TFIOS movie is coming soon. I just could not hold my excitement within me anymore. Apart from following the vlogbrothers youtube channel closely for any update about the movie, I recently also started to go through some previous movies from Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort. I was hoping to find a little bit of Hazel and Augustus through those movies and I am not disappointed.
The first one I watched was Spectacular Now. From the start, I thought it was going to be a typical cheesy teen romance movie. Shailene has a really nice smile and if it was not because of her smile, I don't think I was going to finish the movie. In the end, it turned out to be alright. The movie actually deals with more serious issue of alcoholism and I was truly touched by the ending. The movie was not mainly about her character but Sutter. I think we audience can't say much about her acting in this movie because I feel like there isn't much space for Shailene to perform. She was just being a typical teenager in high school. But make no mistake, her smile is the nicest smile I have seen since a long time ago.
After that, I watched Carrie, the 2013 version by Chloe Moretz and not the original version in 1976. Ansel Elgort played Tommy Ross in this movie, one of the few good character who don't make fun of Carrie. Through this movie, I am sure now that Ansel is perfect to play Augustus, relatively good looking, tall and absolutely charming. Ansel just has the look of a good guy. But I am not sure whether it is a good thing for an actor because his good guy look might just limit his acting career and be the "good guy" all the time.
As for the movie Carrie itself, it reminds me of a girl in my class during high school. She was this weird girl without any friends in my class and many of my classmates made fun of her behind her back. Watching Carrie, I felt bad for Carrie and the girl, and I am ashamed to say that I joined the gossip about her sometimes. If she had any supernatural power like Carrie, I might end up as one of the victims like in the movie.
Anyway, TFIOS is very well written. Of many book to film adaptations, I think this time the movie would not spoil the book because the setting of the book is not anything of fantasy like the LOTR or Harry Potter, which the visual has no chance of beating the readers' imagination. And the story is rather short, so lesser chance that anything in the book would be cut. Under John Green's own supervision and from his vlogbrothers videos, he was happy about the film. I am so so so excited!!!
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