Write a summary of your favourite episode of the book and the film.

 

Film 4

“Twilight”

Directed by: Catherine Hardwicke Starring: Kristen Stewart (as Bella Swan) Robert Pattinson (as Edward Cullen) Ashley Greene (as Alice Cullen) Nikki Reed (as Rosalie Hale) Jackson Rathbone (as Jasper Hale) Kellan Lutz (as Emmett Cullen) Peter Facinelli (as Dr. Carlisle Cullen) Elizabeth Reaser (as Esme Cullen) Cam Gigandet (as James) Taylor Lautner (as Jacob Black) Anna Kendrick (as Jessica Stanley) Michael Welch (as Mike Newton) Christian Serratos (as Angela Weber) Billy Burke (as Charlie Swan) Gil Birmingham (as Billy Black) Awards: Saturn Award, Young Artist Award

Pre-viewing:

 

1. Do you agree with the statement that twilight is a pert of a day when something bad and strange usually happens? Can you give any examples from life or films and literature?

2. What are benefits of twilight in front of the other parts of the day – night, dawn, full moon etc.?

VAMPIRE

3. Make a mind map of ideas which you have about vampires and after the viewing you can check your versions:

 

4. A true love can destroy all barriers. Agree or disagree with the statement and prove your ideas.

While-viewing:

1. Put the pictures from the film in the correct order and according to them write the summery of the story with the help of the pictures:

a)	b)
c)	d)
e)	f)
g)	h)
i)	j)
k)	l)
m)	n)

 

2. Match the dialogues and people who take part in them:

a) Isabella Swan b) Edward Cullen c) Rosalie Hale e) Alice Cullen f) Charlie Swan g) Emmett Cullen h) Jacob Black i) Esme Cullen j) Angela Weber k) Dr. Carlisle Cullen l) Jessica Stanley m) Jasper Hale

1.) A: Who are they?

B: The Cullens.

C: They're um, Dr. and Mrs. Cullen's foster kids, they moved down here from Alaska like, a few years ago.

B: They, kinda keep to themselves.

C: Yeah 'cause they're all together, like TOGETHER together. Uh, the blonde girl, that's Rosalie, and the big dark haired guy Emmett, they're like a thing, I'm not even sure that's legal.

B: Jess, they're not actually related.

C: Yeah, but they live together it's weird-and, okay, the little dark-haired girl is Alice, she's REALLY weird, and, um, she's with Jasper the blonde one who looks like he's in pain.

2.) A: What did your friends mean about... You know, “The Cullens don't come here”?

B: You caught that, huh?

B: I'm not really supposed to say anything about it.

A: Hey, I can keep a secret.

B: Um, really it's just like an old scary story...

A: Well, I want to know.

3) A: Bella! Guess who just asked me to prom. I totally thought Mike was gonna ask you, actually. Um, it's not gonna be weird though, right?

B: No, no. Zero weirdness. You guys are great together.

A: I know, right?

4.) A: Look, You gotta give me some answers.

B: Yes. No. To get to the other side. Uh, 1.77245...

A: I don't need to know what the square root of Pi is.

B: You knew that?

5.) A: And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.

B: What a stupid lamb.

A: What a sick, masochistic lion.

6.) A: What did you expect? Coffins and dungeons and moats?

B: No, not the moats.

A: Not the moats.

7) A: What is it? What do you see?

B: The tracker. He just changed course.

A: Where will it take him Alice?

[ Grabs a pen and paper ]

B: Mirrors. A room full of mirrors.

[ starts to sketch never looking down at the paper ]

C: Edward said the visions weren't always certain...

A: She see the course people are on while they're on it. If they change their minds, the vision changes.

Post-viewing:

1. What do you think the positive and negative traits of Edward Cullen (and vampires on the whole) are mentioned in the film? Do you think he is a hero or a villain? Prove your opinion.

2. How can you comment upon the taglines for the film “Twilight” after watching:

· When you can live forever, what do you live for?

· Forever. Begins. Now.

· Nothing will be the same.

