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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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    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 Pursuit of Happiness “A man can be destroyed but never defeated.” – Ernest Hemingway We can consider the quote from Ernest Hemingway’s novel‚ “The Old Man and the Sea”‚ an equivalent of the film’s title‚ “The Pursuit of Happiness”‚ because up until the point you find happiness you have to pass through moments that bring you close to despair. Chris is initially shown as a salesman of new bone scanner machines which are far more expensive than the X-ray machines that are used nowadays and

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    REVIEW ON “THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS” The Pursuit of Happyness is a very moving film about a man and his quest for a better life. It is an inspiring case study of how many of the elements of happiness work together from relationships‚ to poverty‚ to positive mental attitude and determination. The movie is based on the true story of Chris Gardener‚ a struggling entrepreneur in 1980s San Francisco‚ with one driving ambition- to be a good father to his son. He tries to improve the family financial

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    Ricki Smith Mrs. Shelly 11/14/13 Pursuit of Happyness Essay The movie Pursuit of Happyness is a very good representation of how hard life can be for some people. In this case‚ the person was Chris who was struggling to hold onto a job and provide for his family. Due to the difficulty of holding onto a job‚ his wife divorced him and tried to take their son from him. This set Chris into motion to try his hardest to be able to provide for his only child. He made many choices trying to do what

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    The Pursuit of Happyness Review The pursuit of happyness is by Gabriele Muccino‚ and it is an amazing movie. This movie is an inspirational film based on a true story. It makes me think about a lot of things that I never considered before. Will Smith played a main part in this movie‚ and he is named Chris Gardner. In the beginning Chris Gardner goes to the hospital by bus every day; the purpose is to sell bone density scanners. His life is very difficult; he always didn’t have enough money to pay

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    Chris Gardner VS Me In the scene of the movie The Pursuit of Happyness‚ Chris and his son Christopher are sitting at a booth next to a window in a full diner at night. The camera zooms in on them eating. As Christopher eats‚ he begins to stare at an African American family across from the diner. The family is laughing and joking around as they enjoy their family dinner. Christopher begins to become distracted with envy of the “happy” family. Gardner looks at him with a smile and the realization

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