10/29/2023 0 Comments Will traynor me before you![]() ![]() It's not that she hasn't taken on any non- Thrones roles in 2015, for instance, she took over the part of Sarah Connor for 2015's Terminator Genisys. For Will, it's Louisa's positive attitude and happy personality, which soon become infectious.Īnd it's Clarke's characterization of Louisa that turns out to be exactly what the actor's career has been missing so far. For Louisa, it's Will's insistence that she believe in herself, stop disparaging herself, and try new things. But as the two spend more time together (and if you can't tell from the trailer, fall in love) they each learn what the other has to offer. At first, Will finds Louisa a nuisance her bubbly presence is a reminder of all the things he cannot do. Louisa, meanwhile, is goofy, clumsy, quirky, and above all things, positive. ![]() Will has a bad attitude, a fondness for dark, abrasive music, and little hope for the future. ![]() Louisa is struggling to find a job, and takes a gig caring for Will, who's less than thrilled to have her as his caretaker. Me Before You, an adaptation of Jojo Moyes' best-selling novel of the same name, tells the tear-jerking story of a young woman named Louisa Clark and a quadriplegic man named Will Traynor. ![]() In the new film Me Before You, Clarke gets to play a character who's unlike anything she's done before, and she gives such a charming performance that it solidifies her as a multi-talented actor capable of being a true movie star. Yet as great as it is to see a woman take on such an awesome, serious role on one of the most popular shows on TV, it's a breath of fresh air to finally see her doing something different - namely, goofing off and having a ton of fun. She is "The Unburnt." Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea. Will’s death was supposed to leave her with a bigger life instead, it turns out, it diminished her.For all of the time that audiences have known Emilia Clarke, we've only seen her as Daenerys Stormborn of the House Targaryen on Game of Thrones. “But that’s just a fairy-tale ending, isn’t it?” After You is about the way that the first book’s version of a happy ending failed-not just in that Will died, but in the sense that Louisa didn’t grow and change as Will, and the book’s readers, thought she would. “Man dies, everyone learns something, moves on, creates something wonderful out of his death,” Louisa bitterly tells her grief-support group. In fact, in some ways, the whole novel is a failed HEA. After You explicitly toys with the idea that it is the same sad story as Me Before You-and explicitly rejects it.Īfter You offers other wrong turns and unhappy, or mixed, endings, though. And Louisa herself asks the paramedic if she is paralyzed. The parallel is very direct Louisa’s accident is recounted in a foreword, just as Will’s is. The first of these comes right at the beginning of the novel Louisa accidentally falls off her roof and for a moment thinks she is paralyzed, like Will before her. “Give me the end I’m hoping for,” he says. You have no idea how happy that has made me.” Will wants to die not because he is sad, but because he won’t accept the limited life he has, and the prospect of things getting worse. “I’ve watched you these six months becoming a whole different person,” he tells Louisa, “someone who is only just beginning to see her possibilities. Louisa, for her part, helps Will to overcome his self-centeredness, his bitterness, and even his depression. Over the course of the book, Will opens Louisa’s horizons: to opera (shades of Pretty Woman), travel, and her own potential. Will, before his accident, was, in his own words, a self-centered “arse” and a callous womanizer after his accident, he is consumed with bitterness. Louisa at the start of the novel is a lower-middle-class woman afraid to dream beyond her small English town and bland, exercise-crazed boyfriend. Even beyond the damaged hero, though, Me Before You functions as a romance because it’s about two people falling in love, and becoming more complete, and more themselves, while doing so. ![]()
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