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John: Tommy, that's a hundred thousand dollars on a goddam golf swing! Thomas Crown: It's a beautiful Saturday morning, John... What the hell else have we gotta do?

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Detective Michael McCann: Can I drop you someplace? At your hotel? Catherine Banning: One, I keep an apartment here, and two, I am going to your office.

Detective Michael McCann: [pause] She keeps an apartment. I keep goldfish.

The Psychiatrist: [laughing] Peter Pan grows up, and discovers there's no

Post-watching activities:

6. Opinion.

1.Choose the episode you like most. Retell it.

2.What do/don’t you like about the film (plot, scene, details etc.).

What would you like to change in it?

7. Read some interesting facts concerning the film. Which do you like most?

Which facts refer the viewers to the 1968 version?

1.Faye Dunaway, who played the psychologist in this movie, played the insurance investigator in the 1968 original.

2.The dark green Shelby Mustang that Crown drives on Martinique was originally intended to be used for Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in Last Action Hero, another John McTiernan film, and was retrieved from the director's garage for this film.

3.The idea of unusual heat in the museum rendering thermal cameras useless came from director John McTiernan's earlier movie Predator. In that movie, McTiernan's actual thermal cameras began to fail when the jungle temperature broke 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

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4.The scene of Crown racing a catamaran replaced a similar scene in the original script (and the original movie) that was set at a polo match. Director John McTiernan deemed a polo match to be too much of a cliche, and wanted a scene that conveyed more action and excitement, and not just wealth.

5.The final heist consisted of men wearing bowler hats, trench coats, and carrying briefcases, to confuse the surveillance team. This was similar to The Heist, another Pierce Brosnan film, where a heist at a horse track involved multiple men wearing Hawaiian shirts and straw hats.

6.One of the songs played by the band in the ballroom scene is "Windmills of Your Mind," a song written for the original film, The Thomas Crown Affair, that became a big hit in the late 1960s.

7.Pierce Brosnan performed his own stunts during the boat crash scene.

8.At the time of filming, Pierce Brosnan was not a golfer, and thus he had to take lessons for a couple weeks to make his scene hitting out of a sand trap look believable.

9.The Claude Monet paintings used in the film, "San Giorgio Maggiore at dusk" and "Wheatstacks", are, of course, reproductions and were supplied by "Troubetzkoy Paintings"in New York, USA. What's more, the originals are not owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. "San Giorgio Maggiore at dusk" is owned by the Bridgestone Museum of Art in Tokyo, Japan and is currently (2003) on display in the National Museum and Art Gallery, Cardiff, Wales. "Wheatstacks" is at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The painting Crown admires and calls "his haystacks" is Vincent van Gogh's "Noon: Rest From Work (After Millet)", the original of which is in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France.

10.When we first see Thomas Crown's bedroom, briefly visible on his dresser is an autographed and personalized black and white photo from supermodel Cindy Crawford.

11.The Metropolitan Museum of Art refused permission for their interior to be used in the film, so the filmmakers used the New York Public Library, a few blocks, away for many interior scenes, and a sound stage for the rest. The exterior of the Metropolitan was shown several times, with permission from the city of New York.

12.Despite the fact that the museum is never mentioned by name, in one of the first scenes a proctor is seen wearing a blazer with "Metropolitan Museum" clearly visible on it. It is also noted on the crate carrying the 'trojan horse'.

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13.The house used as Crown's Caribbean get-away is owned by one of the

30original families who settled in Martinique in the 1600s.

14.The film originally showed Crown breaking the backing of the Claude Monet painting in order to fit it into his briefcase. However, John McTiernan later decided that audiences might be put off if they saw him in some way damage the painting, so he edited the scene so that it only showed Crown putting the folded painting into his briefcase, and figured most people wouldn't catch on to the fact that the briefcase was half the size of the painting.

15.When Thomas Crown is signing the sale contract in the boardroom, it can clearly be seen from the movement of the pen that he is signing "Pierce"and not "Thomas."

16.The second painting that comes up missing and is given to Catherine Banning at the heliport is "Banks of the Seine at Argenteuil" by Edouard Manet, 1874 and the real painting resides on long term loan to the Courtauld Institute Gallery in England. It is never explained in the movie how it was taken but hints do exist in the original draft of the script.

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UP (2009)

Pre-watching activities:

1. What do these expressions and words mean? Match the appropriate equivalents.

2. Who or what do these words refer to? Explain these expressions briefly.

Paradise falls

Spirit of adventure

Cross heart

Adventure book

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Adventure is out there!!!

Shady Oaks

Episode 2

3. Is the statement true or false? Correct the wrong statements.

1.Mr. Fredricksen went to South America on his floating house.

2.Mr. Fredricksen travelled alone.

3.Russell attracted a giant bird by sweets.

4.Travelers met a talking dog in South America.

5.They had five days to walk the floating house to Paradise falls.

6.The bird was pursued by many dogs.

7.In South America Russell used his GPS to find his bearings on the ground.

8.Russell couldn’t build the tent because his father didn’t teach him.

9.The travellers ran away from the bird and their dog.

10.The bird called her babies that were in twisty rocks.

Episode 3

4. Restore the sequence of events:

1.Kevin was caught by Charles Muntz.

2.Mr. Fredricksen and Russell took the bird to her babies.

3.Charles Muntz started to shoot at balloons on the floating house to capture the bird.

4.On the ceremony Carl Fredricksen pinned the missing badge to Russell’s ribbon.

5.Main heroes were taken as prisoners to the famous explorer.

6.Charles Muntz flew away from his dirigible.

7.Travellers met with Charles Muntz.

8.They saved from dogs when they jumped over to the other rock.

9.They came aboard the dirigible.

10.Russell flew away to save his bird.

11.Travellers had dinner with Charles Muntz.

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