What’s so uniquely interesting about the writing of Scott’s character, is that despite the lack of aim he has with his friends, and al of the difficulties that come with living at home, he doesn’t want to leave. The following violent frame on the film they’re watching cements the strange but loving relationship that Scott and his friends have with Staten Island. Scott and his friends watch a deeply violent, gory film, and one of Scott’s friends Igor ( Moisés Arias) tells the group with a gentle smile, “I love this movie, they shot this on Staten Island”. In one of the first scenes, a certain offbeat love of Staten Island is established. It’s the emotionally resonant writing from Davidson, Apatow, and Dave Sirus that crafts an unpredictable tale, which broke Amazon Prime rental records, with an underlying message about finding the beauty within your hometown. However, Apatow and Davidson turn audience's expectations on their head by subverting these classic coming of age tropes in every step of Scott’s character arc. As Scott’s journey unfolds, every event from him being alienated by his family and friends to struggling to find a place to sleep for the night seems like an indicator that Scott will leave Staten Island like his younger sister Claire ( Maude Apatow) and discover a new life somewhere far away. When we’re introduced to Scott (Davidson), his life is in a particularly bleak stasis as he aimlessly drifts around Staten Island. The King of Staten Island, a 2020 film directed by Judd Apatow and co-written by Pete Davidson, who also stars in the film, seems to set up the story for this exact trajectory. Often within this genre, a protagonist feels stifled by their hometown, they’re exhausted by their overbearing family, and they hold an internal desperation to flee for a new life in a bigger city. Stemming all the way back to classic films like The Graduate and The 400 Blows, coming of age stories are rooted in similar tropes.
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