How do Hollywood love stories reflect social progress?
Session A – Are love stories evolving? (group work)
Éléments de réponse pour les questions 1 et 3.
1. Prepare key words to describe your group’s poster.
3. Ask the other groups about their poster and fill in this grid.
Group A: Gone With the Wind
Place
The US/countryside/plantation
Group B : Sleepless In Seattle
Group C : Titanic
Each character seems to be living on a boat/ship => cruise ship
in two different cities (US)
because it is night/day => time
difference
Colours
red/orange → love/passion?
Characters
A man (late thirties) and a woman a couple: a white man and a white A woman and a man = seem to be
(late twenties - seem to come woman blind date, in their mid- from different social background
from different social background thirties – never met but they
would end together - no one else
in the film poster
Attitudes
A couple about to kiss - deeply in looking at each other - same
love
direction - beginning of a love
story?
Group D: Something New
Place
Light blue: day - dark blue: night blue: ocean, cruise ship, the
+ orange (sunset)
woman’s dress ...
Group E : The Break-Up
bedroom
A couple who is in their bed
seem to be dancing - They are
resting their head on each
other’s.
Group F : LaLaLand
Set in LA – background: colours
remind me of the sky and there are
also stars -> name given to LA
‘the city of stars’
Colours
White, pink and orange
dark blue
Characters
2 faces, the woman seems to be A man and a woman are in bed.
black and the man seems to be
white
Couple – they are deeply in love
with each other
Love at first sight?
Att
They seem to be happy, the man They may have broken up
is smiling, and the woman is because there is tape between
looking at the audience.
them => symbolising their
separation.
They are kissing, and the woman
is not touching the ground
He is holding her and lifting her
from the ground.
She is wearing high heel shoes
1/2
How do Hollywood love stories reflect social progress?
2. Prepare questions to the other groups.
Where does the story take place?
What are the dominant colours of your poster?
Who are the characters?
What is the film about?
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