When life is so harsh on you, you keep trying and failing, but you still have dreams. Could you make these dreams real? Well, yes you can, and the biggest example is phineas barnum or as everyone knows him “The Greatest Showman”. The Greatest Showman is a musical/drama movie talking about Barnum, who started as a poor kid, his father was a tailor and he would help him out whenever he went to clients in their houses. Barnum didn’t have a normal life. His father passed out when he was really young and since then he had been through a lot from stealing food to selling used journals. Years later, he achieved one of his dreams and married the love of his life, Charity Barnum. However, Life didn’t go that well for him. He then lost his job, tried making his own business but failed. Then it was this moment that he realized I needed to stand out and produce something new which is “The Greatest Show”. The Greatest Show is not a circus show (although some would assume it is), it’s in fact a show featuring a group of unique people having special talents, coming from different races, having different sizes (some having unrealistic physical features). Basically, the most diverse and weirdest group of people you would ever see in your life, but it was Barnum who brought them into light for everyone to watch. The show became extremely successful, not only in New York but among the whole country, which made Barnum become a selfish man aiming for more fame. He started just thinking about himself, how to be more and more successful. Well he actually did become more successful first by grabbing Phillip Carlyle (an upper-crust rich kid) to be his partner then making a deal with Jenny Lend, the famous European Opera singer who will make Barnum even more famous. Additionally, in this period he started getting away from his unique group and excluding them from important events. After this huge fame and richness, Barnum would end up back to the zero point. How would he come back with the Greatest Show again? It’s actually with the love and support his family and group have for him.
The movie has this sort of activeness, ambition with however some selfishness and being overwhelmed.
At the very beginning, you will get the mood of the circus, dancing and music.
The color palette is more leaning to circus vibe which is red, yellow and a little blue and it kind of met the color palette of the season as it was fall, so many scenes had this red and yellow tree leaves down. The movie is about the early 1800's in New York, so it’s pretty much an old fashioned style in everything (clothing, architecture, transit, etc..).
feeling of a circus, inspiration, love and relationships
The Greatest Showman
5 words: Ambition, never giving up ,courage, embracing yourself, activeness, music, show, dance, circus vibe, diversity, new world (world of dreams)
Thesis statement:
Despite how harsh life is on you, you can still be successful but only if you think differently and with a creative mind and that’s what Barnum did with his Greatest Show.