I believe we have a choice in this world.
Oh my god! It's The Fault in Our Stars!
I read this book.
I'm reading this book right now! I don't want spoilers.
Where nothing is too messed up that can't be fixed with a Peter Gabriel song.
I'm gonna start crying.
I like that version as much as the next girl does.
So it's like Twilight?
It's just not the truth.
This is the truth.
Hey! Make some friends.
This is gonna be good, I can already tell.
I can already tell.
I'm Augustus Waters--
This is the only love story I want to watch.
Maybe you'd like to share some of your fears with the group.
-Oblivion. -Why are you guys doing this to me?
-What's your full name? -Hazel Grace Lancaster.
-Why're you staring at me? -'Cause you're beautiful.
Stalker.
-So, what's your story? -I was diagnosed when I was 13--
-No, your real story? -(laughter)
You know, Augustus talks about you all the time.
-We're just friends. -Awww!
-I hope you realize-- -Friend zoned!
The movie makes it seem like such a chick flick!
Gus, I'm a grenade.
One day I'm gonna blow up...
and I'm gonna obliterate everything in my wake.
I'll have to bring a box of tissues with me to this movie.
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world,
but you do have a say in who hurts you.
I am in love with you, Hazel Grace.
That's a good guy right there.
She seems older than I pictured.
Oblivion is inevitable and I am in love with you.
-Are you angry? -So angry.
-You need to break something. -Oh!
-(cheering) -A car!
You gave me a forever within the numbered days,
and I can't tell you how they cry out for a little infinity.
-It's a good life, Hazel Grace. -Okay?
-Okay. -Okay.
Oh my god!
I love this book. I can't wait until the movie comes out.
Oh, it's so good!
I can't stand how much I love that story.
I'm so excited for this movie! You don't even understand!
(Finebros) So, have you heard of The Fault in Our Stars
-before we showed you this? -No.
I have not.
It's a book!
Oh my god! Who hasn't heard
of A Fault in Our Stars?
Everyone's talking about it. All my friends are obsessed with it.
-Um... -(Finebros laughing) No way!
This Fault in Our Stars that I just decided
I needed to reread before the movie?
-(Finebros) Have you read the book? -No!
No, I didn't hear about it at all.
Is this a big thing right now?
I have not read the book yet!
My friends have been telling me about it and handing me the book
almost everyday at school. "Jeordy, you need to read the book!"
I'm reading it right now.
I loved the book.
There you go! (laughs)
(Finebros) So back to the trailer, how did it make you feel?
It made me feel nice!
It was kind of warm and fuzzy.
It kind of made me feel a little bit like a girl.
I didn't really picture it that girly in my mind.
I wanted to cry, but then they would show something cute...
and then I was happy!
I've had a friend who's read the book six times.
She's like, "They're gonna ruin it. It's gonna be awful!"
I want to see it.
(Finebros) The book and the movie is about a teenage girl who has cancer,
who is forced to go to a cancer support group by her mom to make friends.
What are your thoughts about someone deciding to make a story revolving
around something like a young person having cancer?
I mean, it definitely gives a new perspective
to how we all look at the world.
It just makes me so happy because I don't think
a movie like this could've happened ten years ago.
I think it's an innovative idea in that the hero
isn't a great, healthy, fantastic person.
I've seen stories like that before, but I understand the feeling
'cause being attached to Game of Thrones, seeing people die, that's heart wrenching.
It's heavy, but I think that we all need to be aware of it.
Being somebody who is their age, it just makes me thankful and it makes me
step back and be like, "Okay. I need to realize the good things that I have."
(Finebros) Do you know who the author of the book is?
No.
Not at all.
John Green?
John Green.
I watch his YouTube videos and he seems like an awesome person.
(Finebros) What do you know about John Green?
He wrote The Fault in Our Stars?
Him and his brother are the Vlog Brothers...
didn't they start Vidcon?
Vlog Brothers, Vidcon...
That History Show...
and That New Art Show?
I am a nerd fighter!
(Finebros) So beyond being a best selling author of multiple books,
-he also is a big YouTube star. -What?!
(Finebros) John also is behind some education channels on YouTube,
-like Crash Force. -Wow!
They're really smart dudes, yep. Wow! It's that guy!
I would never expect that.
I just picture some old guy writing a book at home,
like "Heh heh! I'm targeting all the teenagers!"
