LISTENING 1 - UNIT 6-Butterfly-Circus

 

LISTENING LI STENING :THE B UTTERFLY UTTERFLY CIRCUS NAME: Edwin Guzmán DATE: July 1, 2021 The Butterfly Circus is a short film created by Joshua and Rebekah Weigel in 2009. The production was completed in 12 days by a cast and crew of over 150 people, on locations in Southern California. The short garnered its first award as the Grand Prize winner of The Doopost Film Project ,  ,   and then went on to win subsequent subse quent awards at festivals around the worl world. d. By July 2010, the film had already accumulated over 7 million collective online views primarily through posts on YouTube. YouTube.  It also featured Latino celebrity Eduardo Verástegui   (Bella), Doug Jones  Verástegui Jones  who played the Pale Vujicic ,  ,   an international Man in 'Pan'sand Labyrinth'. Labyrinth'.    Nick speaker motivational evangelistic from Australia who was born without arms or legs, debuted in film and received the Best Actor award for his starring performance as Will at the 2010 Method Fest Independent Film Festival. Along with his many life experiences, Nick recounts working on the film in his book titled Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life  (Random  (Random House, House, 201 0).

Answer the questions about the fil film: m: Part I: (length 9 min) 1. What physical problem does the t he film film's 's main ch character aracter have have?? It has no upper or lower extremities. ext remities. 2. How do people pe ople react when they see him him?? The first time they see him, people laugh but the circus director doesn't and tells him that he is someone special. 3. How do you think he feels? fee ls? According Accordi ng to the expression on his face, he feels angry and frust frustrated rated by tthe he off enses he suffers 4. What What did tthe he two tw o blond chil children dren throw him? They shot a tomato 5. What's the main character's character's name? His name is will

 

Part II: In the river... (length 9 min)   7. Why did Will Will start to cross tthe he river alone? Because no one wanted to help him and the circus director told him that he should solve his problems alone. 8. Why do you thin t hink k the ""showman" showman" didn didn't 't help him him?? Because you must learn to believe in yourself 9. What happened whil w hile e he was cro crossing ssing the river river?? he fell into the river 10 10.. What wa wass his friends' reaction? His friends thought he was drowning

11. What happened next? He swam to the surface and surprised everyone.

12. Finally, Will had a show to offer to the public in the circus. What was this show about? He would jump jump off a high ramp into a pool and swim tto o the surface alone. 13 13.. What happened in tthis his scene? Why do you tthin hink k it happened? Because the boy saw him swim even though he is disabled and the boy was motivated by his performance.

14. Did you like the movie? movie? Why? Why not? Yes, I really really liked liked the movie, beca because use it leaves you a n nic ice e message

15 15.. Were Were you emotion emotionally ally tou touched? ched? Yes, I saw it because I saw a person who was frustrated was able to solve their problems

16. Which Which momen moments ts did you lilike ke the most? I liked the moment Will's friends thought he was drowning and, in the end, he surprised everyone by swimmin swimming g to the surface.

17. What did you take away from the movie?

 

He left me a nice message, that we must not feel frustrated by our difficulties, we must evolve like a butterfly, butt erfly, and that there iiss no obst obstacle acle that ccan an overcome us us..