Warning: This article contains spoilers from Netflix’s Uglies.
Ugly Director McG addresses what happened to Paris (Chase Stokes) at the end of the film. The Netflix adaptation of Scott Westerfeld’s 2005 dystopian novel features significant changes from the source material, with one of the biggest events in Paris’ history. Paris is the best friend of Tally Youngblood (Joey King). His personality and relationship with her changes as he undergoes Ugly‘ Normal surgery to become beautiful at the age of 16. The adaptation is different from the book with Paris also turned into a special and sent to hunt down Tally, along with seemingly plunging to his death.
While talking with Term, McG discusses the decision to make Paris a special and how it impacts his relationship with Talley And his overall character arc. He teases whether Paris is really dead after his peril falls and how that ties into the larger themes of the adaptation. McG also emphasized what needs to happen in order Ugly‘ story to continue in a future sequel, which would adapt niceThe next interest in Westerfeld’s book series. Check out the director’s comments below:
The whole point of this, of this arc, is I love the romantic idea of ​​how hard the system tries to change him. His will and his love for Tally is so strong that it transcends surgery, and when he sees her, there is still so much power. I’m only romantic in the way that I want love to win in the end, and that’s why, in that final scene on the roof, Paris can’t even bring himself to talk to Tally until he’s hanging off the edge of the building. And he calls her by her last name, again, with a broken look on his face. Then he falls to – I won’t say that it was his death. I would never say that. Of course he went into the fog. I want [viewers to wonder] Is he or is he not alive? Is he or is he not good or bad? Did Cable win or did his love for his friend win in the end, and I love stories that explore those emotions.
The public needs to speak up and say that we should end the book series. Obviously, it’s a series of books. The story goes on, but we need to have everyone clamoring for it, because it’s hard to make movies, and it has to be worth it, and they’re expensive. We’re all very optimistic that these stories will continue, and of course, that’s why we signed up for this in the first place. It’s a series of books, and we want to tell the full story.
What the changes in Paris’ story mean for Mies and his future
Paris’ story will be completely different in a potential sequel
In the 2005 novel, after Tally leaves town on her mission to find Shay and the Smoke, Paris doesn’t have much of a presence in the story until the sequel. Turning him into a special sent after Tally allows him to have a more consistent presence And more of an arc throughout the adaptation. The film’s Paris is even the one to kill David’s father, Az (Jay Devon Johnson), snapping his neck in front of Tally and many others, although Paris has nothing to do with Az’s death in the book.
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The changes in Paris’ history make it impossible for him to play the same role as he did in these nice NovelWhere he is still handsome and not a special one who kills someone important to Tally and her friends. McG’s comments indicate that Ferris probably survived his fall because he still has to prove to Dr. Cable that she didn’t win and that his feelings for Tally are stronger than the surgery that was performed on his brain. If he returns In a potential sequel, his role will differ in even more substantial ways.
Our take on the changes to Paris’ story
The changes are not well done
While the idea of ​​giving Paris more of an arc and presence in Ugly Has its merits, the implementation of the changes did not work well. Paris is an important part of Tally’s past and her motivations to become a beauty, works better as a catalyst than as a consistent presence. Expanding his role came at the expense of making Talley’s development feel less earned And forcing the tired trope of former best friends at odds with each other, both of Tally’s love interests, Paris and David (Keith Powers), have to fight each other.
Part of the matter is also that The arc that McG discusses doesn’t have a chance to be fully actualized In the adaptation. McG suggests that Paris overcame his programming because of his love for Tally, but just when he thinks he might get a chance to do so during UglyFinally, the fight with David begins, and he soon falls into the mist below. The changes to Peris’ story didn’t work at Netflix Ugly and will create narrative issues in a potential adaptation of nice.
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