

@@gob9658 you’re in nearly every comment being a smartass shut up

@@raspberry4367 he's not wrong tho

looks like the baby from ice age

JHJKHKJHKJHSJ SAME

ME

Kieran Culkin man, kills it

@@CazuhLynn Agreed. Kieran Culkin was amazing. He brought a distinct personality/humor to the screen character in a way that felt completely natural AND he didn't use any stereotypical "gay" affectations for laughs (a common practice at the time... and while still used today it's _nothing_ like before...). I didn't expect Wallace would become my favorite character, but... yeah. Wallace is awesome.

I agree but i think he had a more sarcastic tone in the bookk

Imho, michel cera is the only one who does not fit with his character.

@@-Felipe- ya michael cera was p weird in the movie but if you watch the adult swim animation where he voices scott it fits so well

YES

Kingsley from Fresh Meat

Yes, and that is totally a one-way single gender thing. Lol

Mark zuckerberg

Eh, I dunno. The awkwardness was played up too much, compared to how Scott was more willing to bite the bullet in the graphic novels.

I think that was the joke

1000 points of experience

It's like they did books 1 and 2 for the first two-thirds of the movie, then tried to squeeze the remaining 4 into the last third of the movie.

There was heavy absence for most of volume 4-6, like Scott getting a job, or Ramona disappearing, and Envy coming back with Gideon at the end of the series.

Channel name because they weren’t made yet

It really wasn’t. Don’t get me wrong it’s not a bad movie but to call it one of the best is a huge overstatement. A lot of backstory towards characters like Kim, Stills, Natalie(Envy), Knives and even the growth of characters like Scott and Ramona is ruined in this movie. Which isn’t the movies fault to an extent, they had to squeeze as much. They had to sacrifice a lot of character development, Scott doesn’t really grow in the movie. Comic Scott, gets a job, has a chance to cheat with Lisa but backs out, has closure with his previous 3 exes, spends months apart from Ramona in volume 6. Fights Gideon the first time without Ramona being there. He also confronts Nega Scott to finally accept his past mistakes and baggage. Ramona remains the quiet, stoic sarcastic girl she starts off as in book 1 in the movie. Comic Ramona, opens up to Scott and his friends, shows a insecure side of her with Lisa, gives a reason as to why her hair color changes and why she’s constantly changing her look. The treatment she inflicted on most of her exes (besides kinda Todd and Gideon) being put to light, showing her hypocritical side when the Twins call her out towards Scott of cheating and being no better than the evil exes. I like the movie but it’s far from perfect, if it gets made into a animated mini series then they’d be able to include everything the movie left out.

Joshua Foley yes, it’s not as good as the comics. The fact that everyone knows the movie and skips out on the comics is disappointing. Especially since Scott and Ramona barely grow as people in the movie. Characters like Stills, Wallace and Kim barely have roles. Wallace being Scott’s pep talk instead of Scott confronting Nega Scott.

I think an animated series would be better tbh, the movie is amazing but they had to cram the plot into it in a way that cut out like half of said plot. If they did another adaptation I'd prefer if they didn't fall into the same hole a 2nd time

@@gob9658 probably the same exact art style as the comic books just like the ex boyfriend flashbacks but with colors.

@@yournintendofeed6243 Not to mention the books weren't finished yet.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BitByGeWGxU.html I like to think it would look like this

@@Adrian-gp7me just like Scott Pilgrim Vs. The Animation.

_well_

I Mean He Just Fucking Murdered a guy but what he got from that was that there were coins I mean nice

idk why this made me laugh so much

... it’s not even enough for bus fare...

Transience I actually would say that it's not so slight. He's also a way bigger asshole in the comics.

Airstew Makes him better, he is more realistic and interesting.

Yeah, film Scott kinda gets characterized very similarly to the general Michael Cera, awkward young adult typecast.

too normal. In the movie, he was a bit awkward and nerdy weird. > more relatable and interersting

That's because he's played by Michael Cera in the movie. Any character played by him immediately becomes like 3 times more awkward. Michael Cera plays Michael Cera, not Scott Pilgrim, which sucks since Scott is such a relatable and interesting character - I read the first book and literally said to myself "this guy is basically me, but more successful with women."

Its the perfect allegory for life it doesnt matter the order it just matters if it happens

That's why I love the film so much, even though it's quite different from the comics, they manage to fit the _essence_ of Scott Pilgrim into 2 hours. I think it turned out way better than trying to squeeze every little plot point into three long, drawn out films with lore like The Hobbit or some shit.

TheFrancix though questions, probably a dumb one, but was Wallace gay in the commics?

