Filmmaking and Storytelling
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1a) Firstly, what type of films do you like? Put a tick next to the film types you like.
b) Can you name one film in each type? Fill in their names.
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Science Fiction
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Horror
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Comedy
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Romance
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Adventure
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Historical
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Animation
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2) Many people think the King of Masks has a good story with surprises and tense moments.
What did you think of its story?
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3) Describe the best bits.
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4) What is making grandpa sad at the very beginning of the film?
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5) What is happening in the pictures on the right?
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6) Then grandpa approaches the boy and the man with him. Why does he not buy him?
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7) Then what happens?
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8 Look at the image on the right. How does this make you feel? What did the filmmaker do to the image to make you feel this way?
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9a) Look at this moment where grandpa turns round to look at Doggie for a second time. What happens to the camera in these 3 shots?
b) How does this move make you feel?
c) Why is he looking downwards?
d) What happens to the music at this point?
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10a) After this, grandpa takes Doggie to live with him. How does this make you feel?
b) How does the filmmaker make you feel like this?
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11a) What do you think of the acting of Zhou Renying, the little girl who plays doggie? Was she believable in this scene?
b) How might a director help a young actress behave realistically in front of a camera?
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12a) What is the big shock in the film?
b) Did you guess this?
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13) Has there been anything in the story to hint at this secret?
What about the character in the first image on the right... who is also the character in the second image, why might they have given us a clue?
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14) What do you think of this technique the director is using - hinting at the secret in the film in a hidden or "disguised" way?
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15) Look how different doggie looks after her secret is revealed! What has changed?
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16) What has just happened in this scene?
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17) What is grandpa's reaction when he finds out?
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18a) Why did Doggie steal?
b) Was she right or wrong to do so?
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19) In this scene, grandpa says "I've never stolen or begged from anyone." Why do you think this is the case? After all, he's been poor for most of his life.
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20) At the concert in the film, whilst everyone is enjoying themselves, something happens to these parents. Can you remember what it is?
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21) This is the second theft in the film. The first is when Doggie steals the red container from the shop. Here is another one - where Doggie steals potatoes. Do we feel that she is as wrong this time as when she stole the red jar?
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22a) And then this happens. What is going on?
b) Is Doggie right to do this?
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23) Then Doggie brings Tianci to grandpa. Why does she do this?
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24) Doggie's "theft" of Tianci is the third theft in the film - after the jar from the shop and the first theft of Tianci by the man. Why might the filmmaker want to show us three very different thefts?
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25) In this scene where grandpa meets a women in the temple, she says "luck and misfortune are intertwined. What might she mean by this?
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26) The word filial appears several times in the film, including in this scene. What does it mean?
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27) When Grandpa is imprisoned because the police think he kidnapped Tianci, why is he so upset?
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28) Doggie decides to get the policeman's attention by making a dramatic appearance at an opera performance. What did you think of this bit of the film? Was it exciting?
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29a) In the two pictures in question 28, we see Doggie beginning to climb down a rope, then see the opera singers perform. They do not know that she is about to do something very dramatic - dangle upside down from the rope.
Is this a good way of making us feel excited?
b) Why?
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30) Why are there words at the bottom of this film?
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31) This is the moment at the end of the film, when Doggie and Grandpa get back together again.
How did you feel at this ending?
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32a) Many people think that in a good drama the main characters should be different at the end from the beginning.
In The King of Masks, has Grandpa's life changed by the end? If so, how?
b) Has Doggie's? If so, how?
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