一飞冲天 (2007)
Rocket Science
家住新泽西某郊区小镇的高中男孩哈尔·海弗纳（里斯·汤普森 Reece Thompson 饰）生活一塌糊涂，他的父母婚姻破裂，哥哥厄尔（文森特·皮雅扎 Vincent Piazza 饰）极度自私无能，哈尔又存在语言障碍的毛病。家——学校——家，两点一线是哈尔主要的生活方式。秋日的某天，命运之轮开始转动。在校车上，学校辩论会明星级的人物珍妮·莱尔森（安娜·肯德里克 Anna Kendrick 饰）主动找到哈尔，邀请他成为州立高中辩论大赛的搭档，此举几乎震惊了整个学校。珍妮似乎隐隐感到哈尔尚未被人发觉的辩论才能，而这一机遇也使哈尔黯淡的人生发生转变…… 本片荣获2007年圣丹斯电影节剧情片导演奖。
- 上映日期
- 2007-01-19
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (208)
- 片长（分钟）
- 1小时41分钟
- 类型
- 喜剧, 剧情
- 导演
- Jeffrey Blitz
演员阵容
- 尼古拉斯·达戈斯托 — Ben Wekselbaum
- 玛戈·马丁代尔 — Coach Lumbly
- Reece Thompson — Hal Hefner
- 安娜·肯德里克 — Ginny Ryerson
- 乔纳·希尔 — Junior Philosopher
- 丹尼斯·奥黑尔 — Doyle Hefner
- 文森特·皮亚扎 — Earl Hefner
- 艾伦·余 — Heston
- 乌特卡什·安邦德卡尔 — Ram
- Candace Hammer — Townsend Prep Debater
- Lisbeth Bartlett — Juliet Hefner
- Virginia House — English Teacher
趣闻
- 拍摄地：巴爾的摩和新泽西州
- 获奖：1 · 提名：0. 包括：Sundance U.S. Directing Award: Dramatic
Rocket Science is a 2007 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Jeffrey Blitz, and starring Reece Thompson, Anna Kendrick, Nicholas D'Agosto, Vincent Piazza, and Aaron Yoo. It tells the story of Hal Hefner, a fifteen-year-old stutterer who decides to join his school's debate team when he develops a crush on its star member, and addresses the themes of coming of age, sexuality, and finding one's voice.
Production
After the success of his 2002 documentary Spellbound, Jeffrey Blitz was encouraged by his agents to write fiction because of the larger revenue brought in by fiction films. Blitz began to piece together a story that had come to him while he had been filming Spellbound: "I kept thinking, what if we met a kid that was just an amazing lover of words? What if we met a kid that was lured into the spelling bee because he was in love with a girl?" He ha…
While many parts of Rocket Science are completely fictitious, a number of the story's details are lifted directly from Blitz's own experiences. In several scenes of the film, Hal is trying to ask for a slice of pizza but cannot say the word "pizza"; this is drawn from Blitz's experience of trying to order a hamburger from hotel room service without being able to say the word "hamburger".
Blitz hired Belgian Jo Willems as the cinematographer, having collaborated previously on commercials. Blitz admired Willems' "European sensibility about shooting" and wanted to use his aesthetic to "tell a story that was equal parts deadpan and suggestive of the 'real' world". In creating a "look" for the film, he said that he relied upon "almost opposite impulses"—to tell the story intimately but also carry the comedy.
The night before filming began, Blitz took Thompson, Piazza and Yoo to dinner, insisting that they stay in character. Thompson, as Hal, was unable to tell the waitress what he wanted to order; Piazza, as Earl, obsessive-compulsively asked the waitress for a fresh straw each time she passed; and Yoo, as Heston, could not decide what to order and had the waitress explain the menu repeatedly.
Principal photography began in Baltimore, Maryland on the week beginning July 18, 2005, the project receiving a tax rebate as part of Baltimore's Employer Wage Rebate Program for filmmakers. The film was shot on a 30-day schedule with an overall budget of $4.5 million. Blitz chose to film in Maryland, as its child labour laws are much less restrictive than those of New Jersey, where the film is set.
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