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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is a 2012 novel written by Jesse Andrews. It received a 2015 film adaptation directed by Alonso Gómez-Rejón.Greg Gaines is a self-loathing and introverted high school senior who makes low-budget parodies of classic films with his friend (whom he refers to as his "co-worker") Earl. When a girl at his school whom he hasn't talked to in years, Rachel Kushner is diagnosed with leukemia, Greg's mother forces him to spend time with her, starting out awkward but inevitably turning into a friendship. As Rachel's health worsens, Greg and Earl are coaxed by an expecting school to make Rachel one of their no-budget parodies that she's come to enjoy so much.The film features Thomas Mann as Greg, RJ Cyler as Earl, and Olivia Cooke as Rachel. It also features Nick Offerman and Connie Britton as Greg's parents, Molly Shannon as Rachel's mom, and Jon Bernthal as Mr. McCarthy.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })After its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2015, Fox Searchlight acquired it for $12 million, making it the biggest buy in Sundance history. Although released around the same time as a certain other movie involving teenagers with cancer, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl carries a more flexible yet still snide tone, and its captivating lead trio primarily focuses on the friendship aspect of their relationship. |
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Daydream Surprise: Twice does a scene between Greg and Rachel turn out to have been a figment of Greg's imagination. |
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Arc Symbol: Pillows for Greg and Rachel, particularly the sexy purple one. Squirrels concerning Rachel. She and her father used to count them on the streets, and after she dies, Greg discovers numerous tiny drawings of them around the tree wallpaper in her room. |
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Unreliable Narrator: Throughout the course of the movie, Greg states several times that Rachel isn't going to die and it isn't a story about death. He's lying. In the book, every event is told from Greg's perspective and is subject to his own biased Self-Deprecation. |
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The Cameo: Hugh Jackman plays a poster of Wolverine that chastises Greg for assuming Rachel is going to die. |
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Dead Man Writing: Rachel's letter to Greg that she voices out post mortem in the last scene. |
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Disappeared Dad: Rachel and Earl, including the latter's stepdad. |
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Parental Abandonment: Earl's parents are noticeably absent in the movie. The book explains that his stepfather is in prison and his mother secludes herself through online chat rooms on the third floor of their house. |
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Ambiguously Jewish: Although it was explicitly stated in the book, the movie remains ambiguous about whether or not the Gaines family is Jewish. |
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Hidden Depths: Greg continues to find out new things about Rachel even after she dies. Foreshadowed by his teacher noting the same thing happening to him after his dad died in the movie. |
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Cluster F-Bomb: Greg and Earl both drift into this territory, Greg mostly in his narration and Earl whenever he's pissed. "The Reason You Suck" Speech given by the latter to the former certainly fits. |
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Bittersweet Ending: Different versions in each. In the movie, Rachel dies but Earl and Greg make up, and Greg gets another chance at getting into college because of the letter Rachel wrote. In the book, Rachel dies and Greg's admission to Pitt is revoked, but by the book's epilogue Greg is happier with himself than ever before and thinks he'll go to film school not just for Rachel, but for himself. |
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Spoiler Title: Double-subverted. The movie title certainly points to a Downer Ending but then along comes Greg reassuring the audience that Rachel is going to live. But this is not what happens. |
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Big Brother Bully: Anytime a fight breaks out in Earl's household, anyone is fair game, including Greg. While in the film Greg swears Earl's older brother will get their dog to eat him one day, it's Brandon, Earl's younger brother, who causes Greg to break his arm in the book. |
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Book Safe: Rachel creates them as a pastime. |
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Adaptational Attractiveness: The main trio have a few notable differences in appearance than the book describes. Greg describes himself as slightly overweight with chronic allergic rhinitis, a mucus problem not portrayed in the film. Also Earl, while appearing youthful as described in the book, is a lot taller in the movie. Finally, Rachel is described as having buckteeth and fits of snorting in place of laughter. However, Greg being a questionable narrator, some of these flaws may have been exaggerated. |
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Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure: Greg has a falling-out with both Rachel and Earl in the third act. |
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The Lancer |
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The Lancer: Earl. Unlike Greg he doesn't bother cultivating any friendliness with the rest of the students and seems perfectly fine being a loner. He's also more likely to speak his mind than Greg is. |
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Caught with Your Pants Down: Greg's parents do walk in on him at one point when he's watching a suggestive video that appears he's about to get off to. In the book, this leads to a minor lecture from his mother about the beauty of natural breasts. |
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Acid Pool: A combination of this and Shark Pool is mentioned by Greg in the opening scene as an example of what "worst of times" could mean. |
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Wimp Fight: Greg and Ill Phil's... is that even considered a fight? |
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Huddle Shot: Used early on for a shot where Greg, his parents and the cat join in a group hug. |
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Comical Overreacting: When his mother initial pestered him about going to see Rachel, Greg ended up wallowing on the floor. |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Earl gives one to Greg when the latter tries angrily confronting the former about telling Rachel about the film they're supposed to be making for her. In the movie, it's portrayed as a Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure. In the book, however, it's composed half of swears and just kinda brushed off afterwards. |
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The Alcoholic |
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The Alcoholic: Rachel's mother is completely drunk in all but one of her appearances, probably out of grief. |
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How We Got Here |
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How We Got Here: Greg is writing the story to send to Pittsburgh State University. |
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Large Ham: Ill Phil, who stands in front of the school and loudly spouts rhymes. Matt Bennet is clearly enjoying himself as Scott Mayhew. |
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World of Pun: All of Greg and Earl's parody movies have a Pun-Based Title of the one they're based off of. "It's a Punderful Life" is a prime example. |
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Bait-and-Switch |
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Bait-and-Switch: At prom night we are let to believe Greg is going to pick up Madison, but instead his limo stops in front of the hospital. |
