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.
Have you ever played video games for so long, that your dreams look like one? What if your life became a video game?
In Tron: Legacy the son of a video game creator is sucked into the digital world of video games his dad designed. He must complete a quest or else it’s game over. Find out what Jeff and Marni think about this movie and the disappearing divide between real and digital life as the year 2010 ends. But don’t stay on the computer too long or you might end up like the character in Tron.
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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Marnil |
Marni: Jeff, when I was 7 years old I saw a movie, and it changed my life. I’m dating myself here, because it was Tron, the original Tron that came out in 1982.
Jeff: We all know how old you are now.
Marni: Yes, exactly. And it was so awesome. Or at least at the time I thought it was so awesome. And yeah, I don’t know, I’m pretty excited about this new Tron remake. I think it’s a really interesting concept of like, you know, taking his same character, Jeff Bridges, and sort of dating him and seeing what’s happened to him this whole time he’s been locked in this world.
Jeff: I think it’s kind of interesting how the world has, with that amount of time passing, the world has definitely come closer to what the movie is set in. The blurring of the digital world and real life, it’s kind of…the lines are getting a little hazy.
Marni: I think it was kind of ahead of its time in ‘82. So I think that this virtual world that they’ve created now, you see that a lot.
Jeff: Yeah, the advent of the Internet and things like Facebook having sort of an alternate persona in the digital world.
Marnil: I think originally it took place in an arcade and I thought, “It just doesn’t get any cooler than that,” and I have such high expectations for this film, I’m super excited to see it.
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Discussion
Marni saw the original Tron when it came out in 1982, and she loved it. At the time, the idea of existing inside a digital world seemed very futuristic. But now, in the age of the Internet, the plot of Tron seems a little more realistic.
Tron: Legacy is the sequel to the original Tron that Marni saw when she was a little girl. In the new movie, a young man discovers the digital world that his father, played by Jeff Bridges, first created nearly 30 years ago.
In what ways do you think we live in a digital world?
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