Movie Analysis: the Pursuit of Happyness Essays

As Chris ventures into the Alaskan wild he was able to find the happiness he was longing for. It was a type of happiness that he could only experience when he was with nature as seen throughout his life. As he laid in his death bed, he never spoke about any regrets he had,

Chris McCandless’s ultimate goal was to reach the great Alaskan wilderness. Chris was a courageous, fearless, and adventurous person. He hitchhiked and travelled all the way to his great adventure, met a ton of new people and had a huge impact everywhere he went. Chris McCandless didn’t care about luxurious things like money, a fancy car, or a big house, all he cared about was the outdoors. Chris McCandless’s goal in life was to go out and find what he was missing from his life. All he really wanted was to be able to live a happy life and share that with others.

In Happy by Roko Belic (a 2011 documentary), “All I want is to be happy in life” was a reoccurring statement from the people in the film. A majority of people in today’s world agree with that statement. Everyone wants to be happy, but what truly defines happiness? The Happy documentary presents different things that make certain people happy, and what influences their feelings. The film does not only imply that direct message, but also paints a bigger picture for the audience. The bigger picture being: how ecology is the main factor behind people’s happiness. The director of this film combines real experiences from people around the world along with research from scientists to explain our simple emotion, happiness.

The documentary ‘Happy’ was probably one of the best documentaries I have ever watched. It is a documentary on what truly makes people around the world happy. The movie takes you through true stories of the lives of all kinds of people with different life situations within the entire world. Through each individual story it shows how even though they may have gone or are going through tough situations, they still remain happy with life itself.

The film Pleasantville directed by Gary Ross is about two modern teenagers, David and his sister Jennifer, somehow being transported into the television, ending up in Pleasantville, a 1950s black and white sitcom. The two are trapped as Bud and Mary Sue in a radically different dimension and make some huge changes to the bland lives of the citizens of Pleasantville, with the use of the director’s cinematic techniques. Ross cleverly uses cinematic techniques such as colour, mise-en-scene, camera shots, costumes, music and dialogue to effectively tell the story.

During the end of the 3rd Century, the Playwright Plautus wrote many of the first Roman comedies. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical comedy film adaptation of Plautus's comedies.Set in ancient Rome, many aspects of Roman theatre, including stock characters, were included in the film’s production. While the film is based off of multiple comedies, Plautus's Pseudolus character Calidorus is nearly identical to the film’s Hero. During the time Pseudolus was written, the Crisis of the Third Century led to up to 25% of Roman population being comprised of slaves(Southern). Of the many stock characters Platus included in his comedies, Calidorus/Hero, the son of Pseudolus’s owner and the stock character adulescens, best

Joy is one of those things that’s there for a little bit but it can be taken away very easily, true happiness on the other hand is something that stays with you. While Candide looks to materialistic things for happiness Chris uses the motivation to be a good father to his son to find his own happiness. Christopher Gardner: “You gotta trust me, all right?” Christopher: “I trust you.” Christopher Gardner: “Cause I’m getting a better job” (Conrad, The Pursuit of Happyness).

This article "Two Kinds of Movies From "Happy Haneke"" by Anthony Lane is about in the movie industry there a generally only two types of movies. The two distinct types of movies are the six o’clock and nine o’clock movies. Each of them gives a different vibe and meaning. While after the nine o’clock movies people tend to go to bed, with “ dreams whose sweetness will not be crumbled or soured by what you say,” six o’clock movies still leave a great deal of day left to enjoy. As stated in the article, “six o’clock movies require more organization.” The audience of this article would be to those unbeknownst to movies industry’s two types of movies. The purpose of this article is to present to some the distinct qualities of the two generalities

The movie starts out with Chris as a salesman struggling to pay the bills, and keep his family together. Chris is on a schedule where he has to sell one scanner a week in order to receive enough income to keep his family out of debt. After struggling to sell this scanner, his longtime girlfriend and mother of his son Christopher Jr., leaves for New York. While Chris and his son are struggling, they stick together and keep fighting to find a way out of their struggles. Along the way, Chris is studying as an intern at Dean Witters stockbroking company where he doesn’t receive a salary.

Will Smith, playing the role of Gardner, is the lead role of the movie. He has been characterized as a homeless salesman who has been struggling since one year. Will Smith, for his tremendous performance, was nominated for Golden Globe and Academy award. The tile of the movie i.e. “Happyness” is inspired from the word written on the wall of daycare facility organization that his son attended. The movie is based on the true story of a person named Chris Gardner, who took custody of his son, after his wife left her alone in despair.

Carl Plantinga says that in Hollywood films “the convention of the happy ending makes it likely that empathy will bring the rewards of a favor-able outcome for the protagonists; thus our emotional investment will likely yield psychologically pleasing results”. It is true that if you create a story with likeable characters and a pleasing outcome, you are more likely to create a more enjoyable experience based on the emotional attachments an audience may or may not have. If the phrase is not self-explanatory already, the ‘happy ending’ must require that either a film’s characters, the audience or both are left ‘happy’ by the conclusion. Characters’ happiness and audiences’ happiness are completely different in this case, even if they overlap in occurrence. A question that the author raises in this chapter is, “do ‘happy endings’ occur when a film leaves its protagonist in a state of happiness?” In my opinion, I agree with James

How Far Do Spectators Respond to the Emotional Content of Films in the way that the Filmmakers Intended?

In the movie “The Pursuit of Happiness”, Chris was left by his wife making him live with his son, while trying to provide the best for his son. Chris faced many obstacles in his path, but he overcame his setbacks and persevered through his struggles. When looking back, life was hard growing up. I was only living with my mom, who was working at many jobs to support herself and me, to make sure I was not raised any different from any other child. When I watched “The Pursuit of Happiness,” it gave me hope and motivation to believe in myself and know that anything is possible.

The first behavior is that he is a good father. Mr. Gardner was a great father in the way he handled things. Even though through all the troubles he still maintains to keep his son happy. For example, when they got kicked out of the motel and had to find somewhere to stay, Chris saw that his son was in a depressed state of mind and began convincing him about how the scanner is a time machine. He then pursued to pretend that they were in prehistoric times and they had to hide from the dinosaurs. To hide from the so called dinosaurs Chris took his son into the bathroom calling it a cave.

When I was eighteen years old, I embarked on an adventure to get back home to Anaheim from a trip to Chattanooga, Tennessee. My ride fell through, as did my plans. On my journey toward home I went to Bourbon Street in New Orleans in the hope that I might be able to work with a ministry there on that notorious street.