Struck By Lightning (film)
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Life comes at you fast. It runs through your body and tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible. It's a lot like lightning. |
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Struck by Lighting is a 2012 film written by Chris Colfer. It is a Coming of Age Story centered on small-town resident Carson Phillips, a teenager using blackmail on various students to make a newspaper to submit to a college.
Tropes used in Struck By Lightning (film) include:
- Blackmail: Carson blackmails the entire school to make them write for his literary magazine.
- Deadpan Snarker: Carson
- Everything Sounds Sexier in Spanish/Latin Lover: One of the students pretends to be a spanish exchange student in order to seduce girls.
- Hated Hometown
- Insistent Terminology: Carson seems to exclusively refer to sex as "fornication".
- Most Writers Are Writers
- Posthumous Narration: Carson.
- Scandalgate: Clovergate.
- Timeshifted Actor: Chris uses Adam Kolkin to play himself as a child; the same was done on one episode of Glee.
- Trailers Always Lie: They leave out the fact that Carson is struck by lightning and dies in the opening scene of the movie.
- Written by Cast Member