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* LifeIsntFair: Carson's mother claims that this is why she [[spoiler:kept him from getting into university]] because he needs to learn that dreams don't come true.
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''Struck by Lighting'' is an 2012 film written by ChrisColfer.Creator/ChrisColfer. It is a {{coming of age story}} centered on [[SmallTowns small-town]] resident Carson Phillips, a teenager using blackmail on various students to make a newspaper to submit to a college.
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--> '''Mom''': "Since opposites attract, I would like to think that he was so positive the moment he died - so happy, he pulled that bolt right out of the sky."
--> '''Mom''': "Since opposites attract, I would like to think that he was so positive the moment he died - so happy, he pulled that bolt right out of the sky."
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* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: One of the most common complaints critics had against the movie was that they found Carson to be extremely arrogant and didn't manage to unlikable. Although some people found it to make his character even better so it isn't [[TropesAreNotBad that bad]].
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: It's no secret that Carson dies in the end, but he also doesn't get into the university of his dreams (and the only one he applied to), the entire school hates him, his literary magazine failed miserably, and he never got to make it out of Clover.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: It's no secret that Carson dies in the end, but he also doesn't get into the university of his dreams (and the only one he applied to), the entire school hates him, his literary magazine failed miserably, and he never got to make it out of Clover. At least he is much less impulsive and cynical after he died.]]
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** "Nixon is so crooked, he have to screw his boots on!"
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* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:The entire plot of the movie is this, at least for Carson - he finally manages to write a story of his own and complete his literary magazine, but he dies before anyone can read it. It differs from a ShootTheShaggyDog because it is implied in the movie that his death is a good thing for everyone especially himself.]]
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** The book pretends to be Carson's diary, and only reveals he dies at the end.
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* HeelRealization: Carson gives a monologue in the book before heading to the parking lot, about how he want to be never pressed by other people, to the point that he would willingly blackmail and manipulate.
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** Future Farmers of America.
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''Struck by Lighting'' is an upcoming 2012 film written by ChrisColfer. It is a {{coming of age story}} centered on [[SmallTowns small-town]] resident Carson Phillips, a teenager using blackmail on various students to make a newspaper to submit to a college.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: It's no secret that Carson dies in the end, but he also doesn't get into the university of his dreams (and the only one he applied to), the entire school hates him, his literary magazine failed miserably, and he never got to make it out of Clover.]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Carson:''' “I never graduated. I never went to Northwestern. I never wrote for the New Yorker. I never won the Nobel Peace Prize. I never changed the world. I never got out of Clover. These were just delusions that occupied my time.”]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Carson:''' “I never graduated. I never went to Northwestern. I never wrote for the New Yorker. I never won the Nobel Peace Prize. I never changed the world. I never got out of Clover. These were just delusions that occupied my time.”]]
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* StrawNihilist: Carson's mother. She goes as far as [[spoiler:saboutaging his projects]] merely because she thinks life is hopeless.
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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.
''Struck by Lighting'' is an upcoming film written by ChrisColfer. It is a {{coming of age story}} centered on [[SmallTowns small-town]] resident Carson Phillips, a teenager using blackmail on various students to make a newspaper to submit to a college.
!!Tropes used in this movie (or at least the promo) include:
* {{Blackmail}}: Carson blackmails the ''entire school'' to make them write for his literary magazine.
* DeadpanSnarker: Carson
* [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Everything Sounds Sexier in Spanish]][=/=]LatinLover: One of the students pretends to be a spanish exchange student in order to seduce girls.
* HatedHometown
* InsistentTerminology: Carson seems to exclusively refer to sex as "fornication".
* MostWritersAreWriters
* [[spoiler: PosthumousNarration: Carson.]]
* ScandalGate: Clovergate.
* TimeShiftedActor: Chris uses Adam Kolkin to play himself as a child; the same was done on one episode of [[Glee]].
* TrailersAlwaysLie: They leave out the fact that [[spoiler: Carson is struck by lightning and dies in the opening scene of the movie.]]
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''Struck by Lighting'' is an upcoming film written by ChrisColfer. It is a {{coming of age story}} centered on [[SmallTowns small-town]] resident Carson Phillips, a teenager using blackmail on various students to make a newspaper to submit to a college.
!!Tropes used in this movie (or at least the promo) include:
* {{Blackmail}}: Carson blackmails the ''entire school'' to make them write for his literary magazine.
* DeadpanSnarker: Carson
* [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Everything Sounds Sexier in Spanish]][=/=]LatinLover: One of the students pretends to be a spanish exchange student in order to seduce girls.
* HatedHometown
* InsistentTerminology: Carson seems to exclusively refer to sex as "fornication".
* MostWritersAreWriters
* [[spoiler: PosthumousNarration: Carson.]]
* ScandalGate: Clovergate.
* TimeShiftedActor: Chris uses Adam Kolkin to play himself as a child; the same was done on one episode of [[Glee]].
* TrailersAlwaysLie: They leave out the fact that [[spoiler: Carson is struck by lightning and dies in the opening scene of the movie.]]
* {{Written by Cast Member}}
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