Running time95 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$7.5 millionBox office$60.7 million500 Days of Summer (stylized as (500) Days of Summer) is a 2009 American by first-time director from a screenplay written by and, and produced. The film stars and, and employs a structure, with the story based upon its male and his memories of a failed relationship.As an, the film was picked up for distribution by and premiered at the. It garnered favorable reviews and became a successful ', earning over $60 million in worldwide returns, far exceeding its $7.5 million budget.
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Many critics lauded the film as one of the best from 2009 and drew comparisons to other acclaimed films such as (1977) and (2000).The film received and awards at the and, respectively, as well as two nominations at the: and (Gordon-Levitt). The film is presented in a, jumping between various days within the 500 days of Tom and Summer's relationship. There is an on-screen timer showing the day.
The following is a linear summary of the plot.On January 8, Tom Hansen meets Summer Finn, his boss' new assistant. Tom is trained as an architect but works as a writer at a greeting card company in Los Angeles. After discovering they have a similar taste in music, they have a conversation about love at a night; Tom believes in it, but Summer does not.
Tom's friend and co-worker McKenzie drunkenly reveals that Tom likes Summer, which Tom asserts is only 'as friends', something Summer agrees with. A few days later, Summer kisses Tom in the office. During the next few months Summer and Tom grow closer.Tom shows Summer his favorite spot in the city, a park bench which overlooks a number of buildings he likes, though the view is somewhat spoiled by parking lots. After several months of dating, both Tom's friends and his preteen half-sister Rachel push him to question Summer where they are in their relationship, though Summer brushes this off, saying that it should not matter if they are both happy.
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One night, Tom gets into a fight with a man who tries to pick up Summer in a bar, which causes their first argument. They make up and Summer concedes Tom deserves some certainty, but that his demand that she promises to always feel the same way about him would be impossible for anyone to make.On day 290, they are hanging out in a cafe. Tom wants to go back to Summer's place but she insists on seeing and weeps at the ending, which surprises Tom as he'd always thought it was a romantic fairy tale. They visit the record store, but Summer is distracted, appears to have lost interest in Tom, and kisses him good night. Tom tempts her with an offer of pancakes at a diner, where Summer casually announces that the relationship hasn't been working and breaks up with Tom while they are waiting for the food to arrive. Tom is horrified and begins to sink into depression.Summer quits her job at the greeting card company.
Tom's boss moves him to the consolations department, as his depression is making him unsuitable for happier events. Tom goes on a blind date with a woman named Alison.
The date does not go well as he spends it complaining about Summer until an exasperated Alison ends up taking Summer's side. Months later, Tom attends co-worker Millie's wedding and tries to avoid Summer on the train, but she spots him and invites him for coffee.
They have a good time at the wedding, dance together, and Summer catches the bouquet. She invites Tom to a party at her apartment and falls asleep on Tom's shoulder on the train ride back.
He attends the party hoping to rekindle their relationship but barely gets to talk to Summer and spends most of the night drinking alone, until he spots her engagement ring. Tom leaves, close to tears.
He enters a deep depression, only leaving his apartment for alcohol and junk food. After a few days, he returns to work with a hangover and, after an emotional outburst, quits his job.
Rachel tells Tom that she does not believe Summer was 'the one' and that his depression is being worsened by the fact that he is of their relationship.One day he suddenly finds the energy to get out of bed and rededicates himself to architecture, something Summer had pressured him to do. He makes a list of firms he wants to work for, assembles a portfolio, and goes to job interviews. On day 488, Summer is waiting for Tom at his favorite spot in the city and they talk.
He informs her that he left the office, and notes that she got married, which he admits he doesn't understand since she never even wanted to be someone's girlfriend. Summer says she got married because she felt sure about her husband, something she wasn't with Tom. When Tom asserts that he was wrong about true love existing, she counters that he was actually right about it, he was just wrong about it being with her. Summer puts her hand on Tom's and says she is glad to see he is doing well. As she leaves, Tom tells her he really hopes she is happy.Twelve days later, on Wednesday, May 23, Tom attends a job interview and meets a girl who is also applying for the same job. He finds that she shares his favorite spot and dislike for the parking lots.
As he is entering the interview, he invites her for coffee afterwards. She politely declines, then changes her mind.
Her name is Autumn.Cast. as Tom Hansen, a trained architect who works as a writer at a greeting card company. as Summer Finn, assistant to Tom's boss. as McKenzie, Tom's co-worker at the greeting card company.
as Rachel Hansen, Tom's younger half-sister. as Paul, one of Tom's friends. as Vance, Tom's boss. as Millie. as Alison, Tom's blind date.
as Autumn. as Rhoda. as Vance's New Secretary. Olivia Bagg as Young Summer. as NarratorProduction Writing The film is presented as a non-linear narrative. Each scene is introduced using a title card showing which of the 500 days it is.
