![]() ![]() ![]() Towns is about a whole group of friends, and the enigmatic girl they're all trying to figure out. While Wolff played a minor character in TFIOS, the movie is mostly just about Hazel and Gus. In general, the movie has a lot more for a male audience member than TFIOS did, and there are a lot of themes about male friendship. In Towns, it's the same, except it's Quentin voicing his philosophical thoughts. In TFIOS we saw the world through Hazel's eyes and heard her thoughts through voice-over. Without spoiling anything, Quentin and the gang end up on a long road trip in his mom's minivan, which features the single best scene set in a gas station in cinema (probably). ![]() Paper Towns has a trip, but it's not nearly as glamorous. ![]() And while Paper Towns has romantic elements, it's not exactly a "romance." It's more about how Quentin (Wolff) and his best friends Ben and Radar are going through the end of their senior year together, and what happens to your friendships when high school is over. It's about Hazel and Gus falling in love (however tragically that may be, given they both had cancer). As Paper Towns, the slightly offbeat teen movie based on a book by author John Green, hits theaters this weekend, a lot of you may be quick to compare it to last summer's The Fault in Our Stars - that other slightly offbeat teen movie based on a book by author John Green.Īnd yes while on the surface it looks like the two films have a lot in common - same author, a romantic pair at the center, a suburban location, Nat Wolff - they are actually very, very different stories. Here's our ( spoiler-free) breakdown of why you shouldn't walk into a Paper Towns showing expecting to see more TFIOS. ![]()
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