Guess That Movie Week - Part 2

No takers from yesterday?

How about this one from Barb Tutelo? Can you name this movie?

He walks onto the stage, looks into her eyes and takes her hand. She looks back at him, amazed by his good looks. The music starts and hesitantly they start to dance. The crowd starts to whistle and cheer. She flows freely across the stage in her lovely pink dress. With mom and dad looking on the excitement in the room grows. For a moment they forget where they are, and they let the music draw them closely together. The passion is intense. They smile and continue to sway.

With the crowd now on their feet and fully engaged, he leaps off the stage and moves back and forth through the aisle. She laughs and looks on, admiring each step he takes. He consumes everyone’s attention and enjoys each moment. He turns and heads back to the brightly lit stage, his fellow dancers following him in step. She is lowered slowly from the stage, and runs into his arms. He lifts her high into the air and she floats like an angel. The audience, all on their feet, feel the power of these two and begin to follow to the beat. With the room lit up with dancers, they take each other’s hands and head toward the door.

Her father stops them, looks at them sternly for a moment and says, "When I’m wrong I say I'm wrong." Dad tells her, "You looked wonderful out there." She looks lovingly into her dad's eyes and hugs him tightly. The background music blasts; there is a mood of rejuvenation. They are drawn back onto the floor and they find each other’s lips as they kiss passionately. He lifts her high and slides her back down to the floor.

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.