Intro
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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
American cinema was founded on Westerns. There’s even an airport near Hollywood named for cowboy star John Wayne. But in recent decades, filmmakers have been in love with aliens. From Avatar to Star Wars, creatures from space are fun to watch.
Historically, these two genres of film have remained separate. But in a new movie starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford, a spaceship comes to Arizona in 1873, right in the middle of cowboy country of the wild west. One man finds that his six shooter has been replaced by a laser gun and things get more intense from there.
Listen to Jason and Marni discuss this long-awaited action movie combination.
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
Jason: The weird thing about aliens and alien movies…
Marni: Yes?
Jason: They always visit in the present day.
Marni: This is true.
Jason: Which is why Cowboys & Aliens is going to be such an awesome movie.
Marni: I’m pretty excited about that too. They go back to the wild west.
Jason: Yeah!
Marni: Wow. Who…what a concept! Like, you know, let’s just put a western flick and an alien flick together and make this movie. Why not?
Jason: And it’s cool, because westerns reflect the most celebrated period in American history. So it’s like if aliens happened to visit at the height of our storytelling time.
Marni: Right. Yeah, it’s a very interesting concept. And of course, it stars Daniel Craig who was James Bond, and Harrison Ford. How can you go wrong?
Jason: Legitimate actors.
Marni: Yeah, I can’t wait to see it. I think it’s going to be really interesting.
Jason: And how much scarier would it be to have aliens visit when you’re in the wild west, and all you’ve got are these six shooters to defend yourself?
Marni: That’s true. They don’t have the arsenals that today’s alien fighters seem to have.
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Discussion
Jason is excited to see the new movie Cowboys & Aliens. He likes the idea of combining a Western with a movie about aliens. Marni agrees that the film has a pretty cool concept. She also likes both the main actors in Cowboys and Aliens, Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig.
Jason thinks that aliens would be even scarier in the wild west than in our current time, because people in that era didn’t have very advanced weapons. So it would have been even harder for them to fight the aliens. Jason loves the ideas of aliens visiting the planet during such a classic era in American history.
What do you think is the most interesting era in the history of your country? What is your favorite movie genre?
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