Look for a film that you like best, watch it, write the plot and describe the main characters.

ANALYSIS OF THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS

The Cast of the Pursuit of Happyness

Will Smith                     : Chris Gardner

Jaden Smith                   : Christopher

Thandie Newton            : Linda

Brian Howe                   : Jay Twistle

James Karen                  : Martin Frohm

Dan Catellaneta             : Alan Frakesh

Kurt Fuller                     : Walter Ribbon

Takayo Fischer              : Mrs. Chu

3.      The Plot of the Pursuit of Happyness

a.      Exposition

The pursuit of happyness is a biography film which was made at 2006 in San Francisco, California. This film tells about Chris Gardner’s life. He is a salesman. He is homeless. He has a wife, her name is Linda. She is a worker in a laundry. They live in a small apartment with their son, Christopher. He is five years old. Chris is a salesman who spends all family savings to buy franchise to sell a portable Bone Density Scanner. This scanner is able to produce a picture better than X-ray, but according to the doctors whom Chris has met, the price is too expensive.

b.      Complication

The Chris family begins broken home when they cannot pay the house rental and the claims that accumulate. The condition of Chris family becomes worse and worse moreover when he often parks his car everywhere. Chris cannot pay the traffic ticket letter, so his car is taken.

c.       Crisis

Linda leaves Chris and her son, Christopher and goes to New York City.  Chris lives with his son, Christopher. He becomes homeless. Chris and his son sleep in the public places. He decides to stay in Glide Memorial Church. He decides to be a salesman of Bone Density Scanner by investigating his family saving to buy this machine for the stock to be resold again to the Medical Center in San Francisco. He lives with his son.  One day, Chris meets someone who drives a red Ferrari. He is a stockbroker. Chris admires not for his luxurious car but he wants to know how that man can get it. So Since that time, Chris decides to work as a Stock broker.

d.      Falling Action

Chris receives the volunteer order without payment in a stock firm “Dean Witter Reynolds.” He promises that there is a job for the best participant. From his destitution and homeless, it encourages Chris to do his job harder and harder and he gets a job in Dean Witter Reynolds.

e.       Resolution

Chris succeeds to become the best participant, and he becomes an employer there. Some years later, he makes a stock firm, it’s a Gardner Rich. In 2006, he sold a piece of his stock, and he is successful to get million dollars from selling the stock.

Pros

• Will Smith does well in a more dramatic role than his usual fare
• Chris Gardner's story definitely deserved to be made into a film

Cons

• Unfortunately this isn't the film Gardner's story deserved
• Jaden Smith's a fine little actor but this bit of casting is really distracting

Description

• Starring Will Smith, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, and Thandie Newton
• Jaden Smith makes his feature film acting debut alongside his dad in the film
• The real Chris Gardner does a cameo at the very end of the movie
• Rated PG-13 for some language
• Theatrical Release Date: December 15, 2006

4.      The Character of the Pursuit of Happyness

Chris Gardner         : He is a hard worker. He also has a self-concept which develops      

  when he was childhood. He has a dream. He has a good self-

  esteem so there is a motivation from himself and from his son so

  he works hard. The last, he has a high self-efficacy. He has a big

  future to do his jobs although it is too hard to do it.