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The Sounds of Cinema

What about sounds and music in films?

Listen to this file and make a description or a narration of what you believe is happening or is going to happen. Use your imagination and your computer to write it in no more than 200 words.

Meet the Robinsons

We're at the cinema. Before the film starts, we are shown the following clip. Watch it and sing along with Frankie and the frogs.



What does it mean? Pay attention to the last words! (Be considerate!) Do you think a message like this is necessary today?

Here you have the poster of the film: Meet the Robinsons.



The film is based upon the book A Day with Wilbur Robinson by William Joyce. Read this brief summary of the movie:

Lewis is an orphan and brilliant inventor who dreams of finding a family. His latest and most ambitious project is the Memory Scanner, a machine that will help him find his birth mother so they can become a family. But before he can find her, his invention is stolen by the dastardly Bowler Hat Guy and his diabolical hat and constant companion, Doris. His life takes an unexpected turn when a mysterious stranger named Wilbur Robinson whisks him away to a world where anything is possible...THE FUTURE. There, he meets an incredible assortment of characters and a family beyond his wildest imagination, The Robinsons, who help lead him on an amazing and hilarious adventure with heartfelt results.





Now watch the trailer of the film:




Here you can read the script of the trailer. Copy and paste it on a word document and fill in the gaps while you watch the video clip.

Everyone on this planet has a ____________. The question is how far you’re willing to go to make it come ____________.
Take Lewis for ____________.
All right, Lewis, Knock’em ____________. That was a figure of speech.
Please, don’t ____________ anyone.
All his life Lewis’s dream was to find the ____________ he never knew.
I know they’re out there.
But the funny thing about chasing dreams is that no one can do it on their own.
What are you ____________ up here?
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
And the journey will always take you ____________ you never imagined
What is this? And where are we going?
To the ____________....
This ____________ the first visitor to the future will discover a strange new ____________ and a family...
Lewis, meet the Robinsons
That’s even stranger
Why is your dog wearing ____________?
Oh, because his insurance won’t pay for contacts.
____________?
Genetically enhanced frogs!
And his only way ____________....
I have to find my family!
We’ll ____________ you, kid
Is about to be stolen
By a guy who gives evil a bad ____________.
I want you to be ____________ my control.
I am now under your ____________.
Don’t ____________ everything I say
I won’t repeat everything you say.
This may be harder than I ____________.
From Walt Disney’s Pictures
If I had a family, I’d love them to be just like you.
You have to go back to your own time.
When it comes to ____________
I can’t take you seriously in that hat
When it comes to family
I think my wife Lucille is baking cookies
Bake them, cookies, Lucille,
When it comes to comedy
I’ve got the coffee patch. You can stay awake for days with no side
effects. Ahhh! Sorry!
There is no ____________ like the future
No more ____________! Seize the boy!
Why aren’t you seizing the boy?
I have a big ____________ and little ____________
Meet the Robinsons
Get off, get off
____________?

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Special effects

Have a look at this image:



Have you seen this film?
Enter the official website here: http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/

Navigate through it and watch the several trailers of the film. They’re amazing, aren’t they?
The special effects are incredible!!! Would you like to know how the most amazing images of the film are created?
Click on http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/question295.htm and, if you find the text too difficult, use an Internet tool to translate it.

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There is a new film at the cinemas. You can see its poster here:




It is called Bridge to Terabithia. It is full of special effects. Read this information about it:

Bridge to Terabithia is a 2007 film directed by Gabor Csupo for Disney /Walden Media. It is based on the Katherine Paterson novel Bridge to Terabithia. The film was released on February 16, 2007 and was number two at the box office in the U.S. and Canada over its opening weekend. It was rated PG by the MPAA.

a. Who directed the film?
b. What is it based on?
c. When was the film released?
d. What does PG mean?
e. What is the MPAA?

Look for some information on this film at: http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/terabithia/
And design a poster.


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If you don’t like this proposal, find out about the Oscar winner or nominees in the achievement in visual effects (2006)
”Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”(Buena Vista)(WINNER)
John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall
“Poseidon” (Warner Bros.)
Boyd Shermis, Kim Libreri, Chas Jarrett and John Frazier
“Superman Returns” (Warner Bros.)
Mark Stetson, Neil Corbould, Richard R. Hoover and Jon Thum

Enter their official website and design a poster.

Still not excited about the idea. Ok, then the third option. Would you like to do this with the Spanish film “Pan’s Labyrinth”? Guillermo del Toro would be happy about your work.

A summary of American Beauty

"American Beauty" is about a seemingly ordinary and happy middle class family with its neighbourhood. Lester, the husband, is in a crisis: middle aged, on the verge of unemployment, indifferent to everything, exhausted from almost everything. Later, drastic changes haven taken place in the life of different family members'. Lester is infatuated by the Jane's friend; Carolyn has a love affair with the man she adores; Jane falls in love with the next-door boy. Actually, it is the broken American dream, the frustrations hid under the placid surface of their life, the dead life that could turn everyone into a lost soul. However, when a new hope in his family just swells in his heart, Lester is murdered by his neighbour, a homosexual.

Learning English through films

This blog is thought to learn English language through films.

We'll start with the movie American Beauty. Go to the Dreamworks page which is this one: http://www.dreamworks.com/ab/

Have a look at the pictures and different sections...