CLIP FILM THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY PRODUCTION: USA DIRECTION: Ben Stiller STARRING: Shirley MacLaine, Sean Penn, Ben Stiller CINAMATOGRAPHY: Stuart Dryburgh EDITED BY: Greg Hayden MUSIC BY: Theodore Shapiro SYNOPSIS The protagonist is Walter Mitty, who has been an employee of Life Magazine s negative archive for 16 years. He is a daydreamer who estranges himself from reality to embark on mental journeys. The magazine is being restructured, the print version of Life is closing and there will be a transition to Life Online. Mitty then receives an envelope with the negatives of the famous photojournalist Sean O Connell and a gift to thank him for his work, a wallet engraved with the Life magazine motto. The photographer instructs Mitty to choose negative 25 for the final cover of the magazine as it captures the quintessence of Life. The problem is that Sean shoots analogue and sends the films to be developed to Walter, and lives without a mobile phone. Therefore, when negative 25 is missing and cannot be found, Walter is in trouble. The management is in a hurry to get it in order to send the last copy and he s afraid of being sacked because of this, so he sets off on an incredible adventure, a trip around the world in search of the photographer Sean O Connell. By doing so, he discovers the thrill of life lived and not just imagined in his daydreams. He is fired, but there is a happy ending: Walter discovers, in front of a newsstand, that the cover is dedicated to the people who had produced the magazine all those years and that the photo chosen by Sean is of him. to sack: licenziare to stitch: mettere dei punti di sutura BEFORE WATCHING 6 Say whether the statements are true or false and correct the false ones. T 7 F T 1. The protagonist is a journalist. 4. Mitty would like to resign. 2. Photojournalist O Connell is old school. 5. O Connell appreciates Mitty s work. 3. The photo for the final cover of the magazine has been chosen by Mitty. 6. Mitty is fired, so there is no happy ending. Do the following tasks. 1. Can you make an example of what thrill of life means for you? 2. Have you ever missed how things were being made in the past? 3. Photographer Sean O Connell sends the last shots to Walter Mitty, thanking him for his collaboration and giving him a wallet with this message: I heard Life is closing, man. I wanted to say thank you. Look inside. A gift for all the years of hard work. Sorry about the negative. I got some blood on it while stitching up a gunshot wound. But the twenty-five is my best shot, the quintessence of life . Comment on his words. 216 Creative arts F