Yes

jetseekers yup

@@jetseekers in the comics even stephen is gay

@@colombo-lc6gv he realises that he's gay, or should I say that he's bi. I bet that they had sex canonnically with Julie, so he can't be 100% gay, he needs to be somewhere inbetween.

Go read/watch it, it’s worth your time mate. I’d recommend ^^

It's a comic from the 00s about a bunch of people in their early 20s trying to get their lives together, except it's -actually- a video game styled story about a 23 year old having to defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil exes. It got a film adaptation in 2010 that's incredibly stylish and definitely worth the watch, but it compresses a LOT of detail from the comic. Unfortunately, that means that Scott doesn't get as much character development as he needs, and the rest of the cast get even less than that.

nah it looks gay

Fuckin great movie. You dont need to know the source material to like it

@I’m stupid, but Your living up to your name (I’m sorry I had to)

For the first third of the movie, then yeah, it is unbelievably accurate, almost a back-to-back adaptation. The rest of the movie gets so derailed and rushed that it even gets difficult to make connections to the comic.

Izaak Myers yeah they kinda botch the parts in the second and third half about the troubles in the relationship, I hated how they botched Scott’s like redemption

Yeah idk ppl seemed to hate it. I love that movie man

@@IzaakMyers granted the movie came out before the final volume

“accurate to source”

Well, it's kinda hard to find a girl with pretty hair with the challenge of fighting a league of evil exes to win her over. Though that would be totally kick ass.

Scott is 22 in the film, but in the graphic novels, he's 23, and on one volume, he turns 24

Date a highschooler

mortalkaiban probably because you haven’t fought 7 evil exes

@@ninmue4638 Most of the movie takes place in Scott's mind. He simply percieves stuff a certain way that is not necessarily real. Scott isn't perfectly sane(shows some traits of Asperger), mind you...

She's also huntress in birds of prey

Sounds like a Royal Pain in my ass

@@staticbuzter452 Lol

And she was the protagonist of final destination 3 and she was on the black Christmas 2006 remake

청춘 The reason Movie Ramona is so much colder than Book Ramona is because the original ending of the movie featured Scott picking Knives over her; making her apathetic made it easier for the audience to agree with Scott's choice. Totally agreed though, I love Book Ramona, especially in comparison to Movie Ramona.

Ayo Williams was that an alternative ending? i haven't watched it in a long time so i don't recall

청춘 Yup, it's on RU-vid, as is the alternate Scott death scene where Ramona tells him to choose Knives.

sofia it was Edgar Wright's original choice for the ending.

The reason why the film's original ending was different than the comics were because the film finished production by the time the 5th novel was released, so the Edgar Wright and the crew didn't know how the comics would've ended. After the final book was released, they reshot the ending to match the book. A lot of the differences with the two can be stemmed from the fact that they were being made at the same time as each other.

there's a similar joke that works a lot better in the non colored version of the comic, where ramona shows up with a new haircut and scott asks if it's her natural hair color, and she says "no. yes? maybe? i don't know"

@@greamgreamgream its like in quintessential quintuplets where all the jokes of the sisters being identical works better in black and white

i don t get the joke

@@Unhommequijoue in the comic theres no music, so you can't tell if they played a song yet or not

@@greamgreamgreamand the little note in the color edition that says blatantly “this was funnier in black and white”

Michael Cera has toddler face. Super nice guy though. Find the video of him eating wings with hot sauce!

I mean most 23 year olds look 15. Its not like being two decades old makes you look... Old.

@@Pavlinka__ I don't look like 15 lmao and every guy around 23 I know doesn't

My sister is almost 22 and looks like she's 12-13 while I'm 18 and have been told i look 22-24..

@@Pavlinka__ idk what prepubescent 23 year olds youve met but I'm 20 and CANNOT pass as a 15 year old. people think im 30 and its kind of disheartening lmao.

Michael Cera was 22 years old when he filmed the movie

@@cioperduartebareiro Huh. Interesting, but still weird.

i think it was so people in the audience would think that his relationship with knives didn’t had such an age gap?? wasn’t knives 17? i mean maybe a 22 year old with a 17 year old is not as weird as 17 with 23 i guess

It's another *Dumbledore said calmly* moments.

@@toxicdemon1315 Dumbledore said calmly...meanwhile in the movie: "HARRYDIDYOUPUTYOURNAMEINTHEGOBLETOFFIRE"

Got to appreciate how they were able to bring back most if not all the actors from the film, even though it’s been 13 years and many of the names have gotten big since.

