History Trivia / TheFaultInOurStars

* WriteWhoYouKnow: Hazel is based on a girl John Green met at a ''Literature/HarryPotter'' convention, when he noticed her carrying an oxygen tank. He came to like her through various vlogs she put online, and they exchanged emails - much like Hazel and Gus do with Peter. The girl's middle name was Grace, like Hazel's. They remained good friends until her death in 2010.

** Hazel is given a book to read called ''Counter Insurgence''. Shailene Woodley was due to star in ''Film/TheDivergentSeriesInsurgent'' right after this film.
* BeamMeUpScotty: Augustus never claims to feel kinship with Anne Frank because she died "of an illness" like his own. He and Hazel both clearly feel kinship with her because she died ''young'', but the alleged murder-denying quote never occurs. That is a reworking of a much worse quote from [[http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/interview-john-green/Content?oid=5506074 an interview]] with Creator/JohnGreen, who says that Anne Frank is "demystified" because she "just died of an illness". Yeah, an illness that she contracted in '''a concentration camp'''.
* BreakawayPopHit: "Boom Clap" by Music/CharliXCX. While the movie was hugely successful, the song would have a healthy life outside of its accompanying movie.
* BreakthroughHit: Creator/JohnGreen has had many popular books before this, but this was his first massive hit and the book that really brought him into public eye. In 2014 alone, only the ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'' trilogy has been able to rival it in sales. [[{{Irony}} And considering that the film adaptations of both share the lead actors...]]
* CaliforniaDoubling: Pittsburgh will play Indianapolis in the movie, due to Pennsylvania offering more generous film-production tax credits than Indiana.
* CastingGag: Creator/ShaileneWoodley and Ansel Elgort play a couple in this and siblings in ''Film/{{Divergent}}''. These two books/films also have a very large rivalry, alongside ''Literature/TheHungerGames''.

** In Sweden the book is called "Förr eller senare exploderar jag", meaning "Sooner or later I'll explode".
** In German it's called "Das Schicksal ist ein mieser Verräter" meaning "Destiny is a mean traitor".

* DawsonCasting: Shailene Woodley was twenty-three playing Hazel at sixteen. Ansel Elgort was more borderline, being twenty and playing an eighteen-year-old (and amusingly is listed as ''nineteen'' at one point by Isaac).

* ReferencedBy: The book's bold, distinctive cover design makes it easy to spot in TV shows and film. With that helping it along, the book's found a minor foothold in late 2010s-era screen vernacular as shorthand for when a sappy book is needed to hint at a character's tender side, or simply to cry at.
** One of the earliest references was in a Season 2 episode of ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'', the same year that the book's film adaptation was released, and shows a couple characters bemoaning its depressing subject matter of kids with cancer, calling the author "a sick fuck". John Green acknowledged it on social media, and was overjoyed.

** The Season 6 episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' "The Fault in Our Cutie Marks" references the book not only through the title, but also in its central theme of longing for something your body won't allow you to have.

* SleeperHit: The novel the film was adapted from belongs to the young-adult genre, which at the time was associated with a multitude of flopped adaptations post-''Film/TheHungerGames''. While this film was expected to follow suit, it ended up making just under $50 million in its opening weekend, making it #1 in North America, and going on to gross over $300 million. It's saying something when [[Film/EdgeOfTomorrow an action movie starring one of the most bankable actors of all time]] under-performed just by going against it.
* StarMakingRole: For Ansel Elgort. ''Film/{{Divergent}}'' also got him attention, but this is the film that shot him to the stratosphere.

* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: In the DeletedScene featuring a [[CreatorCameo cameo from John Green]] where he plays the father of a girl who asks about Hazel's cannula, Green originally had one main line -- calling his daughter away from Hazel and apologizing for disturbing her. Shailene Woodley encouraged him to ad-lib a bit for after the girl tries on the cannula and shows it to him. Likely not the most experienced with acting on the fly, the best Green could come up with was, "Wow, yeah. That's something."

* MissingTrailerScene: The trailer features an extra bit of Hazel and Gus's sex scene, where Hazel giggles and says "we're a hot mess", and an alternate version of Hazel's "our little infinity" line. Both of these lines are as sweet as it sounds thanks to Shailene Woodley's voice.

** Another early reference- pre-movie, actually -comes from VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV, which named one of its many ShoutOut achievements "The Stars in Our Faults".

