Urusevsky as an Artist
Упражнение 1. Выпишите в три колонки правильные глаголы в простом прошедшем времени по типу чтения окончания "-ed":
received, expected, expressed, decided, prepared, invited, enriched, wanted, liked, lived, worked, enabled, explained, rehearsed, depended, talked, wished, agreed, started, tried, formed, grossed, asked, reminded, showed, created, helped.
Упражнение 2. Напишите транскрипцию неправильных глаголов в простом прошедшем времени:
Wrote, found, brought, saw, knew, thought, said, paid, chose, began, became, took, gave, drew.
Упражнение 3. Перепишите слова и проставьте в них ударение (знак ударения ставится перед ударным слогом):
а) industry – industrial; photography – photographic; distributor –distribution; popular – popularity; national – nationality; document
- documentary; period – periodical; biography – biographical; poet
- poetical; public – publicity; concept – conception.
б) masterpiece, camerawork, film-goer, street-cleaner, close-up, holiday, Hollywood.
Упражнение 4. Выпишите в четыре колонки существительные, глаголы, прилагательные и наречия, определяя часть речи по суффиксам. Подчеркните суффикс:
animation, supervise, originality, dominate, practically, advertisement, electrician, adventure, documentary, business, reality, basically, famous, advertise, supervision, examination, unify, expressive, responsible, essential, calculate, location, satisfy, suitable, interesting, dramatic, historic, useful, formal, symbolize, poverty, classify, goddess, simplicity, entertainment, completely, cheapest, successful, stability, expensive, technically, soundman, terribly.
Упражнение 5. Переведите словосочетания с интернациональными словами:
a student of the British National Film School; a unique personality; film-going public; a long period of editing; the final print; epic movement; to choose a subject; to form a crew; to calculate the budget; to book the studio; to arrange transport for the crew and the actors; to change the film in the camera; to send the negatives to the lab for processing.
Упражнение 6. Поставьте по пять вопросов к каждому из данных предложений (см. образец в Задание 11 БЛОКА II):
1. John Russel received about $ 300 to make a short-length film.
2. The student decided to make a fiction film.
3. Greta Garbo was born in Sweden.
4. Film-goers will always remember her lovely face and her talent.
Упражнение 7. Перепишите TEXT А в тетрадь и письменно переведите его:
TEXT А.
Urusevsky as an Artist
Sergei Urusevsky, the outstanding Soviet cameraman, was born in 1908. (When?)
He started his career as an artist. He studied art in Leningrad under the well-known artist Favorsky. (Where?) At the Art Institute Urusevsky tried his hand at painting, etching and photography. (What?) He graduated from the institute at the age of 27. (At what age?) Favorsky gave him a letter of introduction to Pudovkin (Who?) because he knew of Urusevsky's interest for film photography. (Why?) This is how it happened that Urusevsky took part in the shooting of Pudovkin's film "The Victory" (1935) as an assistant cameraman. (How?) During his long film career Urusevsky shot a great number of films, which brought him popularity. (How many films?) His best motion pictures were "The 41st", "The Cranes are Flying" and "I am Cuba". (What?) Urusevsky made a valuable contribution to film photography, because he never stopped experimenting. (Why?) With the help of expressive close-ups and a dynamic hand camera he managed to convey the inner life of the characters. (How?) There was inner likeness between his camerawork and painting. As a cameraman he showed a good taste of a painter in lighting his film portraits, sets and locations. Modern form was typical for his paintings and his films. At the end of his life Urusevsky turned to film direction. (What?) The last film he made as a director was a movie about Esenin. Urusevsky died in 1974. (When?) But his films will always remain in the history of film art. (What?)
Упражнение 8.
а) Подчеркните в переписанном Вами английском тексте все глаголы.
б) Поставьте вопросы к тем предложениям текста, после которых в скобках стоит вопросительное слово.
