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Cine en casa
27 de mayo de 2013
The apartment
Lectura
Inferno
Billy Wilder
Entrevistas
Revistas
American
magazines
Música
I will survive
Gloria Gaynor
Documental
Jack
Lemmon
Cine en casa
The apartment
Billy Wilder (1960)
De nuevo planteamos la revisión de una
película en habla inglesa, suficientemente
conocida para, en su caso, encontrarla
en nuestro propio domicilio. Si no es así,
proponemos también un lugar donde
comprarla.
En esta ocasión recomendamos un famoso
título que consiguió seis premios Óscar de
Hollywood, y que se considera por la crítica
como una de las mejores películas de todos
los tiempos. Acompañamos, por último, un
link donde poder leer completo el guión
original en inglés.
Director: Billy Wilder.
Stars: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine,
Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston,
Jack Kruschen, David Lewis.
Script.
Price: 7,45 € (DVD)
In: FNAC.
Widely regarded as a comedy in 1960, The Apartment seems more melancholy with each passing
year. Jack Lemmon plays C.C. Baxter, a go-getting office worker who loans his tiny apartment to
his philandering superiors for their romantic trysts. He runs into trouble when he finds himself
sharing a girlfriend (Shirley MacLaine) with his callous boss (Fred MacMurray). Director/co-writer
Billy Wilder claimed that the idea for “The Apartment” stemmed from a short scene in the 1945
romantic drama Brief Encounter in which the illicit lovers (Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson)
arrange a rendezvous in a third person’s apartment. Wilder was intrigued about what sort of
person would willingly vacate his residence to allow virtual strangers a playing field for hanky
panky. His answer to that question wound up winning 6 Academy Awards, including Best Picture,
Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. The Apartment was adapted by Neil Simon and Burt
Bacharach into the 1969 Broadway musical “Promises, Promises”.
A lo largo de la vida de nuestras Newsletters, hemos insistido en los
beneficios de escuchar una entrevista en inglés, debido a los giros
y recursos específicos de este género, sumamente ágiles, y su clara
vinculación con las exigencias de las pruebas de capacitación de lengua
inglesa (que obligan a mantener una conversación).
Nos centraremos en varias entrevistas, en este caso al director de cine de
otra de las actividades de la presente quincena. Tendremos la posibilidad,
en los dos primeros casos, de escuchar al entrevistado (con un acento muy
peculiar y un envidiable sentido del humor), y posteriormente acceder
mediante un tercer archivo a la transcripción por escrito de otra entrevista,
para mejorar así nuestra capacidad lectora.
Interview (complete transcription). Paris Review. “The Art of Screenwriting”
“…INTERVIEWER
Was that one of the reasons you became a director, the difficulty of protecting the writing?
WILDER
That was certainly one of the reasons. I don’t come from the theater or any dramatic school like the Strasberg
school, and I didn’t particularly have ambitions to be a director, to be a despot of the soundstage. I just wanted to
protect the script. It’s not that I had a vision or theory I wanted to express as a director; I had no signature or style,
except for what I learned from when I was working with Lubitsch and from analyzing his pictures—to do things as
elegantly and as simply as possible.
INTERVIEWER
If you’d always had more respectful directors, such as Lubitsch, would you have become a director?
WILDER
Absolutely not. Lubitsch would have directed my scripts considerably better and more clearly than I. Lubitsch or
Ford or Cukor. They were very good directors, but one wasn’t always assured of working with directors like that.
INTERVIEWER
I see Federico Fellini on your wall of photos.
WILDER
He also was a writer who became a director. I like La Strada, the first one with his wife, a lot. And I loved La Dolce
Vita.
Up above that picture is a photo of myself, Mr. Akira Kurosawa, and Mr. John Huston. Like Mr. Fellini and me, they
too were writers who became directors. That picture was taken at the presentation of the Academy Award for best
picture some years back (…).”
The Paris review
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder talks about Marlene
Dietrich
Duration: 5:27 minutes
1980’s interview with Director Billy
Wilder. In this segment Wilder
talks somewhat candidly about his
professional and personal relationship
with screen legend Marlene Dietrich.
Wilder: “I genuinely like her very much
and I’m going to miss her. Or if I go first
she will miss me, god forbid.”
Marlene Dietrich
Billy Wilder Interview (parts 1 to 3).
Duration: 23:42 minutes
Excerpts from a 1986 appearance by
Wilder at the American Film Institute.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Billy Wilder (22 June 1906 – 27 March 2002) was an
Austrian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter,
producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned
more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as
one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of
Hollywood’s golden age. Wilder is one of only five
people to have won Academy Awards as producer,
director, and writer for the same film (The Apartment).
