Intro
1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.
2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
Revenge is sweet, especially in Quentin Tarantino’s new movie, Inglourious Basterds.
In the film, the Basterds are a team of Jewish men who go around killing lots and lots of Nazis. They get some help from a beautiful French-Jewish starlet, whose entire family was murdered by the Germans. The plot isn’t exactly a true retelling of history, but Jason thinks the movie offers a better version of reality. Listen to him and Devan discuss the glory of Inglourious Basterds.
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.
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Jason: You know what movie I want to live in?
Devan: What?
Jason: Inglourious Basterds.
Devan: You want to live in that movie?
Jason: It’s two and a half hours long and I just didn’t want it to be over. It was so glorious!
Devan: But do you really want to live in World War II?
Jason: No, but I just want to live in the world in which eight guys can just get away with killing Nazis, you know, at will.
Devan: But they had that officer following their every step and he was really scary. I wouldn’t want to mess with that guy.
Jason: Yeah, that guy was a really scary villain. No, I just think it’s really cool that those guys could get away with that, you know, that there’s this band of eight Jews who are just so mad that they just go throughout Nazi Germany doing whatever they want. I feel like that didn’t really happen, and that never really happens, and it’s just a cool world of vigilante justice where the villains get their just desserts.
Devan: Yeah, absolutely. I think that if things had really gone down the way they went down in that movie, that would’ve been pretty awesome. As cool as that movie was, though, I wouldn’t want to live during that period of time.
Jason: Only if it went down like that.
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Discussion
In Inglourious Basterds, a group of Jews gets revenge on the Nazis. Jason likes the idea of the Nazis getting their just desserts. He says he wishes things had actually happened that way. He thought the world of the movie was really cool.
Devan thinks it would be hard to live during World War II. She also thinks it would be scary to be pursued by a Nazi officer like the villain in the movie.
Do you think revenge is sweet? If you could live in any time period, which one would you choose?
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Didn't see the movie, but after doing the lesson i got hyped on the idea of watching it…It seems very interesting and entertaing..By the way, the vocab words and expressions in this lesson are pretty helpful, really liked them!! |
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i saw this movie, one of the best movies by Tarantino, |
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Thx Rosendo! The website is useful,so I added it to my favorite Anyway, it is a funny mistake! |
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Gosh. I wish I'd seen the movie while it was still in theatres. This seems like a really interesting movie just by reading the summary. And guys, its just a movie. Past is past, lets just forget them and continue on with our beautiful lives while it lasts. |
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