Movie Analysis: Little Miss Sunshine Pageant
Writing 121- 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 comedic slapstick antics often found in such road trip movies like Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987) and National Lampoon 's Vacation (1983), and replaces it with thought provoking and insightful family …show more content…
It is after this phone call we begin to see the Hoovers begin to pull together for one of their own, but not without some compromises and whole lot of self-centeredness. With their personal desires and reservations set aside, everyone agrees to embark on a road-trip to aid Olive fulfill her immediate wish of competing in the Little Miss Sunshine …show more content…
He creates a character whose pain surrounds him like a hard plastic bubble. And the less he seems to do, the funnier he gets. He makes the name "Nietzsche" (which he pronounces crisply as "Neet-chah") inexplicably hilarious. And how to describe the way Uncle Frank runs? It 's an intellectual run --- performed as if the act of running had been studied, broken down into its component parts, and then reassembled – all analysis, no grace. It 's almost inhumanly human, and pricelessly funny. But it 's not just a sped-up silly walk, it 's an authentic expression of character.”(Ebbert, Roger) Ruthe Stein of the San Francisco Chronical has these seniments about the the effectiveness of the performances by cast members. “The cast is so perfect that it 's impossible to imagine anyone else in the roles. Arkin 's spontaneity gives the impression that he 's improvising. Kinnear embodies the hyped-up energy of a gambler sure his next card will beat the house. He and Collette effectively use body language to convey the frustrations of a couple trying to hold it together for the kids. The two have almost no physical contact. A scene where they verbally lash out at each other is particularly well
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 comedic slapstick antics often found in such road trip movies like Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987) and National Lampoon 's Vacation (1983), and replaces it with thought provoking and insightful family …show more content…
It is after this phone call we begin to see the Hoovers begin to pull together for one of their own, but not without some compromises and whole lot of self-centeredness. With their personal desires and reservations set aside, everyone agrees to embark on a road-trip to aid Olive fulfill her immediate wish of competing in the Little Miss Sunshine …show more content…
He creates a character whose pain surrounds him like a hard plastic bubble. And the less he seems to do, the funnier he gets. He makes the name "Nietzsche" (which he pronounces crisply as "Neet-chah") inexplicably hilarious. And how to describe the way Uncle Frank runs? It 's an intellectual run --- performed as if the act of running had been studied, broken down into its component parts, and then reassembled – all analysis, no grace. It 's almost inhumanly human, and pricelessly funny. But it 's not just a sped-up silly walk, it 's an authentic expression of character.”(Ebbert, Roger) Ruthe Stein of the San Francisco Chronical has these seniments about the the effectiveness of the performances by cast members. “The cast is so perfect that it 's impossible to imagine anyone else in the roles. Arkin 's spontaneity gives the impression that he 's improvising. Kinnear embodies the hyped-up energy of a gambler sure his next card will beat the house. He and Collette effectively use body language to convey the frustrations of a couple trying to hold it together for the kids. The two have almost no physical contact. A scene where they verbally lash out at each other is particularly well