Morning Glory Case

SYNOPSIS OF THE MOVIE

When hard-working TV producer Becky Fuller (Rachel McAdams) is fired from a local news program, her career begins to look as bleak as her hapless love life. Stumbling into a job at “Daybreak” the last-place national morning show, Becky decides to revitalize the show by bringing on legendary TV anchor Mike Pomeroy (Harrison Ford).

Unfortunately, Pomeroy refuses to cover morning show staples like celebrity gossip, weather, and fashion crafts-let alone work his new co-host, Colleen Peck (Diane Keaton), a former beauty queen and long time morning show personality who is more than happy covering morning “news”.

As Mike and Colleen clash, first behind the scene and then on the air, Becky’s blossoming love affair with fellow producer Adam Bennett (Patrick Wilson) begin to unravel. Soon Becky is struggling to save her relationship, her reputation, her job and ultimately, the show itself.

Topic: Personality

Scene 1:

Becky is a high discipline person.

Actor: Becky

Description:

In this scene, Becky isstaying at Pomeroy’s home to make sure Pomeroy go to the work and does not run away again. At morning, Pomeroy wakes her up and Becky rushes when she realizes that she is already late for meeting in that morning at 5am. She surprises when Pomeroy still cooking for breakfast then she show her watch to Pomeroy and said to him “ we have to go , quick , quickly “ . Then on the way they go to the work, Pomeroy still acts normal & does not care if they are late or not. He keeps telling story to Becky until Becky said to him, “Look, guess what! I don’t care about your story, I just want we fast because we are going to be late “. It shows that Becky is a very discipline person and very serious on time punctuality.

Discussion based on theory:

Case of this scene can be discuss using the Big Five framework personality traits from Costa and Mcrae , 1992 emerged as a robust model for understanding the relationship between personality and various academic behaviour . The Big Five factors are conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness to experience and extroversion.

In this scene can be explained that Becky’s personality can be classify in conscientiousness personality. Conscientiousness is the state of being careful, thorough or vigilant, it implies to do work well. It is manifested in characteristics personality such as being efficient, organized, and neat and being systematic. It also includes such elements as self discipline, punctual, carefulness, self organization, deliberation and need for achievement. A person high in conscientiousness tends to be organized and mindful