Little Miss Sunshine Essay

The Hoover family of 6 travel in a yellow Volkswagen bus to California for their youngest daughter to compete in the Little Miss Sunshine pageant which is her dream. There is a husband, his wife, his daughter, his son, his brother in law, and his own father who are all traveling with each other for 2 days. Each family member in the movie is trying to accomplish some dream throughout the film. Olive the daughter is trying to win the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. The father is trying to becoming a motivational speaker. The wife is trying to reunite her family together as one. The son is attempting to take vow of silence and become an airforce pilot. The uncle is attempting to live a better

It was the first day of school for many in Maycomb, including myself. I had just moved from a college in Winston Country. Almost 30 years have past since that day in Maycomb when I first saw the school I was to be teaching at. The classroom smelt stale after being closed up for the whole summer, as I met my students who I would teach for the next year. The one child I remember most had a trail of dirty footprints leading to his desk. The little horror looked like he was straight from the pig pen.

This use of colour continues throughout the film, with the bright yellow VW bus, which acted as a motif. We used the colour yellow to evoke feelings of happiness and optimism, symbolising the families journey of re-connecting, of hope, and to reinforce the individual versus the collective action- working together for a change rather then separating themselves as individuals. We chose the ridiculous loud and irreparable car horn to symbolise and reinforce the dysfunction of the family, and convey the initial lack of connection.

Seven year-old Olive Hoover gets a call saying she has qualified for a pageant in California. The entire family comes together and sets off from Albuquerque to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. Her family, which consists of her mother Sheryl, her father, Richard who is a motivational speaker, brother Dwayne who is quiet, her grandfather Edwin, who has trained her for the pageant, and her uncle Frank who just came who from attempting to kill himself. On their journey, they face difficulties that challenge them on completing their journey. The film, Little Miss Sunshine, is an effective modern interpretation of the archetypal journey, modeled in As I Lay Dying, because of its use of situational and character archetypes.

The film starts a suspensefully with a woman running in a ripped red dress. There is eery music to set the suspenseful tone.This is an excellent hook for consumers because this scene draws people in. Lennie and George are running away from the intimidating men on horses. The beginning of this movie gives of tension and excitement to the consumer. Overall this was a great start

Joel Barish and Clementine Kruczynski were a couple in love. Everything changed when Clementine woke up one day and just decided to have Joel erased from her memory. He was “boring” and she wasn’t happy and wanted to move on. Joel then decided he wanted to also remove Clementine from his memory. This was all possible due to Lacuna Inc. who asked those wishing to remove a particular person from their memories to remove anything from their homes that could possibly be associated with that person. They sit the patient down, map out where memories are located that are associated with each object. Then, the company sends a couple of their scientists/psychologists to the home at night after they’ve fallen asleep. They then track down any remaining memories as they appear while asleep

What is family in your opinion? Family can be a source of support, compassion, optimism, love and happiness, but family can also be a cause of depression, betrayal, hurt and pain. Family is not always determined based on having the same DNA but it is the relationships that people can make or have with one another. Family can consist of several different people like, friends, co-workers, classmates, a community, etc... Some family members can be your worst enemies because they have the most information of secrets to bring a relative down. Being able to trust a person, depend on them, and be carefree is a person that can be valued as being a part of a family. In the movie Little Miss Sunshine, their dysfunctional family is loving, supportive, optimistic and motivating. The movie is filled with humor about a modern middle-class family that is about to encounter a financial catastrophe but in the midst of their struggles they still find the beauty in life and the meaning in life. The beginning of the movie Richard, the father is giving a motivational speech about winning, he states “There are two types of people in this world, winners and losers”.(Little Miss Sunshine) Richard is a protagonist motivational speaker that is obsessed with winning. He is so consumed with achieving that he ridicules his family for not being perfect throughout the film. Richard trying to build up the ideal life or what he thinks is the ‘American Dream’ around himself. He chooses to ignore aspects of the life around him that he sees as unacceptable or out of sync with his ideal lifestyle, trying instead to fulfil his role as the authorative head of the family and provider. Sheryl is the mother who is optimist, she is always giving words of encouragement even when Richard is trying to bring down his family and she is all about being truly honest. Frank is the brother of Sheryl whom at the beginning attempts to commit suicide due to a broken heart and losing his standing as Americas pre-eminent Proust Scholar. Dwayne is the son of Richard and Sheryl and is committed to joining the air force. He also is very committed that he takes a vow of silence until he gets into the air force, but then he finds out he is color blind and breaks his

The opening sequence ends up with blank-faced boy holding the bloody knife as his parents look on. It is important that the audience is the point of view of somebody. It creates an illusion and the feeling when the audience is watching the opening sequence of the movie. At the beginning, the camera takes the audience around the house, watching through the windows and then it picks up a knife to kill the

The film is presented as a series of scenes between various characters, some who have limited interaction with one another, others whose lives are already quite connected (e.g., husbands and wives, working partners, etc). No matter the level of connection at the film’s start, each will see their lives changed by other characters in monumental ways over the course of thirty-six hours. The narrative shifts between and amongst characters, so that no single individual is given entire focus. This leads to fully developed characters and complex situations that would not have been possible if the story were told from a single character’s

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The first scene of

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The opening sequence of the movie depicts a scene in a working class neighborhood section of the city. The scene begins by displaying the Communists as without morals and in a starving socioeconomic position, focusing on a boy seen by a grocer stealing fruit. Starting a commotion in the street immediately outside, the scene introduces to the father of the protagonist, portrayed

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