The Fault in Our Stars
The Fault in Our Stars is a 2014 American coming-of-age romance film about a sixteen-year-old cancer patient forced by her parents to attend a support group, where she meets and subsequently falls in love with another cancer patient.
- Directed by Josh Boone. Written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, based on the 2012 novel of the same name by John Green.
Augustus Waters
[edit]- I am in love with you. And I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed. And that one day all our labor will be returned to dust. And I know that the sun will swallow the only earth we will ever have. And I am in love with you.
- That's a thing about pain. It demands to be felt.
- Apparently the world is not a wish-granting factory.
Hazel Grace Lancaster
[edit]- I fell in love with him the way you fall asleep: Slowly, and then all at once.
- Funerals, I've decided, are not for the dead. They are for the living.
- The only thing worse than biting it from cancer is having a kid bite it from cancer.
- I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?
Van Houten
[edit]- Let's imagine you are racing a tortoise, the tortoise has a 10 yard lead in the start, and in the time it takes you to run 10 yards, the tortoise's moved maybe one yard. So alright, you're faster than the tortoise but you cannot never catch it, you can only decrease his lead. Now certainly you can run past the tortoise as long as you don't contemplate the mechanics of that, but the question of how turns out to be so complicated that no one really solved it until Cantor proved that some infinities are bigger than other infinities... I think that answers your question.
Dialogue
[edit]- Hazel Grace Lancaster: [about throwing eggs] Guys, I think we should wait until dark.
- Augustus Waters: It's all dark to Isaac.
- Isaac: Dude, I'm not deaf, I'm just blind, so I can hear when you make fun of my disability.
- Augustus Waters: Your hands are so cold.
- Hazel Grace Lancaster: Oh, they're not so much cold as just under-oxygenated.
- Augustus Waters: Hazel Grace?
- Hazel Grace Lancaster: Hm?
- Augustus Waters: I love it when you talk medical to me.
- Augustus Waters: This is it.
- Hazel Grace Lancaster: I'm so excited I can barely breath.
- Augustus Waters: As opposed to normal?
- Van Houten: She thinks I have a drinking problem.
- Lidewij: I also think the earth is round.
- Isaac: Augustus Waters was a cocky son of a bitch. But we forgive him. Not because of his super-human good looks or because he only got 19 years when he should have gotten way more.
- Augustus Waters: 18 years, buddy.
- Isaac: Dude, come on, really? I'm assuming you have a little time, you interrupting bastard. You interrupt in the middle of my eulogy... You're supposed to be dead! But when the scientists of the future come to my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell those scientists to piss off 'cause, Gus, I don't want to see a world without you in it. I know I don't want to see a world without Augustus Waters.
- Hazel Grace Lancaster: Really? That's disgusting!
- Augustus Waters: What?
- Hazel Grace Lancaster: What? Do you think that is cool? Or something? You just ruined the whole thing
- Augustus Waters: The whole thing?
- Hazel Grace Lancaster: Yes, this whole thing.
- Hazel Grace Lancaster: Even though you have freaking cancer, you are willing to give money to corporation for a chance to acquire even more cancer? Let me just assure you that not being able to breathe? SUCKS. Totally disappointing. Totally.
- Augustus Waters: They don't kill you unless you light them. And I've never lit one. It's a metaphor, see: you put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing. A metaphor.
- Flight Attendant: Sir, you can't smoke on this plane. Or...any plane.
- Augustus Waters: I don't smoke.
- [The Flight Attendant gives him a look]
- Hazel Grace Lancaster: It's a metaphor. He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.
- Flight Attendant: [no nonsense] Well that metaphor is prohibited on today's flight.
- [Augustus nods and puts the cigarette away]
- Van Houten: I will not indulge your childish whims. I refuse to pity you in the manner in which you're accustomed.
- Hazel Grace Lancaster: [upset] Hey I do not want your pity-
- Van Houten: Of course you do. Like all sick kids, your existence depends on it.
- Lidewij: [shocked] Peter!
- Van Houten: You are fated to live out your days the child you were when diagnosed, the child who believes there is a life after a novel ends. And we, as adults, we pity this, so we pay for your treatments, for your oxygen machines...
