Here is the latest installment of the official “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World” video blogs courtesy of the film’s official blog.
The overarching theme of this edition is the page-to-screen translation of the graphic novel, and we find ourselves throughout the blog visiting Bryan Lee O’Malley’s happy hunting grounds for inspiration for his artwork. The day’s shooting seems to focus on Scott Pilgrim and Knives Chau, respectively played by Michael Cera and Ellen Wong, as we first find them walking through the neighborhood of Pilgrim and best friend Wallace Wells’ “hole-in-the-wall” apartment. Shooting also takes us to the Goodwill Store and the Sonic Boom Record Store (where promotion for meta-fictional art-rockers The Clash At Demonhead can be seen).
“In some cases, we’re being exceptional faithful, verbatim, and key kind of frames of the artwork. And then the other parts are all very in the spirit of the book,” revealed Wright. “There are some sort of locations that feature in the book that aren’t in the film for various reasons, be it logistically or just in terms of the adaptation, and also some things that just work better in artwork and just don’t translate to live action as well as others.”
“Tomorrow we launch into another fighting [scene]…” concluded Wright. To quote Sandy from “Grease”: “tell me more, tell me more.”