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>>>One of the reasons she did is that it was set, more or less, in and around her neighborhood and she had a great time picking out all the sights and streets she knew.<<<
Yep, that's one of the most fun parts of reading the books for me too - I do live right in the area of Toronto that Scott Pilgrim is set, so every location in the book is one that I know really well. Little throwaway comments like how Dufferin Mall is not a very exciting mall, and full of slutty teen girls, are that much funnier because I was in Dufferin Mall two days ago and it's described accurately. I can look out the window of my apartment and see Sneaky Dee's. I get coffee from the Second Cup and walk by Honest Ed's (the scene of the big fight in book 3). The video store that Kim Pine is seen working in is the video store that *I* used to work in. I know the people that some of the characters are based on.
O'Malley doesn't even live in Toronto any more, he lives in Halifax, but I feel a certain sense of kinship with him, it's hugely enjoyable to me to know that he lived in this area all these people and places inspired him to create this book.
One of the things that worries me about the feature film that's supposedly in development by Edgar Wright is that they'll decide that Toronto isn't a "marketable" enough city and relocate it to Chicago or something. |
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