Struck by Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

Struck by Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal follows the story of outcast high school senior Carson Phillips who blackmails the most popular students into contributing to his literary journal to bolster his college application; his goal in life is to get into Northwestern and eventually become the editor of The New Yorker.

ISBN: 978-0349001357

Год издания: 2012

Язык: Английский

Жанры:  Книги для подростков, Современная зарубежная литература

Теги:  Современная литература, Американская литература, Экранизировано, Крис Колфер, Chris Colfer, Зарубежная литература, Школа, Young adult, English, ПодросткиВсе теги

Крис Колфер сказал, что книга «обо всех детях в старшей школе, которые пытаются самостоятельно добиться слишком многого, но остаются недооцененными, как я в свое время. Я думаю, что это очень саркастично и очень реально. Я надеюсь, что книга покажет, что в мире все еще есть очень и очень много умных детей. Она об умных детях, а не о глупых детях, которые просто хотят заняться сексом, и это их главная цель в жизни».

" It is usually not a smart idea to kill off a movie’s central character in its opening scene. But that’s what happens in “Struck by Lightning,” a rancid comic satire whose 17-year-old protagonist, Carson Phillips (Chris Colfer of “Glee”), is felled by a bolt from the blue in his high school parking lot.
The breakout "Glee” star has written and acts in a new film. He has also published the first in a two-book series.
Carson, who narrates the story from beyond the grave, recounts his final months as a literary-minded über-nerd whose stated goals include attending Northwestern University, becoming the editor of The New Yorker and winning the Nobel Peace Prize. So what is the point when you know within the first five minutes that he won’t even have time to begin working toward those goals? You’ve got me.
Mr. Colfer not only stars in the film, directed by Brian Dannelly (“Saved!”), but he also wrote the screenplay, an expansion of a 10-minute piece he created at 16 for a speech-and-debate event at his high school in Clovis, Calif.
Behind his narrator’s deceptively chipper tone is an angry, contemptuous voice. Here is Carson’s take on high school: It is society’s bright idea to put all of its “aggressive, self-righteous, pubescent, naïve youth into one environment to torment and emotionally scar one another for life.” The editor of the high school newspaper in the fictional town of Clover, he is the only person in sight with half a brain and any ambition to escape the dead-end future facing his peers.
Carson lives with his recently divorced mother, Sheryl (Allison Janney), a venomous, pill-popping, alcoholic termagant who informs her son that the only reason she didn’t abort him was her foolish hope that having a child would save her marriage. His father, Neal (Dermot Mulroney), is a fatuous wimp who has neglected to tell his pregnant sweetheart, April (Christina Hendricks), a local pharmacist, of Carson’s existence.
The story gets lost in an ineptly executed plot turn in which Carson and his best friend, Malerie (Rebel Wilson), who snoops around with a video camera, concoct a ridiculous scheme to blackmail their hostile classmates into contributing to the school literary magazine. The screenplay’s meanness extends to Malerie, who plagiarizes excerpts from “A Tale of Two Cities” and “Moby-Dick.”
Except for Ms. Janney’s monstrous mother and an Alzheimer’s-afflicted grandmother, “Struck by Lightning” gives its characters no dimension. Although Carson is a far less sympathetic character than Mr. Colfer’s “Glee” alter ego, Kurt Hummel, he is portrayed as a cuddlesome sweetie. In reality, Carson is a snide, vindictive, sanctimonious brat." - From "The New York Times" by STEPHEN HOLDEN

"In his screenwriting debut, Glee’s gifted Chris Colfer, 22, proves he can lace a line with sass and soul. The downside of Struck by Lightning, besides the fact that Colfer’s character, Carson Phillips, is struck dead in the first scene, is that Colfer hands himself all the best lines. In flashbacks, Carson reveals himself to be too cool for school, where he yearns for a journalism career, while the usual stereotypes (jock, cheerleader, closeted gay) reveal their stupidity. The priceless Rebel Wilson puts her own comic spin on the role of Carson’s clueless BFF. But director Brian Dannelly (Saved!) can’t unmoor a first-rate cast of pros – notably Allison Janney as Carson’s boozy divorced mom – from Carson’s orbit of superiority. Colfer makes it hard to weep for Carson, since he weeps enough for himself." - From "Rolling Stone" by PETER TRAVERS.

Режиссер: Брайан Деннели
В главных ролях: Крис Колфер, Кристина Хендрикс, Сара Хайланд
События в фильме описываются с точки зрения воспоминаний студента Карсона Филлипса, которого убивает ударом молнии. История о том, как шантажировал своих одноклассников с целью содействия в публикации в научном журнале, а также о его отношениях с матерью, Шэрил Филлипс, которая пытается восстановить связь с сыном до его отъезда в колледж.

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Название: Удар молнии
Оригинальное название: Struck by Lightning
Слоган: A personal raincloud can be deadly...
Год: 2012
Страна: США
Жанр: комедия, драма
Режиссер: Брайан Даннелли
Автор сценария: Крис Колфер
В ролях: Крис Колфер, Кристина Хендрикс, Эшли Ричардс, Сара Хайланд, Элисон Дженни, Дермот Малруни, Элли Грант, Робби Армел, Мэтт Прокоп, Полли Берген, Адам Колкин, Энжела Кинси, Картер Дженкинс, Ребел Уилсон, Лоурен Лопес, Брэд Хенке
Возраст: 16+
Рейтинг МРАА: PG-13
Мировая премьера: 21 апреля 2012
Премьера в России: не показывался в кинотеатрах.
Продолжительность: 90 минут