(500) Days of Summer was an excellent deconstructionist romantic comedy. The movie had an excellent script, solid direction from Marc Webb and charismatic performances from Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The couple breaking up is a large part of the story but the movie is in no way a doom and gloom story. The movie is so peppy that Gordon-Levitt has a Hall & Oates song and dance number. The trailer above, however, presents a very different tone as the movie is reinvented as a dark thriller. In this trailer, the breakup sends Gordon-Levitt's character into a funk that soon sees him spiraling into the darkness and stalking Deschanel. I've always enjoyed these trailer re-cuts, my favorite being the brilliant Shining redux that turned it into a heart warming story about family.
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