Listening
exercise
Interview with Michelle Pfeiffer
on her role in the movie "I am Sam"
Click below to access video:
http://www.hollywood.com/multimedia/detail/media/1099371
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Listening
comprehension questions:
1. What is the core question being asked by the male lawyer at the beginning
of the interview?
2. What did Lucy say to her father just before she yelled, "Why don't you
write that down?"
3. What attracted Michelle Pfeiffer to this role?
4. Where did the idea for the movie come from?
5. What does the playwright think the film is a metaphor of?
6. What was Michelle Pfeiffer's biggest challenge in making this movie?
7. What does it mean "to push the envelope"? "To pull it back
a few notches"?
8. How do Michelle and Jessie feel about Sean Penn as an actor?
9. How did Sean Penn learn to play his character?
10. What does Jessie Nelson mean by "He has great chivalry as an actor"?
11. Describe Dakota
Fanning, the girl who plays Lucy, both on and off-screen.
12. What do you think about Lucy's view toward mentally disabled people, and
what is your own view?
13. Do you think that Sam, the mentally disabled father with the intelligence
of a seven-year-old, should have been given custody of his daughter?
Video chosen and exercise designed by Sharon Chang ±iÅt¸©