That night they have sex Tom is elated.Īfter several months of dating, they grow closer. Summer is not looking for a serious relationship. A few days later, Summer spontaneously kisses Tom in the office. Tom's friend and co-worker McKenzie drunkenly reveals that Tom likes Summer, which he asserts is only 'as friends', something Summer agrees with. Later, at a karaoke night for their work, they talk about love. They discover that they have a similar taste in music. Tom Hansen is an aspiring architect who works as a writer at a greeting card company. The following is a linear summary of the plot. There is an on-screen timer showing the day. The film is presented in a nonlinear narrative, jumping between various days within the 500 days of Tom and Summer's relationship.

The film received Best Original Screenplay and Best Screenplay awards at the 14th Satellite Awards and 25th Independent Spirit Awards, respectively, as well as two nominations at the 67th Golden Globe Awards: Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Actor – Musical or Comedy (Gordon-Levitt). Many critics lauded the film as one of the best from 2009 and drew comparisons to other acclaimed films such as Annie Hall (1977) and High Fidelity (2000). It received positive critical reviews and became a successful ' sleeper hit', earning over $60 million in worldwide returns, far exceeding its $7.5 million budget. Īs an independent production, the film was picked up for distribution by Fox Searchlight Pictures and premiered at the 25th Sundance Film Festival. The film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel and employs a nonlinear narrative structure, with the story based upon its male protagonist and his memories of a failed relationship. That’s some truly scary stuff, and it goes to show how far people will go to threaten someone they don’t agree with on the Internet.500 Days of Summer (stylized as (500) Days of Summer) is a 2009 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Marc Webb from a screenplay written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. When she grabbed a phone to delete them, she found photos of her from previous days. Unfortunately, a group of people followed her to a club and took pictures of her. This caused her to flee from Chicago to New York, where her friends cut off her hair so that she could go dancing one night.

The scariest parts are when someone claiming to be an ex military sniper said that he was outside her window with a target trained on her. Trend it.” People started using the hashtag, and soon the backlash grew.Īs the SyFy clip above shows, the blowback Park got included HuffPost Live making fun of her for not understanding satire, the boyfriend who encouraged her to speak out breaking up with her, and then Reddit users doxxing her, to the point where she went into hiding and started using burner phones to communicate with friends. She tweeted, “The Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals has decided to call for #CancelColbert.

Park, who was building a following as an outspoken Asian-American activist, took issue with slurs reserved for Asians being used in this way. The segment was later referenced on The Colbert Report‘s Twitter account, “I am willing to show #Asian community I care by introducing the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever.” In March 2014, The Colbert Report aired a segment making fun of the Washington Redskins’ owner starting the Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation to appease those who took issue with the use of “redskins” as a slur.

Wired has some background on the #CancelColbert fiasco. One of their first segments involves Suey Park, who started the #CancelColbert hashtag, and then had to go into hiding due to people doxxing her, threatening her, and even stalking her IRL. The SyFy channel has a new show out called The Internet Ruined My Life.

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