Me Before You

Plot synopsis:
The movie starts off with Will Traynor (Sam Claflin) being blissfully happy with his beautiful fiancé. It's obvious that he's rich and high-society. It's raining, he leaves for work, and she tells him he can't take his motorcycle. He doesn't and starts walking to work while talking on his cell phone. He's distracted and gets hit by... a motorcycle. He ends up paralyzed from the neck down.A few years later, we see Lou Clark (Emilia Clarke), a young waitress in a café. She's super nice and chatty and helpful to everybody. At the end of the day, the owner gives her a final paycheck, says he's sorry, and closes the café (as in out-of-business).Losing her job is bad because Lou lives with her parents, her sister, and her sister's child. She's the only one who has a job at the moment. In the next few scenes, we're introduced to Lou's family. Her sister Katrina "Treena" (Jenna Coleman) and Lou's boyfriend Patrick (Matthew Lewis). It's pretty obvious that he's a tool and they aren't a good match.Lou goes to the unemployment office and has witty banter with the person there about how she lacks any skills. He finds a job for a caregiver and sends her off for an interview, but tells her to wear some conservative clothes. The interview is with some people who are fabulously wealthy. Lou interviews with Will's mother who doesn't seem to like her initially but Lou's witty banter impresses Will's mom and she gets the job. During the interview, we also meet Will's dad, and it's clear there is tension between Will's parents. Will's mom (Janet McTeer) tells her Will isn't to be left alone for more than 15 minutes. During the interview, Lou's skirt rips up the side and she tries to hide it.Will's mom takes Lou to meet Will. He's with Nathan (Stephen Peacocke), a nurse who stays with him at night. Basically, Lou's job is to be with Will all day until Nathan gets back from other patients. Will does a "my left foot" impression to show that he's a jerk, but behaves after that. He says something about her skirt being ripped and dismisses her. Nathan gives her a quick run-down of some of the medications Will takes.Lou comes back the next day and Will is mean to her. He says they should just leave each other alone. She tries, hates her job, and cries about it with Treena at home. Treena gives her a pep talk and turns her around. Treena also lets Lou know that she's going off to college again and the family needs Lou's job.With a new vigor, Lou goes to work, does witty banter with Will, and starts to win him over. He slowly starts to open up to her. This is the point where the movie turns into Pretty Woman. He gets her to watch a subtitled foreign film and she loves it (a la the opera). She tries to get Patrick to see a foreign film at the theater and he poo-poos the idea.At some point, Will's old girlfriend stops by with her new fiancé who happens to be Will's old best friend. Will is understandably mean to them. There's some of the, "I tried," and, "It just happened," talk. The movie doesn't make the happy couple look like really bad people, which is nice.At some point, Will and Lou talk about her fashion sense and Lou tells Will a story about having black and yellow striped leggings as a young girl and never taking them off. (This is important for later.)Eventually, Lou finds out that Will wants to die via assisted suicide in Switzerland, because he used to be very active and now he can't move. He told his mom that he'd wait six months. Lou is bummed by that and takes it as a challenge to try to get him to change his mind. She starts planning all kinds of outings for Will.The first outing is to the horse races. Lou does a video call with Treena to decide what to wear. They settle on a red dress that really impresses Will. Lou bets on a horse that Will says won't win. She's very optimistic, until the horse gets stuck coming out of the gate and seems to wander around the racetrack like a drunkard.The next outing is to a Mozart concert. It appears that Will had a good time because when they get home he wants to sit in the car for a while and, "be a man who was just at concert with a girl in a red dress".Lou gets Will to go other places. She gets him to let her shave his beard. He surprises her by having his mangy hair cut neatly.Lou's birthday comes around and her parents invite Will to their house for dinner which he accepts. They're all nice during dinner and have witty banter. When it's time for gifts, Lou's parents give her a photo album of pictures from when she was growing up. She loves it. Patrick gives her a specially made necklace that has his name on it. She's polite about it. Then Will gives her a gift that's black and yellow leggings. Well, she goes crazy over them and goes to put them on right away. It's pretty obvious that she likes them the most of anything. Patrick starts to think that she and Will like each other.Will and Lou go to the old fiancé/old best friend's wedding. He drives her around the dance floor on his wheelchair and they talk about her boobs. The two of them are seen racing away from the party on his wheelchair and getting home the next morning. Will's mom says something and he replies that he's a grown man and can spend the night in a hotel if he wants.Will gets sick and can't go on this big trip that Lou had planned. Lou is sad, but plans another trip that the doctors agree to. Nathan goes with them. They all have lots of fun. Will forces Lou to try scuba diving and she loves it. Nathan even finds romance. At the end of the trip, Will tells Lou about Switzerland. She yells at him and leaves.Treena talks Lou into going to Switzerland to be with Will for his assisted suicide. She makes it in time to talk with him.The final scene is Lou sitting in a café in Paris and reading a note from Will. It was one of his favorite places that he wouldn't go back to after his accident because it would only make him sad. He tells her to be happy and go see the world. He's left her some money. She heads off to her next stop and is wearing the back and yellow striped leggings.

