Silver Linings Notebook Thesis Statement

Silver Linings Playbook

Thesis Statement: The 2012 award-winning sensational film; Silver Linings Playbook directed by David O’ Russell, successfully intrigued the audience in adapting the novel. Furthermore, O’ Russell brilliantly tells a heart-warming, yet complicated and hilarious tale through the use of various camera angles/shots, sound, and lighting techniques to convey the story’s theme of recovery, and finding one’s own ways to recover from various issues portrayed from each character in the movie.

ISU Novel Passage: Film Adaptation: Analysis/Connection to Thesis: “I [Tiffany] want to win this year’s Dance Away Depression competition, and I need a strong man to do it. It’s an annual competition that allows women diagnosed with clinical

I was slut, but I’m not anymore and that’s what matters. There’s always going to be a part of me that’s sloppy and dirty, but I like that. With all the other parts of myself. Can you say the same about yourself? Can you forgive? Are you any good at that (Quick 67)”?

Elements of Fiction

Tone: Tiffany’s tone seems very straight-forward and angry because Pat just called her a slut. She defends herself and comes out as a strong and self-forgiving woman.

Characterization: Her character becomes very confident and self-forgiving as shown from this passage. What she used to do was only because she was trying to recover from her deceased husband. “I was a big slut, but I’m not anymore. There’s always gonna be a part of me that’s sloppy and dirty, but I like that. With all the other parts of myself. Can you say the same about yourself? Can you forgive? Are you any good at that (O’Russell

Patel

“Tiffany’s wearing a black evening dress, heels, and a diamond necklace, and her makeup and hair look perfect to me—as if she is trying too hard to look attractive, like old ladies sometimes do (Quick 47)”.

Elements of Fictions

Characterization: At the beginning when she first meets Pat, her character is very dark and broken. She seemed deeply flawed. It also seems as if she is mentally defeated. This scene takes place at Ronnie’s house when both Pat and Tiffany are invited to have dinner with them. There is no dialogue in this scene since Pat is trying to figure her out by carefully looking at everything on her including her makeup, hair and dress. (24:35)

Film Techniques

Sound: Soft, low beat, melodic music to demonstrate the sadness and insecurity under all the makeup that she feels • This scene relates to the theme of recovery because it shows that Tiffany is trying to recover by covering and hiding all of it with the use of her makeup

• The film director uses sound as a film technique to show the sadness she feels under the great amount of makeup that covers