Video Case Study: Olive Hoover Kim Preuit University of Southern California Olive Hoover is a seven year old that is afforded an opportunity to compete in the Little Miss Sunshine pageant by chance. Little Miss Sunshine is the story of a family who‚ in the face of many physical‚ emotional‚ and social obstacles‚ band together to support the dreams of Olive. The following discussion is a theoretical analysis of Olive Hoover applying concepts from four theories‚ and a critical analysis of each
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co-directors (along with Jonathan Dayton) of the film‚ ’Little Miss Sunshine’. When making this film‚ my co-director and I heavily aimed to portray the different ways we as human beings search to find our place in the world. We focused on the conception of building relationships and trust within the concept of a family. We wanted to convey the concept that when it comes to family‚ its never too late to re-connect and belong. Our film follows an extended family on their journey from New Mexico to California
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Little Miss Sunshine presents a Cinderella story about an average little girl who wants to be a beauty queen. The glamour‚ wholesomeness and charm of pageantry that Olive strives to become helps portray the theme of growing up. The film director and producer help to do so with the use of film codes and conventions. I have chosen the opening scene of the movie to demonstrate this. As you can see at the very first image shown in the movie where just olives eyes are shown‚ it is immediately evident
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Little Miss Sunshine was the feel good movie of the summer‚ opening on July 26‚ 2006. The minds behind the camera were Michael Arndt‚ who wrote the screenplay‚ and directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The movie would not have come together if it had not been for the awesome cast that brought it all together‚ Abigail Breslin‚ Paul Dano‚ Steve Carell‚ Toni Collette‚ Greg Kinnear‚ and Alan Arkin. Not one of the 17 awards and nominations for the movie and cast could have happened if it had not
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The film Little Miss Sunshine‚ Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Farris‚ explores the lives of a regular American family and how they change their lives in front of us in the ‘Combie’ van on the road to the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant. The film examines the issues of winning and losing‚ and what it means to be a winner‚ throughout many sequences in the film as well as exploring the value of family. The directors and the cinematic team use an extreme range of camera techniques‚ costuming
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In the film Little Miss Sunshine many characters have difficulty finding their true identity. Olive‚ a 7 year old girl wants to win the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant and is unsure of her true identity because of this. Richard‚ her father‚ is an unsuccessful motivational speaker and businessman and this effects his perception of himself. Another character‚ Dwayne‚ loses his sense of identity when he realises he is colour blind. The uncle in the film‚ Frank has been suicidal due to losing his
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Paul Dano plays the role of Dwayne‚ a depressed character in the film entitled “Little Miss Sunshine.” Depression is one of the most notorious disorders in adults and adolescents. Many patients often develop depression or depressive symptoms in their childhood or adolescence. Dwayne was a 15 year old male and had a plethora of symptoms of depression. While Dwayne‚ was capable of completing everyday tasks‚ he showed a lack of interest in the majority of things asked of him. Social withdrawal‚ sadness
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this was how shown through the film. An important idea in the film “Little Miss Sunshine” directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris is the idea that being a winner is more about perseverance and having fun than coming first place and always succeeding. A key character in the film is Richard Hoover‚ who portrays the development of this idea through his dialogue‚ costume and camera angles. Initially as defined by Richard‚ the world is split into only two types of people‚ “winners and losers”
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Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 film based on the dysfunctional Hoover family who set out to fulfil their daughter Olive’s goal of winning the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant‚ directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The film serves as a satirical criticism of the American Dream through the exploration of the themes winning and losing‚ by exposing the flaws of society today‚ and advocating a loser status above artificiality. Through an array of film techniques‚ Dayton and Faris successfully
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CRN#30527 October 24th‚ 2013 Word Count: 1‚261 Little Miss Sunshine Laughs abound as we join the Hoover family on their hilarious and outrageous family road-trip to get young Olive Hoover (Abigail Breslin)‚ an aspiring pageant contestant from their home in Albuquerque New Mexico‚ to the “Little Miss Sunshine” pageant being held at the Embassy Suites in Redondo Beach California Little Miss Sunshine (2006) is well developed and departs from the
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