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Review:
This movie is a treat to watch and a glimpse of what it feels like to be a person who lives their life with a moral conscience, an open mind, a respect for beliefs that are different than yours and a desire to see the best in the world.
She is hair-brained, and scatty, completely adorable and wonderful.The camera-work is gorgeous and the soundtrack is second to none.Lou (Emilia Clarke) gets a job as a carer to a man (William) who is paralyzed more or less from the neck down.
But sometimes movies are never has detailed has the books they are based on.A beautifully well made story, it about Louisa(Emilia Clarke) a 26 year old who finds a job taking care of Will(Sam Claflin) a young billionaire who is permanently confined to wheel chair after an accident two years earlier, the use of his arms and legs are gone.
The story (of a young woman who cares for a quadriplegic young man) is strong, the direction and cinematography good though not exceptional, the screen writing also good-not-exceptional, the supporting cast (especially Janet McTeer and Charles Dance)and leading man (Sam C.) quite good, and the emotional notes it hits, though all predictable and often a bit overwrought (cue swelling, heartwarming music...), ring true enough for an unabashed romance.So, not really my type of movie.
Her character here is nothing like her GoT role, but is in many ways an equally fantasy-based role (but with clumsy shyness and striped leggings instead of fireproof skin and dragons) -- and Clarke manages to pull this character out of romantic fantasy into believability as effectively as she brings to life her role as Mother of Dragons.
Felt very derivative of Intouchables I did however really enjoy the romance that was in this film.Emilia Clark has the most expressive face I have ever seen on camera.Watch her eyebrows!
With a pretty eclectic sense of style.Emilia Clarke was perfectly cast for this role.She ventures far from her intense power house character the Mother of Dragons from Game of Thrones.At times it was hard to tell if Emilia Clarke the actress is just extremely expressive with her face, or if it was something she was doing for the role which I suppose speaks to how well she did.Because I'm thinking she was exaggerating it, therefore she played the part marvellously.The male lead is Sam Claflin, who you will more than likely recognize but not be able to place.
No complaints, He has a great smile, or smirk, that he does through out, which allows us to empathize with him a little more when he seeming unlikable.There are a lot of light moments, actually the whole movie has a very light tone to it it's a serious topic, but with Clarke's character it's hard for anything to be too serious or solemn.
The film stars Emilia Clarke (Lou) and Sam Claflin (Will) from Game of Thrones and The Hunger Games respectively.
It's pretty much the basis for all of these romantic novels adapted for film, but if you're film has enough likable qualities to it, the overused plot points and clichés can be forgiven.The main qualm for these characters are Will's questionable wishes about his future living as a quadriplegic and Lou's inability to fulfill her potential and aspirations due to her commitment as the breadwinner for her family.
It's because of the ladder that I think Me Before You is definitely worth a look.+Clarke's undeniable likability+Charm and chemistry with the Lou and Will dynamic+Romance is earned not forced-Popular songs tend to ruin the big moments-A few clichéd characters and plot devices7.4/10.
I wish I knew Emilia Clarke (Lou) personality to figure out the gap between the real her and the character she played in this movie.
First time I have written a review but just too say a movie has never made me cry so much that I started to laugh and every time I kept looking at the screen I would start balling again,I'm a 47 year old male who loves action movies and yet this film hit me like a grenade.
Emilia Clark was a joy to watch throughout the film,you were so believable to the point that when you cried I couldn't stop myself...if a movie can make someone react in this way,the film has done its job with entertaining an audience.
Sam gives a solid performance as a disabled person, in the begging is a smart-ass but then he becomes really cool, which means that Sam is a good actor, and Emilia is great with that goofy look on her face and always chating and smiling,.
You have to see this movie to believe it is a great masterpiece.Parents this is a British love story so there might be some things you may not want your little ones to see but they will probably see it anyway.
She is wonderful.I have seen a lot of love stories but never one this good before it is just mind blowing thanks to Emilia Clarke.
When people see this film, some of Will's ways of thinking are very unorthodox to some and viewers may think the character is crazy, but understanding the life that handicapped people live, I thought it was perfectly executed.
I've seen The Intouchables, and I feel that this movie is just a copy, with a touch of love story and a dude with a poor mentality.
So at first I thought it was going to be another pretty predictable movie and I was only watching it because I love Emilia Clarke.
Emilia Clarke did a great job at playing an adorable, clumsy, sweet girl and Sam Claflin too did a great performance as a disabled young man.
