Monday, July 9, 2012

Analysis of The Pursuit of Happyness


ANALYSIS OF
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS


1.      The Synopsis
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 who becomes a rich stockbroker. It is directed by Gabriele Muccino. The scenario is written by Steve Conrad.
The story of this film “The pursuit of happyness” began at 1981 in San Francisco, California. Linda is Chris Gardner’s wife. 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. Linda is a worker in a laundry. 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. Knowing about that problem, Linda leaves Chris and goes to New York City. At first, she wants to bring Christopher but Chris doesn’t  permit her.
Chris lives with his son, Christopher. One day, Chris meets someone who drives a red Ferrari. Chris asks him about his job so he can buy a luxurious car. That man answers that he is a stockbroker. Since that time, Chris decides to work as a Stock broker.
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 this event, Chris begins decreasing his money. At last, he must go out from the house rental. He becomes homeless. Chris and his son sleep in the public places. He decides to stay in Glide Memorial Church. Because of the limited places, they must be queue to get the room. They sometimes succeed and sometimes fail, so they sleep outside. From his destitution and homeless, it encourages Chris to do his job harder and harder and he gets a job in Dean Witter Reynolds.
In the last story, 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.


2.      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.

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.
Linda                        : She is stubborn. She also has a high emotion.
Christopher              : He is smart. He always follows his father’s advices.
5.      The Setting of the Pursuit of Happyness
The setting of the movie “The Pursuit of Happyness” is in San Francisco-California at 2006.
6.      The Point of View of the Pursuit of Happyness
The author describes the main character or a protagonist (hero) by Chris Gardner
7.      The Theme of the Pursuit of Happyness : the hardworking to pursuit the happiness
8.      The Symbol and Allegory of the Pursuit of Happyness
Chris Gardner is a symbol of someone who works hard, good father to get his dream
9.      The Style and Tone of the Pursuit of Happyness: flat and heart warming
10.  The moral value of the Pursuit of Happyness:
§  How do we mean happiness? It is not a result of the achievement but from the process how we get the happiness.
§  We must work hard and patiently.
§  We never know whatever someone has done when we make our expectation.

8 comments:

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  2. a lot of your information is wrong- it was set in the 1980's, not 2006, your themes are actually themes, the style and tone is wrong, not to mention not even a proper style and tone, and the symbol is incorrect.

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  3. This is so shit. Grammar mistakes, spelling mistakes, shit synopsis who tf wrote this a 9 year old?

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