미국 영화는 거의 모든 시나리오가 해피 엔딩으로 끝나기에 영화의 결말에 대한 추측이 가능합니다. 그럼에도 불구하고 마지막을 멋있게 장식하면서 끝내기에 보는 것을 즐깁니다.
실제의 삶이 영화보다 더 어려웠을 것이나 아들과 함께 인생의 힘든 부분을 함께하여 이루어 냈기에 감동의 눈물이 있었으며 또한, Gardner 당신을 존경하게 되었습니다.
마지막으로, Will Smith 가 동굴(*^^*)에서 아이의 얼굴을 감싸던 장면이 생각납니다.
출처 : SFGate.com
Gardner doesn't see his as a rags-to-riches story. What he hopes people come away with is that life is full of possibility if you put your heart into it and don't give up. " Those were the darkest days of my life,'' he says. "I'm ready to let it go."
영화 추가 정보 출처 : VOANEWS Silverman report - Download 1.43M
'The Pursuit of Happyness' Tells Real-Life Rags to Riches Story of Successful
Businessman Chris GardnerBy Alan Silverman / Hollywood / 20 December 2006
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Will Smith stars in an uplifting drama based on the true story of a single father who went from homeless to successful businessman. Alan Silverman spoke with Will for this look at The Pursuit of Happyness.
In the early 1980s in San Francisco, Chris Gardner had big dreams, but could barely earn enough to keep a roof over his young family. None of his moneymaking schemes work out and their only steady income is from his wife working double-shifts as a hotel maid. When she reaches her limit and tells Chris she is leaving, he insists their young son, Chris Jr., must stay with him.
Chris is convinced an unpaid internship at a prestigious stock brokerage firm will lead to a career; but, now as a single father, he finds it harder and harder to stay afloat. Evicted from their motel room home, father and son wind up on the street, sleeping in public restrooms at subway train stations when they cannot find a bed at homeless shelters. Through it all, Chris is determined to give his son something he himself never had as a child: a father's love.
Eventually Chris does make his dream come true. The internship leads to a job and later to start up his own brokerage company with offices in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. Today he is a multi-millionaire and a highly regarded motivational speaker.
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| Will Smith in scene from The Pursuit of Happyness |
"I connected with Chris Gardner," says Smith. "We looked in one another's eyes and I said 'I'm going to learn your story and tell it.' He said 'just tell the truth.' "
That simple instruction " just tell the truth " proved to be more of a challenge than Smith expected. The popular actor who has starred in some of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters found himself re-learning the craft under the guidance of Italian-born director Gabriele Muccino.
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| Will Smith takes direction from Gabriele Muccino on set of The Pursuit of Happyness |
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| Will Smith and son, Jaden, in scene from The Pursuit of Happyness |
"I was struggling in a particularly difficult scene and Jaden said to me, 'you just do the same thing every take, Daddy.' I was little offended by that, but what he was saying was that innately he couldn't understand how I was reading everything exactly the same way every time," says Smith. "He was feeling 'that's not real; I thought we were supposed to be trying to make this real.' He broke me out of a mechanical space."
Will Smith says the experience changed him as an actor; and as a bonus, he says playing out the events of what Chris Gardner called 'the worst year of his life' gave Smith and his son a stronger foundation in their relationship.
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| Scene from The Pursuit of Happyness |
The Pursuit of Happyness takes its misspelled title from the line in the U.S. Declaration of Independence. As Chris Gardner explains, what Thomas Jefferson wrote says happiness is not guaranteed; it is something you have to pursue. The cast features Thandie Newton as Linda Gardner and the screenplay by Steve Conrad is adapted from Chris Gardner's best-selling book, The Pursuit of Happyness.