So after my first post I realized that my blog address was the evil qeen and not the evil queen as I had thought I spelled it...
Oh well, these things happen.
And there has been a change of plans. I will blog about the Silence of the Lambs some other time. I need plenty of space and time to write that blog post....
ANYWAY, so I watch The Fault in Our Stars this week.
I read the book a few months back and really enjoyed. Its really good, completely unrealistic, but good. Now before you jump on me and say something like, "It was completely realistic! That's what the whole point of it was! They are normal teenagers going through something that's absolutely awful (cancer) and they find love in spite of it! You are just a stupid person who has never felt love and you just don't understand!!" Well, I don't think the cancer part was unrealistic, (that actually might have happened in some time in history, you never know.) The unrealistic part was the characters themselves. Hazel and Augustus are EXTREMELY intelligent teenagers. Like Hazel got her GED at age 16, which isn't completely unrealistic just unlikely. And Augustus could flirt and hold conversation in a really adorably intelligent way. Like really adorable, almost kinda sexy (and I don't call many people sexy. Only David Tennant holds that honor.) Anyway, the average teenager kid doesn't know anything about Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs or half the thing that Hazel and Augustus talk about. Most kids are intent on their make up or boyfriends or friend troubles or the newest teacher at school. So yeah the conversations in the book was very intelligent and unrealistic.
Wow... I used the word unrealistic a lot...
Anyway the movies was enjoyable, but not NEARLY as good as I had hope it would be. The best part was the actor that was cast as Augustus Waters. Ansel Elgort. A very handsome and charming young man, he easily captured the hearts of all the fangirls, including mine. And my heart is not easily captured. (Except in Matt Smith's case, that was an open and close case of heart capturing.) The other actors of the movie were decent enough, the parents, for example, were very well cast and the actors managed to bring the pain that parents that are watching their child die usually have. The biggest disappointment was Shailene Woodley. And I had such high hopes for her... She delivered the witty lines of Hazel Grace Lancaster with none of the finesse and and confidence that I had read in the book. The Movie Hazel was more focused on the hardships of living with cancer, while the Book Hazel was just amazing. No other words are necessary.
Anyway, in conclusion, the book is amazing and the movie was disappointing...
Thats all for now,
A Girl Against the World
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