One thing that certainly hasn't changed: Tissues are required.
But the film version of romantic novel Me Before You-- the story of Louisa "Lou" Clark's (Emilia Clarke) connection with the quadriplegic man she's hired to care for Will Traynor (Sam Claflin)-- does have a few slight differences from its source material, as all adaptations do. With the screenplay and original book both written by Jojo Moyes, however, much of the dialogue and the main beats of the story are intact, and most changes seem to be the elimination small details in order to turn the 369-page book into a sub-2-hour movie.
SPOILER ALERT: This post gives away a few plot details of Me Before You, but you already knew that.
Here are five of the biggest changes from page to screen:
1. Lou's assault is never discussed.
This is the biggest book-to-movie change of all. In the novel, Lou has a traumatic incident happen at age 20, when she is sexually assaulted. She revisits the moment in a flashback, and tells Will about it. Moyes told Vanity Fair[1] that she tried to keep that element of the story in the movie, but it didn't work out.
2. Will seems younger.
Dapper Will is a good-looking former adventurer in both the book and the movie, but he seems to be a few years younger in the movie. In the novel he is 35, and Lou is 26. In the movie Will and Lou are both played by 29-year-old actors.
3. Mr. Traynor's affair isn't acknowledged.
In the book, Lou catches Will's father Steven Traynor with another woman, and tells Will about it. (Will isn't surprised.) This doesn't happen in the movie.
4. The movie doesn't change points of view
On the big screen, the story is mainly seen through Lou's perspective. In the book, however, Will's parents and Lou's sister get chapters told from their points of view.
5. There's no Georgina.
Will has a sister in the original story, Georgina Traynor, who says it "isn't fair" that she has to put her plans on hold to care for her brother. That character isn't in the movie. Lou's sister Katrina "Treena" Clark, however, does figure into the film.
References
- ^ Moyes told Vanity Fair (www.vanityfair.com)
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