Anne Hathaway is back in a romantic comedy for the first time in over a decade with Amazon Prime’s The Idea Of You. Although I haven’t read the 2017 novel on which the film is based, since I found out, the website has told me that it’s some other example of “Harry Styles fanfiction”, what is a genre now?But after further study and reveals, adding the game in the remake, I discovered that The Idea Of You is so much more. that just fanatical fuel for the former One Direction singer, and I have to communicate that!
Now, it’s not like the comparison of Harry Styles to The Idea Of You came out of nowhere. An entire romantic movie franchise called After Movies is fostered through the “Watermelon Sugar” singer and, of course, there’s a total segment of the web. writing their own narratives about the pop star. Watching the trailer for The Idea Of You, it’s easy to spot some similarities between Nicholas Galitzine’s Hayes Campbell and Harry Styles. Or they’re dark-skinned Brits with artistic tattoos and boy bands. But the film isn’t just fantastic fuel for directors!
The short answer is no. Although it has become popular for The Idea Of You to be based on Harry Styles’ fanfiction as After, its author, Robinne Lee, has really shared her sadness with the popular comparison. That said, he is an influence. In the past, Lee shared that she was dumped for the night, watched Styles’ clips online, and was encouraged to write the novel. But he’s not the only guy she has any idea about. He also injected characters such as Prince Harry, Eddie Redmayne, and even his own former lovers to create the male lead of The Idea Of You.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly about the film The Idea Of You, Robinne Lee clarified her influences and said:
I don’t do this fanfiction at all. Harry was one of many other people who were involved in the creation of Hayes Campbell; I guess he was the only British boy band member that existed at the time, and he is. what other people clung to. It’s unfortunate because it’s used as bait to click, and when I write for Hayes, I don’t believe Harry Styles.
As Lee also explained, she grew up as the daughter of two Jamaican parents before independence from the British, and admits to being “a bit of an Anglophile” and was drawn to posh British boys. He continued:
He looks a lot like JFK Jr. when he was dating Daryl Hannah and they were in the Hamptons; it was definitely the Hamptons Hayes. And then there’s a little bit of Michael Hutchence’s sex appeal when he dated Helena Christensen. And I was obsessed with Duran Duran when I was young, so there’s a lot of Simon, a lot of John, and there’s a lot of genuine Duran Duran Easter eggs in the book.
Today, Lee says he regrets mentioning Harry Styles as a source of inspiration because of how the novel has been so widely compared to the singer. She attributes this to the fact that Styles is “exactly what other people gravitate towards,” perhaps because he’s one of the most popular pop stars out there!
When it comes to directing The Idea Of You, actor Hayes Campbell’s male lead, played by Nicholas Galitzine, sang a similar song when it comes to comparisons to Harry Styles. Here’s how he reacted when his character was compared to Styles:
It’s funny because I’ve never made a comparison, but other people enjoy doing it. Hayes Campbell, the guy I play, is a very different character and we need him to exist in his own world.
Anyway, of course, the website spotted the similarities between Hayes Campbell’s boy band and One Direction in the film as soon as the trailer was released. Watching the film itself, I agree that while Galitzine may pose as a double for Harry Styles, it doesn’t give the impression that anyone is impersonating the singer. Also, from the outside, we can simply make the comparison between Harry Styles and Olivia Wilde’s whirlwind romance, as they have a pretty similar age difference. However, the novel was written years before the couple. formed, so it’s just a natural coincidence.
And unlike Styles, Hayes’ trajectory is that of someone who’s been in a boy band for many years and hasn’t entered the world of solo pop as a pop celebrity like Harry. She’s obviously a celebrity who has gotten a lot of attention and love. however, it is difficult for him to locate something genuine in a world that observes him and perhaps objectifies him.
Although I even knew that The Idea Of You was going to be specially designed for Harry Styles’ characters, after watching it I can see that it is a fun romantic comedy, regardless of your even ideas about the One Direction singer. In my opinion, it’s completely different, though of course August Moon is encouraged by the popular British boy band. Since the film’s release, many viewers have compared it to the classic Notting Hill romantic comedy, and it has garnered rave early reviews. I would agree with that exaggeration.
I was particularly drawn to the love story at the heart of The Idea Of You. While I thought it would be some kind of Fifty Shades of Grey-style romance with bad dialogue, I found myself buying into the romance between Hathaway and Galitzine. especially true when it comes to the character of Hathaway, who lost her sexuality when she was in her twenties because she fell in love and had her daughter at a very young age. As the film progresses, his character is faced with healing his own wounds while Hayes heals his own from the loneliness he has acquired thanks to his fame.
Overall, The Idea Of You is simply an excellent and exclusive access to the romantic comedy genre that you’ll enjoy, whether you like One Direction and Harry Styles or not. You can enjoy it right now with an Amazon Prime membership!
Sarah El-Mahmoud has been with CinemaBlend since 2018 after graduating from Cal State Fullerton with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. At school, she was editor of the award-winning school newspaper The Daily Titan, where she specialized in writing and editing feature films and profiles. , and art and entertainment coverage, adding his first encounter with film reportage, with a telephone interview with Guillermo del Toro for the Best Film award, The Shape of Water. He now covers television and teen movies, as well as a lot of horror. Webslinger of words. All of his writing can be read in Sarah Connor’s voiceover in Terminator 2.
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