The fault with TFiOS

Rating: 5/10 (20 August 2014)

The book original book The Fault in Our Stars, is a beautiful work of art that many people do not understand, the see the mask of the love story that is used to explain the beauty of life. In the book, both Hazel and Augustus fall in love each other because of their personalities and how they have similarities and how they share similar ideas about life and death. In the book it shows how they fall in love with each other not because of looks but because they can have actual and real conversations with each other the one that one can only have with someone who really knows them. In the movie it does not show them falling in love for these reasons, instead it becomes your typical cliché love story. Augustus Waters is supposed to be more than a pretty face, he is supposed to be a guy who has a deeper meaning of life and how death is inevitable. The movie does not show their relationship and how it develops. In the book both Hazel and Gus have great relationships with their parents. Hazel mom tries to make the best of everything and is more like a friend than a mom, I could not see this in the movie. Also in the book, Hazel and The Waters become close and have a relationship of their own, his parents love Hazel and what she does for Gus, in the movie they look at Hazel as if she is a stranger. In the book, Isaac and Gus have an almost brotherly relationship. They joke around with each other and understand each others wants and needs. In the movie it shows as if Hazel and Isaac only became friends because of Augustus, which is not true. John Green uses many literally references in his books. The poem about the Red Wheelbarrow was there and that is a key part, except Hazel does not write poems, and Gus notices that. The poem that was supposed to be recited in the airplane on the way to Amsterdam is also missing, which is also a key poem. Hazel and Augustus also have more of a correspondence with Van Houten, which is not shown in the movie. The thing that annoyed me the most about the movie, is that the biggest and major quote the one that the book is based on is missing. The Julius Caesar quote. There are some characters that are missing from the movie and I understand that they could not fit all of them in because then it would make the movie to long, but I feel that Caroline Mathers is a really important person in the book. After reading Caroline's page after she died, Hazel realized that she was a "grenade", she also learns why Augustus stared at her when they first met, because she looked like her. Kaitlyn, who is one of Hazel's non cancer friends, brings realness to the book. In the movie, before Hazel meets Gus, its seems that she is depressed and once she meets him her life becomes perfect, it also shows Gus being her whole entire life. In the book, Isaac and Gus are not her only friends. Every girl needs a friend that is a girl, so they can be understood. Hazel talks to Kaitlyn about things she is not a expert in but Kaitlyn has more experience in. Overall, if I had not read the book and memorized it, it would have been a good movie, a bit cliché for my taste but a good movie.