 

The Book “Twilight”

Author: Stephenie Meyer Genre(s): Young adult, Fantasy, Romance Publisher: Little, Brown Publication date: October 5, 2005 Awards: New York Times Editor's Choice, Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of the Year, American Library Association "Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults", New York Times Best Seller

Pre-reading:

1. Do you believe in vampires? Do you think it’s possible to fall in love with vampire?

2. How do you imagine vampire? Describe him.

3. Imagine your meeting with vampire and describe it. Would you be afraid or not?

While-reading:

1. Sequence the events of the story:

a) When Bella is seated next to Edward Cullen in class on her first day of school, Edward seems utterly repulsed by her. 3)

b) Bella becomes hellbent on figuring out how Edward saved her life, and constantly pesters him with questions. 6)

c) Isabella "Bella" Swan moves from sunny Phoenix, Arizona to rainy Forks, Washington to live with her father, Charlie, while her mother, Renée, travels with her new husband, Phil Dwyer, a minor league baseball player. 1)

d) He disappears for a few days, but warms up to Bella upon his return; their newfound relationship reaches a climax when Bella is nearly run over by a fellow classmate's van in the school parking lot. 4)

e) Seemingly defying the laws of physics, Edward saves her life when he instantaneously appears next to her and stops the van with his bare hands. 5)

f) Bella attracts much attention at her new school and is quickly befriended by several students. Much to her dismay, several boys compete for shy Bella's attention. 2)

g) After tricking a family friend, Jacob Black, into telling her local tribal legends, Bella concludes that Edward and his family are vampires who drink animal blood rather than human. 7)

h) Their relationship is thrown into chaos when another vampire coven sweeps into Forks. 9)

i) The Cullens attempt to distract the tracker by splitting up Bella and Edward, and Bella is sent to hide in a hotel in Phoenix. 11)

j) When Bella surrenders herself, James attacks her, but Edward, along with the other Cullens, rescues Bella and destroys James. 13)

k) Edward confesses that he initially avoided Bella because the scent of her blood was so desirable to him. Over time, Edward and Bella fall in love. 8)

l) James, a tracker vampire who is intrigued by the Cullens' relationship with a human, wants to hunt Bella for sport. 10)

m) There, Bella receives a phone call from James, who claims he is holding her mother captive. 12)

n) Upon returning to Forks, Bella and Edward attend their school prom and Bella expresses her desire to become a vampire, which Edward refuses. 15)

o) Once they realize that James has bitten Bella's hand, Edward sucks the venom from her system before it can spread and transform her into a vampire, and she is then sent to a hospital. 14)

2. Fill in the gaps with the proper names, places, numbers or interesting facts from the novel:

a) The main heroine Bella has just moved from warm … to rainy wet ….

Phoenix / Forks

b) Bella visited her father in summer every year up to … years old.

c) Bella’s father Charlie is a … in Forks, because of this everyone knows about Bella’s coming.

Chief of Police

d) The first guy with whom Bella met at first at school was …, who asked her about the weather in Arizona.

Eric

e) At Biology sits with …, with whom later she falls in love.

Edward Cullen

d) Edward’s adoptive farther and the local surgeon is ….

Carlisle Cullen

e) At biology Bella loses her consciousness because she sees ….

Blood

f) Bella’s friends invite her to visit … Beach down the Quileute Rez.

La Push

g) Dr. Cullen’s adoptive family consists - besides Edward - of his elder sister … and elder brother …: his twin stepbrother and -sister … and …: Dr. Cullen’s wife ….

Alice Cullen / Emmett Cullen / Rosalie Hale / Jasper Hale / Esme Cullen

h) After searching some information in the Internet, collating some facts, Bella comes to a conclusion that Edward is a ….

Vampire

i) Bella doesn’t want to go to Prom, because she can’t dance and tells everybody that she goes to … this day.

Seattle

j) … tells Bella Quileute legends about wolves and vampires when they walk at the beach.

Jacob Black

k) Edward comes to Bela’s home, meets her father and ask for a permission for Bella to play … with his family, because it is a … and they play only this time.

Baseball / thunderstorm

l) Three members of Cullen’s family Edward, Alice and Jasper have special abilities: …, …, …

Reading minds / seeing the future / control of smb’s emotional state

m) The names of three vampires which Cullens met at the baseball field are …, …, ….

Laurent / James / Victoria

n) James lured Bella to the dancing room at her former …, which she had attended when she’d been … years old.

Ballet school / 8

o) At the end of the story, Edward wearing beautiful suit invites Bella to the celebration and she doesn’t guess that he takes her to school ….

Prom

Post-reading:

1. Find features which vampires have in this novel (may be several words with prepositions written with gaps):

1.) At the beginning Edward had dark eyes and then they turned into gold hazel (5 words)

2.) Edward’s hobby at night (3 words)

3.) Vampires’ ability to move heavy big things and destroy everything (1 word)

4.) Bella saw and touch Edward’s hand and she noticed (4 words)

5.) Edward’s ability to know what everyone thinks (2 words)

6.) Eternal life without death (1 word)

7.) Alice’s ability to know what happens next (3 words)

8.) Food of vampires (2 words)

9.) Vampires’ ability to move fast (1 word)

10.) What vampires never do with ordinary food (4 words)

11.) Jasper’s ability to change everyone’s mood (4 words)

 

2. Stephenie Meyer has stated that the apple on the cover of her book represents the “forbidden fruit” from the book of Genesis. It symbolizes Bella and Edward's love, which is forbidden, similar to the fruit of the “Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil”, as is implied by the quote from Genesis 2:17 that is quoted at the beginning of the book. It also represents Bella's knowledge of what good and evil are. Do you agree with such comparison? In what way does this novel illustrate this comparison? What did Bella choose: the “forbidden fruit” or another way of life? Do you understand her choice and do you see the other way out?

