Interview 1 kristen stewart discusses “breaking dawn”
By Rebecca Murray, About.com Guide
Now that you've done three of these are there things that you wish had made into the movie from the book that didn't?
Kristen Stewart: “Yeah, totally. There are a million things. I mean every single time we watch one of the movies, especially when the cast watches it together, it's always an incredibly frustrating experience. That's why I'm glad that Breaking Dawn is going to be two movies, which I can finally say. So there's going to be less of that, less of having to lose stuff.”
How long have you known that Breaking Dawn was going to be two films and how long will the shoot be?
Kristen Stewart: “The shoot is going to be something like six months. We start in October. I think we're not going to be finished until maybe March or something, maybe February. I clearly don't really look at the schedule.”
“I had to hold onto this forever. They've been talking about it for a really long time and we all definitely knew that it was going to be two movies forever now. It's been really hard not to say that. We're all really stoked on that.”
Is there a scene in Breaking Dawn that you hope makes the movie?
Kristen Stewart: “There are a million and we haven't even shot it yet. I can't wait to get married and have a kid. It's all of that. It's going to be crazy.”
In Robert Pattinson's interview last week he said in reference to Breaking Dawn that he wanted to make it rated R and stick to the book. Would you like to stick to the book and bring the rating up, or do you think it should be toned down?
Kristen Stewart: “I guess that everybody interprets those things differently. My guess is that it'll be PG-13. I have no idea, but I guess we'll all see when it comes out.”
Do you see an opportunity in Breaking Dawn, since it's two films, to create two interpretations of Bella, pre-vampire and post-vampire?
Kristen Stewart: “Yeah, actually. I really can't wait to get into that because I've been on the outskirts of what it would feel like to play one of them. I had to think about it a lot, considering that Bella is dating one of them very seriously. It's been years of dealing with these issues and I've thought about it a lot and I can't wait to actually be it. It's going to be a trip. It's going to be weird and I think she does change a lot. I think she's going to be the coolest vampire out of all of them. She's got the greatest power. She's untouchable. Nothing can touch her and I think that literally she can protect the whole clan. She's such a mother, too.”
“I think it'll be awesome to see how much she's changed from Twilight where she's this 17 year old kid who really doesn't care about whole lot other than herself. To see her become this matriarch will be really cool.”
Interview 2 elizabeth banks discusses 'people like us'
By Rebecca Murray, About.com Guide
June
24, 2012 -
If I had to vote now for Best Actress of 2012, Elizabeth
Banks would be one of my top three choices. Banks'
performance as a single mom struggling to make ends meet on a
bartender's salary in People
Like Us is
one of her best of her career, and one of the best overall of 2012.
Screenwriter Alex Kurtzman, best known for big-budget action movies like Star Trek, Cowboys and Aliens, and Transformers, makes his feature film directorial debut with this comedy / drama inspired by true events. People Like Us stars Chris Pine, Captain Kirk in the rebooted Star Trek franchise, as a son who learns his estranged father has just died and left him with $150,000 to deliver to a sister (played by Banks) he didn't even know existed. He plots to meet his sister without letting her know they're related and without disclosing the fact she has inherited money, with Kurtzman (who co-wrote the script) having to create a relationship between the two siblings that never turned the film into a twisted romantic comedy.
At the LA press day for the DreamWorks Pictures release, Banks talked about maintaining the right tone, why she was attracted to this character, and why she wanted to be an actress in the first place.
On the onscreen relationship between her character and Chris Pine's
Elizabeth Banks: “First of all, it’s important to remember we are mourning the loss of our father. We don’t know it’s the same father – I don’t. At the very least, the connection starts there. It’s not a physical attraction that connects us. It’s very important to have that scene in the bar where I think he’s coming on to me and I reject him, so you know that’s not what she’s interested in. I think they're both dealing with a lot of things. It’s that moment when Frankie starts opening her heart. He’s sort of knocked down the wall a little bit. To me, he was opening up the possibility of hope for a better life – of love in my life again, being able to rely on someone again. Because Frankie is alone. She’s doing this by herself.”
“We all need people and that’s the message of this movie. You should have to go through all this sh*t by yourself. You should ask for help! It’s why the culmination of that moment, the betrayal is so powerful for the movie because it’s right at the moment she starts to turn.”
On the trait she most admired about her character, Frankie
Elizabeth Banks: “To me, Frankie is a survivor. I know a lot of ladies like Frankie. Struggling single mom, trying to create a safe haven for their kid, I relate to that. You have to survive. You have someone who relies on you. You’ve got to get through every single day.”
On playing a bartender
Elizabeth Banks: “I was a bartender and a cocktail waitress. I was a waitress for 10 years and at the end, I worked in New York. In New York City, it was literally that exact job. You dress for tips. You get very physical when you need to. I got a lot of marriage proposals. I had a ticket bought for me to go to Brazil, from one of my regulars. That’s what you do. I hated the bar, actually. I preferred cocktail waitressing because you could walk away. And the bar you’re f**king stuck there with these douche bags. There’s nowhere to go.”
On Alex Kurtzman as a director
Elizabeth Banks: “The best thing about him is he really invites people into the process and by doing so, he invites the audience into the movie.”
