Chapter Five

1. Chapter Five Love Films

2. Love Films（爱情片） Definition of Love Films: • Romance films, love stories, or affairs of the heart center on passion, emotion, and the romantic, affectionate involvement of the main characters (usually a leading man and lady), and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. • Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus. Oftentimes, lovers in screen romances face obstacles and the hazards of hardship, finances, physical illness, racial or social class status, occupation, psychological restraints, or family that threaten to break their union and attainment of love.

3. Love Films（爱情片） Definition of Love Films: • Romantic films often explore the essential themes of love at first sight, young (and older) love, unrequited love, obsessive love, sentimental love, spiritual love, forbidden love, sexual and passionate love, sacrificial love, explosive and destructive love, and tragic love. • Romantic films serve as great escapes and fantasies for viewers, especially if the two people finally overcome their difficulties, declare their love, and experience life “happily ever after” implied by a reunion and final kiss.

4. Love Films（爱情片） A List of Renowned Love Films: • Love Story《爱情故事》（1970） • Wuthering Heights《呼啸山庄》（1939） • Waterloo Bridge《魂断蓝桥》（1940） • Roman Holiday《罗马假日》（1953） • The Red Shoes《红铃艳》（1948） • Romeo and Juliet《罗密欧和朱丽叶》（1968） • Pride and Prejudice《傲慢与偏见》（1940） • The English Patient《英国病人》（1996） • Shakespeare in Love《恋爱中的莎士比亚》（1998）

5. Sleepless in Seattle《西雅图不眠夜》 • US (1993)TriStar Pictures • Director:Nora Ephron • Cast:Tom HanksSam Baldwin Meg RyanAnnie Reed • Awards: The film was nominated Oscars for Best Music, Original Song (“A wink and a smile”) and Best Wring, Original Screenplay.

6. Tom Hanks (1956- )

7. Meg Ryan (1961- )

8. Part One Understanding of the Movie

9. Task 2.Choose the best answer to each of the questions that follows. • The elements of surprise and suspense in this movie come from _____. • the adventures which the characters experience • the difficulty of knowing how the story will end • the fear we share that Jonah may be lost • the difficulties in the way of a meeting between Annie and Sam

10. Task 2.Choose the best answer to each of the questions that follows. • Annie, played by Meg Ryan, is employed as _____. • a fashion model • a journalist • a merchant banker • a computer programmer

11. Task 2.Choose the best answer to each of the questions that follows. • The story is set in two places, Baltimore and Seattle. This is important because _____. • Seattle is in the West and Baltimore in the East of North America, several hours of flying time apart • Seattle and Baltimore are cities in the same part of North America, within an hour of each other by car • Baltimore and Seattle are suburbs separated by no more than half an hour’s travelling time • Baltimore and Seattle are connected only by radio and telephone

12. Task 2.Choose the best answer to each of the questions that follows. • Radio talk show offers _____. • general advice on dilemmas that may be similar to those faced by listeners • interviews in which well-known people discuss problems they have encountered in the past • opportunity for listeners to speak to qualified advisers about their problems • answers by broadcasters to listeners’ letters

13. Task 2.Choose the best answer to each of the questions that follows. • The pseudonym “Sleepless in Seattle” is _____. • a description of Sam’s state of mind in the story • a way of identifying Sam while concealing his identity • the title of a movie known to the audience and known also to people in the story • an easily remembered title for this movie, with no special meaning

14. Task 3.Write the names of the following people in the story. • the hero: _______ • the hero’s son: ______ • the heroine’s best (girl) friend: ________ • the heroine’s intended husband: __________ • the heroine’s brother: _______ Sam Jonah Becky Walter Dennis

15. Part Two Close Study of the Movie

16. Sleepless in Seattle 《西雅图不眠夜》 Excerpt One Excerpt Two Excerpt Three Excerpt Four Excerpt Five Excerpt Six

17. Sleepless in Seattle 《西雅图不眠夜》 Excerpt One

18. Sleepless in Seattle 《西雅图不眠夜》 Excerpt Two

19. Sleepless in Seattle 《西雅图不眠夜》 Excerpt Three

20. Sleepless in Seattle 《西雅图不眠夜》 Excerpt Four

21. Sleepless in Seattle 《西雅图不眠夜》 Excerpt Five

22. Sleepless in Seattle 《西雅图不眠夜》 Excerpt Six

23. Excerpt 1Note: Dr. Marcia Fieldstone’s phone-in program on National Radio — You and Your Emotions. Task 2. Answer the questions. These can be answered by using a short phrase. Keys: • You and Your Emotions • Wishes and Dreams • A year and a half • Maggie • Dr. Marcia • Magical and merry

24. Excerpt 2Note: Annie confides in her brother, Dennis, her doubts about whether she should marry Walter.Excerpt 3Note: Annie confides her doubts to her friend Becky. Keys: • No • In movies • Rain nine months of the year • Dear Sleepless and son • Top of the Empire State Building. St.Valentine’s Day • Rick and Martin Task 3. Answer the questions. These can be answered in a word or short phrase.

