Meet Your New Sid and Nancy: Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt

MSN's Cinemash series launches today, giving contemporary actors the opportunity to reinvent their favorite scenes from old movies. As per their marketing witchcraft, Fox Searchlight took full advantage of the opportunity to depict (500) Days of Summer stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the title characters of Alex Cox's 1986 classic Sid & Nancy. Except, you know, respectively: Bewigged, knife-wielding Deschanel as the Sex Pistols bassist (or at least Gary Oldman's version of him), and bewigged, sweatshirted Levitt doing Chloe Webb as Nancy Spungen. All of which is itself a riff on a scene in Summer. Got it? Oh. Well, read on for a few more specifics (with helpful video aids).

I'll have more on Summer before it opens July 17, but for now stay busy with the head-cramping meta herein: First the break-up scene between Tom and Summer (Levitt and Deschanel, actually in that order), featuring a uniquely reverse comparison to the infamous couple whose relationship ended when Vicious stabbed Spungen to death in 1978. Then the NSFW break-up scene between Oldman and Webb, in which Cox dramatizes the actions behind Vicious's "she jumped on my knife" defense.

And finally, the seamless blending of the two, directed by Summer filmmaker Marc Webb himself. Be advised, Zooey fans: She does not do the scene topless like Oldman. Pervs.

· Cinemash: (500) Days of Summer [MSN Movies]

Mean's Cinemash Clip/Ep 1 "Sid and Nancy" from Mean Magazine on Vimeo.