The Everlasting Cry Face of VaughnDL: TFiOS Reaction

     Well I just got back home from seeing The Fault in Our Stars which I'm sure AB and SE will tell you as well. It was really good. I'm sure John Green is more than proud. I feel like he's changed an entire generation with his novel, and now it's been made into a movie? That would be like my dream come true as an author. It was satisfyingly close to the book, with many an exact quote, the casting was really good (despite the fact that Isaac didn't have blond hair, and Peter Van Houten didn't have a protruding gut). But hey, minor details. And let me tell you, the sound track was out of this world. The next time I have a couple buckaroos on my iTunes account, I am downloading the whole thing. I've had a few of the songs from it on my iPod already for a  few weeks, but after seeing the actual film, I really want them all.
     Because I'm sure you're all wondering, and because the title of this post totally gave it away, yes, I did cry. I didn't even start crying at the movie itself. I started crying when I looked over at AB next to me, and she was looking back, and she was crying. Because it made me think, like, it's so amazing how much we all care so incredibly about these characters who aren't even real people. How is that possible? Only humans can posses such 3-dimensional emotions like that, and that's unbelievable.       
     The thing about me and crying is that even when I'm completely done bawling my eyes out, it'll look like I'm still crying for at least an hour afterward. My face stays blotchy and my lazy eye becomes really prominent and stays that way for HOURS and it's really annoying. So as I was standing outside the theater under the little roof thingy waiting for my Mom to come pick me up, I'm sure everyone walking past thought either "Wow, she just saw The Fault in Our Stars" or "Wow, she certainly has a bad case of pink eye. She should see a doctor." Surprisingly though, I only used one single tissue! That doesn't mean I didn't cry a lot, it just means I let most of my tears roll down my shirt into my bra. But I squeezed that one solitary tissue in my clammy palms until the tissue lotion became hand lotion, and the tissue started to feel less like a nose blowing towelette, and more like the thinnest, most fragile and delicate Egyptian cotton in the world. I still have it. It's on my bed next to my crumply ticket.
    Anyway, enough about me and back to the movie. I'm absolutely buying it on DVD when it comes out. Hopefully on the disc it includes John Green's cameo. Even without his bit, the movie definitely lived up to my expectations, which I am beyond happy about, because I was so scared beforehand that they were going to ruin it, and that would have sucked big time since it's such a well loved novel. The thing I appreciated the most about the movie was how real the characters seemed. In the book, they seem incredibly real, and that's really great, but sometimes movie characters can end up feeling kind of flat, and very scripted, but the whole thing felt so authentic and real that the whole time I was like "Yup, that's exactly how I would react" or "Yes, they are such teenagers, that's exactly what would happen".
     So with that, if you haven't seen TFiOS already, it's a must see, so I'm officially recommending it to you. If you haven't read the book, it's a must read, so I'm recommending that you read it as well, and any and all of John Green's other books too, because frankly, he's just a genius, and deserves all the love and praise he can get.
     Goodnight everyone, I'm now looking forward to recounting the whole experience again in my diary, and then going to bed, only to wake up and have to function normally in society again tomorrow. ONLY 3 AND A HALF MORE DAYS OF SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                       -VaughnDL