- Lidewij: [angry] Peter that's enough.
- Van Houten: ...You are a side effect to an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.
- Hazel Grace Lancaster: [standing up angrily] Listen douchepants! There's nothing that you're gonna tell me about my disease that I don't already know. Okay I came here for one thing and one thing only. That is for you to tell me what happens at the end of this goddamn book!
- [beat]
- Van Houten: I can't tell you.
- Hazel Grace Lancaster: Bullshit!
- Van Houten: I can't-
- Hazel Grace Lancaster: [slapping the glass of scotch out of his hands] Then make something up!
- Van Houten: I want you to leave.
- Van Houten: Have you ever stopped to ask yourself why you care so much about your silly questions?
- Hazel Grace Lancaster: Oh go fuck yourself! [storms out with Augustus]
- Hazel Grace Lancaster: You know, this obsession you have, with being remembered?
- Augustus Waters: Don't get mad.
- Hazel Grace Lancaster: I am mad! I'm mad because I think you're special. And isn't that enough? You think that the only way to lead a meaningful life, is for everyone to remember you. For everyone to love you! Guess what, Gus - this is your life! This is all you get! You get me, and you get your family and you get this world, and that's it! And if that's not enough for you, then I'm sorry, but its not nothing. Because I love you. And I'm going to remember you.
- Augustus Waters: [on the phone] I cannot stop thinking about this Goddamned book.
- Hazel Grace Lancaster: You're welcome.
- Augustus Waters: However, we do need closure, don't you think?
- Hazel Grace Lancaster: That is exactly what I was asking Van Houten for in my letters.
- Augustus Waters: But he never responded.
- Hazel Grace Lancaster: Nope.
- Augustus Waters: [inhales theatrically] "Dear Mr. Waters. I write to thank you for your electronic correspondence. I am grateful to anyone that sets aside time to read my book."
- Hazel Grace Lancaster: [sits up excitedly] Augustus?
- Augustus Waters: Yes?
- Hazel Grace Lancaster: What are you doing?
- Augustus Waters: I may have found Van Houten's assistant. E-mailed her.
- Hazel Grace Lancaster: Augustus!
- Augustus Waters: She may have forwarded that e-mail onto Van Houten. Shall I continue?
- Hazel Grace Lancaster: Oh my God, yeah, go go go!
- Augustus Waters: "I am particularly indebted to you, sir." Hazel Grace, he just called me "sir."
- Hazel Grace Lancaster: Augustus, keep reading! Keep reading!
- Augustus Waters: "... both for your kind words about "An Imperial Affliction" and for taking the time to tell me that the book, and here I quote you directly, 'meant a great deal' to you and your friend Hazel Grace'."
- Hazel Grace Lancaster: [screams excitedly] You did not! No, you did not, you did not, you did not!
- Augustus Waters: Of course I did. "To answer your question: No, I have not written anything else, nor will I. I do not feel like continuing to share my thoughts with readers would benefit either them or me. However, thank you for your generous e-mail. Yours most sincerely, Peter Van Houten." So yeah, that just happened.
- Hazel Grace Lancaster: Oh my God!
- Augustus Waters: I've been trying to tell you, I'm kind of awesome.
Taglines
[edit]- One sick love story.
- They don't have forever, they have each other.
Cast
[edit]- Shailene Woodley – Hazel Grace Lancaster
- Lily Kenna – young Hazel
- Ansel Elgort – Augustus "Gus" Waters
- Nat Wolff – Isaac, Augustus' best friend
- Laura Dern – Frannie Lancaster, Hazel's mother
- Sam Trammell – Michael Lancaster, Hazel's father
- Willem Dafoe – Peter Van Houten
- Lotte Verbeek – Lidewij Vliegenthart, Van Houten's assistant
- Mike Birbiglia – Patrick, the support group leader
- Ana Dela Cruz – Dr. Maria
- Milica Govich – Mrs. Waters, Augustus's mother
- David Whalen – Mr. Waters, Augustus's father
- Emily Peachey – Monica
- Emily Bach – Monica's Mom
- Carole Weyers – the voice of Anne Frank