I think wonder woman 1984 maybe one of these. Dr Strange movies are all magic and Sam Raimi is making Multiverse of Madness so it means it has to be colorful crazy shit

Kick-ass was my favorite

Not really superhero movies or whatever, but if you like this stylized kind of stuff, then I reccomend hot fuzz and baby driver. Edgar Wright is a master at this kind of stuff.

Fresh Dark Dreams yeah I agree or even Shaun of the Dead

Taika waititi (from thor Ragnarok) to me really has brought that "indie stylized" vibe into popular mainstream. Every movie I have seen from him is ridiculous and bright yet grounded and dark, and we love that from him honestly lol

In my opinion the movie sucked, but everyone I know whose seen the movie that liked it never read the comics. The one to one recreation is so boring and everything they changed was for the worse IMO

The scene transitions are cool though.

Liked the music.

I wouldn't say every way. I think some things the movie did are way better (action scenes in the comics brought to life come across better in motion than in drawings, and some of the encounters with the exes are done better in the movie, like instead of Scott mentioning a deus ex machina he actually tricks Todd into breaking his veganism, the rock and roll kaiju fight with the twins, etc.)

@@birchtree6975 I made sure to avoid that by reading the comics and then watching the movie. This can sometimes benefit you but also detract, for example I decided to read about half the How to Train Your Dragon books before seeing the movie back when it was coming out 10 years ago and ended up disliking the movie as a result. Personally I think the 1:1 recreations of the comic panels and the references to it are great because they showed a great level of respect and passion for the source material, even down to recreating characters' costumes for each scene where appropriate and mostly casting actors who look about as close to the artstyle of the books as you can get. You don't really get that level of attention to detail in many adaptations, I think. And while not every change works there's some alterations that are handled pretty well. Seeing some of the panels in motion also made them a lot funnier and more entertaining than just the pictures were (which were already pretty funny at times) and the fact that a majority of the dialogue is ripped straight from the comic and still feels like it fits into the movie fine is nice. But I definitely get not liking the movie. I personally thought it was hilarious when I first watched it a couple weeks ago, loved the visuals, and thought the action was great, and it's honestly to the point that I'm thinking of watching it over again pretty soon due to just how much I love revisiting clips of it on YT and how much it blew me away visually, (something I honestly have never done with any other movie, even some I consider my all time favorites) but I will admit I was letdown in many areas. Like the time frame for the movie versus the books and just how much more shallow it ends up feeling due to this, and the omission of several characters and subplots due to time. Most of the female cast especially felt underused and underdeveloped in the film versus the books. But as is, I think it's probably one of the best comic book adaptations ever made in my opinion, up there with the 1990 TMNT movie.

Knives was happy and open

Bro not all. Scott is so awkward here and Ramona is a depressed chick.

there is an animated one, and i think a netflix series probably would have been worse than the film, which is amazing

The English Mentlegen why would a Netflix series be worse than the film? The film was great, but as films go, you know, being tops 2 and a half hours it has to cramp up a lot of shit. Most things that made me love the comics weren't even in the movie, and that's understandable, because it's a movie. But a TV show with at least six episodes could touch on a lot of stuff the movie didn't. So why would a Netflix show be worse in your opinion? I'm curious.

Well, Edgar Wright is extremely good at using visual comedy in Scott Pilgrim, and as a result it has become a cult classic of sorts. Its pretty unique as films go too, which makes me enjoy it a lot more. Netflix originals really haven't been consistent in terms of quality, I mean, sometime they are great like house of cards and stranger things, but they also have a lot of awful shit that gets cancelled after the first episode. As well as this, it is unlikely that Netflix would care enough about such a small franchise to give scott pilgrim as large of a budget as the film.

Search "Make your transitions count" Its one of many video essays on the many unique things that the film does, they are usually things you miss on the first viewing, but they give the film a lot of character.

agreed, that video really opened my eyes to how great the editing made this movie

ahahaha omfg man

my dumbass reads mangas from left to right and comics from right to left '-'

Volume 4 literally has an explanation in the back how you're supposed to read it haha

Damn really? I never knew that the one time people can’t be mad the movie doesn’t follow the book completely

@@CardGamesRule. O'Malley's publisher reached out for movie to be made after Vol.1, they got Edgar Wright and Michael Bacall to start writing it in 2005. Movie wasn't filmed until 2009, by then the series was at 5 volumes, I don't know if they influenced the script as they came out though kind of like Harry Potter

@@Mythikal13 Turns out the movie actually changed the ending of the books. Scott was originally supposed to end up with Knives. I like the Ramona ending better, but also like the comics better than the movie. The casting was great in a lot of regards, but Mary took Ramona in a weird direction, and Michael basically played himself and didn't represent Scott well tbh. Also, not sure if it was archived online anywhere and don't remember what year it was, but ages ago before the movie came out, I got a Free Comic Book Day exclusive Scott Pilgrim comic!