On when she decided she wanted to be an actor
Elizabeth Banks: “I went to college and thought I was going to be Diane Sawyer. I got great advice. I didn’t want to study for the LSATS, so law school started to be distant. I was always acting as a hobby. I never wanted to do it as a career. I thought actors lived on the Lower East Side, ate bread, and worked in their friends basements. That was all the actors I knew anyways, and I didn’t want that for my life.”
“Honestly, I went to grad school because my mentor said, 'You know, follow your heart and the money will come and see what happens. You can always get a job after.' I went to acting school and booked a commercial 10 days after I graduated and that was it. In other words, they paid me to do it, so I kept doing it.”
On how she spent her first acting paycheck
Elizabeth Banks: “My student loans. It’s completely unglamorous. I was so happy I could make student loan payments, just get rid of that debt as fast as possible.”
Task 8: If you were asked to write stories on the basis of these interviews, which information would you choose? To represent the discourse category intertextuality in the text of your stories what ideas would you select?
Task 9: As future journalists you participate in different projects and activities carried out at your faculty. One of them is to issue a faculty newspaper. The next edition will be devoted to a group portrait. More than that, it will be published in English. You are given an assignment to write articles about your peers. Before writing a story you need to conduct an interview with your groupmates. Think about questions you would like to ask them about. Conduct the interview, choose the suitable information and on the basis of these facts write a story. Don’t forget about your audience and other discourse categories.
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Task 10: Writing Complete News Stories
You are a journalist who works in a local editorial office. Your editor-in-chief has asked you to write a news story based on the suggested information. Choose any situation you like and write a complete news story. First of all critically examine the information language and organization, improving it whenever possible. To provide a pleasing change of pace, also use some quotations in your stories. Assume that you have enough space to report every important and interesting detail. Correct any errors you may find in grammar, spelling and punctuation. Don’t forget to take into consideration discourse categories you are familiar with. If you have forgotten some information about the structure of a news story, then you may come back to the texts about the story structure you have studied in this unit. All these tasks are taken from Reporting for the Media.
Some said she shouldn’t be charged with murder. She wasn’t. She’s a doctor. She had a patient with leukemia. She admitted helping her patient commit suicide. Today she was cleared by a state board of charges of misconduct. The 7-member board – your states Board for Professional Medical Conduct – could have revoked her license to practice medicine. Instead it concluded that the actions of Dr. Catrina Lowrie were “legal and ethically appropriate.” Lowrie is an internist at the Regional Medical Center in your city. No one might have known what she did, but she described it in a public speech sponsored by your city’s chapter of the Hemlock Society, and an anonymous caller called the police about what she said. In the speech she described how she prescribed barbiturates for a patient and made sure the patient knew how many to take to kill herself. The patient, who has since been identified as Irma Cain of 427 Hidden Lane, was 37 years old and, her husband and parents said, in terrible, hopeless pain. They supported the doctor in the matter, their attorney said, but they refused to talk to you about it. Cain decided to commit suicide rather than undergo chemotherapy for cancer which would have given her only a 25% chance of survival. Her death occurred six months ago. Last month, a grand jury investigated the matter and then cleared the doctor of criminal responsibility for the woman’s death. Now the board, which issued its ruling late yesterday, said that the doctor did nothing medically improper in prescribing the barbiturates because “she could not have known with certainty what use a patient might make of the drug she prescribed, and which was totally appropriate and needed by her patient.” Lowrie said in a statement that the ruling “seemed like a very thoughtful decision.” The members of the board stated that they were not condoning “so-called assisted suicide.” They added that this case differed from other recently publicized cases in that Lowrie had a longstanding relationship with her patient. In addition, she did not directly take part in ending her patient’s life. Rather, she prescribed pills needed to alleviate the patient’s pain, and the patient, by herself, took them all at once in a successful attempt to terminate her own life and very painful suffering from the deadly disease.
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watching television and heard a noise. “I saw a man at the window and ran to my bedroom to hide in the closet,” she said. “Then I remembered the bat there. I went back into the dining room and saw this guy opening the window. He put his hand in first. He was coming in the window, and had his left hand on a table there. I took the bat and hit it as hard as I could. I, uh, really smashed it hard. He screamed like real loud, man, and ran away. Then, uh, I called 911.” Police Detective Jack Noonan was at the scene and, when questioned by you, commented on the case, stating that: “Preferably, we would like to see someone in an incident like this call 911 first. It's safer that way. Someone could get really hurt in a situation like this. In this case, the girl was lucky. She kept her head, and she was really brave |
about it. She was home alone and decided she should protect herself and her house. She must have really walloped the guy. There’s a lot of blood on the window and table, so now we’re looking for someone who’s injured.” Police found the bad guy later last night. After the break-in, they notified hospital emergency wards to be on the look-out for a man suffering from trauma to his left hand and, shortly after1 a.m., received a call from the Regional Medical Center, where a man matching a description Andrea gave the police came in for treatment of a very badly cut, broken, swollen, and painful left hand. He has been arrested and charged with attempted burglary. Police identified the man as Steven Jabil, 23, of 800 Crestbrook Loop, Apt. 314. |