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FILM WORKSHOP

1. United States Trivia!

2. Taboo with film-related vocabulary

3. Act it Out! Act out common movie-going actions

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4. Discuss:

a. What’s your favorite film: describe it.

i. Here are some other ways to describe films/movies:

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b. Would you rather watch a movie at home or go to a movie theater?

c. What are the essential parts of a film vs. TV show vs. commercial?

d. What’s the difference between a film and a TV program?

e. How many different genres can you name? What’s your favorite genre?

5. Watch these clips/commercials and describe the assembly

a.

lost in translation

john west salmon

6. Act of these scenes from famous movies

a.

i. Pulp Fiction

1. script:

2. video:

ii. Shrek

1. script:

2. video:

iii. Friends

1. script:

2. video:

7. Write (or discuss) a movie review by answering these ?s:

a. What questions

i. What is it about? What's the plot?

ii. What's the theme?

iii. What is the author's/director's purpose?

iv. What genre or classification does it fit?

v. What is the tone? What is the point of view? What's the mood?

b. When and Where questions

i. When was this done? Or when does the action take place?

ii. Where was this done? Or where does the action take place?

c. Who questions

i. Who wrote it, directed it, or acted in it? What else have they done?

ii. Who are the main characters?

iii. Who's the intended audience?

iv. Who has said what about this? Why?

d. How questions

i. How does it convey its main point, mood, or theme? How did the audience react to it?

ii. How well does it fulfill its purpose?

e. Evaluation questions

i. Did I like this in general? Why?

ii. Did I agree with the main theme/purpose? Why or why not?

iii. What specifically did I like/dislike? Why?

iv. Did the author/actors/director do a good job? Why or why not?

v. How could it be improved? Why would particular changes help?

final project: write your own screenplay! 15 minute minimum!

|[pic]IDIOMS! |

|"a flop" = a bad movie |

|"Don't see that movie. It was a |

|real flop. The acting and the |

|special effects were terrible." |

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|"catch a movie" = watch a movie |

|"I plan on catching a movie if I |

|get bored over the weekend." |

"PULP FICTION"

By

Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary

PULP [pulp] n.

1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.

2. A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and

being characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper.

American Heritage Dictionary: New College Edition

INT. COFFEE SHOP – MORNING

A normal Denny's, Spires-like coffee shop in Los Angeles.

It's about 9:00 in the morning. While the place isn't jammed,

there's a healthy number of people drinking coffee, munching

on bacon and eating eggs.

Two of these people are a YOUNG MAN and a YOUNG WOMAN. The

Young Man has a slight working-class English accent and,

like his fellow countryman, smokes cigarettes like they're

going out of style.

It is impossible to tell where the Young Woman is from or

how old she is; everything she does contradicts something

she did. The boy and girl sit in a booth. Their dialogue is

to be said in a rapid pace "HIS GIRL FRIDAY" fashion.

YOUNG MAN

No, forget it, it's too risky. I'm

through doin' that shit.

YOUNG WOMAN

You always say that, the same thing

every time: never again, I'm through,

too dangerous.

YOUNG MAN

I know that's what I always say. I'm

always right too, but –

YOUNG WOMAN

– but you forget about it in a day

or two -

YOUNG MAN

– yeah, well, the days of me

forgittin' are over, and the days of

me rememberin' have just begun.

YOUNG WOMAN

When you go on like this, you know

what you sound like?

YOUNG MAN

I sound like a sensible fucking man,

is what I sound like.

YOUNG WOMAN

You sound like a duck.

(imitates a duck)

Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack,

quack, quack...

YOUNG MAN

Well take heart, 'cause you're never

gonna hafta hear it again. Because

since I'm never gonna do it again,

you're never gonna hafta hear me

quack about how I'm never gonna do

it again.

YOUNG WOMAN

After tonight.

The boy and girl laugh, their laughter putting a pause in

there, back and forth.

YOUNG MAN

(with a smile)

Correct. I got all tonight to quack.

A WAITRESS comes by with a pot of coffee.

WAITRESS

Can I get anybody anymore coffee?

