Tuesday 30 June 2015

how watching films can help your english

What's your favourite film?

This is considered 'the best':
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But there are other opinions:
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What about different genres?



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Here's a very difficult film to classify:
Jay Doubleyou: fight club: how many film genres in one film?

An action movie?
Fight club TRAILER - YouTube

But the director and actors didn't think so:

Marketing executives at 20th Century Fox faced difficulties in marketing Fight Club and at one point considered marketing it as an art film. They considered that the film was primarily geared toward male audiences because of its violence and believed that not even Pitt would attract female filmgoers. Research testing showed that the film appealed to teenagers. Fincher refused to let the posters and trailers focus on Pitt and encouraged the studio to hire the advertising firm Wieden+Kennedy to devise a marketing plan. The firm proposed a bar of pink soap with the title "Fight Club" embossed on it as the film's main marketing image; the proposal was considered "a bad joke" by Fox executives. Fincher also released two early trailers in the form of fake public service announcements presented by Pitt and Norton; the studio did not think the trailers marketed the film appropriately. Instead, the studio financed a $20 million large-scale campaign to provide a press junket, posters, billboards, and trailers for TV that highlighted the film's fight scenes. The studio advertised Fight Club on cable during World Wrestling Federation broadcasts, which Fincher protested, believing that the placement created the wrong context for the film.[46] Linson believed that the "ill-conceived one-dimensional" marketing by marketing executive Robert Harper largely contributed to Fight Club's lukewarm box office performance in the United States.[51]
Fight Club - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

> An anti-consumerist movie?
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> A movie about 'masculinity'?
Jay Doubleyou: exploring gender: masculinity and 'fight club'

> But others think that 'Fight Club' is all about Hollywood just playing with the issues around 'gender':

It's not surprising that people lament that Fight Club is about pounding people's faces in. And certainly, feminist and Freudian analyses of the film abound as well. But all this gender analysis is missing the point. Although Fight Club will be remembered as a film about masculinity, it has nothing of any interest or coherence to say about it. The real focus of its concern is the dehumanizing impact of the three big Cs: consumerism, corporatism and capitalism. Fight Club is a political and philosophical film about human identity, a condemning critique of the way most Americans live meaningless, half-dead lives. Perhaps framing that in a gender context was the only way a) to garner Hollywood interest in the film and b) to make trashing the American way of life palatable to a mass audience.
The Movie Fight Club Uses Aggression and Masculinity as a Vehicle for Class Warfare - Yahoo Voices - voices.yahoo.com

How can watching films help us learn a language?

We can learn to speak like a native from films:
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This is real English:
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Films can move us... or even change us:
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Should you watch with or without subtitles?
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With this example, the subtitles actually destroy the moment:
Does the director want you to hear what is being whispered?



The Godfather - First Scene - YouTube



The Godfather opening scene english subtitles - YouTube
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