Sue, I think it would be a wonderful idea to pick up good films for our classes and then discuss its language. To make the film more useful we can later swim deeper and discuss its plot and our own interpretation of the film's meaning. We can also choose short stories that are available on the internet, a piece of poetry or a newspaper article for this same purpose.
Would you perhaps be able to find articles from important, daily American newspapers?
T
Monday, July 12, 2010
This and That
Zhivago is a wonderful movie with many plots, sub-plots, and subjective human reactions that intrigue us and make us think long after the movie is over. For example, I am intrigued with Zhivao's brother--hard, directed tool of the establishment, yet there is a sympathetic and caring note in him that extends beyond the hardness of the system. How deep does that kindness run, one wonders and who would it encompass? More on this later.
Today my mind was considering some of the more modern expressions that young Americans use. With your classes starting, I know you will have a lot of young people who might be interested.
I can think of two:
1. "She's a really nice person." Not!! The not completely negates the preceding sentence.
2. Everything is 'cool' man. Trans: Everything is great, friend.
Today my mind was considering some of the more modern expressions that young Americans use. With your classes starting, I know you will have a lot of young people who might be interested.
I can think of two:
1. "She's a really nice person." Not!! The not completely negates the preceding sentence.
2. Everything is 'cool' man. Trans: Everything is great, friend.
Smiles yet again
Despite the agony going on in Dr. Zhivago, the film is not completely void of hopes and happiness -- just as life itself with all its miseries. Every now and then in the film the famous, charming music flows in the air with something nice and pleasant emerging from it: smiles on some lips or the petals of many flowers after an icy winter! I am glad that David Lean or Boris pasternak for that matter do not suffocate us in agonies.
Henry David Thoreau and Boris Pasternak both witnessed a revolution in their countries. A very fundamental question is that why and how one brought so many miseries to humanity while the other created a "relatively free country!"
I love the film Dr. Zhivago. Thank you Faranak for giving me the film. I appreciate your kindness. I had been looking for this film for ages.
T
Henry David Thoreau and Boris Pasternak both witnessed a revolution in their countries. A very fundamental question is that why and how one brought so many miseries to humanity while the other created a "relatively free country!"
I love the film Dr. Zhivago. Thank you Faranak for giving me the film. I appreciate your kindness. I had been looking for this film for ages.
T
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