Are MPDGs a lazy screenwriting trope or a legitimate expression of young males unrealistic and flawed perceptions of...

dubs don't lie

Like anything, the answer is both.
Sometimes they're well written examples of pussy-on-a-pedestal syndrome. Sometimes they're poorly written cliches. Sometimes they're a deconstruction of one and or both of those things.

>Sounds like you haven't found your MPDG IRL yet
I did and she broke me when it didn't work out.

mine was a heroin junkie. we had two kids. she lives in a commune now. MGTOW

i do like that the idea of a woman making the first move or romancing a man is literally considered misogynistic to portray.
for the record, they're usually shit writing. but offensive?

100% correct and based

You know you're in for a shit film when the plot circles around the 'deconstruction' of the female gender. Une femme esta une femme, take that as you will

Give one (1) example of each

>i do like that the idea of a woman making the first move or romancing a man is literally considered misogynistic to portray.
I wouldn't go that far but it's definitely wish fulfillment, doesn't happen unless you're chad

Perhaps

the biggest cope is making believe women like them don't exist, they do lol, i've met plenty of them. they're like pleasant airheads

You'll notice this trope a lot. MPDGs are always fucked up terrible people. You've gotta get it out of your system though, otherwise you'll get stuck with it forever. And like chicken pox, the younger you get over it the better.

Mine was just short of a runaway, she joined the Marines shortly after and went to Japan to take every black dick in the far east. Last I heard she was living in her truck and doing fieldhand work in Montana.

its just like anime where the girls are all perfect and fulfill the loser protagonists fantasy

so yes its anime-tier writing

I’ve always thought that “manic pixie dream girl” is just a gay way to denigrate fun adventurous quirky girls like it’s a bad thing. It always sounded like roastie salt to me, cutting down superior competition.

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500 Days of Summer is a decent example of pussy on a pedestal. I'd say the chick from SLC Punk is kind of a cheap cliche, although she does play an important part of the main character's arc.
I'm sure there's a million indie flicks with terribly written "deconstructions" of it too, but I'm not gonna subject myself to that.
Honestly I'd like to see more Manic Spritely Dream Boy art. Surely there's some gender swapped version and no, generic "bad boy" doesn't count. That's the equivalent of generic "slut"

That's only because you confused "manic" with "maniac".

>Manic Spritely Dream Boy art

What would timothee chalamet in lady bird be?

He was so unappealing to me but apparently girls went crazy over him

Damn user, don't go all out like that.

That's probably a good example. The boy version would have to be soft and unabrasive. So yeah, a prettyboy who read poetry or something would probably be it.

This.
We haven't had a Manic Pixie in at least a decade. It's died out. Time to move on.

Reads like some oscarbait movie, hold up goy let me see if I can get Goldstein and Mordecai to fund this

youtube.com/watch?v=FBNss2PMj60

>So yeah, a prettyboy who read poetry or something would probably be it
Generally they're a pretty sexless concept so only really appeal to pre/early teens, as soon as the estrogen really starts to kick in women get interested in bad boys.

summer was well done though

They aren't even real. Katherine from Jules et Jim is considered an early MPDG and so is Patricia from Breathless by (((Nathan Rabin))) which proves it's just a gibberish term he invented to slander great movies he doesn't even understand. Don't listen to his garbage. Treat each film as its own.

bros...

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>giving men an idealistic romance scenario that meets all of his needs is bad

>romance stories catered for women are totally fine tho OMG A HOT BILLIONAIRE WHO IS ALSO A FITNESS MODEL AND RUNS A NON-PROFIT ANIMAL CLINIC YAAAAAAASSSS

also that movie where the kid is from mars or some shit and he comes to earth to connect with his dad The Space Between Us

Where would the type of real life women who have a problem with this stock character even turn to see themselves represented accurately in film? Misery? What's Eating Gilbert Grape? East of Eden?

>is also a dom daddy who will sexually punish her
Don’t forget that

Dangerously based
The hate for this archetype as some tired trope has always struck me as salty roasties trying to justify being lazy holes.
The personality equivalent of Health At Every Size.

because if women were portrayed accurately in film they would be completely unlikable

That makes sense too, MPDGs are a teen concept, adult men just find them tiring.

im just going to come out and say it
all women are whores

I find your post shallow and pedantic.