We fought very hard for Young Werther. That was uh, every series of notes we got from the studio was like ‘cut the young Werther joke.’
The fact that we can do a young Werther reference in this sort of mainstream—
What does it reference?
It’s Goethe. He was the first unrequited love protagonist probably ever put on paper. And then he killed himself. The end. Yeah, it’s kind of a sad story.
There was like a rash of copycat suicides after.
Yeah cause it was the exact same thing like, it made it to print and everyone related to it in a way and it was like oh my god I’ve been waiting for something like this now I’m gonna kill myself
Commentary by Director Marc Webb, Writer Michael Weber, Writer Scott Neustadter, and Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, for 500 Days of Summer
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