What Makes a Successful Movie?

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 251.

Exercise 38 Read the article

Exercise 37 Match the words to make collocations. Translate them into Russian and use in your own phrases

Exercise 36 Find and write out all the adjectives you can use for describing films and your impression of them. Make up your own sentences with some of these adjectives.

Exercise 35 Find the original names of the films mentioned in the text and translate them into Russian.

Exercise 34 Find the following words and word combinations in the text and translate the sentences they are used in into Russian.

1. misleading

2. to refer to

3. appeal

4. art film

5. in both senses

6. It goes without saying

7. a typical commercial movie

8. plot surprises

9. court-room drama

10. seemingly normal man

11. the overall effect

12. life-like

13. cutting edge

14. the mixed ticket

15. to savour fantasies

16. no room for ambivalence

17. pre-digested

18. pat answers

1. to make A. the point

2. to find smth B. a crime

3. to reach C. difficult/easy

4. to devide D. the plot

5. to give E. think

6. to commit F. a hint

7. to make smb G. into

8. to carry H. a story

9. to tell I. distinction

Making a movie entails a lot of risks. There is not one single magic formula that determines what makes a successful movie. First and foremost it needs to be an entertaining movie. A brood term, but what is entertaining to some may not be entertaining to others. Star power. Everyone has their favorite star that they will see in any movie totally disregarding the content of that particular movie. Timing, it sounds cliché, but timing is everything. Huge action movies do best in summer when kids are out of school and serious Oscar contenders do best around the holidays.