英文电影宝典——Clerks

时间:2008-04-29 11:07:20 来源:英文大吧 作者:
 

urifying. Denouement. A French word for the climax of a story, or the outcome. Pull yourself out of this senseless funk. This refers to a feeling of depression, or lack of direction in life. You're spineless. Literally without a spine, but colloquially it means a coward. You get me slapped with a fine, and you violate a corpse! Note that a judge "slaps a fine" or other penalty on a criminal. A corpse is an important and unpleasant word: A dead body! There you go, trying to pass the buck. "To pass the buck" is a set expression which means to place the blame or responsibility on someone else. You like to think the weight of the world is on your shoulders. A poetic expression meaning "all the problems of the world." Like it's some great epic. An "epic" is a big and heroic literary tale. If were so advanced, what are we doing here? Here, "advanced" means intelligent and sophisticated. For Randall and Dante, the key statement of the movie...

Clerks Some Potential Questions for ESL Class Discussion
1. What are Dante's biggest problems in life?
2. Do you see the type of customers that come into Dante's store in real life? 3. Will Dante or Randal ever escape? 4. What do people like Dante and Randall do as they grow older? Will they get married and have kids? Go back to school? Find better jobs? Or just be unhappy and frustrated forever? 5. Have you ever had a dead-end job? Are there advantages to having them? 6. What did you like or not like about this movie?
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