Wilder became a screenwriter in the late 1920s
while living in Berlin. After the rise of the Nazi Party,
Wilder, who was Jewish, left for Paris, where he made
his directorial debut. He relocated to Hollywood in
1933, and in 1939 he had a hit when he co-wrote the
screenplay to the screwball comedy Ninotchka. Wilder
established his directorial reputation with Double
Indemnity (1944), a film noir he co-wrote with mystery
novelist Raymond Chandler. Wilder earned the Best
Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for
the adaptation of a Charles R. Jackson story The Lost
Weekend (1945), about alcoholism. In 1950, Wilder
co-wrote and directed the critically acclaimed Sunset
Boulevard.
From the mid-1950s on, Wilder made mostly comedies.
Among the classics Wilder created in this period are the
farces The Seven Year Itch (1955) and Some Like It Hot
(1959), satires such as The Apartment (1960), and the
drama comedy Sabrina (1954). He directed fourteen
different actors in Oscar-nominated performances.
Wilder was recognized with the American Film Institute
(AFI) Life Achievement Award in 1986. In 1988, Wilder
was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
In 1993, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
Wilder has attained a significant place in the history
of Hollywood censorship for his role in expanding the
range of acceptable subject matter.
Book
Dan Brown(2013)
Description
Inferno is a 2013 mystery thriller novel
by American writer Dan Brown and
the fourth book in his Robert Langdon
series, following Angels & Demons, The
Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol.
The book was released on May 14,
2013 by Doubleday.
Harvard art history professor Robert
Langdon wakes up in a hospital room
with a head wound and no memory
of the last few days. His last memory
is walking in Harvard, but the hospital
is in Florence. Sienna Brooks, a doctor,
tells him he suffered a concussion
from being grazed by a bullet, and had
stumbled into the emergency ward.
Suddenly, a woman dressed like a punk
named Vayentha breaks in, shoots
another doctor, and approaches the
room. Sienna grabs Robert and they
flee to her apartment…
The Author
Dan Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author of thriller fiction,
best known for the 2003 bestselling novel, The Da Vinci Code. Brown’s
novels are treasure hunts set in a 24-hour period, and feature the recurring
themes of cryptography, keys, symbols, codes, and conspiracy theories. His
books have been translated into 52 languages, and as of 2012, sold over
200 million copies. Two of them, The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons,
have been adapted into films.
Brown’s novels that feature the lead character Robert Langdon also include historical themes
and Christianity as motifs, and as a result, have generated controversy. Brown states on his
website that his books are not anti-Christian, though he is on a ‘constant spiritual journey’
himself, and says that his book The Da Vinci Code is simply “an entertaining story that
promotes spiritual discussion and debate” and suggests that the book may be used “as a
positive catalyst for introspection and exploration of our faith.”
Official site:
http://www.danbrown.com
American magazines
Los medios de comunicación social son canales específicos a través de los cuales se difunde
todo tipo de informaciones sobre hechos de interés para una colectividad. La comunicación
periodística busca satisfacer la necesidad de información sobre asuntos de interés general.
Así, los medios de comunicación social cumplen, en general, tres funciones: información,
formación y entretenimiento. De ellas, analizaremos cómo se utiliza la lengua inglesa
adaptada al formato de varias revistas.
Proponemos los siguientes enlaces estadounidenses, en los que navegaremos a través de
sus diferentes secciones o apartados:
Life: de sus interesantes recursos,
destacamos los dedicados a historia y
cultura.
http://life.time.com/
Time Magazine: noticias sobre
política, negocios, salud, ciencia,
entretenimiento, opinión…
http://www.time.com/time/
People: de carácter más informal,
con secciones de estilo, televisión,
mascotas, niños, famosos, vídeos, etc.
http://www.people.com/people/
National Geographic: con reputados
artículos sobre viajes, aventuras,
animales, naturaleza, fotografía y un
largo etcétera.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
Forbes: su fuerte es la información
económica, donde revisaremos
terminología de este ámbito.
http://www.forbes.com/
Business Week: con información
completa sobre el mundo de la
economía, finanzas, tecnología o
política, entre otros sectores.
http://www.businessweek.com/
Sports Illustrated: una de las
publicaciones sobre deportes más
conocidas.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/
In Style
Revistas dirigidas
al público femenino
http://www.instyle.com/instyle/
Cosmopolitan
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/
Marie Claire
http://www.marieclaire.com/
Gloria Gaynor (real name Gloria Fowles, born September 7, 1949) is a U.S.
singer best-known for the disco hit songs “I Will Survive” (1979) and “Never
Can Say Goodbye” (1973).
I will survive
Gloria Gaynor (1979)
Born in New Jersey, Gaynor was a singer with the
Soul Satisfiers, a jazz/pop band, in the 1960s. Her
first solo single was “She’ll Be Sorry”/“Let Me Go
Baby” (1965).
The lyrics of “I Will Survive” are written from the point of view of a woman,
recently dumped, telling her ex-lover that she can cope without him
and doesn’t want anything more to do with him. The song has become
something of an anthem of female emancipation, and is still a staple of
office parties and karaoke nights, not to mention an anthem in North
American gay culture. She also sang on lesser-known disco songs like
“Honey Bee” (1973), “Casanova Brown” (1975), and “I Am What I Am” (1983).
