[ESTE ARTÍCULO CONTIENE SPOILERS DE LA IDEA DE TENERTE]
Anne Hathaway returns to the genre that elevated her, romance. As versatile as she is as a performer, before bringing coffees to Miranda Presley in The Devil Wears Prada, She was princess of Genovia in Princess by surprise and no one, not even Fantine in The Miserables, He broke our hearts as much as his Emma in One Day. The idea of having you, now available in Prime Video, is your new on-screen love lesson.
Many have questioned his return to the romantic comedy. What is Hathaway, an established actress, doing starring in the adaptation of a novel by Robinne Lee inspired by Harry Styles? However, for her, the story of Solene, a 40-year-old divorced mother who travels to Coachella and falls in love with Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine), the twenty-something singer of a band, is a reminder that we are never old enough to rediscover ourselves.
“We talk about ‘coming-of-age’ stories as if they only happen when you’re young, but I continue to flourish,” said the interpreter during the promotional tour of the film, which is already among the most viewed on the Amazon platform. Furthermore, many readers of the novel who have already been able to enjoy the adaptation have celebrated that the ending has changed on screen.
We unravel the new outcome and how it transforms with respect to the pages.
‘The idea of having you’: Ending explained
During the second half of The idea of having you, Solène surrenders to her romance with Hayes and accompanies him on his European tour, but, convinced that there is no future for her, she ends up returning to Los Angeles just when several photos come to light confirming her relationship with the singer.
Once the truth was revealed and with the support of his daughter Izzy (Ella Rubin), The protagonist decides to get Hayes back and visits him at his recording studio in the Californian city. There, she confesses her feelings for him and they both give each other a new chance.
The lovers try to live as normal a life as possible despite the harassment of the press and the paparazzi who take over the entrance to Solène’s house. We see them visiting exhibitions, going out on dates or sharing family moments, ignoring criticism, including that of the protagonist’s ex-husband.
However, the love story goes wrong again when media harassment begins to affect Solène’s daughter, who suffers from the comments about her mother at school and the monitoring at home. Realizing the situation, Hathaway’s character decides to leave Hayes. She meets him at an airfield after he returns from New York and tells him that she cannot continue with her relationship because she harms her daughter.
Shortly after, they meet again at the protagonist’s house and confess that they love each other. They also leave the door open for a new opportunity, perhaps five years later, when they no longer have to worry about Izzy, but they promise themselves that if they get the chance to fall in love with her again, they will take advantage of it.
Like good romantic comedies, The idea of having you It is not a skeptical film and it gives us a hopeful flashforward. We meet the protagonist again five years later and see her talking to Izzy, who now lives in Chicago. At night, he plays the Graham Norton Show and Hayes Campbell guest stars. The artist, who now sings solo and has grown a beard, says that he intends to go to Los Angeles to see someone.
In the next scene, Solène is in her art gallery, when she turns around, she realizes that Hayes has entered the establishment, a sequence similar to the first time the singer went to look for her at her workplace. The protagonist smiles and looks at him with teary eyes, implying that they are going to give themselves that new opportunity they deserve.
The ending of ‘The Idea of Having You’: how it changes compared to the book
In the book, Solène also breaks off the relationship despite her feelings for Hayes. As in the film, the protagonist is not willing to let her daughter suffer the consequences of her media relationship and, determined to prioritize her family, she lets her love escape.
Hayes begs him to reconsider his decision, but Solène resists his attempts to win him back and lies to him, telling him that she no longer loves him. Although he calls her and texts her every day for months, she finally gives up. In the novel, Solène confesses to us that the messages stopped “long before I stopped loving him.”
Thus, the film decides to give the couple a much happier ending. Director Michael Showalter He explained this decision in an interview for TV Insider: “There is a long tradition in romantic cinema of changing the ending so that the two protagonists end up together. There is a pragmatic response to this, which is that the viewer wants to see that there is at least some hope for these characters at the end of the film “.
“We don’t have to tell the audience exactly how it ends,” he explained: “We don’t tell the audience exactly how it ends. But we give them the opportunity to decide. As a fan of the genre, “I love a romantic story that ends with the two protagonists drinking coffee because that tells me there is hope.”
In statements to EW, Author Robinne Lee has also spoken about the change regarding her novel. “I wasn’t involved at all in the adaptation,” she clarified: “I haven’t even spoken to Michael [Showalter] yet, although I’m looking forward to it, so no, I haven’t talked to him about the changes. “My husband is a producer and he has spoken to him, so he has told me about Michael’s changes and I know the reasons why he decided to make them.”
The writer did want to emphasize that she did not feel betrayed by the modifications: “The book is a book and the film is a film. You have to take a step back and let the filmmakers do what they have to do because it is a different medium”. However, she defends that she never intended to give Solène and Hayes a happy ending and was surprised that the film did so.
“It’s America. “Hollywood is going to do what it’s going to do, and it’s going to put a happy ending to everything,” has stated: “I don’t know why. You expect them to respect what you’ve written because it meant something to you, but they also have to think about box office, viewers and what their audience wants to see. Although there is obviously an overlap between readers and viewers, when If you create something for the movie audience, these are different fans and maybe American moviegoers aren’t ready for a sad ending.”
Lee is blunt when saying that he would not change the ending of his novel to bring it closer to that of the film. “It’s not the story he wanted to tell,” he defends: “I wanted to show that, as women, we put the happiness of others before our own. She chose her daughter over Hayes.” The author intended the story to “seem real,” especially in its ending: “I wanted it to be as if you were reading this woman’s diary. It’s something that’s happened to her, she’s been caught up in this role and this romance, that almost destroys her and everything around her, and she has to let it go.”
Be that as it may, he does not rule out recovering the romance between the protagonists in a future book. “Maybe in a few years I will return to them and give them more time together. We’ll see,” he concluded.
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