![]() ![]() But for Paper Towns, romanticising the book is a much bigger fear. With The Fault In Our Stars, I felt that the movie was turned too much into a romance, more of a money-maker than I think did justice to the book. Many people hype T The Fault in our Stars, when actually for me Paper Towns is the better of the two (or five…). Paper Towns was incredibly unique as a book. We want this blog to grow so share your hopes and fears for the Paper Towns film on Twitter or by email and we’ll be sure to add them! Your thoughts: Read more Not yet read Paper Towns? Or want to read it again with a bit of company? Join our readalong in partnership with Bloomsbury, which starts in full here on the site on Monday 3 August – including great discussion ideas and more! We’ll be discussing the Prologue and Part 1 on 3 August and using #PaperTownsRead on Twitter, Facebook and on the site - so do get ready to join in! Get your copy of Paper Towns at a reduced price from the Guardian bookshop. He is truly one of the only people to understand teenagers, who isn’t actually a teenager. Also, I hope the actors can live up to their multi-dimensional characters and show that transformation all of them go through during the novel.ĭespite my scepticism, I’m extremely excited for the film’s release and any future works of John Green’s, either as a book or on screen. My hopes are that the wit and humour of the novel will be transferred to the screen and that the teen cliches usually seen in coming of age films will be ditched, in favour of John Green’s more original line of story telling. Surprisingly, I actually understand the cut of the SeaWorld scene from the film, because, despite being comedy gold and an incredible moment in the book, since the making of the documentary Blackfish, visits to SeaWorld no longer seem quite so fun and innocent. I only hope the script has kept the same wit, charm and depth so apparent in the book. Inevitably, the story has been shortened to fit into the film’s one hour and 53 minute running time, but John Green writes so beautifully that even the cutting of a single sentence could cause disappointment. The reverence in the way Q talks about her makes her almost seem a godlike being, so I’m worried too many scenes with Cara will take away from one of the key aspects of the story. The ambiguity surrounding her character is one of the things that makes the book so irresistible, both ours and Q’s cluelessness about the truth of her personality, allows her to be imagined in a thousand different ways. My first fear: losing the mystery of Margo In the end, I thoroughly enjoyed the book with its witty humour, interesting characters and strangely philosophical revelations, yet the trailer left me wondering how different the film adaptation will be from the book.Ĭara Delevingne and Nat Wolff as Margo and Q: but which scenes in the book are going to be cut and will Margo retain her mystery? Photograph: 20th Century Fox/Allstar So, overall, I think Paper Towns stands an exceptionally good chance to living up to the hype, especially with actors Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne starring, but whether it can pack the same powerful emotional punch as Tfios, well, that’s debatable. The ending if you ask me, slightly anti climatic, although maybe this was to be expected, considering John Green makes the point things are always much more ordinary than what you misimagine. ![]() ![]() Yet, for me there wasn’t the same heart wrenching material that made TFIOS such a success. How the characters change from beginning to end is fascinating, as Q’s perceptions of the world and people are altered. When Margo goes missing, Q sets on an adventure to solve the mystery she’s left behind and find her. The only extraordinary thing about his life is his miracle - Margo Roth Spiegelman, who he happens to live next door to. Paper Towns tells the story of Quentin (Q), an anxious teenage nobody, just about to leave school. ![]()
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