based on

CHRISGARDNER

The film is based on the story Chris Gardner's struggle with

homelessness.

BIOGRAPHY• Christopher Paul "Chris" Gardner (born February 9,

1954) is an American entreprenuer, broker, motivational speaker, author, and philanthropist who, during the early 1980s, struggled with homelessness while raising his toddler son, Christopher, Jr.

• He is CEO of his own stockbrokerage firm, Gardner Rich & Co, based in Chicago, Illinois, where he resides when he is not living in Toronto.

Some of those situations are treated along the film through Chris Gardener´s life and all the situations he lives.

In this film “Chris Gardener”, the main character, shows through his way of facing the life a way of behaving in the different situations the life gives you.

THE BEGINNING

At the beginning, Gardner family has financial difficulties because they do not have any money and his wife is the only that works because Chris has lost his job; but at the

beginning they are eager to overcome the situation together.

• In 1981, San Francisco, salesman Chris Gardner (Will Smith) invests his entire life savings in portable bone-density scanners which he demonstrates to doctors and pitches as a handy quantum leap over standard X-rays (the scanners play a vital role, despite being called "time machines" by Max Watson, and "fire" by Chris).

• While he is able to sell most of them, the time lag between the sales and his growing financial demands enrage his already bitter and alienated wife Linda (Thandie Newton), who works as a hotel maid. The lack of a stable financial state increasingly erodes their marriage, in spite of them caring for their five-year old son, Christopher.

• Chris is prepared to let nothing get in the way of achieving his ambition. We all have dreams and ambitions.

• Indeed, it is good too. But in order to fulfill them we will have choices, and sacrifices, to make. And sometimes the dreams we have are simply unrealistic.

Chris tells his son to pursue his dream no matter what others say. But sometimes we need someone to give us a

reality check. How do we determine whether something requires giving it our all and when do we allow ourselves to

hear the gentle word of realism?

• We think that to achieve financial success doesn’t ensure personal happiness.

• The personal happiness is achieve only if you have love in your life. If love does not appear then it is impossible to have personal happiness.

• In Chris’s case, all the things that he is doing like finding a work, sleepless night, etc. are to support his son.

• To be happy in that situation was not that easy. • If your family is close you don’t have any reasons to be unhappy.

But if your family is broken then its difficult, very difficult.• You have to be worried about your son’s future because you haven’t

got money and you are alone in the world. • You can’t share your problems with anyone.• To summarize we think that in Chris’s family, it is possible to be

happy in spite of the financial problems if Chris and his son stay together.

Turning Point

• While walking in downtown trying to sell one of the scanners, Gardner meets Jay Twistle (Brian Howe), a manager for Dean Witter Reynolds and impresses him by solving a Rubik's Cube during a short taxi ride.

• After Jay leaves, Gardner lacks money to pay the fare, and chooses to run, resulting in the driver chasing him into a subway station.

• Gardner boards a train, but he looses his last, one and only of his scanners in the process.

• But, His new relationship with Jay earns him the chance to become an intern stockbroker.

• The day before the interview, Gardner grudgingly agrees to paint his apartment so as to postpone moving out due to his difficulty in paying the rent.

• While painting, Gardner is greeted by the police at his doorstep, who brings him to the station, stating he has to pay for his numerous parking tickets he has accumulated.

• As part of the sanction, Gardner is ordered to spend the night in jail, complicating his schedule for the interview the next morning.

He manages to arrive at Dean Witter's office on time, albeit still in his shabby clothes. Despite his appearance, he impresses the

interviewers, and lands an internship. He will be amongst 20 interns competing for a paid position as a broker.

• Gardner's unpaid internship does not please Linda, who eventually leaves for New York. After Gardner bluntly says she is incapable of being a single mother, she agrees that Christopher will remain with his father.

SLEEPLESS NIGHTS• Gardner is further set back when his bank account is garnished by the IRS

for unpaid income taxes, and he and his young son are evicted. • He ends up with less than thirty dollars, resulting in them being homeless,

and are forced at one point to stay in a restroom at a subway station.

Trying to lock the doorwhen someone tries to enter

Sleeping in the bus the other night

Other days, he and Christopher spend nights at a homeless shelter, in a subway,

• The other day, he finds a man walking on the street with his lost bone scanner, then follows him to get his scanner back while on his way to his office for internship.

• On the process, chasing the man, he gets hit by a car in the middle of the road and looses his left pair shoe, still manage to finally get his scanner.

• Later, Gardner finds the bone scanner that he lost in the subway station and, after repairing it, sells it to a physician, thus completing all his sales of his scanners. Finally, he manages to procure cash, then stays at a hotel.

• Disadvantaged by his limited work hours, and knowing that maximizing his client contacts and profits is the only way to earn the broker position, Gardner develops a number of ways to make phone sales calls more efficiently, including reaching out to potential high value customers, defying protocol.

As it was mentioned in the movie, a stockbroker must be “good with numbers and good with people”. This means that math skills and interpersonal skills are necessary for this career.

I think that interpersonal skills is a very important value for life because when people relate thy want you to treat them on a good way.

NECESSARY SKILLS FOR SOMEONE TOBECOME A SUCCESSFUL STOCKBROKER

One day, sympathetic prospect who is a top-level pension fund manager and invites him to watch the game, and even takes him and his son to a San Francisco 49ers game. Regardless of his challenges, he never reveals his lowly circumstances to his colleagues, even going so far as to lend one of his bosses five dollars for a cab, a sum he cannot afford.

• Concluding his internship, Gardner is called into a meeting with his managers.

• One of them notes he is wearing a new shirt. Gardner explains it is his last day and thought to dress for the occasion.

• The manager smiles and says he should wear it again tomorrow, letting him know he has won the coveted full-time position.

• Fighting back tears, Gardner shakes hands with them, then rushes to his son's daycare to embrace Christopher.

PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS

• They walk down the street, joking with each other.

• The epilogue reveals that Gardner went on to form his own multi-million dollar brokerage firm.

• The film was released on DVD on March 27, 2007 and as of November 2007, US Region 1 DVD sales accounted for an additional $89,923,088 in revenue, slightly less than half of what was earned in its first week of release. [6] About 5,570,577 units have been sold, bringing in $90,582,602 in revenue which also partly goes to CHRIS GARDNER as per the royalty of an Author of the Book, “PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS”.

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PRESENTED BY : BIDHAN PRADHAN