Test 4
Listen to the impressions of six people about the films they have seen recently.
Speaker 1
I knew literally nothing about this film. But it has received strong votes on Odeon's website,
making me give it a view on IMDB. Seems to be a standardish psychological WTF is going on,
then there is a big twist at the end. But apparently the twist is good.
Speaker 2
I quite like the genre, but a couple of times I struggled to place myself into that mindset to accept
flying people and super human ninjas and stuff. I really liked Crouching Tiger, House of Flying
Daggers but they didn't rate much at all.
Speaker 3
I saw it 3 weeks or so back when it first came out over here and I loved it — though I'm sure I'll
never be able to view it the same following the recent South Park. It was my first Imax
Experience and I want to see it again before it comes off the screen.
Speaker 4
The thing is nothing standing out for me. I'm flying solo as I'm in town and with a friend working
there I get a freebie ticket. If it's really bad, I've not really lost out, but at the same time I'd prefer
to give a miss to anything I can just watch on DVD in a few months and not feel I've missed
anything.
Speaker 5
OK, I am Brave. I saw Wild Hogs and I enjoyed it! The family and I went to the nearest theatre to
us, the beautiful Seabecks Pizza and Movies. They are also the nearest pizzeria to us. This place is
great. An old building, a pizza place with all of three tables in the front of the movie house. They
have old donated couches lined up along both sides of the theatre and the old wooden chairs down
the centre of the theatre. Deer, antelope and caribou heads on the walls along with a couple of fish
all decorated with little Christmas lights. You can order a couple of pizzas and sodas, pile into a
couch and enjoy a movie. If only they had beer there!
Speaker 6
Anyway, Wild Hogs was fun. No, it was not high browed but the kids liked it and so did I. It was
funny and made me laugh. The guy who plays Dr Cox in Scrubs was in it and he played the part
of a motorcycle cop that let just say got the wrong idea about the "gang". Cracked me up! If you
liked Blades of Glory you Will likely enjoy Wild Hogs.
Al—A7
Sarah: The whole thing is so stupid. But my parents... Well, you know... They're my parents. My
dad was sick lasfryear. My mother's been so tense. I just can't give them any grief right now. The
worst of it was after I told them I'd stopped seeing Chris. They assumed I wasn't seeing anybody.
So my mother kept trying to fix me up with sons of friends and relatives and I don't know —
strangers she'd meet on the street. I don't know where she found these guys. But my mother is
determined to make me happy. Whether I like it or not. One time, I went to their house for dinner
and she had clipped personal ads out of a magazine for me. Can you imagine? Looking down at
your dinner plate and seeing brisket on one side and "S.W.M., mid-thirties, Jewish" on the other?
Bob: Ooh. I can't really believe your mother is able to treat you like that.
Sarah: Really, I mean, I know she means well, but... So, anyway, just so they'd feel better a few
months ago, I told them I'd started seeing someone. I just invented a boyfriend.
Bob: Oh. And that's also rather strange. Don't you think?
Sarah: Right. But what else could I do?
Bob: Well, I don't really know but there's always a way out...
Sarah: Well, my mother's been driving me crazy with "When are we going to meet him?" "When
are we going to 'meet'this nice Jewish boy?" I just couldn't put it off anymore. She'll probably
want to light candles. I thought about asking one of my friends to be my stand-in boyfriend for
the evening, but, frankly, I'm too embarrassed by the whole thing for anybody I know to know
about it. So I've turned to you. You must think this is extremely weird.
Bob: Well, I must admit, I didn't expect that from you, it's more suitable for a little old lady who
needs a dinner companion... But if you really need that...
Sarah: I'm sorry. I know this is crazy. It was all a kind of a rush. What do they say? "Desperation
is the mother of invention?"
A8-A14
It was in the third grade, when they took us for a field trip to see Richard III in Boston. I'd never
seen a live play before. I didn't understand what was going on up there, but I could tell that there
was a whole bunch of people hating each other, going to war against each other, and just plain
killing each other — kind of like all the wars and murders I heard about on the news. The last
hour, I
was really spacing out, desperately bored and upset with it all, wanting to go back to class
and just take a spelling test or draw a picture.
Then finally it ended and they closed the curtain. But then — right then — they did something
that I wasn't ready for.
They opened the curtain again, and there was everybody who'd been running around hating each
other and killing each other for the last three and a half hours — they were all up there, holding
hands, smiling at each other, patting each other on the back, smiling at us, taking a nice bow, and
that was when it really hit me. Hit me hard. They looked so beautiful, so peaceful and loving.
Richard the Third was standing right next to the woman he'd murdered, and she was holding his
hand and smiling at him as if they were about to go to get something to eat together as soon as
they washed off their make-up arid changed their clothes. And I had that picture in my head all
the way back in the bus, and I lay, awake in my bed practically all that night, thinking, that's what
the world needs. We need to get the U.N. to pass a resolution that on a certain Sunday, everybody
in the world — the President of the United States, the head of Russia, the murderers, the bank
robbers,-the millionaires, the coal miners — will just line up and hold hands and take a bow. I
decided that all people would suddenly be able to get up, walk over to the front stage, and^say,
"We really all love each other, and -now we're going to change out of our costumes and have a
party. You can all come too. Cakes and cookies and wine, all on us!" And that's why I wanted to
act: so I could do that. Whether I was playing Snow White or the stepmother, Cordelia or Lady
Macbeth, I wanted people to see me get up off the floor and take my place in line, smiling and
holding hands with everybody, so I could give them a taste of what it would be like if the whole
world could take a curtain call.