sometimes in nervous excitement. In The Pursuit of Happyness‚ Will Smith plays Chris Gardner‚ a motivated man living on the last of his means. Chris is constantly looking for a consistent quality of life‚ but seems to get beaten down at every road. A few times throughout the movie‚ Gardner expresses his thoughts on happiness‚ and whether or not it is actually attainable. Chris soon discovered that there was several advantages and disadvantages during his pursuit of his dream of a happy successful life
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In Pursuit of Happyness With a terrific central performance by Will Smith‚ this is a well-made‚ sharply written and ultimately uplifting drama. “In Pursuit of Happyness” is about setting goals and achieving them. It is not about happiness‚ it is about money. The movie celebrates people who toil for better life by building the perfect career. Chris Gardner is convincing as a man who may have been stripped by his dignity but who still believes in himself. His strong human relationships skills
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The Pursuit of Happyness The Pursuit of Happyness Movie is a real life story based on Chris Gardner (role play by Will Smith) who used to work as a bone-density scanners salesman. A bone-density scanner works like X-rays but is portable and of course‚ more expensive. Gardner spends all his life selling these scanners and although he has made it‚ the time lag between his sales is long and slowly erodes his relationship with his wife who eventually leaves him as he could not afford to pay for bills
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with its many benefits‚ there are also flaws‚ such as a large homeless population. The Pursuit of Happyness is a movie based on a true story about a man named Chris Gardner‚ and his struggle to live a happy life. Jonathan Kozol’s essay‚ “The Homeless and Their Children” is about Laura and her struggle to maintain a good life for herself and her family. Will Smith‚ as Chris Gardner‚ in The Pursuit of Happyness is very similar to Laura from “The Homeless and Their Children” because they both are unable
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The Pursuit of Happyness is a true-life story of a single father‚ Chris Gardner‚ who went from living on the streets to owning his own brokerage firm. This film charts the hard times and eventual comeback of Chris‚ a suddenly single salesman who had custody of his son‚ but encounters a challenge in providing for him and his son. Chris struggles his way as life continues to offer him setbacks to working as an unpaid intern at Dean Witter to being offered a permanent position as a broker on his last
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The Pursuit Of Happyness BY DENISE LING The Pursuit of Happyness Directed by Gabriele Muccino Runtime: 117 minutes I believe this movie gives hope to many lives‚ as it delivers a clear message to the society that anyone can fulfill their dream with a determined will. Chris Gardner (Will Smith) is a salesman and invests his entire life savings in portable bone-density scanners. He demonstrates them to doctors and tries to sell them. While he is able to sell most of them‚ the time lag between the
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‘The Pursuit Of Happyness’ What is the movie about? ‘The Pursuit of Happyness’ directed by Gabrielle Muccino‚ a film based on a man name Chris Gardner’s with his struggles of being homeless for almost one year and along his side was his young son and wife. They struggled to pay off their rent and were often chased out by the rent owner. Chris and his wife were selling off the portable bone-density scanners that they have invested their entire life savings on. Willingly assuming they had hit jackpot
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Jonatan Mendoza Professional communications Mrs. Cook 6/10/12 “Pursuit of Happyness” In the beginning of the movie we notice that Chris Gardner is an independent sales man. As a sales man Chris requires good interpersonal skills in order to communicate and persuade potential clients to buy his bone density scanners. Chris always talks eloquently and clearly preventing his clients from becoming confuse. We can also observe that Chris has great interpersonal skills when he thinks to himself
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“The Pursuit of Happyness” The movie it’s about a man called Christopher Gardner that lives with his wife and son in a small apartment. They have a low budget and are going thru a very difficult time economically and it could come to a point where they can lose everything and even get apart. This man invested the family savings in this kind of machines called “Bone Density scanner’’ thinking he was going to invest and earned a lot of money to maintain his family. They thought it was
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The movie‚ The Pursuit of Happyness‚ is based on a true story about a guy named Chris Gardner. He is is heavily invested in a machine called a “Bone Density Scanner.” These devices are not selling very well even though they are better than the equipment they are using. While he is trying to figure out how to sell his device‚ put his son Christopher through school‚ and pay his bills‚ his wife leaves him. He is then kicked out of his house‚ his bank account that had a little amount of money in it‚
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