“Perks” is Chbosky’s most personal work - his self-proclaimed baby - which is partly why he took his time adapting it. “A lot of these things that are going on are in middle schools, and we all know it,” he said. But, given that the story is semi-autobiographical, Chbosky finds the controversy a little insincere. Plot points, including underage drinking, suicide, drug use and sex, have landed the work on many banned book lists. “And so Ezra was very proud and very gloaty.”īad language is not the film’s only transgression.
“And it was so funny that I was like, I gotta use that one,” Chbosky said. But in a moment of inspired improvisation, Miller, observing an ill-advised romantic overture, remarked in a deadpan: “That’s so up.” “There was a contest, because no kid knew who was getting the” word, Chbosky said. Logan Lerman stars in “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.” (John Bramley) You can only use a certain word - the mother of all curse words - one time. Reaching that ultimate goal wasn’t an exact science, but there was one fairly ironclad dictum, Chbosky found. While the MPAA initially stamped “Perks” with an R, an appeal ruled in the writer-director’s favor for a PG-13 designation. “So I was deliberate from Day One: Okay, where is the line, and how can I push it?” For all the reasons the book has done good for those kids, I wanted them to have the same access to the movie,” Chbosky said recently while in town from Los Angeles. from the library they don’t have to get permission to buy it from a bookstore. “A 13-year-old kid can get my book pretty much anywhere. Just one thing stood in the way of the filmmaker’s sweeping endeavor: The dreaded R rating. Teenagers had written letters to Chbosky over the years after they had found something like salvation in the pages of his book, and he hoped for the same result with the cinematic story of Charlie, played by Logan Lerman, and his new friends Sam (Emma Watson) and Patrick (Ezra Miller). So maybe it follows that, when adapting the story for the big screen, Chbosky vowed to reach as many people as possible - and not simply for the typical reasons of tallying box office numbers and dollar signs. And just like that, a sweet-natured kid transforms from outcast to cohort. The book’s protagonist, high-school freshman Charlie, is rescued from bleak loneliness by a circle of friendly misfits who embrace him, shyness and all. Stephen Chbosky’s 1999 young adult novel “ The Perks of Being a Wallflower” could be a memo about the importance of inclusiveness.
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