25. Excerpt 4Note: Sam talks with friends about how life imitates movies. Keys: • Victoria; Her laugh • An Affair to Remember • Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr • The Dirty Dozen Task 4. Answer the questions.

26. Excerpt 5Note: Walter’s gift of a ring on St. Valentine’s Day.Excerpt 6Note: The parting with Walter. Keys: • distant, distracted • to his mother • 10 • Dom Perignon (a kind of champagne) • Marry Walter Task 5. Answer the questions.

27. Part Three Reflection of the Movie

28. Interview of the Movie Task 1. Choose the best answer to each of the questions that follows. • Peggy gives a number of reasons for liking the movie. The first one she mentions is that _____. • the music is attractive • the principal actors give excellent performances • the movie reflects American society • the mood of the movie is happy and positive

29. Interview of the Movie Task 1. Choose the best answer to each of the questions that follows. • Pro. Zhu questions Peggy about Jonah’s call to Dr. Marcia on behalf of his father. She is surprised by this because _____. • she would not expect a child of eight to act so independently • Jonah’s behavior would be unthinkable in a Chinese setting • she would not expect that the presenter would accept a call from a child • children cannot imagine how older people think and feel

30. Interview of the Movie Task 1. Choose the best answer to each of the questions that follows. • According to Peggy, Americans typically see love and marriage as _____. • something mysterious and magical • a business partnership • an undertaking requiring much hard work • a means of preserving family inheritance

31. Interview of the Movie Task 1. Choose the best answer to each of the questions that follows. • Peggy feels that from the start there is something wrong in the relationship between Annie and Walter, on the grounds that _____. • Walter seems unlikely to be a good steady provider • the two families seem not to get on well • Walter is not a generous person • there is no sign of passion in the relationship

32. Interview of the Movie Task 1. Choose the best answer to each of the questions that follows. • Peggy believes the most important thing that the movie offers the viewer is ____. • a significant message • comic dialogue • a range of attractive traditional music • an escape from everyday life

33. Review of the Movie Task 2. Choose the best answer to each of the questions that follows. • When the reviewer first heard about this movie, she expected that she would dislike it because it sounded _____. • violent and vicious • sentimental and romantic • absurd and ridiculous • full of unlikely coincidences

34. Review of the Movie Task 2. Choose the best answer to each of the questions that follows. • The director of the movie is ____. • Meg Ryan • Tom Hanks • Nora Ephron • Stanley Kubrick

35. Review of the Movie Task 2. Choose the best answer to each of the questions that follows. • The movie intends to remind audiences of _____. • the movie romances of the ’40s and ’50s • the movies made of the Second World War • the movies of the old silent cinema • the famous Ealing Comedies

36. Review of the Movie Task 2. Choose the best answer to each of the questions that follows. • The Baltimore Sun is _____. • a TV program • a newspaper • an advertising agency • a radio program

37. Review of the Movie Task 2. Choose the best answer to each of the questions that follows. • Someone suffering from insomnia cannot _____. • forget the past • eat • sleep • be happy

38. Review of the Movie Task 2. Choose the best answer to each of the questions that follows. • The time and place of the meeting that Annie suggests is straight out of _____. • a novel • a poem • a radio program • a movie

39. Review of the Movie Task 2. Choose the best answer to each of the questions that follows. • Movies designed in the main for a female audience are sometimes called “weepies” because _____. • they are about dreadful events • the audiences are touched by sympathy with the characters • the audiences admire the courage of the characters • they are about events that occur in everyday life

40. Review of the Movie Task 2. Choose the best answer to each of the questions that follows. • Sleepless in Seattle is enjoyed _____. • mostly by women • mainly by men • equally by women and men • by younger audiences

41. Review of the Movie Task 2. Choose the best answer to each of the questions that follows. • This reviewer enjoys the movie Sleepless in Seattle because _____. • it is a comedy and has a happy ending • it is free of sex and violence • it includes no violent language • for all the above reasons

42. Home Work • Compose the plot summary of the movie Sleepless in Seattle. • Write an essay on your reflection of the movie Sleepless in Seattle.