MATT: Also, if you want to write a manic pixie dream girl script … don’t.
BRAIN: that’s a cop out!
BRAIN: dissecting scripts is educational
PJ: what? everyone has a manic pixie dream girl script in them somewhere?
PJ: it’s only after it’s been excised that quality material may flow?
MATT: “Manic pixie dream girls a-gogo.” would be a great title for a movie.
BRAIN: parodying that trope is so redundant
BRAIN: ok so: say you’re writing a MPDG movie – let’s say they are driving somewhere.
BRAIN: What motivates the guy?
NIKK: He’s fleeing aliens who want to probe him!
PJ: I was gonna go with, “The one girlfriend he’s ever had just dumped him”
PJ: if you were gonna go with the stereotype
PJ: if you want to come up with something new instead of just going through the motions, then maybe the aliens thing
PJ: ’cause who says the MPDG can’t also be a fighting aliens
NIKK: *reads scroll back* Manic Pixie Dream Girl…
PJ: Zooey Daschanel would probably do it…
PJ: if it weren’t for that trope, she wouldn’t have…. like half her career, right?
NIKK: Zooey and aliens and MPDG …
NIKK: That has a disturbing potential.
BRAIN: starlets are not special, just envision whoever you like, and once it gets produced, they slot a new starlet in
BRAIN: actor brands have sort of like tech-trees, that is one of the more desireable entry points
BRAIN: it’s better than “play a prostitute”
PJ: … but you know, if we slot in some random other starlet, then we won’t necessarily be able to rely on my planned 3rd act twist where the MPDG actually IS an alien
BRAIN: that is where “writing” comes in
BRAIN: what makes her a MPDG?
PJ: I don’t know yet, we need Nikk to make some more crap up