3. MOVIE INTRO
Movie type:
The Greatest Showman is a 2017
American musical biographical drama
film.
Directed by:
Michael Gracey
Written by:
Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon
Starring:
Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle
Williams, Rebecca Ferguson,
and Zendaya.
Featuring nine original songs
from:
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Movie inspiration:
The film is inspired by the story of P. T.
Barnum's creation of Barnum's
American Museum and the lives of its
star attractions.
4. Zachary David Efron is a
American actor and singer.
Role:
Zac Efron as Phillip Carlyle,
a playwright who becomes
Barnum's partner
Huge Michael Jackson is an
Austrian-British actor,
singer, and producer.
Role:
P.T. Barnum, showman and
businessman.
5. Rebecca Louis Ferguson is a
Swedish actress.
Role:
Rebecca Ferguson as Jenny Lind,
a famous Swedish singer known
as the "Swedish Nightingale"
Michelle Ingrid Williams is
an American actress.
Role:
Michelle Williams as Charity
Hallett-Barnum, the wife of
P. T. Barnum.
6. Keala Joan Settle is an American
actress and singer.
Role:
Keala Settle as Lettie Lutz,
a bearded lady. She is a composite
character partly based
on Josephine Clofullia and Annie
Jones.
Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman,
known mononymously as Zendaya,
is an American actress and singer.
Role:
Zendaya as Anne Wheeler, an
acrobat and trapeze artist
7. MOVIE SYNOPSIS
• Growing up in the early 1800s, P.T. Barnum
displays a natural talent for publicity and
promotion, selling lottery tickets by age
12. After trying his hands at various jobs,
P.T. turns to show business to indulge his
limitless imagination, rising from nothing
to create the Barnum & Bailey circus.
Featuring catchy musical numbers, exotic
performers and daring acrobatic feats,
Barnum's mesmerizing spectacle soon
takes the world by storm to become the
greatest show on Earth.
8. COME ALIVE
Come Alive [From The Greatest Showman]" as written by and Benj Pasek
Justin Paul. "Come Alive" (performed by Jackman, Settle, Daniel Everidge,
Zendaya and The Greatest Showman Ensemble)
My take is this song is about total desperation. The built up enhances that
feeling - the many times "come alive" is repeated to me feels like someone
crying desperately for a dying person to reanimate. this song is pretty
powerful both lyrically and musically. Its about developing a confidence that
leaving narrow mind behind, we can reach the sky by not thinking that
you're inferior. We should light ourselves from inside and should light up and
reach up the sky. The song make us come out of lonely, miserable rut.
9. LESSONS FROM
GREATEST SHOWMAN
Follow Your Dreams.
Never give up
It’s OK to Be Different.
Hustle hard your dreams and
go get it with all your might.
You’re the only thing in the way
of your own happiness.
There’s no point feeling sorry
for yourself.