Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Little Miss Sunshine - Olive's Dance Scene



Little Miss Sunshine is about a dysfunctional family from Chicago who is trying to get a 7 year old girl, Olive, to a beauty pageant in California.

Its a film with great nuance and subtlety. Its always nice to see a movie that doesn't need tricks or special gadgets to make it work. Its a film about real people for real people. The humor may be a little dark, but it always lands. There are also some incredibly touching moments.

In this scene, Olive shows her routine at the beauty pageant. Its the routine that her grandfather, played wonderfully by Alan Arkin., taught her. You can see the film has a lot to say about beauty pageants. Without seeing the beginning of the film, the scene may not have any context, but if you've seen what they had to go through to get her to pageant, its even more hillarious.

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