* ShrugOfGod: Creator/JohnGreen has had to do a ''lot'' of this to fans who want to know what happened to the characters before/after the contents of the book; this becomes somewhat humorous in light of the fact that there’s also a significant in-universe example where Hazel and Augustus [[spoiler:ask Van Houten what happened to the characters of ''An Imperial Affliction'' and he tells them he doesn’t know]].
* SleeperHit: The film was adapted from a young-adult novel. Ever since ''Film/TheHungerGames'' came out, other young-adult adaptations flopped, and it was expected to follow suit. It didn't, and proved to be a profitable film with a big $50 million opening and helped strongly boost sales. It's saying something when [[Film/EdgeOfTomorrow an action movie starring one of the most bankable actors of all time]] under-performed just by going against it.

* SeparatedAtBirthCasting[=/=]UnderAgeCasting: 11-year Lily Kenna as 13-year-old Hazel Grace.

* CareerResurrection: Nat Wolff faded into obscurity after ''Series/TheNakedBrothersBand'' finished its run, but this is now getting him even more attention than his old show.

* BreakawayPopHit: "Boom Clap" by Music/CharliXCX. While the movie was hugely successful, the song is fast distancing itself from its origins as of this writing.

* CastIncest: A strange ActorAllusion version with Creator/ShaileneWoodley and Ansel Elgort. In ''Film/{{Divergent}}'', they play siblings Beatrice and Caleb Prior. Here, they play lovers Hazel and Augustus.

** The original ending had [[spoiler:Hazel and Van Houten try to find a way to honor Gus's death by dying themselves in a way that would accomplish something and was meaningful to his life. They plan to go out and kill a drug lord and die at the hands of his bodyguards, but apparently decide against the idea before the story's conclusion]]. One editor, upon reading this ending, remarked, "I can't tell if the last 40 pages are a joke." The again, neither can [[TrollingCreator John Green himself]].

* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: In the DeletedScene featuring a [[CreatorCameo cameo from John Green]] where he plays the father of a girl who asks about Hazel's cannula, Green originally had one main line -- calling his daughter away from Hazel and apologizing for disturbing her. Shailene Woodley encouraged him to ad-lib a bit for after the girl tries on the cannula and shows it to him. Likely not the most experienced with acting on the fly, the best Green could come up with "Wow, yeah. That's something."

* DawsonCasting: Shailene Woodley was twenty three playing Hazel at sixteen. Ansel Elgort was borderline, being twenty and playing an eighteen-year-old (and amusingly is listed as ''nineteen'' at one point by Isaac).

** In Japan, both the novel and the film is called "Kitto, Hoshi no Sei ja nai"- Translated as both "Surely, Don't Blame it to the Stars" or context-wise as "You Cannot Blame it to Fate, For Sure", due to the East Asian believe the fate of a person is [[BecauseDestinySaysSo already predestinated and you cannot change it]], in this case could be the main character having cancer.

* ActorAllusion
** Posters for Nickelodeon are seen in the video game room. Natt Wolf had starred in ''Series/TheNakedBrothersBand'', a Nickelodeon show. He's also singing lines from a song he and his brother Alex wrote during that scene.
** Hazel is given a book to read called 'Counter Insurgence'. Shailene Woodley was due to star in ''Film/TheDivergentSeriesInsurgent'' right after this film.
* BeamMeUpScotty: Augustus never claims to feel kinship with Anne Frank because she died "of an illness" like his own. He and Hazel both clearly feel kinship with her because she died ''young'', but the alleged murder-denying quote never occurs. That is a reworking of a much worse quote from [[http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/interview-john-green/Content?oid=5506074 an interview]] with Creator/JohnGreen, who says that Anne Frank is 'demystified' because she 'just died of an illness'. Yeah, an illness that she contracted in '''a concentration camp'''.

* CastIncest: A strange ActorAllusion version with Creator/ShaileneWoodley and Ansel Elgort. In ''Film/{{Divergent}}'' they play siblings Beatrice and Caleb Prior. Here they play lovers Hazel and Augustus.

** The Norwegian title of the book is "Fuck fate." No, really.[[note]]HilariousInHindsight, since WebVideo/HonestTrailers' take on the film gives the film the alternate title ''Cancer F*cking Sucks''.[[/note]]

** Shailene Woodley had long blonde Rapunzel Hair, which she cut short to play Hazel. This affected ''The Divergent Series: Insurgent'', where Tris cuts her hair drastically shorter than she does in the book - as she didn't have time to grow it out again.

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* SleeperHit: The film was adapted from a young-adult novel. Ever since ''Film/TheHungerGames'' came out, other young-adult adaptations flopped, and it was expected to follow suit. It didn't, and proved to be a profitable film with a big $50 million opening and helped strongly boost sales. It's saying something when [[Film/EdgeOfTomorrow an action movie starring one of the most bankable actors of all time]] flopped just by going against it.

** The Norwegian title of the book is "Fuck fate." No, really.[[note]]HilariousInHindsight, since WebVideo/HonestTrailers' take on the film gives the film the alternate title ''Cancer F*cking Sucks''[[/note]].