Guess That Movie Week

Descriptive writing is key in personal essays, but it’s refreshing to read well-written imagery in academic work as well. To help the students learn to turn pictures into words, they had to describe a single scene from a movie without using any proper names. Using excessive dialogue was also discouraged. From these descriptions, the other students in the class had to guess the names of the movies.

So how are your movie trivia skills? Can you identify the movie being described by Julio Prado below?

There she was seated looking beautiful with her curly red hair, a well-fitted, lavender dress in a table full of white roses like snow and crystal accessories that made the smooth ray of light bright all over the place. Her cell phone rang, she moved her arm slowly to take it and lift it toward her face.

It was a man's voice that she knew, and he began telling her beautiful things that at the same time described situations related to the place she was. Suddenly the music started and she noticed it was a familiar song.

“The moment I wake up, before I put on my makeup...” She got up and started looking among the people in the place trying to find the man on the phone. She noticed a man with a black smoking suit, seated on a white table, talking on the phone. He stood up and while he continued with his phone conversation invited her to dance. He walked toward her and closed the phone.

He took her by the arm in the way gentlemen do and walked her to the dance floor to finally dance with her that familiar song that was going to make her forget, for a moment, the sad situation she was passing through.