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Who Would You Rather: Zooey Deschanel vs. Lizzy Caplan?
By Drew GrantNovember 30th, 2009, 3:42 pmComments (30)
After 500 Days of Summer, I vowed that I would never watch Zooey Deschanel in a romantic comedy again. Not because I thought she was a bad actress, in fact she's a pretty decent one, but because somewhere Hollywood has pigeon-holed her into the manic pixie dream girl archetype, and it drives me up the wall to see these characters over and over. You know, the ones who seemingly lack any motivation in their own lives except to act as catalysts for the male protagonist to go on a journey of self-discovery? (See also: Garden State, Eternal Sunshine, etc., etc.). The first movie where Zooey locked that role down was David Gordon Green's All The Real Girls, which was a way better version of Summer. Plus, her singing career bugs me. That cotton song? Bleugh.
Luckily, Zooey wasn't always the worst: there was a time when she wasn't the romantic lead, but the deadpan best friend (The Good Girl), psychotic hippie chick (her amazing turn in Weeds), or unwilling love interest (Elf). Which has totally paved the way for the career of Lizzy Caplan, better known as the deadpan best friend Janis Ian in Mean Girls. Caplan has gone on to play the psycho hippie chick in True Blood, the disinterested love interest in Starz's hysterical Party Down, and most importantly, has yet to do one single twee role as a manic pixie dream girl with some one-dimensional quirk. BUT: maybe that's just me. Who would you guys rather spend the night out with: Deschanel or Caplan?
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Zooey Deschanel. Only because Lizzy Caplan annoyed the fuuuuuuuuuck out of me as that ditsy sociopath on True Blood. Ug.
Zooey Deschanel, because she was understatedly hilarious in Elf.
Zooey, especially if she'll sing me Beatles songs on the ukulele afterward.
Close call though.
The first time I saw Lizzy, I thought 'poor man's Zooey.' 'Nuf said.
Gotta give it to Lizzie. Zooey Deschanel is cute but at this point she's so often the indie/underdog cute chick that she's starting to not be the indie/underdog cute chick. And this Lizzie Caplan is really hot yet has that snarky sense of humor.
Deschanel hands down!
Why isn't threesome an option? Whpo would really pass on either of them?
Caplan has those outrageous breasts, she wins.
Zooey Deschanel. My penis demands it.
Zooey. How could I pass up Trillian from Hitchhiker's Guide (even though the character really is kinda a bitch)?
I'd rather Zooey's older sister
Caplan. She has too much flava to stoop to the one-dimensional roles. I'd also rather sit next to her on a flight.
Zooey
zooey has long been my dream girl. caplan was always kind of hard to approach in her roles, and likely to get you or herself killed (cloverfield, true blood)
Zooey - have maintained a respectable crush on her for years
Zooey for sure.
"How could I pass up Trillian from Hitchhiker’s Guide (even though the character really is kinda a bitch)?"
It's not her fault... Trillian was originally a brilliant astrophysicist, but they made her into just a Standard-Issue Love Interest. Bleah.
Tough choice, but I'm going with Lizzie Caplan. Zooey's performances (and I think she has the potential to be a great actress) have always stopped short of taking emotional risks. I always get the feeling she's playing it safe. Lizzie has an abandon that I really appreciate.
lizzy because she was jason segel's disco dancing girlfriend in freaks and geeks ten years ago, before zooey was even on the scene.
They're both annoying. That said, I'd rather fuck a can opener than Zooey Deschanel.
And another thing. 500 Days of Summer? Sucked. Admittedly, there were only three things wrong with it: Zooey, Joe Levitt, and the story. But still...
Opinions are opinions but this ones just bleugh.
I second mike. Emily D brings the braniac to her roles. Dead pan, sexy, smart girls make me swoon!
Zooey! She's so hot it's ridiculous. Those big blue eyes. *Sigh*
Zooey. She embodies my dream girl. Oh, why won't some pretty little pixie girl lead me on a journey of self-discovery?
I'd give both of 'em nine to the spine.
I'd like to hang with Zooey, but get down to it with Lizzy.
I don't understand why everyone is typing Zooey as a manic pixie dream girl in 500 days of summer. She's far from the cute quirkiness of most of these characters. If it wasn't for her looks Summer is absolutely dreadful. All wishy washy with Levitt, flaky, indecisive. She is definitely no Sam from Garden State. The pinnacle of the mpdg archetype for our generation. Natalie come back, don't shave your head again and start making some better movies. No more Goya's Ghosts.
I'll take em both.
Does this mean a night out with or, um, a night out with? Zooey probably knows where to find some good live music, but isn't she vegetarian? And seems to me a little "business class", as they used to say in Swingers. Screw it--I'm going Caplan. Insane body, and hopefully eats meat.
I do not know who Lizzy Caplan is and I do not care. Zooey was the reason that God created the universe in the first place. It has all been leading up to this, and now all is fulfilled.