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Little Miss Sunshine
2006 · Film · 102 min
Directed by Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
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I guess it's a sign of getting old when I see the world classic and expect Gone With the Wind and Casablanca, but instead the list has Arrival, The Martian, and the Bourne Identity. The Sixth Sense is on the list for the US and it's a movie I coincidentally rewatched last night, again finding it to be a masterpiece.
In any case, very different list in Canada: Rocketman, Ford v Ferrari, Little Miss Sunshine, Catch Me If You Can, Jurassic Park, and the Proposal.
This is true. It's a plot point in "Little Miss Sunshine," a movie that came out in 2006. One of the main characters tries to sell a SYSTEM to get their family out of lower class living.
Get-rich-quick books have been around a long, long time. I'd wager they've been around since the printing press. And they always devolve into "buy low, sell high" or selling get-rich-quick systems to other people.
Passive income's not new either. It was (sometimes still is) a massive marketing play for franchisees. Spend $100k+ to open a franchise; the franchisor takes care of the rest; grab a hammock while you watch the money roll in. Never ever works that way, but that's how they've been marketed for a while.
Movies I think I truly great I usually only watch once, sometimes twice. If a movie ends and I just sit there thinking to myself… “wow”… I will probably never watch it again.
Movies I watch over and over again are movies that I relate to in some way or find comforting. These are ones I’ve watched at least 5 times, and some I’d bet more than 30 times.
- Back to the Future
- Home Alone
- What About Bob?
- It Could Happen to You
- Matilda
- As Good as It Gets
- Office Space
- Cruel Intentions
- Boiler Room
- Finding Forrester
- Training Day
- Super Troopers
- 8 Mile
- The Transporter
- Elf
- Bad Santa
- Mean Girls
- Saved!
- Garden State
- V for Vendetta
- Thank You for Smoking
- Stick It
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Idiocracy
- Hot Rod
- Run Fatboy Run
- The Other Guys
- Wreck-It Ralph
To name a few.
WTF. That was like Little Miss Sunshine but not a movie.
This essay really hits me wrong. Perhaps its because I am a human and not simply a "unit of production". Also the "personal playing to win strategy" immediately reminds me of the parody program "refuse to lose" from the film "Little Miss Sunshine".
I am a 58 year-old man with a family. Today I'm giving the eulogy at my Uncle's memorial. In the last weeks of his life I was one of his principal care givers in home hospice. I've been helping my daughter through one of the most challenging times of her life. My wife just broke her wrist and severely injured her back and had trauma surgery two days ago. The FBI keeps showing up at my door looking for an interview (my brother is a fugitive on the most wanted list). In my view, part of being a man is supporting those around you with strength and love. I haven't seen Barbie or Oppenheimer, I've had to temporarily set aside my FAA training for work. I've been too busy supporting my family during a challenging time. I'm at full capacity.
One thing I've refused to stop doing is working out - so I get up at 5:30 to make sure I can have the time to do so. This is part of my personal care routine that means the most for my mental health as well as my physical health.
Its entirely possible my personal strategy sucks. However I think this essay sucks.
I agree. My father was a historian and philosopher, and I used to love arguing philosophy as a teen at the dinner table. This was because I hadn't read anything yet, and so was approaching with an entirely naive and empty mind.
I then studied a fair bit of philosophy at university, and while I could certainly appreciate the value of actually reading many great thinkers, the idea of spending my life studying them was absurd to me. I could think of nothing more horrifying than being proud to say that someone was one of the world's "top Heidegger scholars." (I recall the movie Little Miss Sunshine where a character was obsessed about his rival being only the "second" highest regarded Proust scholar.) Writing book after book about someone else's philosophy seemed utterly pointless.
To (ironically) quote Seneca: "'Hoc Zenon dixit': tu quid?" What do you have to say?
You could put a similar content warning on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Miss_Sunshine, but it'd entirely miss the point of the film.
>I have a hunch that once the severity of the pandemic eases, we may see an increase in car journeys for holidays, particularly for continental Europe. >But people can only tolerate a certain amount of time in the car and so this may affect where people travel.
As an American, I would routinely drive 3+ hours to visit family in the same state, or 6+ hours across several states from my childhood home to university. Growing up in the Midwest, I got used to measuring distance in hours of highway travel time. I wouldn't make those trips every week or every month, but 5-6 times in a year would not have been unusual. I know many people who drove cross-country when moving from East to West Coast (a multi-day road trip), or vice-versa. Road trips in general are firmly rooted in the American experience, as captured in films such as 'National Lampoon's Vacation' or 'Little Miss Sunshine.'
Perhaps post-pandemic Europe will see its own road trip renaissance, complete with motels, minivans, and roadside attractions?
All my recents searches for old movies were vain. Last Sunday, I wanted to see 'Little Miss Sunshine (2006)', result: not available (in Canada anyway). Unsubscribing has started to cross my mind.
When I subscribed for Netflix, the motivation was a large catalog of old movies, cool stuff from other countries (I remember watching TV series from Iceland that were great), no ads. But the greatest selling point: it was more convenient than pirating.
Now, it's all about pushing Netflix produced content down my throat using whatever trick possible, and pirating is again more convenient (large catalog, no ads) even if less user-friendly.
So yeah, "outsmarted" is really pushing it. I'm not the only one getting bored by the current Netflix direction.
I wish that was the only thing it was missing! If I did this in, say, Flash or SVG from the start, I think I could make many more things visible on mouseover. The PNG tools are the closest at hand, though.
I also wish it was easy to search for a particular movie. I wanted to show a friend the interesting path of Little Miss Sunshine, but it took me a while and some mousing to find it again.
It's pretty decent for aimless browsing around for interesting patterns, though.
Lesson 10: Get Feedback, Edit, Repeat
Michael Arndt gave an interview at the recent Cinequest festival in San Jose. He's the guy who wrote "Little Miss Sunshine" and now works at Pixar on the next Toy Story.
The most interesting thing he said about Pixar was how they have a rigorous testing process where they go through years of test, edit, shoot (generate) iterations. It sounded like agile development applied to movie making, which is only possible because Pixar does animation and reshoots are only limited by money. Real-life shoots aren't as amenable to long iterative shooting schedules because actors move on to other gigs or physically change.
"[Jobs] realized that when people run into each other, when they make eye contact, things happen. So he made it impossible for you not to run into the rest of the company."
There was a similar design criterion for the Clark Center (http://www.stanford.edu/home/welcome/campus/clark.html). The only staircases are wide ones on the outside that maximize chances of people running into each other, as does the single restroom per section. And then there's the coffee shop on the 3rd floor.
Software developers, on the other hand, might want an opposite environment so they don't get distracted with random encounters.