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Buxom Is Better: Though it's much more prominent in the book, where Greg can't even mention Madison without acknowledging her boobs. |
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Bratty Teenage Daughter: Gretchen, who's main interests are described by Greg as yelling at their mother and not eating whatever's for dinner. |
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Did Not Get the Girl: Though the movie leaves Greg and Madison's relationship ambiguous, she's dating someone else by the end of the book, and of course Rachel, whom Greg doesn't have any romantic feelings for anyway, dies by the end, too. |
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Creator Career Self-Deprecation |
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Creator Career Self-Deprecation: Greg narrates the line "this is why fiction sucks." |
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Token Trio: Greg, Earl, and Rachel. |
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Cool Loser:Greg and Earl, to some extent. |
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Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Greg's dad in both the movie and the book. He hangs around the house in a kimono eating cuttlefish and talking to his cat compared to Greg, who is slightly quirky at most. A more serious example in the movie is Rachel's mom, who starts drinking heavily after her daughter's diagnose, and Rachel, who takes it more calmly. |
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Imagine Spot: Whenever Madison touches Greg, the scene cuts to a Stop Motion animation depicting Madison as a giant elk trampling on poor Greg. |
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Achilles in His Tent: Greg becomes a recluse and even stops going to school after the film he and Earl made for Rachel is shown at a pep assembly and he can't escape the negative attention. |
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The Film of the Book |
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The Film of the Book: Obviously. |
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It Makes Sense in Context |
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Pillows for Greg and Rachel, particularly the sexy purple one. |
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Alliterative Name |
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Alliterative Name: Greg Gaines. |
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Comforting Comforter |
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Comforting Comforter: During one of his visits to the hospital, Greg pulls up the sheet for Rachel after she's fallen asleep. |
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Ugly Guy, Hot Wife |
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Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: By the end of the book, Madison has started dating the "gothy dork" Allan McCormick. |
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Character Death: Yes, Rachel does die. Yes, Greg lied about her getting better at the end. |
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Ill Girl |
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Ill Girl: Rachel, in second half of the story. |
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Awkward Father-Son Bonding Activity: A rare female example. Rachel mentions how she and her estranged father used to walk around the block counting squirrel because they had nothing else to talk about when spending time together. |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: Greg and Earl's 40+ parody films yielded its own page. |
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Self-Deprecation |
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Self-Deprecation: A huge part of Greg's arc is how insecure he feels about himself. He frequently refers to his own face as "a groundhog face" in the movie. |
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Mistaken for Romance |
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Mistaken for Romance: Most of the school assumes Greg and Rachel are dating once they start hanging out more. |
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Foreign Queasine |
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Foreign Queasine: Greg's house is stocked full of this courtesy of his father. |
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Cool Teacher |
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Cool Teacher: Mr. McCarthy the social studies teacher. |
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E = MC Hammer |
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E = MC Hammer: At one point, Greg is seen sitting in class during a test with lots of formulas written on the black boards at both ends of the class room. |
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Reasonable Authority Figure |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Mr. McCarthy, who's genuinely concerned about Greg's mental well-being and tries talking him through it. |
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Despair Event Horizon |
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Despair Event Horizon: The heartbreaking scene where Rachel informs Greg that she's stopping treatment. |
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Black Best Friend |
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Black Best Friend: Earl to Greg, though Greg prefers to call him his co-worker. |
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Mr. Imagination |
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Mr. Imagination: Greg is a much more cynical take on the trope, while Earl also qualifies. |
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Pretty Fly for a White Guy |
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Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Ill Phil, the high school's cornrow-sporting amateur rapper/drug dealer, is as white as mayonnaise. |
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Early-Bird Cameo |
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Early-Bird Cameo: There is a blink-and-miss scene early on in the school corridor where Greg passes two girls talking about a test. Turns out, one of the girls was Rachel having received her cancer test results. |
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High-School Dance |
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High-School Dance: There's a prom. After all, high schools generally have them. |
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The Not-Love Interest |
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The Not-Love Interest: Greg even notes the fact that if it were a different kind of story, there would've been more romantic tropes instead of a strong friendship. Nevertheless, Greg's growing friendship with Rachel is one of the main focuses. |
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Intoxication Ensues |
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Intoxication Ensues: Greg and Earl accidentally end up high, thinking that Mr. McCarthy's soup was laced with drugs. |
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Mushroom Samba |
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Mushroom Samba: Under the influence of the drug cookies, Greg looks around and noticed a pig and a panda bear across the street. |
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Answer Cut |
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Answer Cut: Happens during a conversation at the school cafeteria. |
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Accidental Unfortunate Gesture |
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Accidental Unfortunate Gesture: Greg makes a fist bump gesture from afar which Rachel mistakes for a Black Power salute. |
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Eating Lunch Alone |
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Eating Lunch Alone: Greg and Earl eat lunch alone together in Mr. McCarthy's office. In the movie, Greg is seen eating lunch entirely by himself after his row with Earl. |
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Multi-Character Title |
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Multi-Character Title: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl |
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