There was another segment that I found not just ironic, but actually annoying; however, discussion of the "Live boldly" advice would give away the film's ending  something I'm not sure even matters since it's made pretty clear throughout, but it still goes against my movie code..
i have watched very little of the movies which were based on any ROMANTIC BOOKS like "The Fault in Our Stars", but this movie is and will be one of the Greatest and one of the Best Romantic Movie I would have ever watched.I have watched Emilia Clarke, playing the role of Lou Clark, in some great movies and of course Game of Thrones, it was good to see change in the type of Role she played in this Movie.
I and many audience has made an image of Emilia Clarke as a strong and Bold Character playing actress( well according to me only) as she had the recent movie of Terminator: Genisys, and the famous Khaleesi/ Mother of Dragons.Sam Claffin on the other hand did a tremendous job, he did his Homework very well, according to me he painted the perfect portrait of Will Traynor as a person who was full of life and how his life suddenly changes because of the Accident.
And neither of them knows they're going to change each other for all time until Lou concocts a bucket list of events that brings light into her life as well as joy into Will's final days.Without becoming morbid, the interplay between Lou and Will is a transformation and due to the splendid script and sensitive direction and a cast of superb actors in every part this little film makes a lasting impression, restoring our faith in what friendship and love can achieve.
This is obvious when I read some of the reviews.I am really glad I watched the film and I found it uplifting and inspiring.Emilia Clarke reminded me a little bit of a Bridget Jones type character and I will definitely look out for more things she is in.There were some notable other performances but Emilia Clarke really stood out.I will be recommending this film to my friends..
Will Traynor since he's played by Sam Claflin, whose Finnick Odair was one of the best things in the Hunger Games series, isn't just killer handsome or impossibly good- looking even if his condition has left him bitterly depressed and cuttingly sarcastic in a wheelchair.
And cutting it from the movie, I think, was a good thing because the scene is very opaque in the book, and putting it on film would have given it far more weight than it has in the book.
The movie is about a girl named Lou Clark who is desperate for a job and so the goes on to take care of a recently paralyzed man from a rich family, who she slowly creates a bond with.
It is a movie filled with heart breaking emotional scenes, very good cinematography and a brilliant score by Craig Armstrong that makes Me Before You as a whole one of the best romances there are.
I went for an unplanned movie in the cinema's yesterday and chose Me Before You because the trailer looked good and I wanted to see Emilia Clarke star a whole different role at least once.
Louisa Clarke is just the best character ever, seriously I don't think there can be a person who has watched this movie who doesn't like her she is just adorable.
Can the quirky and vivacious Lou bring him out of his morbid shell and find him a life worth living again?From this outline, you might think the story almost writes itself, and for most of the film it does.
Coleman and Clarke make a very credible pair of sisters, with the "bed" discussion scene being very touching.Elsewhere a number of other well-known faces crop up including Brendan Coyle ("Downton Abbey") as Lou's father and Joanna Lumley as a wedding guest with a handy line in references.The soundtrack by Craig ("Love Actually") Armstrong is top notch with pleasing songs from Ed Sheeran, Imagine Dragons, Cloves and We The Kings.The production quality is as professional as you would expect from a British-made movie, although the Mallorca and Paris locations are not particularly well exploited, since for a large chunk of these scenes I was convinced they hadn't left Pinewood!So, a bit of a mixed bag, but enjoyable nonetheless.
Featuring the strange proposition of The Mother of Dragons living a life where she cares for the tragically paralysed son of Tywin Lannister, Me Before You is 2016's attempt at becoming "the big romantic hit" as debut director Thea Sharrock adapts Jojo Moyes well liked book of the same name, which is in turn a rejigged version of the 2011 hit The Intouchables into a totally over the top and highly overdone romantic drama.In what's her highest profile gig outside of the 6 seasons of playing Game of Thrones beloved dragon mother, Brit star Emilia Clarke goes next level of loving life as the seemingly carefree and unflappable stocking loving Lou Clark who takes up the job of becoming a friend to The Hunger Games Sam Claflin's quadriplegic Will Traynor, that will in turn see the two fall tragically in love as Will contemplates ending his now unfortunately paralysed life.It's an intriguing idea, if not totally original and there's potential here for many tears, laughs and smiles but everything within Sharroack's film feels either forced, full of fakery or misjudged emotional manipulations as Clarke in particular suffers from her role in the film that allows her to go completely wild with her unfortunately annoying and coy Lou and it really does beg the question of how much of a career she may have outside of the GOT universe if she continues on in this fashion.Lou Clark may just be last year's most intolerable creation, as while we all love someone that sees the brighter side of life, this is something else entirely as Clarke and her eyebrows, over extended smile and genuine ADHD tendencies trample the films chances as Lou and Will's relationship turns from forced friendship to genuine love.Clarke needed to dial back her role especially as Claflin gives his all as Will (even if you've never seen a quadriplegics body looked quite this toned before) and while the film clearly connected with its ready-made target audience as evidenced by its respectable world-wide box office and audience ratings, it's unlikely that many will be remembering the hard fought romance of Lou Clark and Will Traynor as we'd remember the Noah and Allie's or Edward Lewis and Vivian Wards of the movie universe.A refreshingly kind spirited movie that just never connects emotionally or engages thanks to a so-so structure and a completely misguided female centrepiece, Me Before You will be a favourite to those that loved the movie before they even saw it but for the rest of us, this sappy, cringe-worthy and forgettable romance just doesn't cut the romantic mustard.2 fit Neville Longbottom's out of 5.
