Intro
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Three naked men wrestling in a sauna. Sounds like the start of an adult movie, but it’s really just a scene from a new thriller.
Eastern Promises is the story of one man’s ties to the Russian mafia. Nikolai, played by Viggo Mortensen, is doing everything he can to advance in the mafia until a beautiful nurse played by Naomi Watts interrupts his work and he begins to question what he’s doing.
But Marni and Mason seem most interested in what they call “the best fight scene ever.” And the male nudity.
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Marni: So you know what movie I finally saw over the weekend?
Mason: Uh…Garfield the Movie?
Marni: Oh, no please. No. Very, very intense. One of the best fight scenes ever…
Mason: Oh dude, no, wait. No, I think I totally know…Is there some Lord of the Rings alumni in it?
Marni: Ah, there would be. The king would be the alumni.
Mason: Totally Eastern Promises.
Marni: Oh my God. What a great movie.
Mason: Crazy fight scene.
Marni: Yes! Like one of the craziest ever, but just phenomenal. I mean, it was a great film.
Mason: I wonder if they CGI-ed some things because I don’t imagine how you could spend that much time onscreen naked and not really show anything.
Marni: Well, you know, I think if anyone can do it, it’s Viggo.
Mason: Not with someone who is like, tussling around that much and like, stabbing people with pencils. I don’t know what he did, but…
Marni: He was everywhere.
Mason: He was gruesome.
Marni: He was all over the place. And yeah, you didn’t…You got some. You saw a little, but not too much. But aside from that fight scene, which was spectacular, just he was so amazing in that role. I mean, we were like just watching it, just fearful of him. I mean, totally believable as a…
Mason: ...bad ass.
Marni: Yeah. exactly. As a…
Mason: ...bad ass!
Marni: ...Russian mobster and so much insight into the Russian mafia with the tattoos and all the history and…
Mason: ...and a cool, cool movie.
Marni: Yeah.
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Discussion
Marni and Mason thought the naked fight scene in Eastern Promises was amazing. But Mason thought it was almost too good. He thought there must have been computer generated images (CGI) because they didn’t show much nudity even though the actors were naked.
Marni gives the movie more credit, saying that if anyone could do a naked scene without nudity, it would be Viggo Mortensen. No matter what, Mason and Marni agree that Viggo Mortensen was incredible in the movie.
It’s a bold statement to say that Eastern Promises has the best fight scene ever. What do you think the best fight scene is?
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