Упражнение 9. Найдите в TEXT А английские эквиваленты словосочетаний:
творческий путь в кино; под руководством выдающегося художника Фаворского; пробовать силы в живописи; закончить институт; в возрасте 27 лет, дать рекомендательное письмо; снять большое количество фильмов; принести популярность; его лучшие кинокартины; внести ценный вклад в искусство кино; при помощи выразительных крупных планов; суметь передать атмосферу; внутренняя жизнь героев; внутреннее сходство; проявить хороший вкус; декорации и натура; в конце жизни; умереть рано; остаться в истории киноискусства.
Упражнение 10. Переведите прилагательные в сравнительной и превосходной степени:
1. моложе, старше, короче, дешевле, выше, проще, позднее, раньше, лучше; выразительнее, динамичнее, типичнее, популярнее, дороже, практичнее, более опытный, более необычный, гораздо более оригинальный, гораздо менее интересный;
2. самый лучший, самый длинный, самый трудный, самый известный.
Упражнение 11. Перепишите предложения, открывая скобки и переводя заключённые в них словосочетания:
1. Her childhood was _ (труднее) and her life was _ (драматичнее), than thoseofmany colleagues of hers. 2. His next film was _ (менее успешный); than his first movie. 3 At that time the actor was _ (старше) and _ (гораздо опытнее). 4. My fees became _(выше) and my work more interesting, _ (чем) before. 5. It was the _ (самый лучший) and the most expensive production of the year.
Упражнение 12. Перепишите предложения, открывая скобки и ставя глаголы в простое прошедшее время (правильные глаголы отмечены *):
а) The young director _ (to find) a cast of actors, who _ (to want *) to work with him. They _ (to choose) the subject together. Then he _ (to form*) the crew. After that he _ (to invite*) a soundman and an electrician. He _ (to buy) tapes for the soundman, _ (to pay) the fees to the actors and _ (to hire*) some props. Every night they _ (to take) the negatives to the lab. The rushes _ (to come) back the next day. Every evening the crew _ (to see) the previous day's rushes and _ (to check*) that everything _ (to be) technically O.K.
б) 1. The rushes _ (not, to include) the sound. 2. He _(not, to have to) pay the crew. 3. He _ (not, to choose) the subject alone. 4. She _ (not, to like) the general attention which came with fame. 5. Her first movie _ (not, to bring) her popularity. 6. She _ (not, to be) an ambitious actress.
Упражнение 13. Перепишите предложения, открывая скобки и переводя заключённые в них словосочетания (см. Задание 27 БЛОКА П):
1. Не formed the crew: a cameraman (чтобы снимать) the movie, his assistant (чтобы заменять плёнку) and an electrician (чтобы помогать) with the lights. 2. Then he invited a soundman (чтобы записывать) all the sound. 3. They checked the rushes (чтобы проследить, увидеть) that everything was technically O.K. 4. The crew stayed behind (чтобы посмотреть) at the rushes. 5. He engaged a manager (чтобы не думать) about business details. 6. He invited student actors (чтобы не платить) high fees.
Упражнение 14. Письменно переведите TEXT В.
TEXTS. A Student's Film
John Russel was a second-year student at the British National Film School He received from the school about three hundred pounds with which to make a short-length film. John decided he was more interested in exploring fiction than documentary. And this was how he started preparation for the production First of all he had to decide if he wanted a script or not He decided against this and he found a cast of actors who agreed to work with him. They chose the subject together. Then he formed the crew: a cameraman to shoot the film, a cameraman
assistant to change the film and an electrician to help with the light. After that he invited a soundman to record all the sound and engaged a production manager and an executive to take care of the business details. They were responsible for drawing up the shooting schedule; they calculated the budget, paid the actors, booked the studios and arranged the transport for the crew and the actors to and from the set or locations. They also had to get hold of all the props and costumes, although the actors helped them very much in this. The most expensive thing John had to pay for out of his budget was the film stock and the processing. He also paid for food and transport, hired some props, bought tapes for the soundman and paid the fees to the actors. He didn't have to pay the crew, however, because they all did it to get experience. And he didn't have to hire equipment or pay for the editing facilities as he got them free from tht Film School. Every evening, after the day's shooting the director and the crew Stayed behind to look at the rushes, because the lab was near and they took the negatives to the lab every night after the day's shooting. The rushes came back the next day, sb every morning the crew saw the previous day's rushes. The rushes didn't include sound. The director and the crew checked the rushes to see that everything was technically O.K. If some shots were unusable, they made a note of them to reshoot them. When the shooting was over, the director made a rough-cut. Then there was a long period of editing of the image and of the Sound. The lab prepared the final print. The film was ready.
