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My Week with Marilyn

Adjectives

Date: Dec 26 2011

Themes: Pop Culture

Grammar: Adjectives

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The beauty mark. The platinum blonde hair. The voluptuous curves. Fifty years ago, Marilyn Monroe was the beauty icon. Now, the new film My Week with Marilyn tells one of the lesser-known stories from her famous life. In the film, a young assistant on one of her movies helps her escape her stressful life in Hollywood for one week, during a trip through the English countryside. Hear Dale and Amy talk about the film and our changing ideas about beauty.

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Dale

Amy

Amy: I just saw that movie My Week with Marilyn, Dale, have you heard anything about it?

Dale: Not yet. Tell me more about it.

Amy: Well, you know, it’s a true story. And it is about this young guy who’s working as an assistant on a movie that Laurence Olivier, the famous British actor, made with Marilyn Monroe.

Dale: So the story is about Marilyn Monroe, the beautiful idol from the ‘50s and ‘60s, I believe.

Amy: Exactly, yeah. So you think that Marilyn Monroe was a total bombshell?

Dale: Oh, she was a total knockout. She was, to me, the ideal woman.

Amy: She definitely was the number one iconic beauty of her time. But it just made me think a little bit about how our ideas about what’s beautiful have changed a little bit in the last 50 years. Like she was very voluptuous, curvy.

Dale: And she was natural. She was very natural.

Amy: Yeah, no plastic surgery, right?

Dale: Compared to right now, you don’t know if people have done Botox or have done any kind of plastic surgery.

Amy: It’s just kind of interesting, you know, like throughout time I guess our standards of beauty are always changing, but it seems like these days, like you said, plastic surgery is so common. It’s like everybody in Hollywood, it seems like, is just perfect looking and so skinny. So, it was pretty refreshing to see this movie, and to be reminded of her.

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Amy recently saw My Week with Marilyn, and she explains to Dale what the movie is about. Dale thinks Marilyn Monroe was very beautiful. She was an iconic beauty during her time, and many people still think of her as a total knockout.

Although Dale still thinks Marilyn Monroe was a bombshell, Amy says that our ideas about what is beautiful have changed since she was alive. Marilyn Monroe was curvy, whereas many women today think they have to be very skinny in order to be seen as beautiful. She also was a natural beauty. She didn’t have any plastic surgery.

Do you think Marilyn Monroe was a bombshell? What features or characteristics do you think makes somebody beautiful?

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a2020

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

Yes i think so,she has been really bombshell,curvy,sexy,voluptuous,and everything og her is great,i haven’t seen her movies but i have seen her pics and i like her body more than her face!

Ande maybe she had been alpha,or maybe enchanting.

candycandice

Sweden

I haven’t seen, ’’My Week with Marilyn’’, but heard of it and I’m interested to watch it.

Marilyn Monroe was a bombshell, no doubt. In those days, a knockout was considered to be voluptuous, which Marilyn was and as plastic surgery wasn’t an ordinary thing, you had to be a natural beauty and Marilyn had these traits. In my opinion, no one should be pointed out as not beautiful, we all have special features and characteristics which ought to make us proud. When you see yourself as an beauty in the mirror, no other eyes will deny that. It’s not good news that everyone in hollywood looks like each other thanks to the plastic surgeons’s knife, rather boring, because there should be differences.

rahman_stifler

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

hi i love you

Leka_K

Ukraine

I think she was) She was not such, as all for a those times. She was selected from the crowd.

ozcan.erdal

Turkey

Buttafly

Germany

Oh..indeed..indeed! I bow to that!!! :D

parion

Turkey

Buttafly …quality is more important than quantity ::))))

snoopyboy

Antarctica

Lady gaga makes marylin looks like an albino moose, hehe

Buttafly

Germany

Zambuka..snoopyboy..we are the outnumbered ones here!!

snoopyboy

Antarctica

Someone please slap me, I’d like to think Marylin Monroe is the goddess of the century like everyone else…. hehe!

ola33

Canada

How nicely said: “Natural”

and the goddess of her century.

Zambuka

United States

i guess the point is that even making stupid things she became an icon…and..to my opinion, it makes no difference whether you’re knockout, bombshell, the beauty queen and so on and so on, but the understanding..being understood by the surroundings , being understood by the one you loved, this is the point… and as far as we can see from her example, she wasn’t happy with her beauty and money…suicide was her groove she fell into

snoopyboy

Antarctica

I couldn’t care less about this lesson. I saw prettier girls at the liquor store. I’ve never seen any of her movies, I find her iconic pose very silly not teasing, and why every wannabe nowadays tries to emulate her, is beyond me. It’s time for English baby to make a lesson around Sabrina Salerno…(:

julito

Argentina

A reporter asked Marylin :did you have anything ON (meaning clothes) when you posed for the almanac: She responded, oh yes, “the radio” . hehehe!!!

hatifanta

Russian Federation

I think the beauty of Marylin is fenomen.it’s a riddle.

Your beauty is your sexuality and stunned charm.

A lot of modern stars use a plastic surgery,dieting…but no one have such charmant,such attractness?

And I read her biography,she was woman with nice laugh and good sense of humor.

Beauty doesn’t depend just from pretty face and figure.

parion

Turkey

ı think,there are TWO real results about M.M.

1- All men dreamed a woman ,like MM,

2- All women envied a woman ,called MM…

1A- No man had a woman in real ,like MM

2A- Women said ” inner beauty is more important ” after MM..

12AB- All men and women learned very important thing,after MM,that natural beauty is the best..inner beauty and outer beauty must be together …

:))))

ParioN

Ryo

Saudi Arabia

what do u mean by beautful ? what the special thing more than the rest of the women?

julito

Argentina

FUN777. I agree with you that dying young, though sad , has helped to keep her myth intact .

kokoboko

Ukraine

Marilyn was a very beautiful woman.

And I like beautiful people. Methinks God blessed them with beauty in order to make the World incredible.

Some people admire the beauty of others, many people feel envious.:)

It`s a gift and everyone can`t get it just for nothing. So, you can ask : “Why not me?” Oh, because….:) Not you. That`s all. It`s a big secret.;)

Of course, many of you can say, the outer beauty in nothing compared with inner beauty. OK.:)

So, why do men still die of love for beautiful women? :)

FUN777

Egypt

Well, i think the beauty concept is different from person to person and from time to time, but in my opinion the inside beauty is more important than anything else and it remains even though the person get older. To talk about Marilyn Monroe i think the secret behind her immortal beauty is that we only saw her when she is young and beautiful, but we don’t know what was happening if we saw her an old woman.