Careful placement of cadences and flourishes lends a playful dimension to these scenes of one man (literally) chasing his livelihood. The other type is typified by "Running", with more formal structure and nice shifts in orchestration over a skittish string rhythm. While no two of these tracks are identical, there are basically two patterns overall: "Being Stupid" is extremely reminiscent of Thomas Newman with its layered sound of xylophone, pizzicato and piano and percussion rhythms vaguely reminiscent of the pop of the period. I alluded to the film\'s (unexpected) reliance on chase scenes before, and you can definitely detect their presence via the soundtrack, though the dashes of allegro writing pleasing add to the variety of the album. There\'s also a nice, subdued appearance of the idea in \'Locked Out\'. It contributes strongly to the sense of optimism throughout the score, and Guerra uses the idea beautifully for the main character\'s fleeting moments of elation later in the score - "Possibly", "To the Game / Touchdown", "Happyness" and the finale "Welcome Chris". More extensively used is the childlike five-note xylophone motif between statements of the main theme in "Opening".
The title theme is not repeated often, and not really developed when it is - the numerous variations in "Where\'s my shoe?" essentially consisting of shifting instrumentation around an unchanging melody. It\'s a simple attractive theme, if a little too close to Rolfe Kent\'s About Schmidt theme to feel original. Guerra\'s main theme is light as a feather - an eight-note melody presented for piano over soft bouncy strings and woodwinds in "Opening". The whole score is written in the warm acoustic textures familiar from the scores of Rachel Portman, Thomas Newman, and (especially) Rolfe Kent - gentle strings, guitar, xylophones, woodwind solos, keyboard and light percussion. I\'m familiar with the composer only from his contributions to the Hotel Rwanda soundtrack, so I have little sense of his style as a film composer. There\'s a sense of childlike amazement and emotion to the whole score, which speaks to the aspirations of Will Smith\'s character - no stark musical rendering of poverty or pessimism here. Andrea Guerra\'s music for the most part participates in softening the edges of being down and out in early eighties San Francisco.
But since the film is the sort that books an appearance on Oprah, there is plenty of music, very little of it saying anything deep about the film. In the hands of the right writer and director team, this is a film that probably wouldn\'t have needed to lean much on music at all. Nonetheless, despite being overproduced at the expense of the story, the film communicates powerfully to people: I\'ve been chased out of many a house for suggesting that it\'s anything but the most moving story to come out of Hollywood in a while.
PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS SONG TRACK MOVIE
As for the tough life of poverty, this film parades the best poverty movie money can buy, recreating the period in style, bathing Gardner and his son in soft afternoon light as they aspire to better things, smoothing over the rough edges of the locations. we get so little a sense of why Gardner is chosen above the other interns in the end). endless scenes of Will Smith chasing somebody through the streets, showing his genius by figuring out a Rubik\'s cube) over arguably more relevant events (e.g. Among the things that bother me: the script is a fairly formulaic study of a rise above circumstances, leaning heavily on action that can be more easily visualised (e.g. (The film makes the intern position altogether unpaid for a little extra emotional mileage.) The film is fairly well acted and executed, but the whole thing passes by a bit easily considering the potential for some serious social comment. The film is an adaptation of Chris Gardner\'s memoir of his hard times as a single parent and underpaid stockbroking intern. This album from Varese Sarabande contains the majority of Andrea Guerra\'s underscore for the Will Smith salesman-to-stockbroker film The Pursuit of Happyness (2006).
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