0. The particular film that made Feifei cry was Turner and Hooch.
1. The film that made Rob cry was ……………………………………………………… .
2. The event recently held that Rob and Feifei mention was the 85th ………………………………. .
3. The mark of good films is that they cause us to reveal …………………………………… .
4. According to Dr Averil Leimon, people want to have their emotions ………………………………… so that they can have them.
5. In a film the style of the pictures and the music or ………………………………………………… are used to affect our emotions.
6. Grown men cry when seeing Toy Story 3 because they become nostalgic about their ……………………………………………………… .
7. According to composer Philip Sheppard, in films people find a way out for their emotions, especially when they are ……………………………………………………… .
8. The film that has won the most Oscars was made in ………………..……… .
Rob: Hello, I'm Rob, welcome to 6 Minute English. With me in the studio today is Feifei. Hello there.
Feifei: Hi Rob.
Rob: In today's programme we're discussing films that make us cry and why we actually enjoy watching something that makes us burst into tears.
Feifei: I'm afraid yes, I have done that.
Rob: Is there a particular film that's made you cry?
Feifei: I think, Turner and Hooch (0)… and how about you Rob?
Rob: Well, being a man, obviously I would never cry - well almost. There is an old children's film called The Railway Children (1). At the end when the children's father returns from exile, his daughter runs down the station platform shouting "my daddy, my daddy!" That makes me misty-eyed.
Feifei: You big softie!
Rob: Of course, the 85t Academy Awards (2) – better known as The Oscars – were held recently and there was one major weepy that won several awards. And that film was Les Miserables. I've seen it and it really is a tearjerker. So why do we choose to see a film – or movie – that makes us get so emotional?
Feifei: Well, I suppose it's the mark of a good film if it causes us to reveal our emotions (3). A really sad story, if it's well acted and directed, can really make us blub. And a sob story – one where a character tries to get our sympathy for him or her – can have the same effect. But what is it about a film that can makes us cry when we can't cry in real life?
Rob: Well, according to psychologist, Dr Averil Leimon:
Dr Leimon People want to have their emotions manipulated (4), because then they're allowed to have them. We spend so much of our life being told you shouldn't feel like that, you don't feel like that when in fact we do feel like that. And both the visual and the, you know, the auditory allows us to know what emotion we're meant to feel.
Feifei: In real life we are told how we should feel.
Rob: But when watching a film, at the cinema for example, we can let our emotions loose. But there is something else in a film that effects our emotions.
Feifei: So that's the style of the pictures and the music or sound effects (5) that are used.
Rob: Like the music in the Jaws movie, although that's not really a tearjerker.
Feifei: Come on Rob, I bet you cried at the scary bits?!
Rob: I told you, men don't cry. Although there is one film that has had grown men crying their hearts out. That's the film Toy Story 3.
Feifei: Really?
Rob: Yes. I don't think it's because the film is sad but because watching it makes men nostalgic about their youth (6) and perhaps they can see their kids reflected in the story too.
Feifei: Well I bet these men were crying alone. They wouldn't want to be seen crying in public?
Rob: Well not according to Philip Sheppard who composes – or writes – film music.
Sheppard: All of us sort of need to find a catharsis, especially with in a group (7) to have this sort of place to have an emotional response. It ends up being something where you need to have that kind of release. As British people we're terribly bad at it I think. But when people find an outlet for it such as a film, especially when they are in a crowd (7), people's emotional responses are much more instantaneously responsive.
Feifei: So if one person cries then other people will start to cry too. Unless you're British of course!
Rob: That's what Philip Sheppard thinks.
Feifei: OK Rob, well let's not cry over spilt milk!
Rob: Which film has won the most ever Oscars? The answer is actually Ben Hur. The 1959 (8) film has won 11 awards – the same number has also been won by Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of The King. Thanks Feifei. Well, it's a crying shame but we're out of time.
Both: Bye!
