The Quiet Concert: Thoughts for Thursday (31) - A Very Important Question About the If I Stay Movie

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2014

Thoughts for Thursday (31) - A Very Important Question About the If I Stay Movie

Welcome to Thoughts for Thursday! This feature is our outlet to talk with you about whatever we currently have on our minds. It might be bookish, it might not! Now for this week's thought:

A Very Important Question About the If I Stay Movie

Ok guys, this has been nagging at me all week so I hope that by writing this post I can find some peace of mind.

On Sunday, I went to see the If I Stay movie. It was a pretty darn good adaptation and I recommend both the book and the movie but that is not what this post is about. The point of this post has to do with the ending. There is a very important line in the book which I found to be missing in the movie. The line I am referring to is this, spoken from Adam to Mia:

"If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would just be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can loose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay."

Remember this part? The emphasis on the letting her go part. It is pretty much the entire reason Mia decides to live, and sets up the story in Where She Went but it wasn't in the movie!! There was no mention of Adam letting her go!! WHY? Is there no plan to make a Where She Went movie? Was it an intentional omission? Did you even notice its absence? I feel so alone in my confusion hah.

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Wendy @ Book Scents · 553 weeks ago

Okay thank you for bringing this up!! I saw it last week and noticed it too!! Basically I love Adams speech to her and have it basically memorized so I immediately went wait a sec...they left it oout. I'm not sure what it means...not sure why they did it. But I hope they make a where she went movie!! I want it! Haha
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The Quiet Concert 59p · 553 weeks ago

YES! THANK YOU! I am glad I am not alone. I too was like 'wait a sec'. It's such an important line and I don't know why it wasn't there! Everything else I am ok with. But I too hope they make a Where She Went movie although now they will have more explaining to do.

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Kay · 553 weeks ago

I can't believe they left that part out!!! I still plan on seeing the movie (it makes me happy to hear that it was good), but that is frustrating. You would think now a days with how they usually make sequels to everything they would have had that in there. Hopefully they don't plan on having a sequel but just having it be totally different than the book. (I have yet to read the sequel for some unknown reason.) Fingers crossed for a second movie. Sorry if this jumble of words didn't make sense. This kind of reminds me of the Percy Jackson movie (although they screwed up everything in that movie) and how I didn't understand how they could make a sequel because they did it wrong, but sure enough they made a sequel and just explained what the skipped in the first one in the second one instead.
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Christianna · 553 weeks ago

I liked the movie so much that it took me a few minutes to realize that they'd left this out. In the long run, I think it makes me like the movie less. It's such a touching moment and the fact that they didn't keep it makes it a way less true adaptation. Though I do think that they got so much right. I think they wanted it to be more of a happy love story, they wanted to give it that "Hollywood" ending and it didn't work as well as it should have. People who haven't read the book are going to love it though. And like I said, even though this bugs me, I really liked the movie. You have a total reason for pointing out the lack of this line though. Also, her eyes flying open was kinda creepy...
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@xoxoKellyNina · 553 weeks ago

Yeees!!! I just read your comment and I agree!! I was waiting with bated breath for that line! That and "don't make me write a song about you, Mia." uggggh. But everything else was amazing...especially that line from Mia saying, "what do I have to do to get a whole album."...EEEP!
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Pam@YA Escape · 552 weeks ago

I just saw the movie yesterday and I thought it stayed pretty true to the book, but yes, they obviously changed that line. I haven't read Where She Went yet, but I don't think it would be too hard to still have the same plot even without that line. They could just have it in the beginning of the movie? Or maybe just let Mia look like a bitch? Again, I haven't read the next book so….
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