阳光小美女.ppt

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE 姓名：姚思点 学号：112015323001624 Sheryl Hoover, a stressed and over-worked mother of two, picks up her brother Frank at a hospital after the depressed, gay Proust scholar has recovered from a failed suicide attempt. family member Role introduction the little girl is Olive , the whole story is around for that she want to take part in the beauty contest. Olive’mother and uncle Sheryl Hoover,a stressed and over-worked mother of two, picks up her brother Frank at a hospital after the depressed, gay Proust scholar has recovered from a failed suicide attempt. Olive’s father Olive’s brother Dwayne: an angst-ridden, avowedly mute, Nietzsche-reading teenager who has dedicated his life to joining the Air Force Academy in order to become a test pilot. Olives grandpa Richards father,Edwin, recently evicted from a retirement home for snorting heroin,is shown to have a strong bond with his seven-year-old granddaughter Olive,and coaches her to perform in a child beauty pageant. plot summary after an expository dinner sequence,Olive learns she qualified for the little Miss Sunshinebeauty pageant that is being held in Redondo Beach,California in two days.Olive is asked to be in Little Miss Sunshine after placing second in anther beauty pageant.As soon as Olive hears the news she gets up from the table and starts screaming with joy, hurrying down stairs to keep practicing her routine that her grandpa has been teaching her. While Olive is partying downstairs her parents are forced to plan how they are going to get there. Since their relatives are out of town and the family cannot afford other alternatives,the family realizes they must pack all six family members into their yellow car for a two-day road trip to California. The family’s tensions play out on the highway and at stops along the way, amidst the aging car’s mechanical problems. The characters suffer setbacks: Richard’s hopes for his motivational technique business sputter out; Frank encounters hi