Comparison Of The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

Through each director’s use and tactics in character development, The Breakfast Club once again remains in its own dominant category over Perks of Being a Wallflower. Yes, similar teenage characters with comparable personalities and identities are depicted in each: a jock with hidden deep-down emotions seen in Brad vs. Andrew, a brainiac with depression through Charlie vs. Brian, a beautiful girl on the outside with some underlying problems on the inside seen in Sam vs. Claire, and of course, the iconic troublemakers and jokesters of Patrick vs. Bender. But while Chbosky had to rely

The existence of characters like Charlie, Sam and Patrick is incredibly important, and makes me wish I had read this book or saw this movie in high school as opposed to in a college dorm room. The people I watched Perks of Being a Wallflower with felt bad for Charlie, but couldn’t really understand him. I can’t blame them for that though, it’s hard to relate to a character going through that much loss and

The Breakfast Club movie is about five high school students from Shemer High School with different backgrounds. It’s the story of “a brain (Brian), an athlete (Andrew), a basket case (Allison), a princess (Claire) and a criminal (Bender).” The purpose of the movie is to captive the feelings and perspectives on what other people have experienced and learned from each other. The analysis about The Breakfast Club is about the common insecurities and challenges of the teenager during high school. The Breakfast club is a movie to convey emotions, fears, and companionship that everyone can relate to. However, with new knowledge comes new perspective and emotions. This movie opens up a world of abstract thoughts because none of the five students know each other and it helps to create an interpersonal communication, they revealed to each other how their lives actually are. This movie is about Social Judgment Theory, Interpersonal conflict, self-disclosure, Social Comparison Theory and an unresolved life conflicts of a teenager life by finding their identities.

The film I chose to write about is Perks of Being a Wallflower. The story starts with Charlie the main character feeling depressed and lonely.1 His best friend committed suicide and he is about to start high school without any friends. The story is told in he perspective of Charlie because he writes letters about what is happening in his life. Charlie is an avid reader and immediately connects with his English teacher Mr. Anderson.1 Although Charlie is timid, he meets Sam and Patrick at a football game that he was attending alone. Charlie seems happier throughout the movie as Patrick and Sam invite him out with them. They become good supporting friends that he has not had since the death of his friend.

‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ follows shy and kind-natured Charlie Kelmeckis (Logan Lerman- Percy Jackson, The Butterfly Effect) as he enters high school alone, after the recent loss of his middle school best friend to suicide. Charlie gets befriended by seniors Sam (Emma Watson- Harry Potter-Beauty and the Beast) and Patrick (Ezra Miller- Justice League, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) and finally feels accepted.

The film begins by introducing each of the five characters. John Hughes gives us five common archetypes with each of his characters including: a jock, a popular princess, a geek, a criminal, and basket case. These generic characters make it easier for the audience to relate to one of the characters in the film. Andy, the jock, is the generic high school athlete, or so it seems.

The movie begins with Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick), a smart yet mischievous senior, who fakes being ill one last time before his graduation with the intention of spending the day with his best friend Cameron (Alan Ruck), and his girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara). After breaking his girlfriend out of school and “borrowing” his best friend’s dad’s priceless Ferrari, Ferris does

Overall, the movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower tells the story of a teen with significant trauma and depression. It shows how his friends help him through tough times and give him a good high school experience. He finds himself and receives help from his friends, family, and doctors. It shows how mental illness is normal in teens and that it is okay to seek

the first of its kind to be made with a small budget, unknown cast, and limited resources. This proves that this film is unique by showing how differently the director and actors

The black and white photography by Christopher Ferguson was perfect on every level. It captured the time in which the story took place, but more importantly it captured the feel and the tone of the tale. There was a sense of foreboding from the first shot, a tracking shot that wound down a country road, cross dissolved past a fence and lifted into the air to see young Charlotte dart off to her friend Emilie's house. This camerawork with the film's classical, almost "Bernsteinian" score had me thinking of To Kill A Mockingbird, but I knew this would not be as happy or redemptive of a film. Oh no.

I choose to do my paper over The Perks of Being a Wallflower. I did have a very difficult time diagnosis what disorder I thought the main character had, but it was a huge learning opportunity for me. I heard about this movie a couple of years ago and I never had time to watch it. This assignment gave me the opportunity to watch the movie and thoroughly enjoyed it.

At school, Charlie finds a friend and mentor in his English teacher, Bill. He also overcomes his chronic shyness and approaches a classmate, Patrick, and his stepsister Sam, become two of Charlie's BFFs. Charlie’s new found friends – Sam, Patrick, Mary Elizabeth and Bob - aren't exactly popular and are outcasts themselves. They are all seniors and often hang out at the Big Boy except Bob who doesn't go to school.

Close Viewing- The Perks Of Being a Wallflower. In the film “the perks of being a wallflower” directed by Stephen Chbosky in the final scene uses lighting, music and sound, camera angles and shots and visual and settings throughout the film to show the love and friendship in the characters lives. Stephen uses lighting in this scene which is bright and golden, creating a joyful mood and evoking happiness in the audience.

It all begins, with a man named Barton Fink a playwright from New York. He moves to L.A. to write a B-movie script for pictures, along the way he develops writer’s block. When he arrives in L.A. he checks into a nasty hotel, he meets Charlie his neighbor. As his writer’s block progresses, he meets Mayhew a talented writer who's an alcoholic and likes to beat up Audrey. Throughout the movie, Barton tries to get closer to Mayhew, but he ends up with Audrey.

The movie that I have chosen is a classic film from 1988 called Heathers. Heathers is an American cult black comedy film written by Daniel Waters and directed by Michael Lehmann. The film portrays four teenage girls—three of whom are named Heather—in a clique and a teen named Veronica Sawyer who desperately wants to fit in, as well as a crazy and unstable boy named J.D that plans to ruin it all. The focus of this essay will be on three characters. Analyzing their internal and external battles, as well as their social interactions with loved ones and other members of their fictional society.