The references to the great romantic comedies in ‘Anybody but you’
Anyone but you It is a large-scale success for several reasons and all related to a common point. Leave cynicism behind to delve into a love story par excellence. So, on the one hand, it recovers the best of the traditional romantic comedy and takes it to a contemporary dimension. At the other extreme, it makes fun in a naive and friendly way of the great clichés of the classics, most of which are part of the history of cinema.
The result is a plot that, in addition to being very funny, ends up being endearing. Also, a mix of various points of view about what love — and its stories — can be and how they are currently perceived. Anyone but you doesn’t invent their boy-meets-girl formula to end in a happy ending. But what it does achieve is to pay a sincere tribute to all the great films that preceded it through, precisely, that version of love that is almost idyllic.
We leave you five films that it refers to Anyone but you in his great tribute to romantic cinema. From a work that made audiences laugh and cry in the nineties of the last century to a golden Hollywood classic. The film delves not only into the way cinema imagines romance. Also, it shows that great love stories never go out of style.
Summer Follies
In 1955 and at the height of cinematic romances, Katharine Hepburn starred in one of the most memorable. Summer Follies follows a single woman in search of the love of her life — from Italy to North America and back — and uses humor to chronicle her journey. And in the same way that Anyone but you has a restless, crazy and a little irritated protagonist for failing to find the man of her life.
More than that: these are two parallel characters. Bea (Sydney Sweeney) says in several moments of the film, that she says, love is more than a feeling. It is a point of complicity. Jane (Hepburn) says the same thing, as she tries to understand what is happening between her and a mysterious antiques dealer. In the end, both will discover that love was closer than they thought. And that he was the man who had made them angry to the point of exhaustion.
Much noise few nuts
Benedict (Kenneth Branagh) and Beatriz (Emma Thompson), are equally stubborn, intelligent and good conversationalists. Only he, he is convinced that she is also deceiving him with jokes and practical jokes. The adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play of the same name is a delicious satire, which is also moving for its strange vision of love.
In the same way that Anyone but you— which is also a version of the same piece — the film is based on the ability of its protagonists to pretend to hate each other. And, both, they make fun of the great romantic comedies. Of course, like a good Kenneth Branagh film that it is, this look at picaresque love, letter by letter it portrays the work of the British writer.
But, even so, there is a great mockery of expectations and of the moments in which love is much more than what we expect from it. The central message of Anyone but you .
Baby, how I hate you
Based on the best seller by Sally Thorne, the story tells of a romance that gets off to a bad start. Actually, with the worst stumble. Lucy (Lucy Hale) wants to move up the corporate ladder. Only she will have to face Joshua (Austin Stowell), her cold co-worker. As in the novel (which has become one of the most beloved by romance lovers), both characters have a tense relationship.
But what begins as an enormous ability for each other to make each other angry ends in love when both must go through an awkward moment. One that will show her that he is not as hateful as he thinks.
Anyone but you pays homage to the book and the movie in several of its scenes. Especially when portraying the tense relationship between Ben (Glen Powell). Together, they will end up discovering that the most passionate feeling can be as strong as hatred. The same as the loving couple Anyone but you.
Me before you
Another couple that starts hating each other and ends up falling in love is the bittersweet romance of Louisa (Emilia Clarke) and William (Sam Claflin). Based on the novel by Jojo Moyes, the film tells how this couple, who dislike each other, end up deeply in love. More than that: becoming the other’s reason for living. Especially for Will, confined to a wheelchair after a violent accident.
Anyone but you, uses several of the famous phrases from Moyes’ novel, which also appear in the film. Which makes some of the scenes — and fans will recognize which one it is — as endearing as it is painful. In the end, the film starring Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell provides a happy ending to its lovers. But, even so, the evolution between the two of them in loving each other is very similar to that Me before you described in both book and film.
The proposal
In this 2009 film, Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock must also pretend to be a couple who love each other, when, in reality, they get along quite badly. The twist is very similar to Anyone But You and might seem casual. Unless in the latter, Bea manages to name the tape, in the middle of her attempt to explain to Ben that they should pretend to be a couple.
And in the same way as the protagonists of The Proposal, both end up falling in love. A twist that both culminate with a very similar scene in which both couples end up making fun of their attempts to hide their feelings.