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I had quite an easy time finding subjects for my viewer analysis. My friends and I are movie buffs and we watch a lot of movies together. For this particular assignment, I chose to hang out with my buddy “Jeff” (name has been changed) and watch the movie American Beauty. This movie was an interesting choice because I have seen it a few (okay, maybe 100) times and the film has a special meaning to me. The experience was quite different this time because I was watching my friend watch the movie, rather than watching the movie itself. Jeff’s usual media consumption habits are quite ridiculous. This guy is a media junkie. He has hundreds of movies (VHS and DVD), CDs, MP3 files, video games, a satellite dish with 600 channels (literally), and a DSL Internet connection in his apartment. He rarely misses an advanced screening of a movie (good or bad) and has a bad habit of ruining most films before the opening credits are done. But, for some strange reason that I have yet to understand, he had never seen American Beauty! Of all the people I have met in my life, this guy would be the last to miss out on a great movie such as this. I was also excited to see how he would react to the movie because most people I have spoken