Talk:Manic Pixie Dream Girl

Examples of MPDG

Source for Zooey/Summer as MPDG? Because I thought the whole plot of that film was that she WASN'T a MPDG. She had her own goals and dreams (so she dumps the main character and proceeds to live that life). 93.182.134.163 (talk) 18:00, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

I agree with you that she is not an MPDG, but the characterization of Summer as this stock character is entirely subjective. But I don't think she should be listed in the article precisely because there are so many other, better examples of the trope. Additionally, the article that was originally sourced is not a good, authoritative source, since it first describes Summer as an MPDG, then explains all the ways in which she is not an MPDG. -Juansmith (talk) 07:26, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Would Maude from Harold and Maude count? She's _older_, but beyond that I think perhaps a perfect fit? Kaolin fire (talk) 05:03, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

I was thinking Kate Winslet in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind captures it pretty well (and has the modern indie elements). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.49.100.92 (talk) 19:14, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia's "No original research" rules. The article isn't the place to speculate about the scope of the term, but a place to report what reliable sources have said about the scope of the term. THF (talk) 05:07, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

that's a chauvinist title

find sources to support it in article 'cause it's obvious. --79.130.11.198 (talk) 13:33, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

What about Amelie? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.96.37.19 (talk) 15:06, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Non-American media

MPDG is purely an American (United States) classification of stereotypical/stock characters. However, movies of non-American origins may have characters that correspond to MPDG. If so, those inclusions should be made into a separate section "Non-American media".

I extracted the following, removed it from the article and placed it here because without attribution of any reference, I take it as original research by whomever who inserted it:

"However many characters from European art-house cinema do fit the criteria, including Paz Vega's character in Julio Medem's Sex and Lucia and Eva Green's character in Bertolucci's The Dreamers."

"The character known only as The Girl in Korea's wildly popular My Sassy Girl, Faye Wong's character in the Hong Kong film Chungking Express all fit the description."

I also further wish to modify its structure a little to make the sentence more acceptable:

"However many characters from European art-house cinema do fit the criteria, including Paz Vega's character in Julio Medem's Sex and Lucia and Eva Green's character in Bertolucci's The Dreamers."

"The character known only as The Girl in the Korean movie My Sassy Girl, as well as Faye Wong's character in the Hong Kong film Chungking Express, both fall into the description of MPDG."

Someone please work hard to find references to justify the inclusion of the above and insert it back into the article under the section name I proposed.

Hence Jewish Anderstein (talk) 18:27, 22 July 2010 (UTC)