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Media Meditation #1 : The Sex Bob-ombs on the Big Screen

About two weeks ago, a group of friends and I decided to grab (read as: chase down) a bus and take it out to the Palace 9, a movie theatre down on Shelburne, to see Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.



One of the several movie trailers found online for the film.

I have to say, the movie had an interesting convergence of different forms of media. Not only was it a movie that had at one point been a graphic novel, both available online and in print, it retained a lot of the graphic novel aspects and fused film with music and videogames.

The film is set in modern day Canada, and while the world appears relatively normal, certain characters are bestowed with abilities never quite explained in the film. Ramona Flower's - the female lead - Seven Evil Exs are all super powered, as is the protagonist Scott Pilgrim to an extent and even his own ex, Knives.

The image above (from a XBOX Game Review) and the image below (from a Film Review) show
the evil exs of the story in both a graphic and cinematic form.

While there is no explanation for this the characters move with very comic like effects (classical 'jabs' and 'pows') in a very videogame like manner, especially seen when Scott finds an extra 'life' after defeating two exs at once.

But even as things are blowing up around them and evil exs are reduced to piles of gold coins, nobody ever seems to take notice of the abnormality of it all or even really comments on it. When Scott defeated one of the exs, a famous movie star and skater, who his gay best friend and roommate had been crushing on, Wallace just shrugged it off and acted like actors being blasted away and reduced to coins was a perfectly normal event in Canada.

The music of the movie was more than just for background purposes. With Scott being apart of a band titled the Sex Bob-ombs, the battle of the bands that took place throughout the movie added another level of converging media.

All in all it was a pretty interesting movie with characters that always kept you guessing and with a new take on media convergence. I'm curious to see what will come next.