The movie that i chose to analyze for this assignment was the 1991 comedy titled curly sue that starred Jim Belushi, Alisan Porter and Kelly Lynch.For starters ill give a little blurb for those of you who have not had the pleasure of seeing the movie, it is about a guy who takes in his deceased girl friends child and raises her as his own after he mother dies and he cannot find it in his heart to place her into foster care. They bounce around and make due the best they can, then they meet this woman who is a lawyer and is doing well for herself, they decide to use her for a good meal and warm place to stay and long story short after some unfortunate events the story ends with the two finding love, happiness and a wife and mother!

So ill talk about each aspect a little separately before i chose my two favorite clips from the movie and analyze them a little more in depth. Now in regards to the writing, the way the story was told..i found it to be believable and comical at the same time. I first watched the movie when i was about ten or eleven and i remember falling in love with the father daughter relationship that the two main characters portrayed..mostly because i am a daddy’s girl. The acting was not forced and accurately portrayed, when a character expressed an emotion it was clear what that emotion was be it that they were, sad or angry. The movie was set in Chicago. It was clear that it was winter and the set design and clothing choices were appropriate. The power dynamics between the three main characters were obvious and it was not hard to decipher which class that they were supposed to be portraying. The audio was done well, background music and action sounds were done appropriately. I would have to say in regards to audio that one of my favorite and well done scenes was when he was pretending that this woman had hit him with his car. His daughter (curly sue) takes a two by four and rams in into this woman’s car to create the illusion that she had hit this man..i loved it. It was realistic and creative, i could definitely see someone doing this to get over an individual to receive a hand out or a warm bed for a free nights. Camera work was excellent, you always had what was necessary in the shot, never was there other things in a scene of little importance that would catch your eye and draw you from the story.

This clip is of curly sue singing the star spangled banner while watching some late night television while everyone is asleep. What i love about this scene is how her singing starts out of the blue in the middle of dead silence. In doing so she wakes up her father and the woman they are staying with and she is suppose to be singing so loudly that she can be heard out in the streets and that is when the camera pans out to the city and Sue’s singing is still blaring in the background. It just really illustrated the power of her voice and her dedication to her performance and hoe oblivious she is to the time.

The last clip that i chose is the ending scene of the movie when Grey gets Sue back and you see the relationship that has slowly been evolviong between the two come to light. Emotions were a big part to the last scenes of the movie because as a viewer your heart is suppose to be breaking for Sue and you are suppose to think that she is never going to see her father again. The reunion of the two is heart breaking but wonderful and who doesn’t love a nice happy ending.