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Prometheus
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Prometheus
《普罗米修斯》

How to Form the Passive Voice

Date: Jul 06 2012

Themes: Alternative

Grammar: Passive Voice

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Somewhere in the universe, are aliens making movies about us humans invading their planet and wreaking havoc? Here on Earth, when we make movies about aliens they are almost always shown to be mean, nasty creatures. And maybe none are nastier than the aliens in the Alien series by the director Ridley Scott.

Prometheus is the newest movie in the Alien series. It is a prequel to the previous films. In the beginning of the movie, life is discovered on another planet, and at first, everyone is pretty excited about it. They must not have seen any of the other movies! Hear Jason and Mason talk about this frightening new flick.

在宇宙的某个地方,外星人是不是正在拍摄人类入侵他们星球并造成浩劫的电影?在地球上,我们经常在电影中将外星人拍成卑鄙和讨厌的动物。或许没有比导演雷德利·斯科特 (Ridley Scott) 拍摄的外星人系列中的外星人更为讨厌的了。
《普罗米修斯》是外星人系列电影中的最新作品。本片是此前电影的前传。在电影开始阶段,人们在另一个星球发现了生命,起初每个人都对此感到非常兴奋。他们一定没看过外星人系列的其他影片!听听詹森和梅森谈论这部惊悚的新片。

Dialog

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Mason

Mason

Jason

Jason

Mason:  It is killing me that I have not gotten to go see Prometheus yet.

Jason:  You have to. It’s so good.

Mason:  Yeah? I mean, are you a big fan of the Alien series?

Jason:  I’m more of an Aliens fan. I actually like the second movie better. But Alien is great, and I actually somehow didn’t realize that this movie was a prequel to Alien, like until I was in the theater. I don’t know, that somehow wasn’t marketed to me.

Mason:  They were kind of subtle about it, yeah, for sure.

Jason:  I thought, in some ways I was like, seeing the previews, “Oh, this looks just like Alien.”

Mason:  But it still takes place way in the future from where we are now.

Jason:  Yeah. Definitely. It’s interesting. Alien, the whole premise is the aliens are bad, the entire time.

Mason:  Right.

Jason:  But in this one, at least there’s this sense that, like, maybe they’re gonna be nice. And then it takes a turn for the worse. But I actually like the fantasy of there being nice aliens on another planet even better than mean ones.

Mason:  You want all the aliens to be E.T.?

Jason:  Yeah! Exactly.

 

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Discussion

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Mason can’t wait to see the new movie Prometheus. Jason recently saw it and thought it was great.

Prometheus was made by the same director as the Alien movie series. But Jason didn’t realize that the films were related. Prometheus takes place before the other films, making it a prequel.

At first, it isn’t clear if the aliens in Prometheus are good or bad. But later it becomes clear that they are very bad. If aliens really do exist, Jason hopes they will be more like E.T. than the killer aliens more often seen in movies.

Do you like movies about aliens? Do you prefer aliens in movies to be nice or scary? Do you think life exists on other planets?

 

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Victoriaa

Victoriaa

France

I don’t like this kind of movies, there are too many fights in there. But I think it’s natural to feel some kind of intimidation about something you don’t know and wanting to protect yourself.


I believe that there is life on other planets, our universe is so huge that we can’t be the only living creatures. I’d like to meet an alien or see what life is like on other planets.

09:51 AM Jul 06 2012 |

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La Princesse de la vie

Egypt

I like this kind of movies, but actually it’s just a type of fantasy not more. I mean that this sort of movies doesn’t give me any impression about the aliens, it’s just a movie like any other fantasy movie. 


I don’t know whether there are organisms on other planets or not, but if there are, I hope they would be nice ones :) .. that would be really interesting.. Wink

09:41 AM Jul 06 2012 |

alexander1987

China

Science fiction film is interesting, ill plan to go to cinema when it comes to china  ^^ why always have delay….what a shame~!


 

08:05 AM Jul 06 2012 |

The Last Joke

Yemen

Joy :


 


It’s not very important if there is life or not on other planets , what is very important   we first learn how to get there …...


 

02:11 AM Jul 06 2012 |

Joy900

Joy900

Japan

Baset : you are sooooo right !


Water first then life



The Universe has millions of Galaxy and at least we can be optimistic enough to think about the Life in any part of the wide universe if there is


Oxygen and Hydrogen there !


02:05 AM Jul 06 2012 |

The Last Joke

Yemen

sol


 



Joy :


A Universe must have the same conditions we have in our solar system for those particular planets that can sustain life.

It must have Oxygen and Hydrogen  ... first!


Water first then life !
There’ll be great possibilities finding the life there.


 

Joy900

Joy900

Japan

Baset : you are sooooo right , me toooo , i don’t want to talk about this !


Theres billions of stars in our own galaxy and billions of galaxies in the universe !


Baset : do you think that there is life there

01:46 AM Jul 06 2012 |

The Last Joke

Yemen


Joy : i don’t like to talk about this kind of movies !


It’s fable , A fable is a story that isn’t true , it teaches us something which does not correspond to reality any link!


 Moreover , the most people who want to find life on other planets are those who are unable to deal with life here on our reality lives, and they think that others planets would be able to help them with day’s problems, they just cannot accept the fact that everyone in this world the prince and beggar they are Adam’s sons .


 

Marcelolic

Marcelolic

Brazil

Oh Oh I was pretty excited about this prequel,specialy when they told me that was about the alien origin hehe


I’m not a alien fan I prefer the The Predators,specially in that movie alien vs predators,it was great :D


Certainly I agree we are not alone in this vast universe,I guess it would be a great pretension we think that :P

01:35 AM Jul 06 2012 |

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Joy900

Joy900

Japan

Baset : what is Prometheus ?


 

01:29 AM Jul 06 2012 |

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