Jamie Harper- summer task 1

1.      The fault in our stars managed to become a box office success because of the book that was written before the film came out. The book was hugely popular and was mainly read by women and young teenage women as it’s a romantic story but different to your typical love story. The main two characters are called Hazel and Augustus. Hazel suffers from terminal thyroid cancer and Augustus suffers from osteosarcoma and they meet at a cancer patients support group.

One reason why it became a huge box office success was partly due to 5 Instagram users who helped make it such a success. Those five Instagram users managed to reach more than 350,000 mentions and this has reached over 16 million people on Instagram through numerous likes and comments involving the fault in our stars. Those 5 users were selected to view the film before anyone else as they were selected based on their likelihood to have an affinity for the film.

Another reason why the fault in our stars became a huge box office success was because of how sad it was. It sounds odd but because it brought tears to people’s eyes many people wanted to see it again as they loved how sad the film actually was. The film brought most people who went to see it to tears as it’s such a sad film but this is one of the reason’s it is hugely popular. Because many people went to see it more than once it contributed to it becoming a huge box office success.

Another reason why the fil is a huge box office success is because of the characters who play Hazel and Augustus. The person who played Hazel is called Shailene Woodley and the person who plays Augustus is called Ansel Elgort. The actors have been praised massively for the way they acted during the film making it feel as if it is real life and they bring real life emotion when actin which brings tears to the audience as the play the role of the main characters so well and really make the whole story really believable.

Another reason why the fault in our stars become such a huge box office success is because it is a contemporary drama. This made the film very successful because in the past 15 years drama films have not really done as well as other genres but the fault in our stars is much different as it is a rare drama that hugely popular and because people were seeing that it was a popular drama, they were going to see it meaning it was becoming even more of a box office success.

One more reason why the fault in our stars became such a huge box office success was because at the time it was released as a film there weren’t very many films aimed at women. The fault in our stars is mainly aimed at women and most people in the audience were women so due to the fact that there were many films aimed at women, this film became a success as women had a film in the cinema that they could go watch.