Little Miss Sunshine

In a competition, there are always winners and losers, and of course, everyone would want to be a winner. What about being a loser? Is it very bad to be a loser? If you think that being a loser is the worst thing in your life, the movie Little Miss Sunshine will change your thought. The movie Little Miss Sunshine directed by Jonathan Daytona and Valerie Faris is telling a story about a crazy family in New Mexico that “everyone pretends to be normal”. All the characters in this movie seem to be normal but actually they are NOT NORMAL. The opening montage introduces each member in the Hoover family to the audience one at a time. It starts with the blue eyes of a little girl called Olive Hoover (Abigail Breslin) with a pair of glasses staring…

The Hoovers survived because they have dealt with many setbacks and tragedy since with Grandpa Edwin sudden death. The overall goal is for Olive to get her moment of competing in the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant. Olive’s father Richard becomes nervous for her as he watches from the audience, knowing that she will not fit in with the other pageant girls. The Hoover family are skeptical about the competition and for Olive's concern try to call off the performance. Sheryl reassures saying…

Little Miss Sunshine starts off with the Ms. America beauty pageant. A young child name Olive Hoover, is watching the pageant on the television, fascinated with the events taking place. This film starts to address the idea of if there is only winners and losers, and how to be a winner. The point gets strongly put across as the father believes that you have to think you will win, and that is how you become a winner. The film becomes an eye opener for the viewers because it shows the amount of…

The film Little Miss Sunshine was produced by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. In the beginning of this visual text we see the main characters introduced and see the family dynamic. This is when one of the most important themes is introduced, how society defines success and beauty. This theme is portrayed by the use of costume, dialogue, and sound/ music. Society has a set look on what success and beauty is and the Hoover family challenges that. In the beginning scene the use of costume is…

Madeline Barbier Video Essay PSY 340- Adolescences Adolescences Through the Eyes of Little Miss Sunshine In the years of adolescences, adolescents often times are experiencing a crisis of identity. They are trying to understand what roles they fall into and a lot of times their families and their self-esteem influences this “self-understanding”. In Little Miss Sunshine, many key concepts to adolescence are seen in the 7-year old character, Olive Hoover. She is going through the fifth…

views are shaped based on what we experience within a family. After maturing in a family, we create new values, and bring rituals and knowledge that have been taught to us from our original family to our new family. There are many definitions of the word family. Some people believe it is a term related to the bloodline, while others believe it is related to two or more people, who share an extended period of time with each other, and are bound by certain ties such as marriage (Galvin, Bylund,…

Both the play ‘Death of A Salesman” and the feature film ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ explore the notion of success and failure, the sacrifice of all monies to peruse a “million-dollar idea”. They also seeks and probes the undying will to never give up in such an unforgiving business world. They also examine the concept of the main character’s necessity to be well liked. Success and failure is a significant ideology of the American dream especially within the business world. Both main characters,…

Was Little Miss Sunshine A movie to watch? The Little Miss Sunshine directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, released July 26, 2006. The Little Miss Sunshine starts off with a little girl named Olive watching the Miss America beauty pageants, hoping to be her up there on the stage one day. In the the movie the family is from the beautiful desert Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sheryl Hoover played by Toni Collette is a mother of two who all live in in Albuquerque, New Mexico along with Her…

While watching Little Miss Sunshine, I was drawn to Dwayne Hoover. He struck me at first as a stereotypical teenager, but became more than that when it is revealed that he has taken a vow of silence until he is in the Air Force. The adversities he faces are first, being in his teenage year, which I consider adversity enough, and also coming for his family. His father is exceptionally goal oriented and is very intense about his 9 step program, his parents argue a lot and divorce is mentioned, his…

The film Little Miss Sunshine follows a family on their road trip from New Mexico to California. The shows the lives of a dysfunctional lower middle-class family. The protagonist Olive gets accepted to compete in a beauty pageant in California. Her family consisting of her Mother Sheryl, Father Richard, Silent Brother Dwayne, Suicidal Uncle Frank and drug addict Grandfather all take the trip with her in a beat down Volkswagen bus. The film goes into depth about different problems ordinary people…