I remember initially not liking Safety Not Guaranteed but Aubrey Plaza won me over to the point where I loved that movie by the end of it.
I liked the movie from the start, but I agree that she's really talented. She has at least two stereotypes to avoid as Darius: she has to be a catalyst for Kenneth without slipping into manic pixie dream-whatever (still the die-in-a-fire default setting for any woman who's supposed to be out of the mainstream), but if she's just the sarcastic, disaffected millennial, then half the emotional core of the story drops out (and it goes back to being something much more familiar about the skeptical woman drawn into a wounded man's dream). Instead, we actually get the chemistry dismissed by Jeff with the line about "Don't worry, I'm sure your weird mojo clicked with his weird mojo and you got it in the bag." They're not identical species of weird, but they're closely compatible. That wouldn't work if it was just Mark Duplass and a person-shaped space in the script.
(I do really like, though, that he's not the standard movie quirky loon-or-genius, either. For starters, he's not socially inept at all.)
And then I snuck into Prometheus and ruined my afternoon.
That is completely the wrong object lesson to learn from sneaking into movies.
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I liked the movie from the start, but I agree that she's really talented. She has at least two stereotypes to avoid as Darius: she has to be a catalyst for Kenneth without slipping into manic pixie dream-whatever (still the die-in-a-fire default setting for any woman who's supposed to be out of the mainstream), but if she's just the sarcastic, disaffected millennial, then half the emotional core of the story drops out (and it goes back to being something much more familiar about the skeptical woman drawn into a wounded man's dream). Instead, we actually get the chemistry dismissed by Jeff with the line about "Don't worry, I'm sure your weird mojo clicked with his weird mojo and you got it in the bag." They're not identical species of weird, but they're closely compatible. That wouldn't work if it was just Mark Duplass and a person-shaped space in the script.
(I do really like, though, that he's not the standard movie quirky loon-or-genius, either. For starters, he's not socially inept at all.)
And then I snuck into Prometheus and ruined my afternoon.
That is completely the wrong object lesson to learn from sneaking into movies.