Intro
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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
Following the success of films like Hellboy and The Dark Knight, Watchmen is the latest comic book to be adapted into a movie. But this one is about more than cool superheroes and crazy visual effects. Watchmen is based on a popular graphic novel that deals with serious topics like the Cold War and the threat of a nuclear holocaust.
Turning a book or comic book into a movie is always risky, because fans of the original book are usually pretty critical of the film. Mason loved the graphic novel Watchmen. Listen to him and Marni discuss the adaptation.
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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Mason: So did you watch the Watchmen, Marni?
Marni: I have not seen it yet, but tell me about it, I’m dying to see it.
Mason: So you know, Watchmen was a big hit comic book that came out in the mid-80s.
Marni: It was a graphic novel, correct?
Mason: Right, technically a graphic novel. I don’t really have a problem calling them comics, but we won’t get into that.
Marni: Alright, alright.
Mason: But it’s definitely got these apocalyptic kinda tones to it, ‘cause that was the Cold War era.
Marni: Right, right. And so they…that’s sort of a theme throughout the film?
Mason: Yeah. So it’s kind of using these superheroes in a sense to talk about the context and fear that was going on, of like, people thought the bomb was gonna drop and the world was gonna end.
Marni: Alright, interesting. But how was the film though, visually is it…
Mason: It’s visually quite beautiful I think. And it was very well adapted, almost frame-for-frame from the comic. But there’s an emotion that’s kinda lacking from it, I felt.
Marni: I’ve actually heard that from other people.
Mason: I walked out of the theater and I didn’t feel that joy of like, I just saw this thing come to life.
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Discussion
Mason is a big fan of the graphic novel Watchmen. A graphic novel is a special kind of comic book that is more complicated and sophisticated, like a novel.
Watchmen is set in 1985. It uses superheroes to talk about the Cold War, when the U.S. and the Soviet Union competed with each other to be the world’s most powerful nation. During this time, both countries developed many nuclear weapons. People were afraid that there would eventually be a nuclear holocaust.
In the movie, superheroes save the world from nuclear destruction. Is that something you worry about today?
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I don't worry about it, also I don't think any good for developing nuclear weapons. A Chinese idiom "杞人忧天", means having groundless worries or anxieties, it might not be groundless, but it's also something we could not change, so just accept the situation. I never watch this movie, not my type, I don't like the theme. I like some other Japanese anime~ |
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