Episode : After

00:00:00 - Hello, I'm Nidia and I hope everyone is safe and sound at home.

00:00:04 - Today we are going to talk about After, this teenage novel which is one of the fan fictions that made it to the big screen.

00:00:12 - So let's start with the author.

00:00:15 - Her name is Anna Todd.

00:00:16 - She was born in Dayton, Ohio on March 20, 1989.

00:00:21 - She's an American writer best known for the After Saga, of course, which is composed of five books.

00:00:27 - In 2019 the adaptation of the first book was realized and we had as main actors Josephine

00:00:33 - Lanchford as the sweet Tessa Jones and heroine Stephen as Hardin Scott, the typical bad boy.

00:00:41 - Anna says that at the time she was so obsessed with fanfictions and well, she was a big fan of One Direction so she started writing a fanfiction of One Direction on what bad?

00:00:53 - This app that is best known for its fanfictions.

00:00:56 - Her novel has millions of readers and that inspire her to keep writing.

00:01:01 - Now let's focus on her novel.

00:01:03 - Many criticize the novel for being one of the most basic with the typical cliché of the good girl who falls in love with a loud and also womanizer.

00:01:13 - They also call it the 50 shades of grey for teenagers.

00:01:16 - There are several of these conforts about the story, more specifically for the toxic relationship of the main characters.

00:01:23 - As already said, in the beginning, After already has its first movie, and the fans weren't very happy with adaptations, since the hardening of the movie is still good compared to the book and since most of the story was changed with the purpose of having a more open classification.

00:01:39 - For the second film, the actor of Roger Campbell, who in context also directs 50 shades of grey, but the fans were not only excited for having this director, also for the new actors who joined the saga like Dylan's prose, best known for having played Sack in Sack & Caughty, and Kanda's King, best known for having played Caroline in the series of Vampire Diaries.

00:02:02 - By the way, it is one of my favorite series, sorry I have to say it.

00:02:07 - Now the fans were happy with the second movie which was realized last year.

00:02:13 - So the question is, what is after about, it's about Tessa, this kind intelligent and sweet girl who arrives at her first year of college, and there she meets people totally different from her, and yes, among those people different from her, we are talking about Hardin, this guy who has a reputation for being a womanizer, rude, and the book follows the toxic, unstable, and master relationship of both characters.

00:02:40 - In my opinion, you have to know that this relationship is not an example to follow.

00:02:46 - And if you like the drama, it could catch you and make you read all the books like happen to me.

00:02:51 - So, I hope you like it and that's all I have to say about after.