Task 1. Complete the sentences with the following words. THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
includes journey trilogy highest-grossing lost
This film is an epic fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson and is the first part of a 1) …………… . The adventure follows the 2) …………. of the main character, Bilbo Baggings, in a mission to reclaim the 3) …………… Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the terrifying dragon Smaug. Bilbo joins a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakenshield. The cast
4) ………… James Nesbitt, Ken Scott, Cate Blanchett, Ian Holm and Elijah Wood.
The film has made over $1 billion at the box office becoming the fourth 5)……………………. film of all the time. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards.
The main reason for the fading interest of young people in theater today is considered to be a new, modern way of life, equipped with high-tech information technologies. Indeed, many electronic devices that are present in our everyday life - televisions, computers and not only - quickly present information in such a simple and fascinating form that theatrical performances are not always able to effectively compete with them. Constantly in the media and in real life, we talk about how the world of technology has filled everything around us, making people forget about other ways of communicating with the surrounding reality and learning about it. But the world of theater, in contrast to the technological one, not only surrounds a person, but also exists inside him.
The fact is that people have always had the goal of learning to embody the emotional world into the material one without any distortions, to cognize it together with others and to excite the feelings of their “spiritual clients”. And the world of theater is a wonderful interweaving of arts, in which people creatively combine all the ways of self-expression!