Unit 2 Steps to Understanding Culture Audio Zepis ne bercitire.0:00
Listen to six people talking and match what they say with the statements in your workbook.0:07
There is one statement you don't have to use.0:13
Speaker 1 There is a saying in Nobody knows anything.0:16
Louis B. Mayer, the creative head of the megastudio MGM in Hollywood, turned down one filmmaker's idea by telling him his film with a mouse would be frightening to pregnant women.0:20
The filmmaker was Walt Disney and the mouse was Mickey Mouse.0:33
In 1933, that scary mouse received 800,000 fan letters.0:36
He became the most popular character in a film at that time.0:42
Speaker 2 Mickey Mouse has not frightened movie audiences, but an 80 foot gorilla on the Empire State Building in New York terrified them.0:46
King Kong, made in 1933, was among the first films to make the audience scream.0:56
It had lots of special effects.1:02
Trick photography made it possible to film the legendary scene in which the beast picks up an unconscious woman in his hand.1:04
Later in the film, airplanes manage to kill the animal as he climbs New York's Empire state building.1:12
Speaker 3 this Hollywood actress is world famous.1:19
Her most interesting films include Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Some Like It Hot.1:24
Her name is Marilyn Monroe.1:30
She starred in just over 30 movies and conquered the audience with her bombshell beauty and vulnerable charm.1:32
She had a painful childhood, married three times, had an affair with a president and died of an overdose.1:40
Speaker 4 Irving Thorberg, the legendary Hollywood production executive, referring to the film Gone with the Wind.1:49
Nobody ever made a nickel from a film about the Civil War.1:58
Later, he had to admit he was wrong, as Gone with the wind, released in 1939, had become one of Hollywood's most profitable and popular blockbusters.2:02
Handsome Rhett Butler, played by Clark Gable and Scarlett o', Hara, played by Vivien Leigh, became the most famous romantic couple ever.2:13
The film won an Oscar for best actress, picture, cinematography and screenplay.2:22
Speaker 5 the Godfather is one of the most successful films in Hollywood history.2:29
The movie premiered in 1972.2:34
It wasn't just a new genre of gangster films, but a fascinating portrait of a family involved in a criminal underworld.2:37
The main character of the film, Michael Corleone, played by Al Pacino, explains to his girlfriend that his father made an offer to a business rival.2:45
In fact, his enemy was which he couldn't refuse, otherwise the father would kill him.2:53
Thus, the phrase to make people an offer they cannot refuse took on a new meaning.2:58
Speaker 6 Star wars and Jurassic park are two of the most successful films in Hollywood history.3:04
Star wars was released in 1977 and was the first film to create special effects using a computer.3:12
It also started a saga that would last for decades.3:18
In 1993, film audiences were delighted and surprised again when watching the film Jurassic park, in which computer technologies were used to generate animated dinosaurs.3:21
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