(Finebros) He decided to make it about young people who are sick
because he feels that we have a habit of imagining
the sick and dying to be different than we are,
that even in a short life, you can live a full life.
-What do you think about that sentiment? -I think that's beautiful
'cause it really is true.
If that was his goal, he definitely achieved it.
We do think of sick people as different and "Other",
when really, we're all human.
Just because somebody's sick doesn't mean that they're different.
They can't control that they got sick. They're just a normal person.
People think of the sick as, "Oh, you're so sick.
You can't do this. We'll try and take care of you, make you happy."
But all they want to do is be normal, be able to do the things
that other people can do.
I certainly hope that's right.
My brother died when he was 25.
We were expecting at the funeral for maybe 100 people to show up--
over a thousand people showed up.
So I really do hope that a short life can be a whole life.
(Finebros) Why is this book, specifically, so popular
-and mean so much to your generation? -One: it's a love story.
It shows a different side of the teenage life.
Even if you're not sick, you still feel like an outcast.
I thought that's how she feels, 'cause she has to carry that around.
Everybody's staring at her and I feel like today's youth feel like that too.
They feel like other people always judge them.
Teenagers or young people, we have this invincible complex
or invincibility complex. We don't think about death.
We don't realize that there are a lot of young people out there,
just like us, who die from disasters, who die from sickness.
Reading about somebody that has a dramatic situation going on their life,
and how they make it normal and how they're accepted,
it kind of makes us feel better.
(Finebros) And if John Green ended up watching this,
-what would you want to say to him? -I'm still not reading your book.
I'm gonna read your book.
I love your books!
Thank you, for I am sure speaking for lots of my generation.
I don't...I don't know! I would be really shy!
(Finebros) The last thing we're going to be doing in this episode,
we're gonna show you one more thing. You can tell him yourself, Brianna.
-Ooh! -Hi!
Hi!
-Hi! -(squealing) Oh my god!
-What?! Hi, John Green! -How's it going?
I'm going--it's going a lot better now!
-Is this real? -(Finebros) It's him!
-I am not some old geezer. -(laughter) Wait, has he been listening
this whole time?
Thanks for reading the book, even though you don't know
-who I am on the internet. -(nervous laughter) Sorry.
-You know what's really crazy? -What?
-I had this in my bag. -Are you serious?
Yeah! Do you think that you can virtually sign it somehow?
Yeah, ready? Hold on!
I heard that your friend is worried that it's gonna screw up the book.
I saw the movie and I'll tell you, I walked out of the movie--
there are, of course, very sad parts-- but I walked out of the movie so happy!
I mean, partly because I was relieved that I liked it
and that I think they did a good, faithful adaptation.
-I liked it-- -But if you liked it, then...
that's all that matters!
-I'm still not reading your book. -(laughs)
-What do I have to do?! -Nothing, I'm just not gonna read your book.
I'm not a reader.
-What if I send you a free copy? -I still wouldn't read it.
-I'd probably give it to my mom. -(laughter)
I'm going to devote myself, over the next several decades,
to getting you to read--it doesn't even have to be one of my books--
but getting you to read books for pleasure.
Okay, good luck with that.
I like writing and art stuff and I think that yours is brilliant.
Thank you!
Don't let the world tell you that those are not
realistic career aspirations or get you down.
There's lots of good writing and art stuff jobs out there.
Thank you so much for telling a story that's so different
and that relates to so many of us about making us feel normal
in our own situations, like no matter what's going on.
Oh, that's so nice. That really means a lot to me.
-Are you gonna see the movie now? -Oh, I'm definitely gonna see the movie!
-June 6th, Jeordy! -June 6th! Got it.
-Are you gonna see the movie? -Of course. (laughs)
-June 6th, like opening weekend see it? -Depending, yes.
I mean, I'd like to go see it when it comes out, but then the crowds!
Are you at least going to see the movie though?
-No. -(laughter)
-You're my favorite. -(laughter)
-Thanks again for reading the book! -Thank you. I like your Harry Potter shirt.
-Aw, thanks! -(laughs)
Bye!
Guys...
Thank you, DFTBA!
I don't know what just happened!
Aaah! John Green! (laughs)
That was so cool! (laughs)
I'm like fangirling right now.
Thanks for watching this new, fantastic episode of Teens React.
Are you guys going to be checking out The Faults in Our Stars,
cause I know I am! John Green told me to.
DFTBA! Bye.