3. Complete the following sentences supporting your ideas with the novel:

· Stephenie Meyer remembers her experience of the first love very well because …

· Stephenie Meyer must have a vivid imagination …

· The book “Twilight” is interesting for the young adults because …

Film 5

Painted Veil

Directed by John Curran

Produced by Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Sara Colleton, Jean-François Fonlupt

Written by Ron Nyswaner

Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham

Starring Edward Norton, Naomi Watts

Music by Alexandre Desplat

Awards

Alexandre Desplat won both the Golden Globe Award and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Score.

Ron Nyswaner won the 2006 NBR Award for Best Screenplay - Adapted.

The film was also nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards: for the screenplay, and for Best Male Lead (Edward Norton).

Though winning Golden Globe for Best Score, the film was not given a nomination in any category at the Oscars.

 

Pre-activity:

1. The genre of the film is a romantic drama. Can you predict what the main themes of the film?

2. What can you say about the title? Can we predict what the film is about?

3. Do you know that this film based on the novel written by W. Somerset Maugham? This is the third screen adaption of the Maugham book, following a 1934 film starring Herbert Marshall and Greta Garbo and a 1957 version called The Seventh Sin with Bill Travers and Eleanor Parker. What can make the book so popular for adaptation? What kind of stories are adapted more often?

While-activity:

Quiz

1. How many film versions of the W. Somerset Maugham novel THE PAINTED VEIL have there been?

o 1

o 2

o 3

o None

 

2. What does the movie's title refer to?

o The fantasy version we have of ourselves, our lives or our loves.

o The bed curtain in Kitty's room.

o The headdress Kitty wore on her wedding day.

o The first gift Walter ever gave to Kitty.

·

 

3. Name the actor that plays Dr. Walter Fane in the film.

 

 

4. The real life love of which actress appears as her married lover in the film?

 

 

5. The actor who played him was who?

 

 

6. What is Walter's professional specialty?

o Gynecology

o Pedicatrics

o Oncology

o Bacteriology

o Climatology

7. Why does Walter take Kitty to Mei-tan-fu?

o As a honeymoon.

o It is his where he comes from.

o She will sing there professionally.

o She needs medical treatment only found in this town.

o As a murder-suicide plot after discovering her affair.

8. What epidemic is plaguing the people there?

o Typhus

o Cholera

o Influenza

o AIDS

o Bubonic Plague

9. When Walter proposes, he tells Kitty he must return to which city for his assignment?

o Shanghai

o London

o Milan

o Washington, D.C.

o Paris

10. What structure does Walter have built to help the people of Mei-tan-fu?

o A hospital.

o A windmill.

o A waterwheel.

o A funeral home.

o A lighthouse.

11. In which far east country, does The Painted Veil take place?

o Japan

o China

o Vietnam

o Cambodia

o Thailand

 

Answer the questions

1. What relationships are important in this film (between Kitty and Townsend, Kitty and Walter)?

2. Setting a story in a particular time and place can profoundly influence characters and events. How a big role does the setting play in this film?

3. Give give brief character sketches (Kitty, Walter, Townsend). What do short descriptions say about the character's personality?

4. Do the characters in this book or film ever surprise you? Are the actions of Kitty and Walter believable?

5. How do socioeconomic class and family background influence Kitty?

6. What reasons make Kitty accept a proposal from Dr Walter Fane?

7. What ultimatum does Waiter when he finds out Kitty’s affair with Charles Townsend?

8. What makes Kitty see Walter in a new light?

9. Why does their marriage begin to blossom?

10. What’s happened when Kitty learns she is pregnant? Why doesn’t it matter for Walter who the father is? What Walter’s traits of character reveals this episode?

11. What do you think about the scene when Kitty runs into Townsend on the street in London? Explain her reaction.

 

Post-activity:

1. Imagine that you are film critics:

Write a review (criticism). What do you think about this film? Whom would you recommend this film for?

What did you think of this story's ending? Explain how does the death of Walter influence the developing of events?

How is the title revealed in the film?

How does the virtue of faithfulness emphasize in the film?

How is the idea of forgiveness reflected in the film?

