Crossing Manic Pixie Dream Girl DNA with a teenage boy results in a fiercer predator than anything in Jurassic Park. Like Dobler, he won’t take no for an answer. In the opening narration, she swears her story isn’t one of those manufactured romances where everything can be “fixed by a Peter Gabriel song.” Sorry, but Gus is the physical embodiment of Lloyd Dobler holding up his stereo and blasting “In Your Eyes.”ĭid You Like The Fault in Our Stars? Here Are 7 More Books to Read Weber, Gus is everything Hazel promises he won’t be. But as characterized by Elgort, director Josh Boone, and 500 Days of Summer writers Scott Neustadter and Michael H. I want to be clear that everything I’ve gleaned about him here comes from the Fault in Our Stars movie, not its source material. It’s possible Green’s original portrayal rounds out the character and grants Gus’s tin exterior with an actual heart instead of a pickup-artist handbook. Nathan Rabin famously dubbed Kirsten Dunst’s similarly flawless Elizabethtown character a “Manic Pixie Dream Girl,” an archetype existing “solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.” Swap the genders and you have Gus, who is all-knowing, confident, and seemingly impervious to the throes of existence. He’s a bad boy, he’s a sweetheart, he’s a dumb jock, he’s a nerd, he’s a philosopher, he’s a poet, he’s a victim, he’s a survivor, he’s everything everyone wants in their lives, and he’s a fallacious notion of what we can actually have in our lives. It doesn’t take long for her to reciprocate. A creation of author John Green inhabited by actor Ansel Elgort, Gus falls fast and hard for cancer-stricken Hazel (Shailene Woodley). In fact, The Fault in Our Stars’ romantic interest has such a tight grasp of the unpredictable world resting beneath his feet, he may be an Edge of Tomorrow–like time-traveler, living out the 57th run of his same lifetime.
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