Character: lester burnham (American Beauty)
he is lonely, and has quite a boring life. doesn't get on with his wife, has 1 daughter, wife is in charge, and they are not happy with eachother. big house, neat garden, wife is a perfectionist ( matching clogs and pruning tools). lives in a large neighborhood, gay couple next door. lester is narrator and says he will be dead in under a year but he doesnt know it yet...
Character: Jerry maguire (Jerry Maguire)
Jerry works as a sports manager. he gets the best athelites in america and makes them big shots. it costs alot of money but people still pay to make them big. he recieves 264 phone calls a day on average, and works behind the scenes. he does all the buisness deals, does all the meetings and covers their back if something goes wrong. he is a typical american, thinking that america sets the bench mark for the rest of the world. he is very smart and buisness like, and he is overall quite confident, because he has to go and make people pay to win.
Comparison
they are both very different characters, with jerry being confident, happy, busy, and generally liking his job. however lester is very dull, boring, quite a dull lifestyle, isnt really happy at all with himself or his job. in american beauty, the opening minutes show lesters family, his house, neighbours. whereas in jerry maguire, the opening minutes show jerry working, meeting new people, just being very busy in general, and giving the audience an idea of his lifestyle.
Character: Ken (Early Doors)
Ken, is the pub landlord of 'The Grapes' pub. he is first shown filling up a bottle of fine brandy with cheap brandy. this shows that he is deffinatly out to make a profit, backed up by the fact he took all the tip money as well. He is singing a song through most of the opening minutes, while he is cleaning up the pub toilets, he sings about not loosing his dignity, and doesnt thouroghly clean the toilets, but just gives them a quick scrub. he then gets a knock on the door from one of his mates and he says that one of their mates 'snuffed it' at the age of 77.
Opening Sequences
London to Brighton:
a woman and girl (probably middle-lower class) both covered in blood run in toilets and clean the blood off. the woman leaves the girl in the toilet and goes to get some food for her, then goes to get some money by being a prostitute and then goes back to get the girl, and catch a train to get away from the danger, which is yet unknown to us.
The Graduate
Starts off with a shot of the inside of the plane coming to land. Then just follows him walking through the airport, getting his baggage, and leaving. He is dressed in a suit, but all the colours are quite bland and dull. so this gives us the idea he is quite a dull person. All you can hear is a song, but over the song all you can hear are instructions, which is probably telling us about his life too, because he has been in education all his life, and all he has been doing is being told what to do.
Napoleon Dynamite
The opening of this film is simply the opening credits, all being displayed on food, or book labels, or school stationary. this is very original and clever because they have actually done all the names on different meals. for example there was one which had 'Directed by' on a muffin, and the name on a piece of lettuce. This could show that the main character likes food. also there is a song playing in the background, which is singing about going back to school.
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