Unit Four Mighty Mass Media （Lesson 4）

Movie English Video Clip: An Interview (Jeremy Lin: From Harvard to NBA) 5m09s

Video Clip: An Interview (Jeremy Lin: From Harvard to NBA) 5m09s Work out all the questions and replies with your partners.

Watch the interview & answer questions. 1. Why does the interviewer (Holmes) say Jeremy Lin is a standout but for a different reason? 2. How does Jeremy Lin feel when he picked up his diploma last week? 3. What kind of things do his teammates say about him and say to him knowing Jeremy Lin is a Harvard grad?

Watch the interview answer the following questions. 4.How is the season going for him so far? How does he balance his course work at Harvard with basketball? 5.What did his parents emphasize with him when he’s growing up? 6. When the interviewer asked him “why not more Asian-Americans in the NBA？”, what does Jeremy reply? 7. Is Jeremy more proud of the NBA part on that resume than the Harvard degree in economics?

References Because he the first NBA player that holds a Harvard degree in almost 60 years. 2. It was a big deal for him. 3. They make fun of him about go on that. 4. He could play games as much as he likes. But right now he is being patient and working hard and keep following the flow.

References 5. He tries to focus and paying attention to time management. 6. School work is always first in his family. 7. Multiple reasons. But he is sure basket is growing with more Asian-American community for sure. 8. The NBA part

Theme Movie: The Truman Show

Brief Introduction The Truman Show is a film which charts the life of Truman Burbank, a boy adopted at birth by a fictitious television company - Omnicom. He is filmed twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, three hundred and sixty-five days a year so every second of his life is recorded for ‘live’ television. Truman doesn’t know this. He doesn’t know that his friends and family are all actors. He doesn’t know that the events in his life are all carefully monitored and controlled by the production crew of the television network. He doesn’t know he is the star of a television show nor that he isn’t living in the real world.

Character List Truman: Played by Jim Carrey who was chosen out of five unwanted pregnancies and the first child to be legally adopted by a corporation. He is unaware that his daily life is broadcast continuously around the world. Meryl: Truman's wife, who holds a profession as a nurse at the local hospital. Since the show relies on product placement for revenue, Meryl regularly shows off various items she has recently "purchased", which becomes one of the many oddities that makes Truman question his life.

Character List Christof: The creator of The Truman Show. At the climax/resolution, he speaks to Truman over a loudspeaker, revealing the nature of Truman's situation. Marlon: Truman's best friend since early childhood who promises Truman he would never lie to him, despite the latest events in Truman's life. Sylvia: Truman's college schoolmate. She was hired to play a fellow student at Truman's college, named Lauren. She became romantically involved with Truman and tried to reveal to him the truth about his life, but was thrown out of the show before she could do so. She is also a protester against The Truman Show, urging Christof to release its lead.

Movie Clip: The Truman Show (2m10s)

Movie Clip: The Truman Show (2m10s) Truman Burbank is unaware that his entire life is a hugely popular 24-hour-a-day TV series. And the show's director and master manipulator is called Christof. In this movie clip an audience named Sylvia called Christof and asked him if he felt guilty to keep Truman as a prisoner on an immense domed city-size soundstage, simulating（假装的）Seahaven.

Watching Task: Complete the conversation. Christof: That you know what’s right for him? You really think you are 1)________to judge him? Sylvia: What the right do you have to take a baby and turn his life into some kind of mockery(笑柄)? Don’t you 2)__________? Christof: I have given Truman 3)_______. The world, the place you live in, is 4) _______. Seahaven's the way 5) __________.

Watching Task: Complete the conversation. Sylvia: He’s not a performer, he’s 6)________. Look at him! Look at 7)_______! Christof: He can 8) __________ if he was more than just a vague ambition, if he was absolutely determined to 9)________, there’s no way we could 10) ___________. I think what really11)__________,caller, is that, ultimately, Truman prefers his cell, as you call it. Sylvia: That’s 12)__________. You are so wrong. And he will prove you wrong.

Post Task 2: TV Program Designing 1.Imagine you were producing a documentary program about your university. Construct an idea for a television program that shows the university in a positive light a negative light. What sets, characters and conversations would you design? Share your ideas among your group members.

Post Task 2: TV Program Designing 2. If you could construct a perfect world for yourself, what would it be like? Describe your perfect world to your group members.

Post Task 1: Role-play this conversation