but i really loved Emilia Clarke in this movie, she is the most beautiful girl with very original acting.
Most Awful Drama So Far. The first thing I had in mind after watched this movie is that money can buy love.
I decided to see it based on the good scores and reviews it had here plus hearing someone saying that "it wasn't the typical Hollywood chick flick" let me tell you that is not only the typical chick flick is just a compilation of corny fake clichés, the script is awful, the actors are terrible and Emily Clark's acting it's the most obnoxious thing I have seen in years on the screen.
Omg I was so excited to watch this film, I have loved the books and the Louisa Clark.
Sam Claflin was by far fantastic in this film along with Emilia Clarke, the soundtrack goes great, I don't want to say anything about the film or spoilers, but see for yourself how amazing this film is, you will agree it is really a top notch film for 2016..
It's like watching Sex and the City where they magically are just wealthy, because who wants to look at poor people?The book delves pretty good into the miserable life of being depressed and paralyzed - but this book doesn't even scratch the surface.It just feels like a money movie - to quickly go over all the events in the book and none of the actual emotion.Urgh I'm so disappointed..
Lou's character is so beautiful and so is their relationship, which makes me cry because I know how it ends.Would recommend if you want a good cry, and if you're a fan of Emilia Clarke.
In 'Me Before You,' we get to know the story of a young man named Will Trainer who loses his sense of freedom due to an accident that leaves him paralyzed (Sam Claflin), and a young unemployed woman named Lou who gets a job as his caretaker (Emilia Clarke).As expected, 'You' is as formulaic as they come.
Me Before You (2016): When I read plot line of Me Before You,I was surprised to find it exactly similar to the french classic Intouchables (which was remade in Telugu as Oopiri),only in the other way around.The only difference is they have given a female lead in the caretaker role and as usually love blossoms between them even with such physical differences.But the only reason I watched this movie is for my Princess Khaleesi aka Daenerys Targaryen aka her off screen real name Emilia Clarke.Plot: Louisa Clark (Emilia Clark) is a small town girl who knows a lot about the people around her.
Although they have a rocky start, their relationship grows over time, going for hate, to like, to love.What I felt: With exactly the same plot and almost same type of scenes like Intouchables ,Me Before You mostly works on Emilia Clarke's charming performance.Other than that,this movie has very few feel good moments but mostly the screenplay is totally predictable.These movies would only work if it has lot of feel good moments which can bring tears but this movie has none literally.The dinner ate Clark's home and the scene where Clark and Will dances and the scene where they watch a movie are the scenes which are the highlight of the movie.As said earlier,Emilia Clark's charming screen presence helped the movie a lot.But her expressions with eyebrows are weird.It felt like she can even move her eyebrows downwards to ;-o.So apart from that she really is charming and I never even imagined Khaleesi being cute like this.Sam Claflin,whom I have seen earlier in Love,Rosie is very good in his role of a quadriplegic man.Music also helped the movie in lot of scenes.But the major surprise in this film is its daring climax.Most of them would not accept this ending (Including me to an extent),but as a fiction we cannot blame the director/writer.But he could have tried other options because this may affect lot of such disabled persons ideology.So,Me Before You works mostly because of Emilia Clark's charming screen presence and few moments but its climax is shocking.My rating 6.5/10.
And, at least for the first half hour, that's exactly what I got, however the great thing about Me Before You is that it gets a hell of a lot better with every scene, ending up as a very enjoyable, if not generic, romantic drama.However, before I get into the best parts of this film, I'm going to start with the first act, roughly half an hour wrought with problems that I expected to continue on through the whole movie.
If you interested in romantic, sad love story then this movie is definitely for you.
This movie seems that our life became changed when we met right person and you will understand how we love each other.
The chemistry between Claflin and Clarke was undeniable and made the movie.Honestly, I don't understand the criticism of those who said it was saying that disabled people's lives are worthless.
I think everyone should go and watch this movie if you love romantic comedy.
Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, Janet McTeer, Charles Dance, Matthew Lewis, just to name a few, beautifully create an emotional journey, which is more than just a heart-breaking love story.