How is the theme of epidemic reflected in the film?

 

2. The film is unusual in that it is a co-production with the Chinese. Does it help to create authentic atmosphere to time and place?

 

1.1. The meaning: At a wedding, a veil is usually white, representing the innocence of the person wearing it.

”White is pure and has not yet been violated. In the novel the veil is painted, which means that it is not an innocent veil the characters are wearing. Maugham used this concept to show how all of society and the people living in it are tainted. The only characters' in the novel that wear white, literally speaking, are the nuns. In the novel one can read how they are all dressed completely in white, except for a red cross on their chests. It is not completely clear if the nuns are in fact wearing painted veils like the rest of the characters. Nuns are supposed to be innocent and saint-like, but maybe Maugham wants to say that just because they are working for God does not mean that they are innocent. Indeed Waddington questions their true nature. He says that he tried to make them leave, for their own safety, but they would not, because they all want to die as martyrs (Maugham 101). Another thing that can make one question the nuns' motives would be their imposing Catholicism on the townspeople and the orphans. Do they only help and take care of the children as long as they can spread their religion? However, another interpretation is also possible. Kitty believes that they are all saints, and they are the reason why she decides to make a change in her life and give some back. T he nuns do help Kitty lift her own veil. They are the reason why she sees the truth about her own shallow and selfish lifestyle.”

 

Comment on the epigraph: “.. the painted veil which those who live call Life” (P. B. Shelly). Can you agree with this definition of Life? With what Life is associated for you?

PART III

LOVE AND OBSTACLES

Film 1

Pride and Prejudice

Directed by: Joe Wright

Produced b y: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster

Written by: Deborah Moggach (based on the novel by Jane Austen)

Music by: Dario Marianelli (Piano performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet)

Cast: Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet,

Talulah Riley as Mary Bennet,

Rosamund Pike as Jane Bennet,

Jena Malone as Lydia Bennet,

Carey Mulligan as Kitty Bennet,

Donald Sutherland as Mr. Bennet,

Brenda Blethyn as Mrs. Bennet,

Claudie Blakley as Charlotte Lucas,

Simon Woods as Mr. Charles Bingley,

Kelly Reilly as Caroline Bingley,

Matthew Macfadyen as Fitzwilliam Darcy,

Rupert Friend as Mr. George Wickham,

Tom Hollander as Mr. William Collins,

Judi Dench as Lady Catherine de Bourgh.

Pre-stage:

Answer the questions of comprehension.

1. What was the Bennet family like?(The Bennet family, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters - Jane, Elizabeth (Lizzie), Mary, Catherine (Kitty), and Lydia - live in comparative financial independence as gentry on a working farm, Longbourn.)

2. Who did take a large house in Netherfield?(Mr. Bingley)

3. What did happen at an assembly ball? (Mr. Bingley together with his sister and friend Mr. Darcy are introduced to local society. Bingley is enchanted with Jane, while Elizabeth takes an instant dislike to Darcy)

4. How did Jane get in Netherfield?(Caroline Bingley invites her to dine together)

5. What did Lieutenant Wickham tell Elizabeth about Mr. Darcy?(he slanders Darcy, telling Elizabeth that Darcy cheated him of his inheritance.)

6. Who did Elizabeth dance with at the second ball? (with Mr. Collins and Mr. Darcy).

7. Who was against Elizabeth and Darcy’s marriage? Why?(Lady Catherine de Bourgh, because she wanted him to marry her daughter)

While-stage:

Say who is:

1. Proud, tough, with handsome features, tall, wealthy.(Mr. Darcy)

2. Haughty, accomplished, extravagant,.(Miss Caroline Bingley)

3. gentle and beautiful, elegant, fair. (Jane Bennet)

4. anxious to marry off her five daughters(Mrs. Bennet)

5. destined to inherit Longbourn.(Mr. Collins)

6. self-confident, stubborn, funny, sociable, amiable.(Elizabeth)

7. spoilt, flirtatious, refractory, immature.(Lydia)

Who said it? Explain this situation.

1. “ I would forgive him his pride had he not wounded mine”. (Elizabeth, speaking to her beloved sister Jane about Mr. Darcy)

2. "not handsome enough to tempt me."(Mr. Darcy about Elizabeth)

3. “ have you a little compassion for my poor nerves?” (Mrs. Bennet addressing her husband who refused to visit a new comer.)

4. “ not everyone can afford to be romantic”(Charlotte Lucas informing her best friend Elizabeth, informing her that she is engaged to Mr. Collins).

5. “ I love you…most ardently"(Mr. Darcy proposes marriage to Elizabeth at the moment when she gets to know that Darcy separated Bingley from Jane)

Post-stage: