THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS - GABRIELE MUCCINO
The Pursuit of Hapyness is an American famous film created in 2006. The director was the Italian Gabriele Muccino, that before this film he has worked from making short films only aired on Italian television, and later becomes a well-known and successful American filmmaker. The Pursuit of Happyness is considered an American biographical drama film based on entrepreneur Chris Gardner's nearly one-year struggle being homeless.
The protagonist is Will Smith and he is called Chris Gardner in the film. He has done famous films like "Bad boys", "Independence Day" or "Men in black". The second protagonist is the son of will Smith, called Jaden Smith. In the film also is his son with the name of Christopher Gardner Jr. We most know Jaden Smith, because of the famous and succesfull film "The Karate Kid", produced in 2010. The third protagonist is Thandie Newton,as Linda Gardner (the wife and later ex of Chris Gardner). The rest of characters they are not so relevant in the film, like Brian Howe as Jay Twistle, Dan Castellaneta as Alan Frakesh, James Karen as Martin Frohm or Kurt Fuller as Walter Ribbon.
In 1981, in San Francisco, Chris Gardner (Will Smith) invests his savings of his life in portable scaners of bone density that he tries to sell to the doctors. The investment is a failure, and leave in bankruptcy to the family. As a consequence, his wife Lisa Gardner (Thandie Newton) decides to leave the relationship and she move house to New York. His son Christopher (Jaden Smith) remains with his father. Trying to sell one of the scaners in the city, Chris Gardner knows to Jay Twistle (Brian Howe), a promoter of Dean Witter and he makes a good impression to him resolving a Rubik's Cube during a short travel in one taxi. Chris Gardner doesn't have enough money to pay the taxi and he runs away to the metro station. However, he losts a scaner in the process. This new relation with Twistle gives him a opportunity to become in a intern stockbroker...
From my point of view, The Pursuit of Happyness is one of the best film I have seen in my life. I am not nothing sentimental with films, but this one caused me a special emocion, and I finished crying. The intention of the film is to show us that if we really want something we never have to give up, and we have to fight to achieve it. In this case, Chris Gardner (Will Smith) does anything for his son, and finally he achieve what he wants, and the most important thing, he makes happy to his son Christopher (Jaden Smith). In my opinion, Will Smith does a perfect interpretation of his character, and is the main reason which I love the film.
Here you have the best part of the film for me, is the scene where Chris (Will Smith) takes his son, to play basketball and tells him to never give up on his dreams:
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