American Beauty critique
American Beauty directed by Sam Mendes won the Academy Award for the Best Original Screenplay and the Best Picture Award. Film critics restrained from clear-cut negative reviews, only ocassionally pointing out weaknesses of the the plot or the shallowness of main themes of the picture. The money invested in realization of this film certainly paid back yielding a high level of return (just in U.S.A. 130 million dollars). To cut a long story short, this Hollywood production seems to be a great success. The choice of the subjects itself (grotesque depiction of American middle-class society) attracts the viewer's attention. The subtopics pursued in the film, namely beauty, work and repression, make it even more admirable. It obviously stands out from the mainstream of American cinema industry, still the scriptwriter and the director did not manage to steer clear of employing certain typical hollywood stereotypes and bias.The first of subcurrents worth tracing in the film is the pursuit of beauty. As a matter of fact, it is rather yearning for the authentic beauty, which, here, is substituted with the fake glitter of luxuries, cash and dispensable objects. All the characters except Ricky Fitts (Wes Bentley)
From a frustrated, ageing bore, he changes into a modern pseudo-hippie smoking pot and pumping iron. 'The Early Draft of Script of American Beauty' Common topics in this essay:
Lester Burnham,
Colonel Fitts,
Award Film,
Erich Fromm's,
John Cones,
Whereas Carolyne,
Colonel Besides,
American Beauty,
Emerson Waldoo,
Wes Bentley,
'work alienated,
'what's hollywood',
authentic beauty,
alienated society',
colonel fitts,
'work alienated society',
american beauty,
hollywood stereotypes,
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