“Pursuit of Happyness VRA Paper”
Intro:
The streets of 1980’s San Francisco is no different than being in New York city with the gloominess that lingers. Chris Gardner played by Will Smith, a story about a father living day by day selling machines known as bone density scanners just to get by because of his stupid mistake of investing all his money into a chance. This chance he took is not all bad because he will learn what it is like to make mistakes, take chances and sometimes get lucky in life in the movie “Pursuit of Happyness”. Even when the economy is in a scramble and work is scarce there is always that chance to pursue something that you want but you might have to be able to sacrifice some things in your life to achieve your goal. …show more content…
The film portrays a man who just wants to be an average joe, which in real life he was motivated by his mother when he was sixteen when he while he was watching the 1970 basketball championship and commenting that one of the players were going to make a million dollars then his mom commented to him "Son, if you want to, one day you could make a million dollars." (chasing the frog) Chris then remembered this for the next while and was motivated to make money from his mom’s comment.
In the film Chris almost went broke selling bone density scanning units which he invests all his savings into buying these units. This is false to the true story because he did not invest his money into buying the units, but he did work as a salesman in the medical supply field selling different types of products as stated in (chasing the frog). along with more fiction, Chris did not get hit by a car chasing after his stolen scanner, this was done to keep the audiences’ attention to the developing story. “as stated by …show more content…
The writer continues to add that there is some vulgarity in the film with the use of hell, damn, etc.as Patty said in her writing “Chris is explaining to his son about how the word outside of the dare care is spelled wrong his son adds in if the spelling of the F- word is correct”, which on a Christian level a child should not know those words since it would also be showing the audience with children that the use of vulgarity is alright as long as it is spelled right.(christianansweres) The film also shows Chris doing un- Christian things such as not paying for a cab and running off at the stop sign when he notices he doesn’t have money to pay the driver but also how he is constantly lies to his son and others saying they are doing good when in reality ,they are not. We can see why he does the things he does but some things in this movie shows that to be able to move up in life you must tell lies and not be truthful all the time which in most cases it is bad to say but it is true. On a Christian level there are some things that would raise a red flag to
Intro:
The streets of 1980’s San Francisco is no different than being in New York city with the gloominess that lingers. Chris Gardner played by Will Smith, a story about a father living day by day selling machines known as bone density scanners just to get by because of his stupid mistake of investing all his money into a chance. This chance he took is not all bad because he will learn what it is like to make mistakes, take chances and sometimes get lucky in life in the movie “Pursuit of Happyness”. Even when the economy is in a scramble and work is scarce there is always that chance to pursue something that you want but you might have to be able to sacrifice some things in your life to achieve your goal. …show more content…
The film portrays a man who just wants to be an average joe, which in real life he was motivated by his mother when he was sixteen when he while he was watching the 1970 basketball championship and commenting that one of the players were going to make a million dollars then his mom commented to him "Son, if you want to, one day you could make a million dollars." (chasing the frog) Chris then remembered this for the next while and was motivated to make money from his mom’s comment.
In the film Chris almost went broke selling bone density scanning units which he invests all his savings into buying these units. This is false to the true story because he did not invest his money into buying the units, but he did work as a salesman in the medical supply field selling different types of products as stated in (chasing the frog). along with more fiction, Chris did not get hit by a car chasing after his stolen scanner, this was done to keep the audiences’ attention to the developing story. “as stated by …show more content…
The writer continues to add that there is some vulgarity in the film with the use of hell, damn, etc.as Patty said in her writing “Chris is explaining to his son about how the word outside of the dare care is spelled wrong his son adds in if the spelling of the F- word is correct”, which on a Christian level a child should not know those words since it would also be showing the audience with children that the use of vulgarity is alright as long as it is spelled right.(christianansweres) The film also shows Chris doing un- Christian things such as not paying for a cab and running off at the stop sign when he notices he doesn’t have money to pay the driver but also how he is constantly lies to his son and others saying they are doing good when in reality ,they are not. We can see why he does the things he does but some things in this movie shows that to be able to move up in life you must tell lies and not be truthful all the time which in most cases it is bad to say but it is true. On a Christian level there are some things that would raise a red flag to