After the film arrives in cinemas and here is everything you need to know about the tormented love between Tessa and Hardin
After the film arrives at the cinema on 11 April 2019, the first chapter of a successful saga created by the very young Anna Todd. Perhaps it is one of the most awaited films based on a novel of the year by young people all over the world who have literally devoured, page after page, the story of the two protagonists Tessa and Hardin.
There are many curiosities linked to the film and to the young adult literary saga created by Anna Todd, who with her arrival at the cinema will try to replicate the stratospheric success of the books: did you know, for example, that the male character of Hardin is clearly inspired by Harry Styles of One Direction? In fact, After was born as a self-publishing of the fan fiction genre, with a plot featuring celebrities much loved by the very young audience.
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Two very young actors were chosen to bring the beloved Tessa and Hardin to the screen: the leading actress is called Josephine Langford and perhaps the surname will bring to mind another promise from the much appreciated TV series (Thirteen – 13 Reasons Why tells you something?).
The story of Hardin and Tessa definitely follows the pattern of Young Adult novels and explodes some themes dear to this type of literature, much appreciated by Millennials (but not only). Tessa is a good girl: she has a kind boyfriend waiting for her at home, she dreams of a good job and marriage and is in her first year of college. It was at university that she met Hardin, the bad boy: tattooed, tough and considered cruel by many, who obviously hides a tormented past. The attraction they feel for each other is very high, so much so that it changes their lives forever.
After, the protagonists of the film who will play the roles of Tessa and Hardin
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The actors chosen to play the protagonists are called Josephine Langford and Hero Fiennes-Tiffin. Both are 21 years old: she is a newcomer while he already has a past in the cinema and is waiting to be consecrated by the role of bad boy in the film.
If Josephine’s surname reminds you of something, you are not mistaken: she is the younger sister of Katherine Langford, Hannah Baker from Thirteen-13 Reasons Why and she looks very much like her: same smile, same sweet face. In short, she is beautiful and in her first important film performance.
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Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, on the other hand, is his nephew: his uncles are in fact Joseph and Ralph Fiennes and he himself has already taken part in successful films, including Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in 2009 in which he played Tom Riddle.
As Hardin Scott transformed himself by giving himself a more rock look, accompanied by a bad boy look that will never be forgotten. We will hear more about him, for sure.
Hardin’s character is inspired by One Direction’s Harry Style
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The book was born from Anna Todd’s great passion for One Direction and in particular for Harry Styles. So she built the character of Hardin (who was originally called Harry) based on the model of his favorite: a common practice in the fan fiction genre in which the protagonists are famous actors or singers.
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Not everyone appreciated the references to Harry Styles, because Hardin is a brusque, often cruel and very harsh character: the singer’s fans don’t agree and have decided to launch the #leaveharryoutofthemovie movement to dissociate him from the bad boy image created by Todd .
The novel and the film have a lot to do with Twilight and Fifty Shades
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Anna Todd’s great inspirations for writing her saga are great classics of genre literature such as Twilight. More than anyone, given the hot scenes of the first draft (then slightly toned down in the published version and even lighter in the one you will see at the cinema), the novel that inspired the author is Fifty Shades of Grey. On Anastasia Steele and Mr. Gray Anna Todd cut the characters of her characters, even though they are younger than the protagonists of E. L. James’ saga.
The success of novels arriving from the web
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When the first novel was released in 2014 in America (and subsequently throughout the world with very high circulations, including Italy with Sterling&Kupfer), it was already a success on the web, read by more than a billion users of the Wittipad platform, where millions of people they publish their editorial works for free. Anna Todd, a debut author at the time twenty-six years old, had in fact published the story of Tessa and Hardin in several chapters, all highly appreciated and highly commented on by users. The love story between the shy Tessa and the gruff Hardin kept fans glued to Wittipad for a year: the chapter dedicated to their first time totaled 3 million views and more than 200 thousand comments, a true record. Obviously the phenomenon was noticed by the most important publishing houses in America, which competed to publish the novel, dividing it into several volumes. They all ended up at the top of the rankings and the film After arriving in cinemas in the spring is nothing other than the culmination of a success born on the web and then exploding in bookstores.
