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This is a notebook and guide for learners of English as a second or overseas language, all over the earth. Most of the writings here are in Basic English, first designed by C. K. Ogden, using 850 necessary words and a number of international words only.
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2006.01.15 Sunday
Animation
Motion pictures generally have actors moving and talking in them. Some of them are stars in the pictures.
There are another sort of motion pictures, in which you see no actors. Those players give voices only. The animals, boys, girls, men and women in this sort of pictures are made of painted colors and lines. They make moves, sometimes naturally and sometimes unnaturally but with a good effect. This sort of moving picture goes by the name of "animation." Animations, or animated pictures became noted by an American named Walt Disney and his men. He made animations chiefly for the young, from the 1930's to 60's. Japan, in addition to Disney, has had a number of men seriously making animations, like Osamu TEZUKA, Hayao MIYAZAKI, and so on. 2006.04.11 Tuesday
Contemporary Movie Monologues
If you are a learner of English hoping to go up to a level higher than simple exchanges like "How are you?" or "This bag, please," take note that monologues, or long, sometimes one-sided, talks are necessary. 2006.04.12 Wednesday
English through Motion Pictures
English language used in moving pictures, or in movies,
is not truly the natural English used for everyday talk. 2006.04.25 Tuesday
Contemporary Movie Monologues, Again
Let me put more about Contemporary Movie Monologues 1960-1989 for Audition and Study: A Sourcebook for Actors. I said that the monologues, or one-person talks, were taken from 51 motion pictures. I have made a list of the moving pictures. Eight of them are from the 1960's, five are from the 70's, and 38 from the 80's.
Here goes the list: 2006.05.16 Tuesday
The Bird Man of Alcatraz
What would you do if you were to be a prisoner with no chance to be free? Would you do nothing, with no hope? Or would you do something highly valued? There was a man in prison who became internationally noted by taking care of small birds and learning about them. The true story of the man was made into a book, and then a black-and-white motion picture: The Bird Man of Alcatraz. 2006.05.24 Wednesday
River's Edge
What will you do if you get the news that
you may see a dead person, on the earth, out of your town, but not far away? Go and see it, like the boys in Stand by Me? This time, however, the dead girl is your school-friend, put to death by [her] boyfriend. Other school-friends are going there with HIM. Are you going with them? 2006.05.30 Tuesday
Creator
Do you have a memory of an old bedtime story
about a boy who gives a kiss to a girl, who has been dead or sleeping for years? The kiss makes her conscious and living again. If a story like that takes place in the 1980's, it will be better to be with a taste of science. The old person with the strange power will be an expert of science. But what sort of science? An attempt to make a dead person living again is like the work of Dr. Frankenstein. 2006.06.18 Sunday
Harold and Maude
This motion picture,
when it was first made public in 1971, didn't do well on the road. It was on theaters in Japan for a short time. A Japanese record company was happy with the songs by Cat Stevens used in the moving picture, so an LP record was made, only in Japan. After that, Harold and Maude went away and most of us were no more interested in the movie. But some who saw it, however, were in love with it. They said it was their best movie ever! They have kept saying so. There are a number of online pages about the movie. The story was made into a song-play and produced in the United States. It was made into a work for public reading and produced onstage in Japan. Is the movie so good? It is hard to make certain because there is no DVD or VHS of the movie produced in Japan. But you may get a used VHS from overseas. I got a DVD of this movie. So I will give an outline: 2006.07.04 Tuesday
Da Vinci Is Not His Family Name
Leonardo da Vinci,
the great man of arts and sciences, had his birth in a small Italian town. The name of the town was Vinci. He became a noted man when he was living in Florence. Because he was from Vinci, he went by the name of Leonardo da Vinci. "Da" between "Leonardo" and "Vinci," if you put it into English, is "of " or "from." And he had no family name, like a great number of men those days did not. |
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