We find out later, of course, that he is insisting that he travel despite his cancer’s resurgence, and that he is now deteriorating. ![]() Hazel hears him fighting loudly with his parents, a screaming match that carries outside. The one scene omitted from the book version that I particularly missed was the moment when Hazel and her mother arrive to pick up Gus to go to the airport. They want to meet the author and live in their infinite present, experiencing romance and freedom in a brief taste of what they can’t have, what life could be. Hazel and Gus want answers to what happens after Affliction‘s abrupt end, which sends them on a “Genie Foundation” granted whirlwind quest to Amsterdam. While they bond over a book called An Imperial Affliction, and help their friend Isaac ( Nat Wolff) deal with a breakup in the midst of his own cancer battle, Hazel and Gus make a sweet and believable couple they are given much freedom by parents who probably want more for their children to experience as much of life as possible than to coddle them. Gus fears oblivion, being forgotten after his death, while Hazel takes a more pragmatic approach to the situation, and soon they are tumbling into a romance that catches Hazel, at least, off guard. They meet at a cancer support group and bond over their mutual snarky attitudes and realistic view that cancer sucks but life, as it is, must go on. The Fault in Our Stars is the story of Hazel Grace Lancaster ( Shailene Woodley) and Augustus Waters ( Ansel Elgort), two teenagers facing terminal diagnoses and living their lives despite the impending end. ![]() And besides, you should’ve read the book already anyway. Now, I am warning you, beyond this point there be SPOILERS. I am happy to say that John Green‘s star-crossed teenage love story has not only done well but has soared, and that this adaptation is faithfully and beautifully done as well. When The Fault in Our Stars came out two and a half years ago, I had no idea I’d one day be sitting down to write about its film adaptation, much less the huge success it would see in the bestseller lists and in high schools across the world.
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