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* CreatorBacklash: Creator/NataliePortman has gone on record over a decade after the film's release stating that she was unhappy with the contribution to the ManicPixieDreamGirl trope that many have taken her character Sam for in hindsight. As per [[https://www.vulture.com/2015/09/natalie-portman-insecure-garden-state-broad-city.html comments she made at Toronto International Film Festival in 2015]]:
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* CreatorBreakdown: [[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/zach-braff-interview-florence-pugh-a-good-person-b2303165.html In a 2023 interview]], Braff responded to the recurring [[CondemnedByHistory retrospective]] criticisms of the film's contributions to the ManicPixieDreamGirl trope by stating that the film's approach to romance came from a place that was sincere to who he was and what he was emotionally struggling with when he wrote it.
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* CreatorBreakdown: [[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/zach-braff-interview-florence-pugh-a-good-person-b2303165.html In a 2023 interview]], Braff Creator/ZachBraff responded to the recurring [[CondemnedByHistory retrospective]] criticisms of the film's contributions to the ManicPixieDreamGirl trope by stating that the film's approach to romance came from a place that was sincere to who he was and what he was emotionally struggling with when he wrote it.
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* CreatorBacklash: Creator/NataliePortman has gone on record over a decade after the film's release stating that she was unhappy with the contribution to the ManicPixieDreamGirl trope that many have taken her character Sam for in ''Garden State'' for.hindsight. As per [[https://www.vulture.com/2015/09/natalie-portman-insecure-garden-state-broad-city.html comments she made at Toronto International Film Festival in 2015]]:
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* CreatorBacklash: Creator/NataliePortman has gone on the retrospective record stating that she was unhappy with the contribution to the ManicPixieDreamGirl trope that many have taken her character in ''Garden State'' for. As per [[https://www.vulture.com/2015/09/natalie-portman-insecure-garden-state-broad-city.html comments she made at Toronto International Film Festival in 2015]]:
-->"When I read it I was like, 'Oh, this is a character that’s wacky and interesting, and no one’s ever given me a chance to play something like this. It’s this sort of unusual girl.' So that was my incentive to make it. But of course I see that trope and I think it’s a good thing to recognize the way those female characters are used. I mean, I appreciate that people are writing characters that are interesting and unusual, rather than some bland female character as the girlfriend in a movie, but when the point of the character in this movie is to, like, help the guy have his arc, that’s sort of the problem, and that’s why it’s good that they’re talking about it, because it certainly is a troubling trope."
-->"When I read it I was like, 'Oh, this is a character that’s wacky and interesting, and no one’s ever given me a chance to play something like this. It’s this sort of unusual girl.' So that was my incentive to make it. But of course I see that trope and I think it’s a good thing to recognize the way those female characters are used. I mean, I appreciate that people are writing characters that are interesting and unusual, rather than some bland female character as the girlfriend in a movie, but when the point of the character in this movie is to, like, help the guy have his arc, that’s sort of the problem, and that’s why it’s good that they’re talking about it, because it certainly is a troubling trope."
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* CreatorBreakdown: In [[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/zach-braff-interview-florence-pugh-a-good-person-b2303165.html a 2023 interview]], Braff responded to the recurring [[CondemnedByHistory retrospective]] criticisms of the film's contributions to the ManicPixieDreamGirl trope by stating that the film's approach to romance came from a place that was sincere to who he was and what he was emotionally struggling with when he wrote it.
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* CreatorBreakdown: In [[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/zach-braff-interview-florence-pugh-a-good-person-b2303165.html In a 2023 interview]], Braff responded to the recurring [[CondemnedByHistory retrospective]] criticisms of the film's contributions to the ManicPixieDreamGirl trope by stating that the film's approach to romance came from a place that was sincere to who he was and what he was emotionally struggling with when he wrote it.
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-->"'...Of course I’ve heard and respect the criticism, but…' He pauses. 'I was a very depressed young man who had this fantasy of a dream girl coming along and saving me from myself,' he continues, bluntly. 'And so I wrote that character.' Did he know back then that he was depressed? 'Oh, I’ve known my whole life. I had OCD as a child. I knew I was battling something. That’s what writing ''Garden State'' was about. I wasn’t as extreme as Andy, but I was certainly battling my own demons. As I was writing it, I was hoping I could survive what became known as the quarter-life crisis, and depression, and fantasising that the perfect woman would come along and rescue me.'"