YOUNG WOMAN

Oh yes, thank you.

The Waitress pours the Young Woman's coffee. The Young Man

lights up another cigarette.

YOUNG MAN

I'm doin' fine.

The Waitress leaves. The Young Man takes a drag off of his

smoke.

The Young Woman pours a ton of cream and sugar into her

coffee.

The Young Man goes right back into it.

YOUNG MAN

I mean the way it is now, you're

takin' the same fuckin' risk as when

you rob a bank. You take more of a

risk. Banks are easier! Federal

banks aren't supposed to stop you

anyway, during a robbery. They're

insured, why should they care? You

don't even need a gun in a federal

bank. I heard about this guy, walked

into a federal bank with a portable

phone, handed the phone to the teller,

the guy on the other end of the phone

said: "We got this guy's little girl,

and if you don't give him all your

money, we're gonna kill 'er."

YOUNG WOMAN

Did it work?

YOUNG MAN

Fuckin' A it worked, that's what I'm

talkin' about! Knucklehead walks in

a bank with a telephone, not a pistol,

not a shotgun, but a fuckin' phone,

cleans the place out, and they don't

lift a fuckin' finger.

YOUNG WOMAN

Did they hurt the little girl?

YOUNG MAN

I don't know. There probably never

was a little girl – the point of the

story isn't the little girl. The

point of the story is they robbed

the bank with a telephone.

YOUNG WOMAN

You wanna rob banks?

YOUNG MAN

I'm not sayin' I wanna rob banks,

I'm just illustrating that if we

did, it would be easier than what we

been doin'.

YOUNG WOMAN

So you don't want to be a bank robber?

YOUNG MAN

Naw, all those guys are goin' down

the same road, either dead or servin'

twenty.

YOUNG WOMAN

And no more liquor stores?

YOUNG MAN

What have we been talking about?

Yeah, no more-liquor-stores. Besides,

it ain't the giggle it usta be. Too

many foreigners own liquor stores.

Vietnamese, Koreans, they can't

fuckin' speak English. You tell 'em:

"Empty out the register," and they

don't know what it fuckin' means.

They make it too personal. We keep

on, one of those gook motherfuckers'

gonna make us kill 'em.

YOUNG WOMAN

I'm not gonna kill anybody.

YOUNG MAN

I don't wanna kill anybody either.

But they'll probably put us in a

situation where it's us of them. And

if it's not the gooks, it these old

Jews who've owned the store for

fifteen fuckin' generations. Ya got

Grandpa Irving sittin' behind the

counter with a fuckin' Magnum. Try

walkin' into one of those stores

with nothin' but a telephone, see

how far it gets you. Fuck it, forget

it, we're out of it.

YOUNG WOMAN

Well, what else is there, day jobs?

YOUNG MAN

(laughing)

Not this life.

YOUNG WOMAN

Well what then?

He calls to the Waitress.

YOUNG MAN

Garcon! Coffee!

Then looks to his girl.

YOUNG MAN

This place.

The Waitress comes by, pouring him some more.

WAITRESS

(snotty)

"Garcon" means boy.

She splits.

YOUNG WOMAN

Here? It's a coffee shop.

YOUNG MAN

What's wrong with that? People never

rob restaurants, why not? Bars, liquor

stores, gas stations, you get your

head blown off stickin' up one of

them. Restaurants, on the other hand,

you catch with their pants down.

They're not expecting to get robbed,

or not as expecting.

YOUNG WOMAN

(taking to idea)

I bet in places like this you could

cut down on the hero factor.

YOUNG MAN

Correct. Just like banks, these places

are insured. The managers don't give

a fuck, they're just tryin' to get

ya out the door before you start

pluggin' diners. Waitresses, forget

it, they ain't takin' a bullet for

the register. Busboys, some wetback

gettin' paid a dollar fifty a hour

gonna really give a fuck you're

stealin' from the owner. Customers

are sittin' there with food in their

mouths, they don't know what's goin'

on. One minute they're havin' a Denver

omelet, next minute somebody's

stickin' a gun in their face.