She continued recording for many years, releasing “Last Night” in 2000,
“Just Keep Thinking About You” in 2001, and “I Never Knew” in 2002.
I will survive (English lyrics)
La razón (traducción al castellano)
At first, I was afraid,
I was petrified.
I kept thinking
I could never live without you by my side.
But then I spent so many nights
Just thinking how you did me wrong.
And I grew strong.
I learned how to get along.
Al principio, tenía miedo,
Estaba petrificada.
Seguía pensando
Que nunca podría vivir sin ti a mi lado.
Pero, luego, pasé tantas noches
Solamente pensando en cómo me heriste.
Y me volví fuerte.
Aprendí a sobrellevarlo.
So, now you’re back
From outer space.
I just walked in to find you here
Without that look upon your face.
I should have changed that stupid lock.
I should have made you leave your key,
If I had known for just one second
You’d be back to bother me.
Y ahora vuelves
Del espacio exterior.
Simplemente entré y te encontré aquí
Sin esa mirada en tu cara.
Debería haber cambiado esa estúpida cerradura.
Debería haberte obligado a devolverme la llave,
Si hubiera sabido, por sólo un segundo,
Que volverías para molestarme.
Oh, now go,
Walk out the door.
Just turn around now.
You’re not welcome anymore.
Weren’t you the one
Who tried to break me with desire?
Did you think I’d crumble?
Did you think I’d lay down and die?
Oh, no, not I.
I will survive.
As long as I know how to love, I know I’ll be alive.
I’ve got all my life to live.
I’ve got all my love to give.
I will survive.
I will survive.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, ahora vete,
Sal por la puerta.
Sólo da la vuelta ahora.
Ya no eres bienvenido.
¿No eras tú
El que intentó dejarme?
¿Pensaste que me desvanecería?
¿Pensaste que abandonaría y moriría?
Pues no, yo no.
Sobreviviré.
Mientras sepa cómo amar, sé que estaré viva.
Tengo toda mi vida para vivir.
Tengo todo mi amor para dar.
Sobreviviré.
Sobreviviré.
Sí, sí.
It took all the strength I had
Just not to fall apart.
I’m trying hard to mend the pieces
Of my broken heart.
And I spent so many nights
Just feeling sorry for myself.
I used to cry.
But now, I hold my head up high.
Me llevó todas las fuerzas que tenía
No deshacerme en pedazos.
Estoy intentando arreglar las piezas
De mi corazón partido.
Y pasé tantas noches
Compadeciéndome de mí misma.
Solía llorar.
Pero ahora, no me avergüenzo.
And you see me
With somebody new.
I’m not that stupid little person
Still in love with you.
And so, you thought you’d just drop by
And you expect me to be free.
But now I’m saving all my love
For someone who’s loving me.
Y ya me ves
Con una nueva persona.
No soy esa estúpida personita
Aún enamorada de ti.
Y pensabas que simplemente pasarías de visita
Y esperabas encontrarme libre.
Pero ahora estoy guardando todo el amor
Para alguien que me ama.
Official website: www.gloriagaynor.com
Jack Lemmon (Newton, Massachusetts, 8 de febrero de
1925 - Los Ángeles, California, 27 de junio de 2001) fue
un actor estadounidense, cuyo nombre real fue John
Uhler Lemmon III. Ganó dos Premios Óscar: el primero en
1955, por la película Escala en Hawaii como mejor actor
de reparto; y el segundo, en 1974, por Salvad al tigre
como mejor actor.
Practicaremos inglés accediendo a varios documentales
sobre esta figura.
Vida y obra
Jack Lemmon
John Uhler “Jack” Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June
27, 2001) was an American actor and musician. He
starred in more than 60 films, including Some Like It
Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts (for which he won
the 1955 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award), Days
of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The
Odd Couple, Save the Tiger (for which he won the 1973
Best Actor Academy Award), The Out-of-Towners, The
China Syndrome, Missing (for which he won ‘Best Actor’
at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival), Glengarry Glen Ross,
Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.
Inside the Actors Studio
Duration: 45:43
Jack Lemmon, one of the greatest american actors, on
this program: “Inside the Actors Studio” is an American
television show on the Bravo cable television channel,
hosted by James Lipton. It is produced and directed
by Jeff Wurtz; the executive producer is James Lipton.
The program, which premiered in 1994, is distributed
internationally by Cableready and is broadcast in 125
countries around the world reaching 89 million homes.
It is currently taped at the Michael Schimmel Center for
the Arts at Pace University’s New York City campus.
Documentary
Otros documentales en ingles sobre el actor, para
practicar la escucha:
• Jack Lemmon on Billy Wilder
(5:17 minutes).
• Jack Lemmon on Marilyn Monroe and Stardom
(2:50 minutes)
• Funniest joke I ever Heard 1984. Jack Lemmon
(2:27 minutes)