Scott Pilgrim vs The World: Comic to Movie adaptation

GENRE

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Pilgrim
1. Basic History of the comic series Scott Pilgrim
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Pilgrim_vs._the_World
1. Information on the movie Scott Pilgrim vs The World
3. https://scottpilgrim.fandom.com/wiki/Scott_Pilgrim
1. Information on Scott Pilgrim himself
4. https://scottpilgrim.fandom.com/wiki/Book_to_Movie_differences
1. Helps spot the specific differences between the comics and the movie.

SOCIAL HISTORY

1. http://bulldogs.tlu.edu:2088/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=7&sid=55575a03-faca-40e5-b644-e0ae437fe93f%40sessionmgr4008
1. I plan on using this to help understand the sort of expectations for men in terms of society, and how those constraints are so difficult to stay in.
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_in_the_United_States
1. I’ll use this one in order to see what sorts of events were happening in 2010 that might have had some sort of influence on the Scott Pilgrim Movie that made it different from the comic.
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_in_video_gaming
1. I’ll use this to help understand the different video game components that had some sort of influence on both the movie and the comic, as both had decent amounts of video game humor.
4. https://www.alternet.org/2010/08/5_things_society_unfairly_expects_of_men/
1. More in order to help understand the different ways society pushes unrealistic expectations on men throughout the 2000s, specifically in 2010 (The year the Movie came out)

With all of this information, I would like to make the following argument in terms of both the movie and the comic: I argue that the ideas within the comic were changed in the movie to help represent how males should break out of the gender norms they are in. This is signified mainly because of the different powers Scott games in the comic (The power of Love and the power of Understanding) as opposed to the ones he got in the movie (The power of Love and the power of Self-Respect). Rather than fighting for someone else and learning how much of an asshole he was, Scott in the movie instead learns these things but also learns how to respect himself and do things for himself rather than just for someone else. Though, in the movie he is made more out to be a whiny asshole than he is in the comic, where he already has some form of self respect. This could be an example of how men in 2010 began to lack a lot more in self respect and dignity as opposed to recent years. Perhaps men were beginning to become a lot more tame due to the amount of acceptance going on at the time (gay marriage being accepted, more LGBTQ stuff).