Friday, December 19, 2014

Hector's Making A List, Checking and Strive.

This is why we need friends. At least Russovoir is experientially speaking for himself. He would have never taken a second look for Hector and the Search for Happiness. This hasn't happened just once too! Ben Affleck's Academy Award-winning Argo for instance. It didn't look appealing enough, not catchy enough. Not so much from its trailer, that which, apologetically, hadn't had surfaced in the interim before a movie normally starts, but more of the Academy Award Best Picture's poster. Dreary, Russovoir thought. While we should account visual presentation, just as plating is to food, on our movie posters, we must not judge a film by its boring poster. And oh, almost forgot, if it wouldn't have been for a friend, Deya Rosales, one night Russovoir bumped into at the mall, ignorance for Argo, a thrill-seeker blockbuster, would've had been a son of a bliss.
    
Remy Soni. The friend responsible for my superfluous yet each one sincere thank you's for granting a FREE movie screening of Hector and the Search for Happiness. One could tell, already, Russovoir found happiness in the fortune. But only just the beginning; there couldn't be any other way anyway, otherwise there is no point of gathering you all here. Simon Pegg's HSH is a perfect Christmas* film (*R-18)

HSH, abbreviated, because, foremost on factors affecting passing on this film is its title. Can they get any longer? Understandably, often, films need to have a longer title for specification (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone) or each word is dependent to the other; the article 'the' and prepositions 'of', 'to', e.g. (Guardians of the Galaxy). It wouldn't work if we remove a word. Imagine, simply Search for Happiness. Isn't that simpler, easier, catchier? To aspiring screen writers out there, if you can help it, K.I.S.S. your movie titles. Keep It Short and Sweet. Retention is the greater marketing.

Even so, all is forgiven (mainly because it's based from a Francis Lelord novel of the same title). The story gave Russovoir the touchy-feely. He wanted to be loved right there, right now, in between arm rests and darkness abreast. The style in which both the journey and destination of searching for happiness is a nodding, finger-wagging experience. "I wish I had a notepad to write all those points down.", Remy confessed not long after. If we could have, we would have. There were many valuable quotes from the chance encounters of Hector (Pegg) that ultimately filled his 'adventure notebook' his wife Clara (Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl) slipped in (think Disney Pixar's Up (2009). Pike herself was at her most charming role too; this is more of her character than of the psychopath Amy Dunne. Yet sublime on both. Spontaneous, cohesive, and the attention to detail complementary to the unexpected turn of events in each of his next stop, as a viewer, Russovoir had the beginning of happiness, and later still have it.

Hector and the Search for Happiness is a surprise success. Unsung, even. Factors affecting this is primarily because simply, it's Simon Pegg. He's known for his works Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), Paul (2011), the recent The World's End (2013), to name a few. He's the funny guy. How could he possibly make us feel any other emotion than laughter? It's a question that still courses through Russovoir's veins, happy hormones streaming parallel, injected with the thought that this Steve Carell-esque transition is medicine in enumerative doses, healing the viewer as much as it has for Hector.