Why isnt perks of being a wallflower playing

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This is a small detail, but it leaves a very specific impression. There are more religious overtones than are present in the book. Adding religion gives the setting a bit of a different context, but it allows Chbosky an easy way to segue from scene to scene. I wanted to make a movie that celebrates those friendships—and the intensity of those friendships. That's what so heartbreaking at the end of the film: the awareness of the fleetingness of that moment—you give Charlie [the central character and narrator, played by Logan Lerman] a line of voice-over to that effect.

For me, it was that awareness more than anything else that gave the movie resolution. Was that something you took straight from the novel? A lot of those lines were from the original book, but some of them I added based on my adult perspective.

Right now these moments are not stories, this is happening. And she is so beautiful. But also to know that even if they are going through a really hard time, that there will be a day when these experiences become old photographs, that you can cope and that you can get through it. When I saw that scene from The Goblet of Fire where she stood in front of the steps with Daniel Radcliffe at the dance, and the way that she cried and the way that she was vulnerable—I just had an instinct about her as an actor.

She got better every movie—we all saw that. The icing on the cake for me was meeting her. It could be something as simple as, in the case of Emma, I knew how much she had to prove to herself. I knew how much longing she had to break out of the Hermione part, and to show herself more than anyone else had allowed her. My one criticism is that whilst Chbosky does include a gay character, that gay character is male.

Humour me, dear reader, allow me one tangential rant. Culturally, we seem quite comfortable with the idea of a slightly effeminate, flamboyant, gay character and I guess I would have liked to see Chbosky be more original in this regard.

However this gripe is not as much with Perks as with the YA genre as a whole. I do not expect every book to have an obligatory lesbian extra, but a sprinkling across the lot would be refreshing. For example, Charlie used to kiss boys in the neighbourhood when he was little and is very aware that this concerned his father.