Co-writer of the film admitted the film was based on a real romance. Neustadter explains that when he met the real girl who inspired the character Summer as a student at the in 2002, he was rebounding from a bad breakup back home, and promptly fell 'crazily, madly, hopelessly in love' with the girl who 'returned his kisses but not his ardor.' The ending of the relationship was 'painfully and unforgettably awful,' which prompted him to co-write the film with Michael H. When Neustadter later showed the script to Summer's real life counterpart, she said she related more to the Tom character. Weber also stated that, 'we've all been in the trenches of love, we've all gone through the highs and lows, so Scott and I felt that the only way to tell this story was to come at it from a completely real place.
It was pretty interesting for us because Scott was just going through a break-up and I was in a long-term relationship, so we each brought a totally opposite perspective, living it and not living it, and I think that tension helped to bring out more of the comedy'. Direction Director Marc Webb has described the film as more of a ' story as opposed to a '.
He stated, 'We arrive at a different conclusion, for one thing. Plus, most romantic comedies are more loyal to a formula than to emotional truth. It's about happiness, and learning that you'll find it within yourself, rather than in the big blue eyes of the girl in the cubicle down the hall. I wanted to make an unsentimental movie and an uncynical movie. In my mind, I wanted it to be something you could dance to.
That's why we put a parenthesis in the title – it's like a pop song in movie form. It's not a big film.
It's not about war or poverty. It's about 500 days in a young guy's relationship, but it's no less deserving of scrutiny. When your heart is first broken, it consumes you. And it's an emotion I wanted to make a movie about, before I forgot how it felt'.Webb also stated that Deschanel's character, Summer, is based on a type; 'Yes, Summer is an immature view of a woman.
She's Tom's view of a woman. He doesn't see her complexity and the consequence for him is heartbreak. In Tom's eyes, Summer is perfection, but perfection has no depth. Summer's not a girl, she's a phase.' Gordon-Levitt explained that he was drawn to the role of Tom because of his relatability to the character. 'I've had my heart broken before.
Truly, truly broken. But when I look back at me in my heartbroken phase, it's pretty hilarious, because it felt so much more extreme than it really was. One of the things I love about 500 Days of Summer is that it doesn't make light of what we go through in romances, but it is honest about it and shows it for what it is, which is often profoundly funny'.
Filming locations. The in Los Angeles was a filming location.David Ng of the describes architecture as a star of the film.Tom is seen reading 's.The film was originally set in San Francisco but was later moved to Los Angeles and the script rewritten to make better use of the location. Buildings used include the (which includes the ) and the towers of.The older is featured in the film, in a scene where Tom shows it to Summer and mentions its designers, two of his favorite architects, although he incorrectly gives the partners' names as 'Walker and Eisner.' Christopher Hawthorne of the Los Angeles Times describes the film as having 'finely honed sense of taste' to include the where Tom goes for his job interview.Tom’s favourite spot in Los Angeles was shot at Angel's Knoll, which became a popular tourist attraction after the film’s release. Since July 2013 it has been closed off to the public due to state cutbacks. In his article about cinematic cartography, Dr.
Chris Lukinbeal suggests that the location of Angel’s Knoll mirrors Tom’s view of the world. He argues that Tom only perceives the beauty of the buildings surrounding them and only acknowledges the parking lot when Summer points it out to him. He states that “Tom is also unable to see beyond his expectations of hopeless romance.” Costume design Costume designer, Hope Hanafin has revealed through interviews that Marc Webb insisted on the colour blue being worn exclusively by Summer. He based his decision on Zooey Deschanel's eye colour, but as Hanafin disclosed, it works on a subconscious level as well, attracting attention at all times.
The only scene to break this 'rule' is the Hall & Oates dance sequence where many of the extras appear in blue. 'The point of that was to show that, in his morning-after glow, Tom's whole world is a reflection of Summer'. The costumes are a mixture of vintage and fast fashion with the emphasis on staying realistic to what the characters could afford. Summer's wardrobe is refreshing and stylish without anything tying it to the years around the film's release which gives the aesthetics a timeless quality.
Marketing To help promote the film, Gordon-Levitt and Deschanel starred in the debut episode of and Mean Magazine 's 'Cinemash' series. In the episode, they 'mash' the characters from the film with story elements from 500 Days of Summer.Marc Webb created a music video as a companion piece to the film, titled 'The Bank Heist'.
It features Deschanel and Gordon-Levitt dancing to 'Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?' , a song by Deschanel's folk group.
Webb remarked, 'when we didn't include Zooey in the dance sequence in 500 Days, she was a little heartbroken and I felt like I needed to remedy that.'
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