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Tuesday 9 february 2010 2 09 /02 /Feb /2010 11:27
- Posted in: 2009-2010 - Tale LV2
Hey,

today we first warmed up with the study of the credits from Lord of War and here is what we said about them:

The man:
There is a discrepancy (a gap) between the way the man is dressed (he is wearing a suit and a tie) and the damage around him (houses are on fire). Normally, there should be soldiers and not a businessman. He's certainly an arms trader.
He looks self-confident and powerful. For him, selling weapons is as if he were selling food, jewels or clothes.

He sells weapons as if he were in a meeting in the US.
He sells weapons as if it were normal to do that.
He sells weapons as if they were toys.
He sells weapons as if could solve problems in Africa.

The bullet:
We follow the life of a bullet [i], from the beginning (its creation in the US) to its target (the head of a child in Africa). We see the scene as though we were the bullet.
The target(/aim/purpose) of the movie is certainly to denounce the arms trade cynically. We are considered as though we were the killers, as though we had our share of responsability in the arms trade.


Remember the use of "AS IF... / AS THOUGH..."

Then we continued studying a double page of documents in your textbooks. Each group had to work on a special set and will have to report to the class about what connection they have made between the documents and why guns are said to be popular in the US.

You can watch the credit titles again here:

lord of war


HW
: prepare your report to the class.
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The man :
There is a discrepenty (a gap) between the way the man is dressed (he is wearing a suit and a tie) and the damage around him (houses are on fire). Normally, there should be soldiers and not a businessman. He's certainly an arms trader.
He looks self-confident and powerful. For him, selling weapons is as if he were selling food, jewels or clothes.

He sells weapons as if he were in a meeting in the US.
He sells weapons as if it were normal to do that.
He sells weapons as if the were toys.
He sells weapons as if could solve problems in Africa.

The bullet:
We follow the life of a bullet, from the beginning (its creation in the US) to its target (the head of a child in Africa). We see the scene as though we were the bullet.
The target(/aim/purpose) of the movie is certainly to denounce the arms trade cynically. We are considered as though we were the killers, as though we had our share of responsability in the arms trade.
Comment number1 posted by Guillaume on 09/02/2010 at 20h03
Thanks for the post Guillaume. Be careful to some typos.
Reply from English Prof on 09/02/2010 at 21h16

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Abonnez-vous !

 

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