American_Beauty

American Beauty I had quite an easy time finding subjects for my viewer analysis. My friends and I are movie buffs and we watch a lot of movies together. For this particular assignment, I chose to hang out with my buddy “Jeff” (name has been changed) and watch the movie American Beauty. This movie was an interesting choice because I have seen it a few (okay, maybe 100) times and the film has a special meaning to me. The experience was quite different this time because I was watching my friend watch the movie, rather than watching the movie itself. Jeff’s usual media consumption habits are quite ridiculous. This guy is a media junkie. He has hundreds of movies (VHS and DVD), CDs, MP3 files, video games, a satellite dish with 600 channels (literally), and a DSL Internet connection in his apartment. He rarely misses an advanced screening of a movie (good or bad) and has a bad habit of ruining most films before the opening credits are done. But, for some strange reason that I have yet to understand, he had never seen American Beauty! Of all the people I have met in american, beauty, movie, life, time, because, television, jeff, film, quite, out, much, about, watch, scene, media, lester, characters, think, seen, great, few, audience, viewing, something, shows, ricky, really, people, one, need, movies, meaning, makes, entertainment, different, character, best, year, wife, while, weed, watching, understand, under, tv, told, things, that’s, take