The Pursuit Of Happiness Movie Analysis

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INTRODUCTION
The film The Pursuit of Happiness is a real life biographical account of an entrepreneur Chris Gardner’s journey from a lower class sales man to an upper class stockbroker. Filmed in 2006, it was directed by Gabriele Muccina, and the screenplay was written by Steve Conrad”
The title is intentionally misspelled in the film. The misspelled phrase is actually taken from an essay written in 1776 that argued that whites and blacks were created equal. The essay, which was written by Lemuel Haynes, a biracial man living in New England during the Revolution, quoted Thomas Jefferson 's well-known sentence from the United States Declaration of Independence, but spelled the last word of the sentence with a y. The sentence, as it appears in Lemuel 's essay, is as follows
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created Equal, that they are Endowed By their Creator with Certain unalienable rights that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happyness.”
“BRIEF SUMMARY OF FILM”
“Set in San Francisco, California in 1981, The Pursuit of Happyness tells the story of Chris Gardner’s rise from a dead end sales man to a high ranking stockbroker. Chris and his wife, Linda, live in a tiny apartment with their five year old son, Christopher. Having spent the family’s savings on franchise, Chris spends his work days with little to no success, attempting to sell overpriced, portable Bone Density Scanners. His wife is very unhappy from the start, and works