Green has been talking to young brilliant people, via his video blogs with his brother Hank, Vlogbrothers, for a number of years, and also through his other four novels. "John is aware of how smart teenagers are, how literate, that they don't want to be spoken down to," Strauss-Gabel explains. The "heavy lifting" is dialogue that is dizzying in its intellectualising, frankness and wit. They're very aware of how much time they have left, in a much more tangible way than other people are." The difference between Hazel and Gus, and everyone else, is that they are very much aware that they're going to die and we're not. "We never really thought of it as a book about illness. Screenwriter Scott Neustadter says that it is this that he and his writing partner, Michael H Weber, focused on. And thus begins a love story that is dazzling in its innocence and authenticity the perfect capturing of first love. At this support group, Hazel lays eyes on a boy with foppish hair and movie-star looks - Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort) – who is in remission from bone cancer. The person whose eyes we are seeing this through is 16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster (played by Shailene Woodley), our heroine, who has stage 4 thyroid cancer, and is only alive because of a new drug that should have stopped working on her by now. The story starts in a cancer support group for children, each person getting up to introduce themselves and their illness, and stage of illness. Not glossing over things is an understatement.
0 kommentar(er)
