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Enchanted

Enchanted

Date: May 14 2008

Themes: Pets

Intro

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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.

When is the last time a rat cooked for you or a lion sang you a song? The world of children’s movies, particularly Disney movies, is a strange place where animals act like people and people sing in high pitched voices.

But what if that world really did exist…in New York? That’s the concept behind a new film that has Mason nothing short of Enchanted.

Dialog

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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

Mason

Mason

Jason

Jason

Mason:  Hey, you want to go catch a movie tonight?

Jason:  Uh huh. Sure.

Mason:  ‘Cause I don’t know about you, but I could totally see Enchanted for the fifth time.

Jason:  Really?

Mason:  I love that movie! Are you serious?

Jason:  How did you end up seeing it the first time?

Mason:  Uh, I went and bought a ticket.

Jason:  It just doesn’t strike me as a movie that, like, screams Mason. But I guess I could be wrong.

Mason:  I gotta say, man, I love me some Disney movies. I love ‘em. Like all the old animated classics like Dumbo and Peter Pan and all that jazz. Sleeping Beauty. And this is playing off of all of them with a lot of really cool, modern humor.

Jason:  Cool. I feel like everyone grew up with those, but most people don’t think about them anymore.

Mason:  Most people grow up?

Jason:  I guess you could say that. But this one makes fun of…It’s like a parody of those?

Mason:  I wouldn’t call it a parody, but it takes all the stereotypes like the princess and the evil, magical queen and the stupid prince and takes it, drops it in real world New York but they still sing songs and are talking really too high and making the animals do work for them.

Jason:  That actually sounds awesome.

Mason:  It’s a really, really well-done, cute little film.

Jason:  Is it all live-action?

Mason:  Well there’s some animated parts, but 90% of it is in honest-to-God New York and there’s dancing rats and cockroaches.

Jason:  Awesome. Yeah, I’ll see it. Why not?

Mason:  Sweet!

 

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Discussion

Jason is surprised when Mason says he’s already seen Enchanted and he’d like to see it again. Grown-ups aren’t usually so excited about Disney movies.

But Mason explains that Enchanted has a lot of modern humor and makes fun of all the Disney movies everyone grew up with. It takes place in New York and most of it isn’t animated, but the characters still act the way they do in animated movies.

What’s your favorite animated movie from childhood? How far is it from the real world?

 

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explorer143

Pakistan

Men live by forgetting – women live on memories.

07:32 AM May 14 2008 |

explorer143

Pakistan

Men live by forgetting – women live on memories.

07:29 AM May 14 2008 |

Hala

Hala

Jordan

Nice lesson 

 

I like watching animated movies as well as i like watching Cartoon Laughing
 

07:12 AM May 14 2008 |

DaMnWoRlD

DaMnWoRlD

Taiwan

Yes, this film's name is "Enchanted"

07:08 AM May 14 2008 |

DaMnWoRlD

DaMnWoRlD

Taiwan

My favorite animated movie is "Alice in Wonderland”, one of the fantasy literatures.
I have seen the stories forth times in different parodies (picture book, cartoon, movie, story book). When reading it in different age phases would get different ideas from it. When I read it as a kid, I just felt the whole story was funny and crazy. But when I grow up I read it again, then I found out the story seemed far from the reality, but through my observation, every character became a symbol of the real world. Both Caterpillar and Cheshire Cat are my favorite characters. In my opinion, the conversation between them and Alice are not nonsense but regarding philosophy and logic. Maybe I will see it for the fifth times someday.
By the way, I had seen this film "Enchanted”, too, and I also recommend people who love Disney cartoons to see it. There are some familiar plots and humorous points making people laugh.

06:57 AM May 14 2008 |

DaMnWoRlD

DaMnWoRlD

Taiwan

My favorite animated movie is "Alice in Wonderland”, one of the fantasy literatures.I have seen the stories forth times in different parodies (picture book, cartoon, movie, story book). When reading it in different age phases would get different ideas from it. When I read it as a kid, I just felt the whole story was funny and crazy. But when I grow up I read it again, then I found out the story seemed far from the reality, but through my observation, every character became a symbol of the real world. Both Caterpillar and Cheshire Cat are my favorite characters. In my opinion, the conversation between them and Alice are not nonsense but regarding philosophy and logic. Maybe I will see it for the fifth times someday.By the way, I had seen this film "Enchanted”, too, and I also recommend people who love Disney cartoons to see it. There are some familiar plots and humorous points making people laugh.

06:49 AM May 14 2008 |

DaMnWoRlD

DaMnWoRlD

Taiwan

LaughingMy favorite animated movie is "Alice in Wonderland”, one of the fantasy literatures.I have seen the stories forth times in different parodies (picture book, cartoon, movie, story book). When reading it in different age phases would get different ideas from it. When I read it as a kid, I just felt the whole story was funny and crazy. But when I grow up I read it again, then I found out the story seemed far from the reality, but through my observation, every character became a symbol of the real world. Both Caterpillar and Cheshire Cat are my favorite characters. In my opinion, the conversation between them and Alice are not nonsense but regarding philosophy and logic. Maybe I will see it for the fifth times someday.By the way, I had seen this film "Enchanted”, too, and I also recommend people who love Disney cartoons to see it. There are some familiar plots and humorous points making people laugh.

06:45 AM May 14 2008 |

DaMnWoRlD

DaMnWoRlD

Taiwan

LaughingMy favorite animated movie is "Alice in Wonderland”, one of the fantasy literatures.

I have seen the stories forth times in different parodies (picture book, cartoon, movie, story book). When reading it in different age phases would get different ideas from it. When I read it as a kid, I just felt the whole story was funny and crazy. But when I grow up I read it again, then I found out the story seemed far from the reality, but through my observation, every character became a symbol of the real world. Both Caterpillar and Cheshire Cat are my favorite characters. In my opinion, the conversation between them and Alice are not nonsense but regarding philosophy and logic.

Maybe I will see it for the fifth times someday.

By the way, I had seen this film "Enchanted”, too, and I also recommend people who love Disney cartoons to see it. There are some familiar plots and humorous points making people laugh.

06:25 AM May 14 2008 |

wanglong123

China

Mason would see the film for the fifth time,it's incredible.I've never saw any movie for that crazy times,but actually I've saw the first season of PrisonBreak which is very exciting for three times.

03:39 AM May 14 2008 |

summer xia

summer xia

China

but i want to know that this movie's name which mentioned in this file .Does it named Enchanted ? I would like to watch it ,looks like nice,so pls tell me if anybody knows,thanks so much!

02:19 AM May 14 2008 |

Bob Ishida

Bob Ishida

Japan

I grew up with 'Kyojin-no-hoshi'. It's one of Japanese animations, which encouraged me to have a dream. Another one is 'Ashita-no-Jyo', which taught me the importance of being hungry.

 All those animations are out of reality but what they told me was all true. I love me some those animations.Wink

01:16 AM May 14 2008 |

Đồng Xuân Công

Viet Nam

 I love Disney Movies, I can get funs from them. I know that I am an adult but I still love some films suitable to students with humor. I mean some of them, not all of them. Maybe, by watching TV, I see that The Earthquake reached 7.4 Richter in China killed over 12.000 victims and a lot of people get stuck in destroyed buildings/schools. Who living in China, can you  descible the truth of disaster.

12:51 AM May 14 2008 |

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