Starting yesterday, July 28th, a deluxe edition of the “(500) Days of Summer” soundtrack is available exclusively on ITunes. It features a whopping three additional tracks, two of which are excerpts from the film where the lead actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel head to a karaoke bar after work with some colleagues. So if you’ve been dying to hear Gordon-Levitt’s drunken warbling along to The Pixies’
“Here Comes Your Man” while your iPod is on shuffle, now is your chance (it’s the exact version from the film, and he does kind of knock it out of the park, even though his character is pretty alcohol polluted. The man can sing!). Deschanel also does a karaoke rendition of the Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazlewood song, “Sugar Town.” Full tracklist below, but these are essentially more bonus tracks as the original album also
featured She & Him’s (Deschanel and M. Ward) rendition of the Smith’s classic, “Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want,” which was also basically a bonus track since it wasn’t in the original film (you can hear that version here). Meanwhile the film, still in limited release, is earning remarkable critical raves and positive buzz. Fox Searchlight’s now
practically trademarked rollout plan, which usually involves lots of press and a slow addition of screens over many weeks, could turn “(500) Days Of Summer” into the indie story of the summer. Previously announced tracklist (that version came out July 14). Here’s a version of the original Pixies song if you’ve somehow gone through life without ever hearing it. – Kevin Jagernauth The boy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and the girl, Zooey Deschanel, co-starred in Marc Webb's deconstructed romantic comedy (500) Days of Summer in 2009 and met up exactly 10 years and one week after the indie rom-com's Sundance premiere to rewatch it together. Luckily, they seemed to have a better grasp on the film than a certain lovestruck greeting-card writer did on The Graduate. Day 488: Deschanel and Gordon-Levitt sit on a couch, munching popcorn, as Summer and Tom sit on a park bench, touching hands. The narrator warns: "This is not a love story." ZOOEY DESCHANEL (Summer Finn): This is a movie with zero dramatic irony. Zero. It is 100 percent from Tom's point of view, which we've talked about before, but it's one thing people very much
misunderstand about the movie. They think Summer's a villain. Day 290: Summer dumps Tom over pancakes, justifying the breakup with the evocative argument that "We've been like Sid and Nancy for months now." (She's Sid. He's Nancy.)
Day 28: Cut to the early days of Summer, when the whole office goes to karaoke and she sings "Sugar Town" before honestly and unambiguously telling Tom that she doesn't like to be in a relationship and would rather be "free and independent." Just saying! DESCHANEL: By the
way, I've done karaoke with Joe, and he's, like, no joke. [To Gordon-Levitt] You once tore a curtain down at karaoke! I think you might have gotten kicked offstage! 500dos_875474578546456.jpg Day 34: Tom and Summer go shopping and play house at IKEA. Lying together on a showroom bed — an ANEBODA, by the looks of it — she tells him that she isn't looking for anything serious. DESCHANEL: I always watch things and go, "I would do that differently now." But you know, it's who you are at the time that you do it, and I always have
to think, "Well, I respect that I made that choice then." Day 260: Speaking of being cool, here's Summer and Tom, sitting on a picnic blanket in a park, yelling the word "penis" at increasing volumes. GORDON-LEVITT: I wonder if this did really happen with Scott. Day 403: Summer and Tom are broken up — Sid and Nancy, if you recall — when they run into each other on the train headed to their co-worker's wedding. They reconnect on the ride and dance together at the reception. DESCHANEL: This was fun because we got to go to San Diego and then back on the train, and I. Love. The. Train. Day 408: Tom goes to Summer's rooftop party. On the left side of the screen, we see what he expects from the evening (to win her back). On the right, we see what really happens (he doesn't). GORDON-LEVITT: This is one of the more brilliant turns of filmmaking, the reality/expectations. Day 408, reality: Summer is engaged. DESCHANEL: NOOOOOOO! IT'S A RIIIIING! DON'T DO IIIIIT! Day 488, again: Tom sits on the park bench, where Summer finds him. They say goodbye. GORDON-LEVITT: I've always enjoyed this question of whether Summer's real in this scene. I think this is, like, him sitting on the bench and sort of coming to internal peace. That's what I think this is. Did Zooey Deschanel sing in 500 Days of Summer?In 500 Days of Summer (2009), Deschanel sings a cover of The Smiths's "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" and it appears on the soundtrack of the film, as performed by She & Him. She also sings a cover of "Sugar Town" by Nancy Sinatra.
What song does Summer sing in 500 Days of Summer?Sugar Town (Bonus Track)
(0:18) Summer sings this at karaoke night.
What was the actual point of 500 Days of Summer?Possibly one of the most important lessons from (500) Days of Summer is that happiness cannot be dependent on another person. Summer becomes the only source of happiness for Tom, and he loses himself because of that. It is unfair to put that pressure on anyone.
Is 500 Days of Summer based on a true story?According to E News, screenwriter Scott Neustadter (The Spectacular Now, The Disaster Artist) reveals on the DVD commentary that 500 Days of Summer is "75 per cent" based on a real relationship he went through.
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