The Young Woman visibly takes in the idea. The Young Man

continues in a low voice.

YOUNG MAN

See, I got the idea last liquor store

we stuck up. 'Member all those

customers kept comin' in?

YOUNG WOMAN

Yeah.

YOUNG MAN

Then you got the idea to take

everybody's wallet.

YOUNG WOMAN

Uh-huh.

YOUNG MAN

That was a good idea.

YOUNG WOMAN

Thanks.

YOUNG MAN

We made more from the wallets then

we did the register.

YOUNG WOMAN

Yes we did.

YOUNG MAN

A lot of people go to restaurants.

YOUNG WOMAN

A lot of wallets.

YOUNG MAN

Pretty smart, huh?

The Young Woman scans the restaurant with this new

information.

She sees all the PATRONS eating, lost in conversations. The

tired WAITRESS, taking orders. The BUSBOYS going through the

motions, collecting dishes. The MANAGER complaining to the

COOK about something. A smiles breaks out on the Young Woman's

face.

YOUNG WOMAN

Pretty smart.

(into it)

I'm ready, let's go, right here,

right now.

YOUNG MAN

Remember, same as before, you're

crowd control, I handle the employees.

YOUNG WOMAN

Got it.

They both take out their .32-caliber pistols and lay them on

the table. He looks at her and she back at him.

YOUNG WOMAN

I love you, Pumpkin.

YOUNG MAN

I love you, Honey Bunny.

And with that, Pumpkin and Honey Bunny grab their weapons,

stand up and rob the restaurant. Pumpkin's robbery persona

is that of the in-control professional. Honey Bunny's is

that of the psychopathic, hair-triggered, loose cannon.

PUMPKIN

(yelling to all)

Everybody be cool this is a robbery!

HONEY BUNNY

Any of you fuckin' pricks move and

I'll execute every one of you

motherfuckers! Got that?

SHREK 2

Narrator: Donkey and Shrek are walking along a path when purring is heard.

Shrek: Well, well, well, Donkey.

I know it was kind of a tender

moment back there, but the purring?

Donkey: What? I ain't purring.

Shrek: Sure. What's next? A hug?

Donkey: Hey, Shrek. Donkeys don't purr.

What do you think I am, some kind of a...

Puss: (jumps out into the open, sword in hand)

Ha-ha!

Fear me, if you dare!

[hisses]

Shrek: Look! A little cat.

Donkey: (backing away) Look out, Shrek! He got a piece!

Shrek: It's a cat, Donkey.

(leans in towards the cat) Come here,

little kitty, kitty.

Come on, little kitty. Come here.

Oh! Come here, little kitty.

Puss: [screaming, attacks Shrek, running in and out of Shrek’s shirt and pants]

Shrek: Whoa! (trying to remove puss)

Donkey: Hold on, Shrek! I'm coming! (trying to help Shrek)

Shrek: Come on! Get it off! Get it off! (swatting at his back)

Oh, God. Oh...

No! (Puss makes his way to Shrek’s mid-section)

Donkey: Look out, Shrek! Hold still! (Donkey positions himself to kick Puss with his back legs)

Shrek: Get it off!

Donkey: Shrek! Hold still!

(Donkey kicks Shrek in the groin)

- Did I miss?

Shrek: No. You got them. (and falls to his knees)

Puss: (Puss grabs his sword and stands facing Shrek and Donkey) Now, ye ogre, pray for mercy from...

Puss... in Boots! (stands proudly)

Shrek: I'll kill that cat! (running after Puss)

Puss: Ah-ha-ha! (Prepares to defend himself)

[coughs]

(falls to his knees trying to expel the hairball)

[wheezes]

[retches]

[coughs, a hairball falls out]

[chuckles] Hairball.

Donkey: Oh! That is nasty!

Friends (Season 10, Episode 4)

Joey: Aah! so... I'm gonna take off!

Phoebe: Wh.. what? No wait, you don't get to leave! I've got a massage client waiting outside my door any minute!

Monica: Yeah, and we've paid for a room, that we're supposed to be in right now!

