CINEMA

1. Peter was the only critic who wrote in praise of the film
2. The film stars Doris Fleck in the part of Queen Elizabeth
3. It was a very humorous star and made laugh a lot.
4. Everyone enjoyed the special effects on this film
5. First we see their faces from far away, and then we see a close-up (very near)
6. Writing film scripts is rather like writing for the theatre.
7. Most foreign films are subtitled, although some are dubbed.
8. Every stunt in the film was carefully prepared.
9. The film is set in Africa
10. Willis gave a marvellous performance. The film got rave reviews.
11. Mickey Mouse is a cartoon character
12. When the talkies appear in 1229, silent movies disappeared with remarkable speed
13. Film makers realised from the start that their black-and-white films would look better in colour
14. The producer hires a director to take most of the creative decisions about the film
15. Deciding which actors will play which parts is called casting
16. Casting popular stars help ensure that the movie will be a box-office (taquilla) hit.
17. Constructing a spectacular set can be enormously expensive, but it can work out cheaper to build part of Paris in
the studio than to ship the cast and crew to France
18. The director barks out “Action” and the filming starts. . Powerful lamps flood the set. When the director calls “Cut”
the cameras stop. Everyone is wanting to see if the take is perfect
19. The crane (grua) raises the camera above the actors’ head
20. The gaffer is the chief electrician and the best boy is his assistant
21. The grip moves the equipment on set
22. Wardrobe is responsible for care and repair of costumes throughout the production
23. Filming outdoors using a city or a jungle as a backdrop (telon de fondo) is called location photography
24. Leaps from horses backs, car crashes.. these exciting sequences in the cinema are called stunts. Specially
trained actors called stunt man or stunt woman stand in for the stars
25. The stunning effects in Close Encounters of the Third Kind made it a huge box office success despite a weakish
plot
26. Scale models, puppets and motorised robots take the place of an actor or a creature when filming the real thing
would be difficult
27. The first screen comedians got their laughs from gags (visual jokes)
28. The custard pie (tarta) gag, where an actor gets a pie in the face during the course of a scene anuses everyone
29. In western or adventure movies, even ordinary events seem exciting compared with life in a modern town city
30. Horror films have got elaborate special effects
31. Movies are like modern magic spells (encantamientos )
32. The best film at the Berlin Film Festival wins a Golden Bear
33. Film noir introduced a sinister world ruled by fear
34. In all the genres, the action sequences form only part of the story. In adventure films, they are everything
35. Thousands of costume dramas and melodramas have been based on best-selling books and hits plays but
“adapting” the story
36. Melodramas are usually sensational, romantic stories full of simply drawn characters and improbable events
37. Teenpix are movies made for teenagers and kidpix are feature films produced to appeal specially to younger
audience
38. Science-fiction films are usually set in the future or on distant planets
39. Jurassic Park soon became the all-time-box-office No. 1
40. War picture were very expensive because of the thousands of extras required
41. Credits are the lists of cast and crew shown at the beginning or end of a film
42. Propaganda are films designed to persuade viewers to accept the film-maker’s point of view on social or political
issues
43. A blockbuster is a film that is a huge box-office hit or one that cost an enormous amount to make and to publicise
44. Censorship is the fact of banning entire films or cutting scenes from them to prevent viewers from seeing
obscene, violent of politically dangerous material
45. Robocop caused a strong public reaction.

GENRES OF MOVIES
· Cartoon · Documentary · blue movie (erotica)
· Western · War film · Thriller
· Science fiction · Musical · historical
· travelogue · Horror film · Romantic comedy
ELEMENTS OF A FILM
· Screenplay (guion) · Stunts · Location · Soundtrack
· Plot · Special Effects · Studio

REACTIONS ABOUT A FILM

· I really got into it
· I couldn’t get into it
· It was brilliant/ crap/rubbish/waste of money
· I got the feeling/impression
· I like the way he...
· It makes me feel
· It makes me think....