Legends of the Fall, US (1995), 1st viewing

Legends of the Fall, US (1995), 1st viewing

Characters: Colonel Ludlow, Isabel, One Stab, Alfred, Tristan, Samuel, Decker and Pet, Susannah Finncannon;

Settings: Montana (state), Helena (city), Serbia.

1. Study the vocabulary (it may help you a lot while watching the video):

Vocabulary:

Phrases:

1. Willful(ness) – несговорчивый, своенравный 2. Infinitely - безгранично 3. At a Harvard tea (at the university) 4. Breeding (=good manners) 5. To disgrace - обесчестить 6. To scalp – снять скальп 7. A likeness = приблизительный портрет 8. A turning point – переломный момент 9. To enlist = завербоваться 10. A half-breed - полукровка 11. (on) a reconnaissance = в разведку 12. to volunteer to do sth – вызваться сделать что-то 13. vitality = energy 14. overnight - in one night 15. adamantly - жестко, твердо 16. to abandon - покинуть 17. the Volstead Act = сухой закон 18. a bootlegger – бутлегер 19. to handle liquor = торговать спиртным 20. to plead guilty = сознаться в совершенном преступлении 21. an amateur - непрофессионал, дилетант

1. To go one's own way – идти своим путем 2. To re-order a life already lived – перестроить прежнюю жизнь 3. To behave oneself – вести себя прилично 4. To lower oneself (to speak English) – унизить себя чем-л, уронить себя 5. He won't lift a finger to (stop them) – и пальцем не пошевелит… 6. To be stuck in the middle of nowhere (=provincial life) 7. She's got me spinning = вскружила голову 8. To meet sb's expectations – соответствовать ч-л ожиданиям 9. To bring sth up = затеять разговор о… 10. To drift apart = разминуться в жизни 11. To cause sb pain – заставить кого-л страдать 12. To acquire a reputation for fair dealing 13. To stay out of sth = не соваться в… 14. To gain in wisdom and humanity – набраться мудрости и гуманности 15. To have a stroke – получить инсульт 16. To have the audacity to do sth – иметь смелость сделать ч-л 17. A small-time (liquor) operator - мелкая сошка 18. To serve (30 days) – здесь: отсидеть срок 19. To be reprimanded - получить выговор

2. Choose the best beginning for a summary and sum up the plot of the movie in 5-7 sentences:

a) The movie opens with narration by One Stab, the Indian who….

b) This is a family saga about three brothers raised in Montana by their iconoclastic father—a former cavalry officer who……

c) It's an epic Western saga about a beautiful woman from back East, and the three sons of a Montana rancher who …..

3. Provide a sentence to be concluded with this one:

a) …….. She leaves the colonel to see them grow to manhood.

b) ……The colonel is outraged, but the other two sons enlist, too.

c) …… His family look down on his successful career in politics.

d) …… The Colonel meanwhile grows older and more infirm.

e) ……. But cities grow and prohibition benefits a class of big-time operators now.

4. Characterize one of the Ludlow brothers showing what he inherited from his father.

Note! Do not use any material from the Internet (will check your answers for plagiarism! ) Try to use the vocabulary from the movie. Remember, it will be quite obvious whether you have watched it in English or in Russian.