| themes & topics | ANSWERS FOR MOVIES & CINEMA |
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1. Uncle Oscar
In 1931, Margaret Herrick, a director of
the company that awards Oscars, said the statue looked like her uncle
Oscar—and the name stuck. |
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2. Licence to kill
Licence to kill is what OO7 means.
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3. 007
James Bond code number,OO7. The creator of
the hero is Ian Flemming |
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4. Indy
Indiana Jones’ s nickname is Indy. The creator
of Indy is William Mc Kay. |
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5. Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin[1889-1977]
was born in South
London, England. He first appeared on the stage at the age of five. He made
his worldwide reputation as the little tramp with smudge moustache, bowler
hat , and cane in silent films for example The Gold Rush in 1935. Later came City Lights(1931), Modern
Times (1938), The Great Dictator
guying Hitler (1940).It’s in Monsieur
Verdoux that he was heard speaking for the first time. |
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6. 1932
The first moving pictures were shown in the 1890s. For a number of years films even of indoor happening were shot out of doors by daylight. The first studios appeared at the beginning of the 19th century, and the first sound movie in 1927( The Jazz singer).
In 1932 the technicolor
(three color) process is used for a Walt Disney cartoon film. |
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7. Walter Elias Disney
Walter Elias Disney
[1901-66] is an American
film-maker whose name has become almost a keyword for family entertainment. His
first Mickey mouse cartoon , Plane Crasy, appeared in 1928.Among other notable creation was
Donald Duck. He developed the Silly
symphony and Fantasia, two
cartoons associating the visual
image and the musical element.
His
first long feature cartoon was
Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs(1938) followed
by Pinocchio
(1940)
and
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Five The Marx Brothers were five. |
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9. Shakespeare in Love (1998) This film won seven academy awards DIRECTOR : John Madden
BEST ACTRESS : Gwyneth Paltrow BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS : Judi Dench BEST ORIGINAL SCORE : Stephen Warbeck BEST ART DIRECTOR : Martin Childs & Gil Quertler BEST COSTUME DESIGN : Sandy Powel BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY : Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard
Other Shakespeare films are: Franco
Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet (1968) Franco
Zeffirelli's Hamlet (1990) starring Mel Gibson Kenneth
Branagh's Hamlet (1996)
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10-THE OUT-OF-TOWNERS Titre français: Escapade
à New York Personnages: HenryClark (Steve Martin), Nancy Clark (Goldie Hawn), Hotel manager (JohnCleese) L'histoire: Henry and Nancy Clark ( Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn), sont un couple originaire de Columbus dans l'Ohio. Après le départ de leur dernier enfant pour l'université , Henry perd son emploi et le couple se trouve alors en pleine crise existentielle. Alors qu'ils se rendent à New York pour un entretien d'embauche de la dernière chance, ils se trouvent confrontés en 24 heures à toute une série d'évènements bizarres. Ils sont dévalisés, arrêtés, poursuivis, expulsés, kidnappés et attaqués par des chiens méchants. Scènes anthologiques:
Les meileures scènes sont celles dans lesquelles on peut
voir John Cleese, le célèbre acteur britannique et ancien des Monty
Python, persécuter ce pauvre couple du Middle West. |
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11 & 12 Hollywood Tinseltown
Hollywood, a suburb of Los Angeles in California has long been the centre of the American film industry. From 1911 onwards, the Hollywood studios exerted a dominating influence on the world movie production, and the cliché of Hollywood as a dream factory progressively imposed itself in every mind. So did Tinseltown, the term which was coined to designate Hollywood. |
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13. G means "general
audience" (tous publics) Films labelled "G" are family-friendly movies which everybody can watch without any risk of exposing the youngsters to violence, or any other offensive things often found in most popular movies. |
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14. "R" and "PG13" "R" means restricted. Youngsters under 17 are not allowed to watch films which are labelled "R". "PG13" Youngsters under 13 cannot watch such films.
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15. E-rated and X-rated Films which are labelled "E" are being cut so that no violence or sex appear. X-rated movies have a rating of "X". This means they are not suitable for children because of the broadly obscene or sexually explicit nature of their contents. |
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16. PG means parental guidance Il s'agit du classement d'un film dans lequel certaines scènes peuvent heurter la sensibilité des jeunes enfants.
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