MOVIE VS BOOK // THE FAULT IN OUR STARS

Raise your hand if you agree with the following statement: John Green is at the same time, the cruelest and most brilliant author the world has ever seen. *all raise 3 finger* I'm sorry! I merged 2 fandoms into one blog post! It shall not happen again, I promise... *crosses fingers behind back* I'm getting away from the point of this blog post! As you can already tell, I am going to be comparing the book and the movie of the most tragic yet hilarious love story you will ever come across. If you haven't read 'The Fault In Our Stars', LEAVE. Right, now where was I?

The Fault In Our Stars is the story of a blossoming relationship between a girl with terminal lung cancer and a boy who has one leg. Their names are Hazel-Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters. It is a book where anyone watching you read it will think you're having a facial spasm (if those even exist) because you will laugh and cry all at the same time. I was so excited about the movie coming out! I know lots of people are always scared when a really good book get turns into a movie but I always get super enthusiastic about it and I often sit on my laptop looking through pictures of different actors and actresses who could play the main characters while pretending to be the casting director. TMI! I'm sure that no one was disappointed with the outcome as the casting was on point (Ansel Elgort's gooffy smile, *melts*), the ambience of the set and scenery was tailored to perfection and the chemistry between each of the characters was just, ugh. When I first walked out of the cinema I thought 'I don't know whether I prefer the book or movie' but looking back, I preferred the book. Let me explain... 

The first reason (I've only got 2) is that the book made me cry more. This is quite strange because usually a film has the ability to make someone feel more emotion because it looks and feels more real as you can actually see it. I don't know what it is about John Green's writing, it just - I think it's magic. My final reason is because they skipped out my favourite part of the book. It is the part where a little girl comes up to Hazel and asks her what the tubes do and Hazel explains it and lets the little girl try them on. I think it is the sweetest thing and I even saw the preview of that scene where John Green HIMSELF plays the parent but I guess it got cut out. 

So I hope you enjoyed this blog post. It is a little different to the norm but I think it'd be fun to continue doing these 'MOVIE VS BOOK' series. I won't do it often but hopefully, you'll like it none the less. Thanks for reading!