Phoebe: Well, oh, ok now... Only one of us has to stay with Emma. Ok, and as the person who realized that, I get to go!

Monica: No! no! Let's figure out a fair way to decide who's staying.

Joey: Oh! I got it! Ok, everyone pick a number from one to ten. Alright? Whoever gets the highest number gets to go first.

Monica: (She gives Joey a you-are-so-stupid-look) Ok, ten.

Joey: Okay, Monica picks ten, I call nine! Anyone else?

Phoebe: No, lets just draw straws.

Joey: Or.. we could flip a coin, and then multiply the..

Chandler: I'm begging you stop.

Joey: Right.

Monica: Ok, how about this: We got wind up toys for Emma for her birthday. We can make them race, and whoever comes in last, stays!

Phoebe: (Visibly excited) Yeah!! Let's do that!

Chandler: (Also very excited) That sounds more fun than the thing we were going to do in Vermont!

Monica: Everybody get your toys! (They all run toward the table with toys)

Phoebe: Ok! I want the dolphin!

Chandler: Thats a bear.

Phoebe: I'm too excited!

Monica: Phoebe, you get the bear, uhm, Joey, you get the robot, and Chandler and I get the dog. Ok, and the race is going to go (Takes two cups and marks the start and finish lines with them) from here to here. Now the one who comes in last, stays!

Joey: Ok, ladies and gentlemen, wind your toys! (they do so)

Chandler: Ok, on your mark... Get set... GO!!!

(Monica, Phoebe and Joey release their wind-up toys.)

Phoebe: Go! Go!

Joey: Come on robot!

(Phoebe's bear takes the lead, followed by Joey's robot, and far behind is Chandler and Monica's dog, which walks a few paces, stops and starts barking, sits, walks again, and so on... )

Monica: (to the dog) What are you barking at?

(While Phoebe's bear is still in the lead, it is now closely followed by Joey's robot. Chandler and Monica's dog however, sits down, barking... and does a backflip.)

Monica: Wha... How the hell is that gonna help?

Chandler: I bought you. How did I forget that that's all you do?

(Meanwhile the race has been won by Phoebe's bear, followed by Joey's robot)

Joey: Way to go robot!

Phoebe: Good job Alan!

Joey: Hey, good race you guys.

Phoebe: Yeah, see you later!

(Joey and Phoebe leave for the door)

Monica: No! No, no... wait! We didn't lose. (turns to Chandler) The rules clearly stated that the last one to cross the finish line was the loser. Well, our dog never crossed the finish line, so technically...

Chandler: They left.

(Monica turns around to see the door closed)

|ACTION |WESTERN |THRILLER SUSPENSE |

|ACTOR’S |SCIENCE FICTION |MUSICAL |

|LINES | | |

|PLOT |ROMANCE |CINEMA /THEATER |

|ADVENTURE |DOCUMENT-ARY |ANIMATION |

|REVIEW |MAIN CHARACTERS |HORROR |

|DRAMA |FOREIGN FILM |CLASSIC |

|BUY TICKETS |WAIT IN LINE |BUY POPCORN |

|SIT IN AN AISLE SEAT |READ A MOVIE REVIEW |WATCH A TRAILER |

|SEE THE PREVIEWS |WATCH THE CREDITS |SIT IN THE FRONT |

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ACTION ADVENTURE ANIMATION CLASSIC DOCUMENTARY FOREIGN FILM DRAMA HORROR MAIN CHARACTERS LINES REVIEW THEATER CINEMA PLOT ROMANCE SCIENCE FICTION MUSICAL SUSPENSE THRILLER WESTERN

SEE THE PREVIEWS READ A MOVIE REVIEW SIT IN AN AISLE SEAT WATCH A TRAILER BUY POPCORN BUY TICKETS WATCH THE CREDITS SIT IN THE FRONT WAIT IN LINE

EXCITING BREATH-TAKING INTERESTING MOVING TERRIFIC ABSURD AWFUL BORING TERRIBLE WEIRD SLOW SUSPENSEFUL EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT

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