American Beauty

American Beauty is a 1999 American feature film, directed by Sam Mendes. The film was the directorial debut of the Director.

The film explores themes such as love, freedom, self liberation, family and the American dream. It focuses on the Burnham family, which consists of Lester, his wife Carolyn and their daughter Jane.

Important themes in the film as the appearance, success and deeper knowledge of other people are things that many in the current Western society are facing.

The film won 5 Academy Awards, including "Best Film".



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] .== Lester Burnham (played by Kevin Spacey) is a 42-year-old man whose boring life in a suburb much worse than a ' normal ' midlife crisis. He has been working for 14 years in a magazine but has not made some kind of promotion. His wife Carolyn (Annette Bening) is a perfectionist who sells houses and that makes him mad. His daughter Jane (Thora Birch), an insecure teenager, hardly still speaks with him. She finds him but crazy. This is partly because Lester for a good while has had no proper attention for his daughter.
 * 2 Cast
 * 3 background information
 * 4 Sources
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When new people come to live in the district, this seems to be the starting signal for some big changes at the Burnham family. In the empty House next to them for months, the family attend Fitts. Colonel Frank Fitts (Chris Cooper) is a hard military whose wife Barbara (Allison Janney) seems to be in constant state of shock.

The son of the family, Ricky Fitts (Wes Bentley), a boy who is so obsessed with life and beauty that he two years in an establishment has been sitting, turns out to be a successful drug dealer with a tendency to film everything, including Jane.

In the beginning finds Jane this at all fine, but that changes quickly when they know Ricky better. Her friend Angela (Mena Suvari), a typical beautiful cheerleader girl, finds him but perverse and weird. This claims to have with men when they themselves go to bed to move forward in its ambitious modeling career.

Lester met both Angela and Ricky, and he gets suddenly a feeling of excitement which he thought he was lost many years ago. Angela flirt openly with him, and his hormones go because of overtime. He constantly fantasizes about her, when he is not busy with training to make himself more attractive to her.

Lesters carefree setting about life and work, and the marijuana that he buys at Ricky, ensure that Lesters complete look on life changes. Lester blackmails his old work and is going to be a time in which he really wants to have a lot of fun. That his wife might be a relationship with Buddy Kane, her competitor (also called the real-estate-king called), does him nothing.

Everyone reacts shocked at Lesters new way of life. At that time he gets to do with the fact that his wife his new "I" find nothing at all, that Jane as a half joke has asked to kill her father, Ricky and that Colonel Fitts the relationship between Lester and his son suspected finds are. He suspects them of homosexuality. Then try Colonel Fitts Lester to kiss, but Lester Secretary.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film ends with the death of Lester Burnham, shortly after moving with Angela wants sex. Angela says she is this Lester Burnham, Virgin governs by refraining from intercourse. Angela then runs away during the call to the toilet. At that time, to see how a gun to Lesters mind is, while he looks at a family photo. The camera turns to the wall, where a blood stain on appears. The culprit is Colonel Fitts. ==Division Of Roles<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Background Information<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the original version of the script, which Alan Ball wrote for a play, sat for a number of scenes that didn't make the final movie. Sam Mendes describes two options that are ultimately not chosen, because they changed too much to the nature of the film:

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Many shots are set up so that it looks like the characters trapped in a cell. An example of this is the shot of Lester in the beginning of the movie where he is reflected in its monitor, which seems on a cell Windows.
 * The first option was a prologue, in which Jane and Ricky were found guilty in the murder on Lester Burnham.
 * The second option was a scene in which Lester flies through the air and lands in front of his house, and then he suddenly wakes up and it all turned out to be a dream.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Many scenes that are in play in the evening during the day and/or night included. Cameraman Conrad Hall highlighted the scenes so that this total does not stand out. An example in which this happened is the scene in which Lester has a conversation with the manager of the burger joint where he wants to go to work.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The storyboards were very precise and detailed. Sam Mendes had a very clear vision of what he wanted. This base was almost completely transferred to film, except at times when cinematographer Conrad Hall had an idea for a better shot. Hall was particularly pleased that Mendes had such a clear vision, so that he also had a clear framework to process ideas and better shots in places where that was possible. ==Sources<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * American Beauty: Look Closer -Documentary
 * American Beauty: Storyboard Presentation
 * American Beauty: Commentary