Intro
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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
There are certain things a good action movie has to have. There have to be good fight scenes. The more explosions the movie has, the better. Funny one-liners by the hero are important as well.
Usually, there’s a mix of all this cool stuff, and some other, less exciting filler. Machete, the new movie by famous b movie director Robert Rodriguez, is pretty much purely the exciting stuff.
The movie started as a trailer that was made as a joke. The film manages to have the same fast pace as the trailer, even though it’s much longer! The hero, an ex-law enforcement agent from Mexico, uses swords, guns and knives to produce all sorts of action. Listen to Devan tell Jason about her favorite parts of the film.
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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Devan: So, did you see the Grindhouse double feature, and do you remember the fake trailer for Machete back then?
Jason: Definitely. I didn’t even realize it was fake back then, and I was really psyched.
Devan: Oh really? Well, it…it worked out anyway, because they made it into a real movie which I just saw the other day, which was absolutely fantastic.
Jason: Did it keep the pace of that trailer? Like, was the whole thing that ridiculous?
Devan: Yes.
Jason: So let me get this straight. It’s the story of like a Mexican law enforcement guy who becomes an assassin who has like a team of illegal immigrants as his minions...
Devan: Kind of. He gets set up by a guy that’s running for governor of Texas who sets him up to basically make him look bad, because they’re trying to stop Mexican immigrants from coming into the United States, so then he has to get his revenge on this governor of Texas.
Jason: They really fleshed out that trailer into a plot with political intrigue and all sorts of, you know…actual information.
Devan: Right, no yeah, it really…it definitely had a well-scripted plot, you know…I mean, it had definitely a lot of over-the-top antics and gore.
Jason: How about one-liners?
Devan: Oh, tons of one-liners. Tons. So many quotable lines in that film.
Jason: What’s your favorite?
Devan: My favorite is “Machete don’t text.”
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Discussion
In 2007 a movie called Grindhouse came out, and a trailer played before it for a fake movie called Machete. Now that fake movie has become a real movie. But the plot is so over-the-top, it still sounds like it could be fake.
Devan just saw Machete at the theater. She enjoyed the wild plot about a Mexican law enforcer who fights an evil governor in Texas, who wants to stop Mexican immigration to the U.S. The movie had a ton of action, violence, and one-liners. Devan thought it was a fun movie to watch, and Jason can’t wait to see it himself.
Is immigration a big issue in your country? Do you like movies that are over-the-top? Do you know any one-liners?
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"Sh#t happens" said the predator before self-destruction in the Predator-2 I haven't seen Machete yet. |
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Yemen |
it`s a great movie with the freedom that men looking for. I watched it and it`s really cool |
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