@@SilverSphereSorcerer I gotta see that free comic book day comic. I like the Romana ending better too, I understand how it kind of toxic they end up together and some people wanted Knives. I think the actors played the characters well, idk to me Romana in the movies is just the girl that won't leave your mind kind of like how she won't leave Scott's and I think that's perfect. Maybe I'm just hella attracted to Mary but I know I not alone in that lol. Michael Cera is the perfect scott pilgrim in my eyes too. I honestly can't think of another actor who fits the comic mold, he's a little more confident in the comics and less anxious and like lowkey badass? but I kind of like the extreme anxiety of Scott in the movies and the way he was played, plus Michael Cera is Canadian like Scott unlike most of the people in the movie and that's a win in my books lol

@@Mythikal13 Upon further research, it seems the FCBD comic made it into the colorized hardcover rereleases!

iconic scene

Wallace is the best character

Gay 😂

They don’t

@@lovelucii1181 At least he's not a simp.

@@kidkid146 Funny he steals every boyfriend from Scott's sis.

@@WindiChilliwack That’s Chad energy right there

I mean, they changed the personalities of the main two characters. Kinda feels like a drastic change.

Have you seen shawn of the dead or hot fuzz? He directed those too and they are great (thye also arent comic films)

coff Ant Man coff

The English Mentlegen The World’s End too

@@erickmartinez5631 Yes, nobody knows how much of Ant Man he actually directed before he was fired.

@@ijustwanttocommentfugoogle3839 He only writed the script and then was fired

Really hope Matthew Patel's song here is kept in the anime

@@Kromiballsorry, it’s not..

Thanks! I've thought about making more, problem is is that after this point in the movie, it starts lining up with the comic less and less. That being said, that doesn't mean it would be impossible for me to make more. I'm glad that you like it!

Hooper J. Cooper You're welcome! We need more heroes like you. :) Nobody is doing it, except for _this_ video (sound from the movie, not music playing like another video) which sucks because I honestly love Scott Pilgrim VS. the World and want to see more 'comparisons'. It's totally fine if you can't line up the movie with the comic, as it makes sense that the movie and comics are slightly different. It's a retelling. But if in any point you consider doing it again, I'll be here waiting. :P You got yourself a subscriber.

That was the point if I remember correctly basically it was to catch the audience off guard since most of them probably didn't read the graphic novels

Woah.

Not to mention that some of the fighting is clearly taking place in Scott’s mind considering that no one else sees most of the things that he does. I think it was even stated that all the video game references towards fighting scenes in general are meant to just be Scott’s take on the world and not necessarily what’s actually happening.

@@cyclops8238 yeah it was confirmed that the video game references and fights were all just Scott’s perspective on how he understands himself and the world around him. Which also played a part in my theory because he was never actually doing those things but probably rather dealing with Ramona’s baggage like a normal couple: 🌈communicaaaation🌈

@@HexAddams I think that is the symbolism, but I would rather believe that all the fights are real because them being inside Scott's head the whole time would make it less fun

Actually most things are definitely real, at least if you read the comics.

Power of Bollywood betch

Just u lol i dont see the comection other than their both 2d characters in a fictional band

As long as your having fun then keep it up! You don't need to do anything, just live a nice life as best as you can.

Seeing you like Deku Link just play the song of time lol

Same, 27 as well thinking the same

"does that mean we can make out?"

"Oh, god! I had this totally weird dream..."

"What kinda tea do you want"

Agreed

Idk I liked the version of Micheal cera better. He seemed less like an asshole

@@godzilla4005 Scott is writed to be an asshole though

literally

REMEMBER The movie was written after the first book, there are very little similarities after VOL 2 for that reason. After that the books are slightly working off the movie so you may see a few similar scenes in the book for that reason

If you want to see more, read the comics. The movie has actually alot of stuff missing, because when it was made, only the first 3 vol where released.

Sometimes in the movie you can see Ramona scratching the back of her neck where Gideon’s chip is, so that’s probably the equivalent in the movie.

Who wouldn't be? Especially considering the books take about a year, film about two weeks

@@combinemaxthat actually makes a lot of sense; Ramona is able to be more positive since they have time for the relationship to blossom. Especially with the time gap between Todd and Roxy being months in the books instead of hours in the movie

Wdym?

i think i read once that the team was fine with mary elizabeth winstead reading their names from a sheet of paper but she ended up memorising and reciting them anyway

Good news! It’s coming soon but as an anime 😃

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE:: THE TRAILERS BEEN OUT.

lol I think it’s here