![]() ![]() “Man dies, everyone learns something, moves on, creates something wonderful out of his death,” Louisa bitterly tells her grief-support group. In fact, in some ways, the whole novel is a failed HEA. After You explicitly toys with the idea that it is the same sad story as Me Before You-and explicitly rejects it.Īfter You offers other wrong turns and unhappy, or mixed, endings, though. And Louisa herself asks the paramedic if she is paralyzed. The parallel is very direct Louisa’s accident is recounted in a foreword, just as Will’s is. The first of these comes right at the beginning of the novel Louisa accidentally falls off her roof and for a moment thinks she is paralyzed, like Will before her. “Give me the end I’m hoping for,” he says. You have no idea how happy that has made me.” Will wants to die not because he is sad, but because he won’t accept the limited life he has, and the prospect of things getting worse. “I’ve watched you these six months becoming a whole different person,” he tells Louisa, “someone who is only just beginning to see her possibilities. Louisa, for her part, helps Will to overcome his self-centeredness, his bitterness, and even his depression. Over the course of the book, Will opens Louisa’s horizons: to opera (shades of Pretty Woman), travel, and her own potential. Will, before his accident, was, in his own words, a self-centered “arse” and a callous womanizer after his accident, he is consumed with bitterness. Louisa at the start of the novel is a lower-middle-class woman afraid to dream beyond her small English town and bland, exercise-crazed boyfriend. A trace of anxiousness creeps across her face.Even beyond the damaged hero, though, Me Before You functions as a romance because it’s about two people falling in love, and becoming more complete, and more themselves, while doing so. “It’s mostly positive, so far,” she says. But she has been checking Twitter after each screening to see what people have being tweeting about the movie. ![]() It appears that JoJo Moyes really is at peace as her novel-her golden child-comes to the screen. She thought Emilia and Sam were perfect (Emilia, she jokes, is a lot more like Louisa in real life than she is Khalessi.) And yes, she agreed with all cuts from the novel. before a scene was shot, asking her opinions on lines. “There were few egos in the room.” She was kept in the loop about casting, and Sharrock would often ring her 6 a.m. “I felt consulted with and referred back to at all times,” she said. She says has a great relationship with Me Before You’s director Thea Sharrock. “There was a lot of horror stories about writers and Hollywood going around at the time.” This production was a collaboration, a “happy ship.” She alludes to these cases in a hushed tone. Moyes says Me Before You was not like a 50 Shades or a Mary Poppins. Travers, the length Walt Disney went to woo her, and in the end, how it still may not have been enough for her. Banks chronicled the particularities of P.L. James clashed with 50 Shades of Grey director Sam Taylor-Johnson, who she thought wasn’t staying true to the heart (or erm, loins) of her X-rated novel. There are famous examples of when it doesn’t work. But there’s a second question that most people don’t think about: is this going to live up to the author’s expectations? There’s a common saying that the book is always better than the movie, that there’s no way it can live up to readers’ expectations. ![]() “I think she is just as valid a character as he is.” The one that I felt really strongly about is that Louisa should not be saved by Will anymore than he should be saved by her,” she said. Did that part of her feel any guilt about cutting the assault? I bring up her earlier comment, that she wants her books to be feminist. ![]()
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