Intro
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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
Sure, it can be nice to watch a movie for the great acting, intelligent writing or beautiful cinematography. But sometimes you just want to get pumped up with a great action movie with killer fight scenes.
Of course, not everyone would agree on what makes an awesome fight scene. Does it take impressive martial arts moves, death defying stunts, or creative camerawork? Does a chair have to get broken over someone’s head in order for a fight scene to really rock? Listen to Jeff and Jason share their favorite movie fight scenes.
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: I just watched Roadhouse. Are you familiar with that movie?
Jeff: No, I’ve never seen it. I’ve always heard about it.
Jason: It’s an 80s movie with Patrick Swayze, and he plays a bouncer. And it’s pretty much two hours of bar fights. That’s basically what the movie is. Lots of tables getting broken and bottles being smashed throughout the whole movie.
Jeff: Sleeveless shirts?
Jason: Yeah, in the earlier scenes, the bar is so unruly that people don’t even wear shirts. At all. So…
Jeff: Sounds good. Anything with Swayze.
Jason: Yeah. It’s crazy. It’s this huge bar, and there’s this scene where there’s a complete brawl in this place, just everyone in there all fighting together.
Jeff: What other fight scenes in movies are your favorite?
Jason: Well, there’s…you know, there’s gotta be The Matrix in there, with the slow motion, camera-turning action, you know?
Jeff: Yeah, that was pretty cool when it first came out. I feel like it has become overused since, but…
Jason: What do you think makes a good fight scene these days?
Jeff: I don’t know. They’re so over the top that it’s almost always funny to me.
Jason: There’s something about watching it just down and dirty like that that makes you…it makes my heart start pumping and I feel like I’m actually in the fight.
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Discussion
Jason recently saw a movie from the 1980s called Roadhouse. He loved all the fight scenes in the movie. The movie takes place in a bar and is basically a two hour long brawl.
Jeff thinks fight scenes are too over the top these days. He liked the fight scenes in The Matrix when that movie first came out, but now the slow motion filming technique has been overused. Jeff doesn’t usually like fight scenes in movies, but Jason likes the way they get him pumped up.
What do you think makes a good fight scene in a movie? What movie do you think has the best fight scene in it?
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