And when it comes time to move on to the next chapter of his life, Q isn't stuck in the past anymore, reminiscing about what might have been if only he'd stayed friends with Margo throughout all of high school. He takes a strange bus home. He not only goes to the prom but dances at the prom too, and looks like he's having fun doing it. You see that Margo's influence has inspired Q to keep going outside of his comfort zone even after the road trip ends and she's out of his life. Superfans might be disappointed by these new additions, but they do give the movie a kind of closure that the book's abrupt ending lacks. Then, finally, we see Margo one last time, gallivanting across the country on adventures both real and imagined as Q speculates about what she's doing now. Radar even gives his friends two of his parents' precious black Santas. After a scene of everyone dancing joyfully to Haim, you fast-forward to Q, Radar, and Ben exchanging good-byes, presumably before driving off to college. What a treat! Q takes a Greyhound-style bus all the way home to Orlando, which miraculously gets him home in time for the prom, which he is more than happy to attend. But after the movie arrives at the book's ending - Margo and Q sharing a sweet, reconciliatory kiss - there's about five more minutes of new stuff. Everyone else fights with Margo for being a brat and Q confronts her for misleading him on the quest (though over milkshakes in a nearby town rather than inside the general store). Once they get to Agloe, things stay more or less the same. Q, true to form, still doesn't want to go, but since everyone else does, he agrees to drive to New York and back in time for them to make it. The movie scraps that detail and instead has them find Margo's message right before the prom. In the book, Margo leaves a note on Omnictionary (the Paper Towns universe's analogue for Wikipedia) about when she plans to move on from her newfound home of Agloe, New York. This gives her friends a de facto deadline for how long they have to drive up there, because once she leaves, they have no idea where she'll go next. It starts with the road trip to find Margo after she runs away from Orlando. There is however, one semi-major alteration from the book: the ending. On Margo's last night in town, she tells Q she has nine things to do instead of 11. Margo (Cara Delevingne) lives across the street from Q (Nat Wolff) instead of next door to him. For example, Radar's girlfriend Angela (Jaz Sinclair) comes on the climactic road trip with Q and the gang. Many of the changes - and stop reading now if you don't want spoilers - are minor. The answer is not much, so you can mostly rest easy. The long-awaited film adaptation of John Green's Paper Towns hits theaters Friday, and if you've read the novel, you're probably wondering how the movie differs from the book.
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