Exercise 38 Find words in the text for the following definitions.

 

1. the written words of a film _____________________________________________

2. a part of a film happening in one place. ___________________________________

3. specially-designed objects which do something useful or unusual _______________

4. talked in a friendly, informal way ________________________________________

5. the most important guests at an event _____________________________________

6. formally dressed ______________________________________________________

7. the first version of a film before the final editing is done ______________________

 

Exercise 39 Find synonyms in the text for the words or phrases.

 

1. opening night

2. crowd scene

3. to shoot

4. spectators

5. screenplay

6. team

7. role

8. exterior scenes

9. to play

10. wide screen

11. two weeks

12.to participate

13. easy-going

Exercise 40 Read and correct the sentences.

1. Thomas Wheatley had some screen-tests to get the role.

2. It was his first film so he was very nervous.

3. The director shot all the scenes with his participation on location.

4. Thomas couldn’t stand working with Timothy Dalton.

5. All the guests at the first night show were wearing casual clothes.

6. The actor saw the final print of the film before the premiere.

7. He was very satisfied with watching himself on the big screen.

 

Exercise 41 Answer the questions.

 

1. How did Thomas Wheatley get a role in the Bond film?

2. What happened before he started filming?

3. Where did they shoot the scenes with Thomas’s participation?

4. What was it like to work with Timothy Dalton?

5. What did Thomas think about the crew?

 

Exercise 42 Translate the phrases into English and then use them to write a short story called “My first step to the Fame”.

 

1. прийти на интервью

2. сделать кинопробы

3. прочесть сценарий

4. подписать контракт

5. снимать в павильоне

6. массовка

7. натурные сцены

8. съемочная группа

9. черновой монтаж

10. широкий экран

11. получить роль

12. сшить костюмы

13. пригласить на премьеру фильма

 

Exercise 43. Use a dictionary and find the words with the opposite meaning.

 

1. impolite

2. bored

3. mean

4. unfriendly

5. tense

6. miserable

7. unkind

8. dishonest

9. lazy

10. unreliable

11. inflexible

12.unambitious

13. insensitive

Exercise 44. Why do you think a Bond movie is one of the most successful series in film history?

Try to answer this question and discuss it with your fellow students.

 

Exercise 45 Choose one of the Bond films and make presentation of it. Give your opinion of the film.

Exercise 46 Read the information below advertising a new movie. Fill in the gaps in the

Newspaper review.

 

NOW SHOWING: THE TEETH OF THE WOLF!!!

 

Starring Brad Bold as The Wolfman

With Clarisse Calvados, Frank Holder and Jemma Young

Written by Deborah Bradman (from the novel by Ken Wylie)

Original music by Frieda Holtmeyer

Producer Wilbert Greenberg

Director Sidney Reed

 

REVIEW

 

If you want to see a terrifying new ______________ film, go and see “The Teeth Of The Wolf”. Sidney Reed, who also made “Eyes of the Vampire” and “Claws of the Dragon” ________________ this movie. Brad Bold ______________ as Dan Kovic, a quiet, gentle village doctor with a terrible secret… At night he becomes the Wolfman, searching the forest for victims! The film is ____________ in Transylvania in the 19^th century. It is ______________ on a novel by Ken Wylie, and has an excellent ____________ by Deborah Bradman. Appearing in her first major film is young French _______________ Clarisse Calvados, who gives a superb _______________________ as Martina Kovic, the doctor’s daughter. There are some amazing ______________effects, especially in the _______________ where Dan Kovic changes into the Wolfman – it looks so realistic, you want to run out screaming!

Conclusion: I’ll give this one 8 out of 10. Go and see it, but don’t go alone.

Exercise 47 Read the text “Autumn Sonata”. Then write your own short film review for the Film Review magazine.

Autumn Sonata

 

A Swedish director Ingmar Bergman shot “Autumn Sonata”, a psychological drama, in 1978.

He didn’t only direct the film, but also wrote the script. Two brilliant actresses played the main parts in the movie. One of them was Ingrid Bergman, certainly one of the most beautiful women to ever appear in a film, but that is not the source of her mysterious appeal. There is something there, in that voice and those eyes and in the way her mouth thinks words before she says them in the movies. It took Ingmar Bergman thirty-five years to finally cast her in one of his films, and then, in her fortieth year as an actress, Ingrid Bergman called “Autumn Sonata” her last film. Sweden's two most important film artists finally worked together.

Ingmar Bergman didn't cast Ingrid for reasons of nostalgia or sentiment. He cast her because he had an idea for a role she could brilliantly contain and that would contain her, and in “Autumn Sonata” she gives nothing less than the performance of her lifetime.

Ingrid Bergman performs opposite Liv Ullmann, who is herself good enough to meet her on the same very high level. They play mother and daughter. The mother, Charlotte (Ingrid Bergman) is an internationally famous pianist. She last saw her daughter Eva (Liv Ullmann) seven years ago. She's too busy and always traveling and booked up almost every night of the week... and, not incidentally, terrified of confronting her daughter. There are, in fact, two daughters: the one played by Ullmann, who is serious and introspective and filled with guilt and blame and love, and then the other daughter Helena (Lena Nyman), who lives with her, and who suffers from a degenerative nerve disease. The mother's solution to this daughter's illness was to place her in a "home;" Eva took her out of the institution and brought her home to live with her. On the day when the mother arrived for her visit, she had no idea that the sick daughter would be there. Her response, on learning that her other daughter was upstairs, was dismay. She realized she couldn’t deal with the illness and in fact she couldn’t be a mother at all. She didn't merely reject the responsibility; she fled from it.

“Autumn Sonata” gives us a sort of long day's journey into night in which the pleasantries of the opening hours give way to deeper and deeper terrors and guilts, accusations and renunciations, cries and whispers. And Ingmar Bergman, standing apart from this material refuses to find any solutions. He finds in his story only two people, each demanding love from the other, each doomed by the past to lose the ability to love. This is very difficult material. Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann confront it with a courage and skill that is astonishing. And for Ingrid Bergman it was very important to play in her native language for the first time and to work with one of the outstanding film directors. In this film she was able to use not only her star qualities but also every last measure of her artistry and her humanity. It is not just that “Autumn Sonata” was Ingrid Bergman's last film. It's that she knew she had to make it before she died.