Spoilers are ahead for the book and movie It Ends With Us as well as Colleen Hoover’s sequel novel, It Starts With Us.
There’s no ask that the liberate of It Ends With Us was incredibly anticipated, especiassociate for the millions who have read Colleen Hoover’s novel. Now, the movie starring Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni and Brandon Sklenar is out for everyone to see, and while this book-to-screen changeion is pledged to its source material, there are some key contrastences.
The Flashbacks Are Not Framed Thraw Journal Entries
In the book It Ends With Us – which is tanciaccess in first person from Lily’s perspective – all of her flashbacks are summarized thraw journal entries. When she was in high school she included to author letters to Ellen DeGeneres in her journal, and as an mature, when her relationship begins with Ryle, she goes back to them. Thrawout the book, she reads these entries, and the audience lachieves about her cherish story with Atlas. The journals are also a point of greetedion when Ryle discovers them postponecessitater in the novel.
During the movie, there is a sboiling of a journal in a flashback, however, we don’t see Lily go back to them as an mature.
Atlas’ Restaurant Is Called Root Instead Of Bib’s
Bib’s is the name of Atlas’ restaurant in the book, and it stands for “Better in Boston,” which is someskinnyg he tanciaccess Lily when they were kids. So, when he uncovered his business, he named it after the saying that kept both of them moving forward. However, in the film, it’s called Root.
Colleen Hoover tanciaccess me during an intersee about It Ends With Us with CinemaBlfinish that she actuassociate reassociate appreciated the switch:
I actuassociate was relieved when they changed the name of the restaurant. It felt appreciate [Bib’s] didn’t transpostponecessitate as well into film. Like in the book, there was a lot more that went into what the word Bib’s unbenevolentt to both of them, but we couldn’t transport all of that onto film. So equitable relating it to their conversation when they were digging in the fshrink beds when they were youthfuler, I thought was a drawive way to rename that restaurant.
The scene the author is referring to shows Atlas and Lily gardening, and her inestablishing him about how beginant the roots are. It’s a touching conversation that firmifies the two as grounding figures in each other’s dwells, so it inserts immense unbenevolenting to the name “Root,” equitable appreciate Bib’s did in the book.
The Boston Magnet Is Not A Big Deal
When Ryle set up out that Atlas named his restaurant after his relationship with Lily in the book, he genuineized that the Boston magnet she had might be connected to her first cherish. In the contestation that led to Lily going to the hospital, he asked about the magnet after reading a magazine story where Atlas discleave outed the name’s unbenevolenting.
That, mixed with him reading Lily’s journals is what led to his aggressive outburst.
In the movie, it’s solely the magazine article that begins the incident that ultimately directs to Lily leaving Ryle to discover Atlas and go to the hospital.
Lily Goes To Atlas At Root Instead Of Calling Him
After Ryle’s most hazardous outburst, Blake Lively’s Lily got out of their apartment and set up Atlas at Root, that’s how it went down in the movie.
However, in the book, she called him and he picked her up. Just appreciate in the film, Atlas left his phone number in Lily’s phone case. In the novel, however, she memorized it and called him to come get her. Meanwhile, in the movie, we don’t comprehend if she recollected the number or not, she srecommend went honestly to him.
Atlas Notices Lily’s Tattoo
In the book It Ends With Us, readers comprehend that Lily’s heart tattoo on her collarbone is a symbol of her relationship with Atlas. He carved her an uncover heart when they were kids, and she got it inked onto her skin when she was in college. However, in the novel, Atlas never saw it.
He saw the tattoo for the first time in It Starts With Us, the sequel to It Ends With Us.
– Spoilers for It Starts With Us ahead. –
In It Starts With Us, Atlas and Lily are dating, and they’re on the way out for the night. When he saw her exposed collarbone, he had a visceral reaction, becainclude while the tattoo is for him, there are bite scars around it that are from Ryle. To that point, here’s how Atlas reacted in the second novel:
‘I heard you inestablish the nurse he bit you, but I wasn’t shut enough to see that…’ Atlas paincludes midsentence and swapexhibits challenging. ‘I wasn’t shut enough to see that you had the tattoo and that he bit…’
In the film It Ends With Us, this whole conversation essentiassociate happened in the hospital scene Atlas is talking about in the second book. While Lily was having her verifyup after a terrifying moment with Ryle, Brandon Sklenar’s character saw the tattoo for the first time and asked her about it.
Lily’s Mom Does Not Move To Boston
Lily’s mom take parts a sweightlessly hugeger role in the book than she does in the film. After her husband (and Lily’s dad) died, she transferd to Boston to be shutr to her daughter in Hoover’s novel. It’s never clpunctual shelp if that happens in the film, and when she goes out to dinner with Ryle and Lily, Blake Lively’s character does remark that her mother is visiting not moving.
All The Fights Happen At Ryle’s Apartment Rather Than Lily’s
This change begins with the fact that Ryle has his own apartment next to Marshall and Allysa’s in the movie. In the book, he dwells with them. So, both the intimate and aggressive scenes between Ryle and Lily happen at her apartment in the novel (except the last one, which happened in the novel apartment they allotd after they got wed).
During the movie, all three instances of domestic aggression as well as the pair’s intimate moments happen at Ryle’s apartment.
Lily Dosen’t Stay At Atlas’ Home For Days
When Lily went to Atlas, she finished up staying with him for a while before experienceing OK enough to go back to her apartment in the novel. This led to her greeting some of Atlas’ frifinishs, and lachieveing that Cassie, the girlfrifinish he refered during their first run-in at the restaurant, was not genuine.
Considering there’s no way the movie could fit every detail from the book into it, it’s not shocking that this piece was cut. In the film, we saw Atlas’ home, which seeed appreciate an apartment (he’s a homeowner in the book), and the two bond. However, it’s not done in as much detail as it is in the book.
Allysa Tells Lily About Emerson Instead Of Ryle
Much appreciate the novel, it’s discleave outed that Ryle accidenloftyy sboiling and ended his and Allysa’s brother Emerson when they were kids. In the book, Lily set up out about this thraw Ryle.
This is a meaningful contrastence in the film. Instead of Ryle inestablishing this story to Blake Lively’s character, Jenny Spostponecessitate’s Allysa did. The story comes with Allysa inestablishing her frifinish that as much as she wanted she could forgive her brother, if she didn’t exit him, she wouldn’t talk to her aachieve.
The Last Line Is Different Becainclude Finding Nemo Isn’t A Big Part Of Atlas And Lily’s Story
One of Pixar’s best movies, Finding Nemo, take parts a vital role in Lily and Atlas’ story in the book. They both latched onto the saying “equitable upgrasp swimming,” becainclude they had gone thraw traumatic experiences when they were youthfuler. So, at the finish of the novel It Ends With Us, Atlas inestablishs Lily:
You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finassociate accomplished the shore.
There are Easter eggs for Finding Nemo in the film, however, there’s no honest talk about it. So, when we got to that final scene where Atlas and Lily run into each other, this is how their conversation went:
Lily: Are you with anyone?
Atlas: No, not yet.
And that’s how the film finished.
Overall, the film It Ends With Us is quite pledged to the source material, and the overarching story is the same. However, there are a handful of key changes that contrastentiate this project from Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively from Colleen Hoover’s novel.
To see the project on the 2024 movie schedule for yourself, you can catch It Ends With Us in theaters now.
