英语与电影 English and Movies 1

Action
Action film -- A film genre in which one or
more heroes are thrust into a series of challenges that typically include physical feats, extended fight scenes, violence, and frantic chases. ★ New words： hero thrust challenge include physical feat extended fight violence frantic chase
Drama
fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone,[1] focusing on in-depth development of realistic characters who must deal with realistic emotional struggles. ★ New words: describe serious humor tone in-depth realistic character deal struggle
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fantastic theme involve
belong
magic
folklore
supernatural
event
mythology
Mystery
Mystery film -- a type of film that revolves around the solution of a problem or a crime. It focuses on the efforts of the detective, private investigator or amateur sleuth to solve the mysterious circumstances of an issue by means of clues, investigation, and clever deduction. ★New words: revolve around solution problem crime focus effort detective private investigator amateur sleuth solve deduction
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numerous mood
Documentary
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motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record. ★New Words: non-fictional document aspect realityprimarily purposes instruction maintaining historical record
Music
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Musical film -- A film genre in which
songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. ★ New words： interwoven accompany dance
Documentary
Crime
Comedy
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Comedy -- In a modern sense, comedy refers to
any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or to amuse by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film and stand-up comedy. ★ New words: modern sence intend humorous amuse induce laughter especially theatre television film stand-up
War film -- A film genre concerned
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Western
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The Western film -- Tell stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, often centering on the life of a nomadic cowboy or gunfighter. ★New words: primarily later nomadic cowboy gunfighter
★New words： contain children context home appeal audience relate wide mind
Crime
Crime films -- films
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that focus on the lives of criminals.
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Science Fiction
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Science fiction film -- A film genre
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that uses science fiction: speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science. ★New words： science fiction speculative base dipiction phenomena accepted mainstream
Romance
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Romance films (or romance movies) are
romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theaters and on television that focus on passion, emotion. ★New words： Romantic visual media broadcast focus passion emotion
English & Movies
Introductions By Bill
Types of movies
Comedy Adventure Fantasy Mystery Thriller
War
Western
Action
Science fiction
Romance
Drama Horror
Music
Family
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Thriller
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Thriller -- Usually having numerous subgenres. Thrillers heavily stimulate the viewer's moods, giving them heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation and anxiety. Words: subgenres heavily stimulate viewer hightended suspense excitement surprise anticipation anxiety
Fantasy
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Fantasy movie -- movies that belong to the fantasy type with fantastic themes, usually involving magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds.

Drama describes a genre of narrative
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Horror
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Horror movie -- A film genre seeking to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's primal fears. ★ New words: seek elicit negative reaction viewer audience primal fears
Adventure
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Adventure movies -- a type of movie. Unlike action movies, they often use their action scenes preferably to display and explore exotic locations in an energetic way. ★New words: un-like often scene preferably display explore exotic location energetic
Family
Family film -- a film genre that contains
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children or relates to them in the context of home and family. Family films are made for a wider appeal with a general audience in mind.
Documentary film -- A nonfictional
War
with warfare, typically about naval, air, or land battles in the twentieth century, with combat scenes central to the drama. ★New words： warfare typically naval air land battle twentieth century combat scene central