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Seattle西雅图不眠夜【精品-doc】 Sleepless in Seattle《西雅图不眠夜》 Part One Understanding of the Movie Task 1. Give the working definition of love films (Romance). Task 2. Choose the best answer to each of the questions that follows. Task 3. Write the names of the following people in the story. Task 4. Compose the plot summary of Sleepless in Seattle.. Part Two Close Study of the Movie Movie Quotes from Sleepless in Seattle (1993) Task 1. Try to recall some quotations that impress you before you read the following ones. 1. Doctor Marcia Fieldstone: People who truly loved once are far more likely to love again. Sam, do you think there’s someone out there you could love as much as your wife? Sam Baldwin: Well, Dr. Marcia Fieldstone, that’s hard to imagine. Doctor Marcia Fieldstone: What are you going to do? Sam Baldwin: Well, I’m gonna get out of bed every morning... breath in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won’t have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breath in and out... and, then after a while, I won’t have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while. Doctor Marcia Fieldstone: Tell me what was so special about your wife? Sam Baldwin: Well, how long is your program? Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I’d ever known... I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic. 2. Annie Reed: Destiny is something we’ve invented because we can’t stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental. Annie Reed: When a man is a widower why do we say he was widowed? Why don’t we say he was widowered? 3. Sam Baldwin: Well I’m not looking for a mail-order bride! I just want somebody I can have a decent conversation with over dinner. Without it falling down into weepy tears over some movie! Greg: She’s, as you just saw, very emotional. Sam Baldwin: Although I cried at the end of “the Dirty Dozen.” Greg: Who didn’t? Sam Baldwin: Jim Brown was throwing these hand grenades down these airshafts. And Richard Jaeckel and Lee Marvin [Begins to cry] Sam Baldwin: were sitting on top of this armored personnel carrier, dressed up like Nazis... Greg: [Crying too] Stop, stop! Sam Baldwin: And Trini Lopez... - 1 - Greg: Yes, Trini Lopez! Sam Baldwin: He busted his neck while they were parachuting down behind the Nazi lines... Greg: Stop. Sam Baldwin: And Richard Jaeckel - at the beginning he had on this shiny helmet... Greg: [Crying harder] Please no more. Oh God! I loved that movie. 4. Annie Reed: Now that was when people KNEW how to be in love. They knew it! Time, distance... nothing could separate them because they knew. It was right. It was real. It was... Becky: A movie! That’s your problem! You don’t want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie. 5. [Jonah is missing] Jessica’s Father: Jessica, this is your father. Tell us where he is, right this minute! Jessica: “N.Y.” Sam Baldwin: What’s that? Jessica’s Father: “No way.” Sam Baldwin: That’s “N.W.”! Jessica: New York. He’s on his way to New York. Jessica’s Mother: What? How? Jessica: United, Flight 597. 6. Walter: Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it. 7. Dennis Reed: Annie, when you meet someone and you’re attracted to them, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as chemistry is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match. Excerpts from Sleepless in Seattle (1993) Excerpt 1 Note: 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. 1. What is the title of the series presented by Dr. Marcia? 2. What is the title of this program in the series? 3. How long before the beginning of the story did Sam’s wife die? 4. What’s the name of Sam’s wife? 5. Who gives Sam the name “Sleepless in Seattle”? 6. What sort of Christmas does Dr. Marcia wish her listeners? Excerpt 2 Note: Annie confides in her brother, Dennis, her doubts about whether she should marry Walter. Excerpt 3 Note: Annie confides her doubts to her friend Becky. Task 3. Answer the questions. These can be answered in a word or a short phrase. 1. Annie believes that marriage is a matter of gate or destiny. Does Dennis agree? 2. According to Becky, the sort of love that Annie is looking for is to be found only in one place. - 2 - Where? 3. According to Dennis, there is one very good reason for going nowhere near Seattle. What is it? 4. How does Annie start her letter to Sam? 5. She arranges a meeting time and place in her letter. Where and when? 6. Becky mentions two men with whom she has been involved. What are their names? Excerpt 4 Note: Sam talks with friends about how life imitates movies. Task 4. Answer the questions. 1. Of the many women who have written to him, Sam is seeing just one regularly. What is her name? She has one characteristic that Jonah doesn’t like at all. What is it? 2. Annie’s suggestion that they meet at the top of the Empire State Building on St.Valentine’s Day reminds Greg’s wife of a movie. What is the title of the movie? 3. What are the names of the two principal actors of the movie? 4. What is the title of the war movie that both Sam and Greg like so much? Excerpt 5 Note: Walter’s gift of a ring on St. Valentine’s Day. Excerpt 6 Note: The parting with Walter. Task 5. Answer the questions. 1. Since Christmas, Walter has noticed a change in Annie, he uses two adjectives to describe her. What are they? 2. To whom did Walter’s present formerly belong? 3. Walter and Annie are buying a dinner set. How many plate settings do they order? 4. When Walter orders Dom Delousie, Annie tells the puzzled waiter he is joking. What does he intend to order? 5. When Annie says “I can’t do this,” what does she mean? Part Three Reflection of the Movie Interview of the Movie Task 1. Choose the best answer to each of the questions that follows. Review of the Movie Task 2. Choose the best answer to each of the questions that follows. Task 3. Write an essay on your reflection of the movie Sleepless in Seattle. - 3 - - 4 -