Online Class Notes (Ally)

Vocabulary

current event: 实事

censorship: 审查；审查制度；检查

historical landmark: 历史性地标

mentioned：提到了

taboo：避讳；戒律；禁止

influence/impact: 影响

allowed: 允许
ie. The Chinese govt does not allow these subjects.

ban: 禁止

pirated：盗版的
ie. If I watch the pirated version(版本), it doesn’t count.

voodoo: 巫术

scuba diving/snorkeling: 潜水

committed: (v) 犯
ie. committed suicide/committed murder/murdered

regret：后悔

out of: 满分多少分
ie. out of ten, what would you give the movie?

when she comes back to SH, we can do something together.

We shot until midnight last night.

I and my team watched a horror movie.
My team and I watched a horror movie.

Taiwan make film is free
Taiwanese directors are more free with their topics/subjects
Taiwanese films are more varied in their topics/subjects/have more topics/subjects

stop him make film 7 years
ban him from making films （verbnoun） for 7 years

Asian horror movies are actually kind of scary.

Recently watched Paul Anderson’s <Magnolias>. The film tells the story of about six people and different fates, but there are some relationships between them and the time and space.
The beginning of film tells three interesting little stories。The first story tell three robbers kill a baron who is a very nice man and have a warm family. The three robbers never know him and chose him randomly just to grab money。
The second story tell a fire through the forest and the government sent helicopters to extinguish the fire. The dead body belong to a diving hobbyists name Delmer and was found in the forest near the lake.He as a blackjack dealer work for a casino and diving in the lake in his free time.A few days later, a man named Hansen suicided caught everyone’s attention.He was the pilot of the fire, and he often went to the casino to play blackjack in his spare time. He met the Delmer twice at the casino and they are got a fight at the casino over a week of the fire. Maybe
Delmer was diving in the lake，Hansen passed the lake to go to the forest。
The third story tell a young man named Tim，He decides to suicide use jumping off a building. when he falling to the sixth floor position ,the bullet hit him。
A couple on the sixth floor were arguing that day ,the wife threatened her husband with a gun, but because of the gun mistakenly fired, just hitting Tim when he jumped downstairs.
This couple were Tim’s parents.Tim’s parents told the police that they often quarreled and threatened each other in this way, but there was never a bullet in the gun.
Later, neighbor’s little boy told the police . Tim put a bullet in his gun the other day and told the boy , he wanted his parents to kill each other during an argument and that he wanted to free them in this way.

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Recently, I watched Paul Anderson’s <Magnolias>. The film tells a story about six people with different fates, but there are some relationships between them and the time and space.
The beginning of the film tells three interesting little stories。The first story is about three robbers who kill a very nice baron with a warm family. The three robbers didn’t know him and chose him randomly just to grab money。
The second story is a story about a forest fire and the government sent helicopters to extinguish/put out the fire. There’s a dead body that belongs to a diving hobbyist named Delmer and was found in the forest near the lake. He was a blackjack dealer who works for a casino and goes scuba diving in the lake in his free time. A few days later, a man named Hansen committed suicide and/ , which caught everyone’s attention. He was the pilot of the fire squad, and he often went to the casino to play blackjack in his spare time. He met Delmer twice at the casino and they got into a fight at the casino a week before the fire. Maybe
Delmer was scuba diving in the lake，and Hansen passed the lake to go to the forest。
The third story tells the story of a young man named Tim. He decides to suicide by jumping off a building. when he fell to the sixth floor position ,the bullet hit him。
A couple on the sixth floor were arguing that day ,the wife threatened her husband with a gun, but the gun mistakenly fired and hit Tim when he jumped downstairs.
This couple were/was Tim’s parents. Tim’s parents told the police that they often quarreled and threatened each other in this way, but there was never a bullet in the gun.
Later, neighbor’s little boy told the police . Tim put a bullet in his gun the other day and told the boy , he wanted his parents to kill each other during an argument and that he wanted to free them in this way.