Elephant

Intro

1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.

• awesome
• brutally
• chilling
• cookie-cutter

• extremes
• dunno
• relevance
• based around

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As the world watched live on television, 2 students at Columbine HS in Littleton Colorado, brutally attacked their fellow-students and teachers. The film Elephant is a chilling movie which looks deeper into the lives of troubled teens like these. Winner of the Golden Palm at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, Elephant is not a cookie-cutter Hollywood movie. Gus van Saint, it’s creator uses a variety of creative cinematographic techniques to create the mood and feelings which would bring an individual to such extremes.

Dialog

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Stephanie

Beth

Stephanie:  Hey have you seen that movie Elephant?

Beth:  No…I think I heard something about it…aren’t there some famous actors in it?

Stephanie:  Actually, I don’t think that there are any famous actors in it, but the director is pretty famous.

Beth:  Who directed it?

Stephanie:  Gus Van Saint…have you heard of him?

Beth:  Oh yeah, he’s awesome!

Stephanie:  Yeah it won some awards. Um…it won the Palm d’Or at Cannes.

Beth:  Wow…what was the film about?

Stephanie:  It was kind of about high school violence…I dunno...you lived in Colorado right? Do you remember Columbine?

Beth:  I do remember hearing about it. Is there some relevance between that incident and the movie?

Stephanie:  Yes there is some relevance there. Actually the movie is kind of based on that story

Beth:  Oh wow, I didn’t realize that.

 

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