I’m drawn to Isaac for obvious reasons–hold your white canes in the air and wave ’em like you just don’t care. A major motion picture, expected to do great at the box office, features a secondary but prominent character who is blind. An actor who is sighted plays the character who is visually impaired.įact.

TFIOS is a movie/book with a character who is blind.įact. The New York Times bestselling author John Green wrote the 2012 novel by the same name. Regular readers (hello, favorites!) may remember my book review of TFIOS which was more a character study of Isaac, the teenager facing blindness due to an eye cancer. Just as I wrote about the TV show Growing Up Fisher featuring a character who is blind, I’m mentioning TFIOS today since Isaac will be returning.įact. This article originally appeared on Usmagazine.I want to get out ahead of it. Tell Us: Do you agree with John Green? Is the poster's tagline appropriate? 'A major Hollywood studio released a movie poster in which the female romantic lead has visible evidence of her disability, which is damn near unprecedented, and I’m thrilled they put her face-and her cannula-on the poster,' he said. The author was also encouraged by the studio's decision to put Woodley's face - complete with her breathing tube - on the poster.

'I mostly wanted something that said, 'This is hopefully not going to be a gauzy, sentimental love story that romanticizes illness and further spreads the lie that the only reason sick people exist is so that healthy people can learn lessons.' I like the tag line because it says, literally, the sick can also have love stories.' 'I found it dark and angry in the same way that Hazel is (at least at times) dark and angry in her humor,' he continued. Green, who also penned best seller Looking For Alaska, thinks the tagline is a great representation of the book's main character, Hazel Grace Lancaster.

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