Упражнение 15. Прочитайте TEXT С без словаря и составьте на русском языке биографическую справку об актрисе, выбирая из текста все необходимые фактические данные (см. образец в Задание 29 БЛОК II).
TEXT С. Greta Garbo
Garbo was born in Sweden on September 18, 1905, in the South-side of Stockholm into a family of a street-cleaner and his peasant wife. Her real name was Greta Lovisa Gustaffson. She spent most of her childhood in near poverty. As the youngster she was plump and terribly |hy. Only her great ambition to become an actress helped her to overcome her shyness. At first she worked as a shop-girl, but then she got into a drama school. Soon after her graduation her film career started. In 1922 she made her first screen-appearance in a short-length film called "Peter". In 1924 she met a famous Swedish directorMauritz Stiller, and he invited her to play in his film. Her performance in his movie "Saga of Yester Berlihg" brought her popularity. In 1926 with Stiller's help she received an invitation from Hollywood.
Her unique personality, great beauty, her inspired performance and inner strength attracted the attention of the film-going public.
Greta Garbo rose to stardom between the two wars and the public looked upon her as a goddess.
She featured and starred in a great number of films, but her best movies were "Queen Christine" (1934), "Camille" (1937) and "Anna Karenina" (1935). In 1954 she got an Oscar.
Her private life was practically uneventful, as she demanded that people leave her alone. Even at the height of her career she didn't accept the general attention which came with fame. She didn't give any interviews and lived a very solitary life. Perhaps, because of her great shyness, she never got married.
Garbo's unusual popularity was short-lived. After a failure in the film "A woman with two faces" in 1941, the actress gave up acting in films. She died in New York on April 15.1990.
(Films and Filming)
Упражнение 16. Прочитайте TEXT D без словаря и изложите своими словами содержание каждого абзаца.
TEXTD. Wim Wenders (1945) talks about himself
1. I didn't know much of any film values until the age of 20. I went to the movies a lot, but I didn't know the name of a single director. When I grew up in Germany in the 50's and early 60's there was no . film culture, there were no film magazines. Movies were strictly cheap consumer pleasures.
2. I moved to Paris to become a painter, but they didn't accept me at the Art Academy. I started attending the studio of an American engraver. His course was only in the morning. In the afternoon I had a lot of spare time, because I Could not do etching without special tools. I was cold and I had only enough money to pay for the course and my little room and there was no heating. I found out that the cheapest way to warm in Paris was to go to the cinema. It cost one franc - 15 cents -for one screening and if you were smart you could stay between the screenings in the toilet and sneak into the next
one. Sometimes I practically spent all afternoon and the night there and saw four, five, six movies a day.
3. I got completely addicted and saw about a thousand films in that time. I saw so many films that I started to make notes in between the screenings not to forget them. That's when I wrote my first film reviews. I began to realize what distinguished each film from others what made a great work of art.
4. I was especially fond of Anthony Mann's work, the way he structured the films, the way he basically worked with three frames: close-up, medium close and wide shot - there was nothing else. I really enjoyed the simplicity and at the same time the epic movement of all his films. I liked to see his film "Man of the West" over and over again. I never missed a show of my favourite movie. I once sat through five screenings in a row. People thought I was crazy, when I told them about it. Some day I will write a book about Anthony Mann.
Film Comment, January-February, 1992. p. 74
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