Anyone but you It is a great success for several reasons all related to a common point. Leave the cynicism behind and immerse yourself in a typical love story. On the one hand, it restores the best of the traditional romantic comedy and moves it into a contemporary dimension. At the other extreme, it pokes fun at the great classic clichés, most of which are part of the history of cinema, in a naive and friendly way.
As a result, the plot, besides being highly humorous, ultimately becomes endearing. Also a mix of different views of what love – and its stories – can be and how they are currently perceived. No one but you will invent their boy-meets-girl formula to have a happy ending. But it achieves a sincere homage to all the great films that came before it, just that version of love that is almost idyllic.
We leave you with the five movies he references Anyone But You in its grand homage to romantic cinema. From the work that made audiences laugh and cry in the 1990s, to golden Hollywood classics. The film delves not only into how cinema imagines romance. It also shows that great love stories never go out of style.
Summer nonsense
In 1955 at the height of movie romances, Katharine Hepburn starred in one of the most memorable. Summer Nonsense follows a single woman in search of the love of her life – from Italy to North America and back – and uses humor to capture her journey. And in the same way Anyone but you has a restless, crazy, and a little irritated protagonist for not being able to find the man of her life.
More than that: they are two parallel characters. Bea (Sydney Sweeney) says in several moments of the film that love is more than a feeling. It’s a co-op point. Jane (Hepburn) says the same thing as she tries to understand what’s going on between her and the mysterious antique dealer. In the end, they both discover that love is closer than they thought. And that he was the man who pissed them off to the point of exhaustion.
Lots of noise, few nuts
Benedict, played by Kenneth Branagh, and Beatriz, portrayed by Emma Thompson, are both equally stubborn, intelligent, and adept conversationalists. Only he is convinced that she is also deceiving him with jokes and pranks. The adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play of the same name is a delicious satire that is also poignant for its strange vision of love.
In the same way as Anyone but You— which is also a version of the same work — the film is based on its protagonists’ ability to pretend to hate each other. And they both make fun of big romantic comedies. Of course, like a good Kenneth Branagh film, this look at picaresque love, letter by letter displays the work of the British writer.
But even so, there is a great mockery of expectations and moments where love is so much more than we expect it to be. The central message 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 stumbling. Lucy, portrayed by Lucy Hale, aims to advance in her corporate career. Only he will have to face Joshua (Austin Stowell), his cold colleague. As in the novel (which has become one of the most popular romance lovers), the two characters have a strained relationship.
But what starts as a great ability to anger each other ends in love when they both have to go through an awkward moment. One that will show her that he’s not as hateful as he thinks.
Anyone but you pay homage to the book and the movie in several of its scenes. Especially when portraying the strained relationship between Ben (Glen Powell). Together, they eventually discover that the most passionate feeling can be as powerful as hatred. Just like a loving couple Anyone but you.
Me in front of you
Another couple who start to hate each other and end up falling for each other 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 don’t like each other end up falling deeply in love. More than that: to become the reason for the other’s life. Especially for Will, confined to a wheelchair after a violent accident.
Anyone but you, uses several famous phrases from Moyes’ novel that also appear in the film. Which makes some scenes — and fans will know which ones — are as endearing as they are painful. In the end, the movie starring Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell gives their lovers a happy ending. But even so, the development between the two of them in their love for each other is very similar to what I in Front of You described in the book and in the film.
Proposal
In this 2009 film, Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock also have to pretend to be a couple in love, when in reality they don’t get along quite well. Twist is very similar to Who But You and can seem casual. If in the latter, Bea manages to name the tape, in the middle of her trying to explain to Ben that they should pretend to be a couple.
And like the protagonists of The Proposal, the two end up falling in love. A twist that culminates in a very similar scene in which both couples end up making fun of their attempts to hide their feelings.