Sometimes the success of a film all boils down to a solitary performance.
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Clarke plays Louisa, an amiable cafe waitress in an English town. Either way, Lou’s rainbow-colored wardrobe perfectly sums up her character: bright, comforting, quirky, multi-layered, and maybe a little naïve. When Lou loses her job at a bakery thats closing, she applies for a well-paying post as a companion to wealthy, handsome and bitter quadriplegic Will Traynor (Sam Claflin, the charismatic Finnick Odair of The Hunger Games). And thus begins Lou’s quest to convince him that his life is worth living, through a series of adventures and experiences and emotions. Now unable to move his arms or legs, he’s seemingly lost the will to live. While the two eventually bond over Will bemusedly encouraging sheltered Lou to broaden her horizons – blimey, subtitles! – that doesn’t mean she’s radically changing his outlook. “When I showed (Jojo) the tape of her and Sam she was in absolute floods of tears”.
So the plot really isn’t anything new. If you are one of those people if you have for example actually committed to watching The Fault in Our Stars or The Notebook a few times, either endeavor an act of incomprehensible madness then chances are you will enjoy Me Before You. And you will undoubtedly get a bit teary. Me Before You gets busy whipping up a tragic tale instead of making a point about the delicate issue. At the same time, Lou isn’t a constant ray of sunshine with no depth or problems. Somehow we have a feeling that mail will stay in her drafts.
Clarke then went on to try and get Jonas onto the show, promising to mail the producers about getting him on.
“I’m going to e-mail them now”, she says, vowing to reach out to showrunners David Benioff and D.B. She does a remarkable job of bringing her characters to life using the film’s pivotal moments.
Emilia giggled, turned to her seatmate, and exclaimed, “It works!” A good part of the first hour is wasted on her boyfriend who must become an ex. The scenery is additionally breathtaking and of course Jill Taylor’s wonderful costume design deserves serious Oscar consideration.
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She said: “Genuinely, my ideal man is someone who, I know every woman says this but I mean this from the bottom of my heart, someone whose brain is as big as their amusing bone”. Lou (Emilia Clarke) is decked out in her black-and-white furry striped coat, dresses patterned with butterflies and vegetables, and a wild collection of brightly colored tights and shoes that resemble the bouquet of multicolored daisies she holds in one scene.
