Analyse af filmen 'The Pursuit of Happyness'

‘The Pursuit of Happyness’, directed by Gabriele Muccino (2006)

Assignment:

In your partnership groups, make an analysis and then a Power point presentation of the film ‘The Pursuit of Happyness’. Use chapter 6.7 “How to analyse film” in “The English Handbook”: https://theenglishhandbook.systime.dk/?id=175#c877 and the advice/sources below. You’ll present your analysis to 1-2 other groups and the teacher

Important:

1: The analysis of setting, characters, narrator and theme (bullet point 2 in the model) must be the part that you analyze most thoroughly

Setting

It’s in the 1980’s in San Francisco

Shows the poverty in San Francisco

Characters

Chris Gardener – Main (Dynamic)

Male adult

Salesman – Medical and later stockbroker

Good with people

Hopeful/Ambition

Family-oriented/Caring

Poor

Has a son and wife (Left him)

Narrator

We follow his story as a fly on the wall, we only see what’s going on when he’s in the room.

Theme

Social Classes

Poverty

The American Dream

Breaking the poverty cycle

2: This part must include the way THE AMERICAN DREAM and other American values play a part in the film

The American Dream plays a huge part in the film, as Chris’s all thoughts and action is based on what he values The American Dream to be, and that is to experience happiness.