(500) Days of Summer Trivia (2009)

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(500) Days of Summer Trivia

• The sounds from a game that Tom's friends are playing in two different scenes is from a version of "Donkey Kong" for the original Game Boy.
• The film's blue-centric color scheme was done to bring out Zooey Deschanel's eyes.
• The cover of Morrissey's debut album, Viva Hate, can be seen in both Tom and Summer's childhood rooms.
• According to the DVD commentary, the writer estimates that 75% of the film actually happened to him.
• The black shirt Tom is wearing in his childhood room during the film's opening is later seen in the scene were Tom and Summer lie on the bed together.
• This is film maker Marc Webb's feature length directorial début.
• The stars of the film, Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, worked together previously on the film Manic.
• In the first draft of the screenplay, the film was set in San Francisco.