![]() ![]() Later, out of jealousy, Patrick leaks this news to the press. In the original story, Lou and Patrick are closer, so she confides in him Will’s plans to go through with an assisted suicide. Although the film did cut out a lot of Patrick’s role, it also did him a huge favor – the film makes Patrick less of a jerk than he is in the book. The larger alteration that underlies these omissions is that the film minimizes Lou’s life before Will.ĥ. ![]() ![]() This changes the plot even further because when Patrick and Lou break up she moves out of the flat that they share and moves in with the Traynors. In the book they even move in together, which makes their relationship – and their subsequent breakup – more serious. But in the book you learn that Patrick was not always the intensely driven workout-aholic that we meet at the story’s beginning. In the movie it was surprising to learn that Lou and Patrick had been together for seven years, since their incompatibility seemed so glaringly obvious. Speaking of losing nuance, Lou’s relationship with Patrick was simplified in the film. Limiting the point of view allows audiences to really delve into Lou and Will’s relationship, but it robs audiences of a more nuanced perspective on the situation.Ĥ. By showing other character’s perspectives, the book was able to show the broader effects of Will’s disability and his choice. Another way that the film puts the focus on Will and Lou is by telling the story from only Louisa’s point of view, whereas the book switches points of view between a few different characters. According to Buzzfeed, although the affair was shot, it was cut out in editing to keep the focus on the story on Will and Lou.Ĭharles Danse and Janet McTeer in Me Before You (2016)ģ. When she tells Will what she saw, he is unsurprised. Speaking of Will’s parents, the film version of Stephen Traynor is not having an affair. In the novel, Georgina tells her, whereas in the film she overhears Will’s parents arguing about it.Ģ. She was a minor character in the book, and even Moyes said that “what we worked out over a period of months was that Georgina wasn’t really adding anything to the story.” However, this changes the way that Lou finds out about Will’s plan to end his life. Will’s sister Georgina is cut out of the story. Sam Claflin and Emilia Clarke on the set of Me Before You (2016)ġ. While Me Before You was mostly faithful to the novel, there are a few changes that had to be made in order to bring Lou and Will to the silver screen. Film and print are two mediums with many large, inherent differences – for a story to go from one to the other, it must adapt. ![]() But other changes, although insignificant at first glance, had resounding effects on the plot and on the story’s message.įans of Me Before You(2016) were overjoyed that the film adaptation was penned by Jojo Moyes, author of the original novel, but that doesn’t mean that everything about the story stayed the same. Most of the changes that were made during the transition were minor. Quick Answer: Because author Jojo Moyes wrote the screenplay for the adaptation of her novel, “Me Before You” (2016) sticks very closely to its source material. ![]()
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