![]() While Woodley navigates the complexity of Green’s dialogue with ease, Elgort seems stiff and uncomfortable by comparison. In Hazel, he immediately recognizes a kindred spirit: a quick-witted smart-ass who can’t take any of the feel-good platitudes seriously. A former high school basketball star, Augustus lost his right leg below the knee to the disease and now walks with a prosthetic. There, she meets the handsome and equally loquacious Augustus Waters ( Ansel Elgort, who coincidentally played Woodley’s brother earlier this year in "Divergent"). Mom insists that Hazel attends weekly cancer support group meetings (where comedian Mike Birbiglia is the amusingly earnest leader). Her parents ( Laura Dern and Sam Trammell, with whom she shares some lovely, honest moments) try not to hover over their daughter as she attempts to maintain some vague semblance of teenage life, and they even share her fondness for using dark humor to defuse difficult moments. While her situation looked bleak a few years ago, participation in a new drug trial has prolonged her life for an indefinite amount of time. It weakens her lungs, forcing her to drag an oxygen tank behind her wherever she goes and to stop to rest after climbing a flight of stairs. Woodley stars as Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old Indianapolis girl who’s diagnosed with cancer at 13. Her work is so strong, it makes you wish she had a better performance to play off of to create the sparky chemistry at the heart of this story. Following winning turns in the indie dramas " The Descendants" and "The Spectacular Now," and the blockbuster " Divergent," Woodley continues to cement her accessible and likable on-screen persona. Still, Shailene Woodley’s abiding, disarming naturalism consistently keeps you engaged. But while the flip, jaunty verbosity they use as a shield produces some pleasingly acerbic humor, it often feels forced and false in this setting. There’s a specificity to Green’s language his characters are hyper-verbal, self-aware and fiercely biting in the tradition of " Heathers" and " Clueless." They know all too well that pop culture depicts cancer-especially young people with cancer-in a mawkish manner that they refuse to accept as they regard their own conditions. Weber, who also wrote the romantic charmers " (500) Days of Summer" and " The Spectacular Now," remained very faithful to the book, which should make the core tween/teen fan base happy. (Screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. He called out to his fellow monks, ‘Come quickly: I am tasting the stars.So much of what worked on the page-and made Green’s writing so lively and engaging-gets lost in translation and feels uncomfortably precocious when actual people actually say his words out loud. By far my favorite part of this whole scene was the waiter’s remark about Dom Pérignon inventing champagne. ![]() Only because it was done so beautifully with all the trees and the lights. This is one point that I give to the movie though. I have one question for John Green, who hurt you that you’ve hurt all of us with The Fault in Our Stars? That connection that Hazel and Augustus formed over their love over his book and then the complete disaster van Houten turned out to be felt all too real. I adored that scene even though it was entirely cringey and I wanted to throw my book across the room in anger at Mr. One thing that I found really interesting was the inclusion of An Imperial Affliction by Peter Van Houten. I remember devouring this book, so I reread this portion about three times. I’m someone who likes to be sucked into books whenever I read them, and I was not disappointed by this one. I’ve never left the United States before, so I love reading books where the characters travel to far-off places and have experiences that are life-changing for them. (Also the fact that he’s played by Willem DaFoe may play a role in my opinion of Van Houten) IMAGE VIA AMAZON IMAGE VIA AMAZON The Fault in Our Stars Amsterdam Trip I’m not even kidding y’all, the pages of my copy of The Fault in Our Stars is like warped from my tears. Props to John Green for taking me through the five stages of grief and then having this jerk recluse be the thing that tipped me over the edge. Look, was the guy an absolute jerk? Yes, but (!) he had the tiniest redemption arc at the end of the book and I think that him showing up in the final act gave Hazel that little bit of closure that she needed. Pinerest / Βάσια Κεχαγιά Peter Van Houten
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