Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)

THE WRITER:

Mary Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851, britanic)

She wrote the book in a perfect summer for her, when she was pregnant. He spent it in a lake in GENEVA (Switzerland) . The book was published in 1818.


PLOT:

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein begins on the north pole, where polar explorer Walton's ship hits an iceberg. The crew then picks up a man travelling the icy polar regions, who reveals his name as Victor Frankenstein..There Frankenstein meets Professor Waldmann, who once performed experiments similar to those of Frankenstein. When Waldmann is killed in a hospital, Victor takes the Professor's records in order to continue his works. He begins to assemble his creature using the body of Waldmann's murderer. Victor intends to preserve the brain and spirit of the brilliant scientist. In a giant laboratory of his house he puts the creature into an aquarium filled with amniotic fluid and animates it with electricity produced by eels. When the creature finally comes to life, Victor saw that he wasn’t brilliant. Victor immediately abandons the work. In his journal he writes, "Massive birth defects. Greatly enhanced physical strength but the resulting re-animant is malfunctional and pitiful, and dead." He secretly supports a family by bringing in potatoes from their fields and learns reading by watching the mother teaching her daughter. The people of the town, accused Justine and she dead. At this moment neither knows that the Monster is still alive, and he killed his brotherVictor Frankenstein first meets his creature after the lynching of Justine. The Monster only says, "I will meet you there, on the sea of ice." and disappears. Later the Monster demands a female companion and Victor initially agrees to build a new creature. He immediately begins to work but suddenly he changes his ideas. The Monster then kills Elizabeth by ripping out her heart. Now Victor likes to make a female with the body of Justine and Elizabeth's head and brings her to life. This female creature, as ugly and deformed as Frankenstein's first creation, and she fires his own.


Characters:

Victor Frankenstein
Kenneth Branagh
Elizabeth
Helena Bonham Carter
Henry Clerval
Tom Hulce
The Creature
Robert De Niro
Robert Walton
Aidan Quinn
Professor Waldmann
John Cleese
Baron Frankenstein
Ian Holm

THE FUGITIVE

PLOT SUMMARY:

A well respected Chicago surgeon Dr. Richard Kimble has found out that his wife, Helen, has been murdered ferociously in her own home. The police found Kimble and accused him of the murder. Then, Kimble (without Justifiable Reason) was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. However, on the way to prison, Kimble's transport crashed. Kimble escapes and is now on the run. Deputy Samuel Gerard from Chicago takes charge of the chase of Kimble. Meanwhile, Kimble makes up his own investigation to find who really killed his life, and to lure Gerard and his team into it as well.

MAIN CHARACTERS:

• Harrison Ford -- Dr. Richard Kimble
• Tommy Lee Jones -- Deputy Samuel Gerard
• Jeroen Krabbé -- Dr. Charles Nichols
• Andreas Katsulas -- Frederick Sykes
• Joe Pantoliano -- Agent Cosmo Renfro
• Sela Ward -- Helen Kimble
• Julianne Moore -- Dr. Anne Eastman
• Daniel Roebuck -- Agent Robert Biggs
• L. Scott Caldwell -- Agent Poole
• Tom Wood -- Agent Noah Newman
• Ron Dean -- Detective Kelly
• Joseph F. Kosala -- Detective Rosetti
• David Darlow -- Dr. Lentz
• Eddie Bo Smith Jr. -- Copeland
• Jane Lynch -- Dr. Kathy Wahlund
• Nick Searcy -- Sheriff Rawlins

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MAGAZINE

Street Art

Meet street artist Edgar Müller. Edgar has the new Guinness World Record for creating the world's biggest 3-D pavement art... with animals from the film Ice Age. The art is outside a London shopping centre. To see more of Edgar's work, visit www.metanamorph.com

Here you have some of his paintings.

ICE AGE.





HOTEL OF CARDS

In many hotels, it is common to use key cards to enter in your room. Now a designer in NY has made an entire hotel out of key cards! The carpets, the tables, the toilets and also the bed linen are made from 200000 hotel key cards. The idea was to improve the hotel's image. But this bed doesn't look very comfortable!

DIALOGUES

INFORMAL INTERVIEW

A: Hi. My name's Adrià Salvador. I've come about the job.

G: Oh, hi, Adrià. Pleased to meet you. I'm Guillem. I'm the manager here. Take a seat.
A: Thanks.

G: Right, let's see. Have you ever worked in a restaurant before?

A: Yes, it's my vocation

G: And why would you like to work with us?

A: Because reviews here so friendly.

G: And you? What kind of person are you?

A: Well, I think I'm sociable and friendly.

G: Right. Let me tell you a bit about the job...






GIVING ADVICE

A: Hey, Guillem, what's the matter? You look worried.
what's the problem?

G: Yes, it's, my brother. I think he's stealing things.
I found ten new DVDs in his room.

A: Wow! That's serious! What are you going to do?

G: I don't know. What do you think I should do?

A: Well, if I were you, I'd speak to him.

G: I tried that, but he didn't listen..

A: Then you have to try again. Come on - I'll come with you.

G: Ok. Thanks Adria






DIRECTIONS IN A BUILDINGS

A: Excuse me. Do you work here?

G: Yes. How i can help you?

A: Can you tell me the way to the café please?

G: Yes, of course. It's on the next floor. Can you see those steps over there?

A: The steps next to the shop?

G: Yes. Go up the steps and turn left. Then walk through the Starr Auditorium and you'll see it.

A: Ok. Thanks very much.



G: You're welcome.