Week Two (2017.2.23)
1. Larry Crowne (愛情速可達): a 2011 American romantic comedy film starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. (IMDb with trailer)
the symbol of Larry Crowne: scooter
Tom Hanks: an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his various comedic and dramatic film roles.
Julia Roberts: an American actress and producer. She became a Hollywood star after headlining the romantic comedy Pretty Woman (1990), which grossed US $464 million worldwide.
2. Vocabulary
fraud: a person who pretends to be what he or she is not in order to trick people (click for more definition)
It's been filled. 這職缺滿了
complimentary: given free as a courtesy or favor (click for more definition)
complementary: relating to or constituting one of a pair of contrasting colors that produce a neutral color when combined in suitable proportions (click for more definition)
divergent: moving or extending in different directions from a common point (click for more definiton)
3. requirement of our report:
plot (point of view)/ character/ setting/ theme/ symbol/ conflict/ solution (answer)
4. Kate Winslet (Wikipedia): an English actress, singer, and the recipient of an Academy Award, an AACTA Award, three BAFTA Awards, a BIFA Award, four Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Revolutionary Road: a 2008 British-American romantic drama film directed by Sam Mendes. (IMDb with trailer)
5. Hugo: a 2011 historical adventure drama film directed and co-produced by Martin Scorsese and adapted for the screen by John Logan. Based on Brian Selznick's book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, it is about a boy who lives alone in the Gare Montparnasse railway station in Paris in the 1930s.
Martin Scorsese: an American director, producer, screenwriter, and film historian, whose career spans more than 50 years. Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Sicilian-American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, faith, machismo, modern crime, and gang conflict. Many of his films are also known for their depiction of violence and liberal use of profanity.
The Age of Innocence: a 1993 American film adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel of the same name. The story takes place during the Gilded Age, portraying New York's high society. The film was released by Columbia Pictures, directed by Martin Scorsese, and stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder.
6. Georges Méliès: a French illusionist and film director who led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès was an especially prolific innovator in the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted color. He was also one of the first filmmakers to use storyboards.
7. The Glass Menagerie: a five-character memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on Williams himself, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister Rose.
8. Moby-Dick: a novel by American writer Herman Melville, published in 1851 during the period of the American Renaissance. Sailor Ishmael tells the story of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler the Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the white whale that on the previous whaling voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the knee. The novel was a commercial failure and out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891, but during the 20th century, its reputation as a Great American Novel was established.
9. Mary Poppins: a 1964 American musical-fantasy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers. The screenplay is by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, loosely based on P. L. Travers' book series Mary Poppins. The film, which combines live-action and animation, stars Julie Andrews in the role of Mary Poppins who visits a dysfunctional family in London and employs her unique brand of lifestyle to improve the family's dynamic.
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