Characters in films

Jerry Maguire

The character of Jerry Maguire is narrated by the man himself and when we are learning about all the different sportsmen/women you really get a sense that he knows what he's talking about.

We see he's a top end sports agent who just focuses about his business.

All he seems to care about is the amount of money that they make.

Doesn't really think about the way it effects people ( the little boy who cant get his autograph on a product because it wasn't the right brand).

You start to see by the end of the scene that he is realising how corrupt the industry is and feeling bad about being part of it.

American Beauty

At the very start, we are introduced to his daughter on a home camera talking about how much she hates her father.

When the film starts Narrated by the character Lester, he tells us about his uninteresting life and seems very unenthusiastic about everything.

Learn about him and his family and that he's a bit of a loser.

When we first see the town and neighbourhood he lives in and the camera zooms in to his house, this emphasises the insignificance of the man within the world.

When he is in bed the light is shining on the other side of the bed but not his which is in shadow, this emphasises the dull mans life.

Can tell that although his life may be bad at the moment throughout the rest of the film we most likely will see how he gets it back from when he states "It's never too late to get it back".

Although it may seem that from the outside everything is perfect with the white picket fences and the roses at the front of the house things are not as they appear as things inside the house are far from perfect.

Harriet is a 21 year old girl. She is fair haired, very skinny and pale skinned. She wears barely any make up and is a very quiet, secluded person, she barely leaves the house most days. 5 years ago she suffered from an eating disorder and had to be institutionalised in a clinic. This turned her whole life upside down, her mum suffered from bitchy comments from women at work, and her dad just couldn't understand how his daughter had developed such a thing, you could say he was ashamed of her. When she gets back from the clinic she is met by a scowling neighbourhood, and we follow her struggle to get back to a 'normal' lifestyle and rebuild her relationship with her mum and dad.