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-->"'...Of course I’ve heard and respect the criticism, but…' He pauses. 'I was a very depressed young man who had this fantasy of a dream girl coming along and saving me from myself,' he continues, bluntly. 'And so I wrote that character.' Did he know back then that he was depressed? 'Oh, I’ve known my whole life. I had OCD as a child. I knew I was battling something. That’s what writing ''Garden State'' was about. I wasn’t as extreme as Andy, but I was certainly battling my own demons. As I was writing it, I was hoping I could survive what became known as the quarter-life crisis, and depression, and fantasising that the perfect woman would come along and rescue me.'"
-->"'...Of course I’ve heard and respect the criticism, but…' He pauses. 'I was a very depressed young man who had this fantasy of a dream girl coming along and saving me from myself,' he continues, bluntly. 'And so I wrote that character.' Did he know back then that he was depressed? 'Oh, I’ve known my whole life. I had OCD as a child. I knew I was battling something. That’s what writing ''Garden State'' was about. I wasn’t as extreme as Andy, but I was certainly battling my own demons. As I was writing it, I was hoping I could survive what became known as the quarter-life crisis, and depression, and fantasising that the perfect woman would come along and rescue me.'"
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* CreatorDrivenSuccessor: Braff made a proper spiritual successor called ''Wish I Was Here''
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* CreatorDrivenSuccessor: Braff made Braff's next directorial effort, released in 2014, was a proper spiritual successor called to this film titled ''Wish I Was Here''Here''.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A longer love scene between Sam and Andrew was filmed, but cut. WordOfGod is that he wanted to avoid {{Fanservice}}, and instead for the scene to be sweet.
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: Creator/ZachBraff wrote the film partially based on his own childhood growing up in New Jersey. Andrew works in a French-Vietnamese restaurant, just as Zach did when was a struggling actor in Los Angeles. His parents were both psychiatrists and his stepmother was a therapist too.
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* CreatorDrivenSuccessor: Braff made a proper spiritual successor called ''Wish I Was Here''
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* DescendedCreator: Zach Braff directed and wrote the film, along with starring in it as Andrew.
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* ReferencedBy: In ''Film/MostLikelyToMurder2018'': After Billy's parents sell his car, they tell him to ride around on his electric scooter instead. Billy grumbles, "I'm gonna look like I'm in ''Garden State''."
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* PlayingAgainstType: Natalie Portman as a ManicPixieDreamGirl.
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** A longer love scene between Sam and Andrew was filmed, but cut. WordOfGod is that he wanted to avoid {{Fanservice}}, and instead for the scene to be sweet.
** Zach Braff wrote the script while he was still in college, and the title was 'Large's Ark'. No one he asked liked the title, and they went with 'Garden State' instead.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: Zach Braff wrote the film partially based on his own childhood growing up in New Jersey. Andrew works in a French-Vietnamese restaurant, just as Zach did when was a struggling actor in Los Angeles. His parents were both psychiatrists and his stepmother was a therapist too.
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** A longer love scene between Sam and Andrew was filmed, but cut. WordOfGod is that he wanted to avoid {{Fanservice}}, and instead for the scene to be sweet.
** Zach Braff wrote the script while he was still in college, and the title was 'Large's Ark'. No one he asked liked the title, and they went with 'Garden State' instead.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: Zach Braff wrote the film partially based on his own childhood growing up in New Jersey. Andrew works in a French-Vietnamese restaurant, just as Zach did when was a struggling actor in Los Angeles. His parents were both psychiatrists and his stepmother was a therapist too.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: Zach Braff held meat in his hands to get the doberman to attack him for the scene outside Sam's house.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: Zach Braff held meat in his hands to get the doberman to attack him for the scene outside Sam's house.
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** A longer love scene between Sam and Andrew was filmed, but cut. WordOfGod is that he wanted to avoid {{Fanservice}}, and instead for the scene to be sweet.
** Zach Braff wrote the script while he was still in college, and the title was 'Large's Ark'. No one he asked liked the title, and they went with 'Garden State' instead.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: Zach Braff wrote the film partially based on his own childhood growing up in New Jersey. Andrew works in a French-Vietnamese restaurant, just as Zach did when was a struggling actor in Los Angeles. His parents were both psychiatrists and his stepmother was a therapist too.
* PlayingAgainstType: Natalie Portman as a ManicPixieDreamGirl.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** A longer love scene between Sam and Andrew was filmed, but cut. WordOfGod is that he wanted to avoid {{Fanservice}}, and instead for the scene to be sweet.
** Zach Braff wrote the script while he was still in college, and the title was 'Large's Ark'. No one he asked liked the title, and they went with 'Garden State' instead.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: Zach Braff wrote the film partially based on his own childhood growing up in New Jersey. Andrew works in a French-Vietnamese restaurant, just as Zach did when was a struggling actor in Los Angeles. His parents were both psychiatrists and his stepmother was a therapist too.
