MY FAVOURITE MOVIE OF ALL TIME

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN

 P.T. Barnum is the subject of Michael Gracey's biography/musical The Greatest Showman. Despite having a $84 million budget, the picture was released on December 20, 2017 and grossed $435 million. Michelle Williams (Charity Hallett), Zendaya Coleman (Anne Wheeler), Zac Efron (Phillip Carlyle), and Hugh Jackman star in this film (P.T Barnum).

Two facts regarding this film are that it was shot in New York and that it was produced by TSG Entertainment (who are also responsible for Kingsman and Deadpool). Michael Gracey's directing debut is one of the film's most interesting facts. Hugh Jackman's dream project was to direct this film. Phillip Carlyle and Anne Wheeler are fictitious characters with a fictional love story. The film received a Golden Globe nomination for best song "This is me". The last intriguing information I have to share with you is that Hugh Jackman had skin cancer removed from his nose when the picture was greenlit. His doctor advised him not to sing after he received 80 stitches. Hugh obeyed the doctor's orders until the final song "From Now On", when he decided to sing. He noticed his nose was leaking around halfway through.

The Greatest Showman is a terrific, old-fashioned, goofy PG musical that is nevertheless a dazzling - and amusing! immersion in cutting-edge razzmatazz, according to Owen Gleiberman in his review. I concur with Owen. Because of the amazing themes/hidden messages, great melodies, and dancing, it's a fantastic and sensational film.

The audience sees P.T. Barnum pretending to be the boss of a tremendously successful circus and hears the acclaim of the imagined audience at the start of the video.

The film then jumps back to P.T. Barnum's early years, when he was destitute and lonely. He and his father Philo (Will Swenson) work for the Hallett family as private tailors. P.T. Barnum, despite having to attend night school, falls in love with Charity Hallett. Barnum tells her that they will be together. "A Million Dreams", in which we see Young Barnum spinning a wishing machine, comes next.) Barnum watches as his father falls ill and then dies. (We observe him removing his father's cap.) He is suddenly homeless, hungry, and alone. Finally, a "freak" has an apple in his hand.

"Sir, I know I am not from far away, but I am going to take care of your daughter and give her a great life like this," the adult Barnum says to Charity's father in the midst of the song.

Following that, Charity's father says: "Fine! You gutter filth, marry my lovely daughter! But she'll return as soon as she realises you'll never be wealthy and successful enough to be accepted into New York society!" The Barnums are seen dancing on the roof of their run-down Manhattan apartment as their sheets dry on the clothesline. The Barnums' two daughters are next. 

Charity Barnum, in a blissful moment, says, "I don't mind not having a lot of cash. Let us simply be a joyful family." "No way!" Barnum exclaims. "I'm going to acquire a big building on the opposite side of town and turn it into a strange-things museum." He receives the funds and establishes his museum, but no one comes. Barnum recalls a kind stranger who once offered him an apple and fantasises about stocking his circus with "freaks." We witness him giddy with delight as he auditions the oddities. He swiftly becomes wealthy as a result of his "freaks" and purchases a mansion where he and Charity used to play as children.No one
respects the Barnums, despite their unexpected fortune!

Phillip Carlyle, a talented playwright and the son of Manhattan socialites, enters the picture to give his company legitimacy. Phillip agrees and accepts a 10% stake. He falls in love with Anne in a matter of seconds. Phillip transports Barnum and the freaks to London for a meeting with Queen Victoria.Following the encounter with Queen Victoria, she is a huge fan of the freaks.

Jenny Lind (played by Rebecca Ferguson), a great singer known as the Swedish Nightingale, meets Phineas and Phillip. They invite her to perform in New York to help him expand his entertainment empire, and she accepts. Meanwhile, Phillip wants to ask Anne to marry him in front of everyone, but his parents are against his marrying an African-American lady, so he refuses. Barnum runs into Jenny in a room full of rich celebrities at the lavish after-party. He gets nervous and tells the freaks to leave when they try to rush in and drink champagne with everyone. They belong in first class, not coach! Then there's "This Is Me."

Barnum decides to take Jenny on a cross-country tour, leaving Philip in charge of the oddities. Despite being mistreated by Phineas, the Freaks eventually track Barnum down in a pub and

tell him that they do not want him to abandon his dream. Barnum hands the baton to Phillip and says he has unfinished business while performing "The Greatest Showman" one more time. He mounts an elephant and rides it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to meet up with his family.

The Greatest Showman is a film with a lot of hidden messages and significant themes. Family is everything, true love exists, simplicity equals happiness, and follow your heart and embrace your wacky side are the five main themes/hidden messages.