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Date Posted: 15:45:35 05/06/07 Sun
Author: Fabio
Subject: Re: Task Two - Fabio Vione
In reply to: Andrea Faria 's message, "Re: Task Two - Fabio Vione" on 14:58:39 05/06/07 Sun

Yes, you are right about my mistake, I unfortunately had to miss some classes and missed that part. I'll try to sort it and the other mistakes out. Thanks Andrea!

>>Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
>>Faculdade de Letras
>>Produção de Texto – Inglês - M1
>>Fabio Victor Vione
>>
>>Task Two
>>
>>Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 – A Space Odyssey
>>
>2001 – A space odyssey, by Stanley Kubrick, is a
>sci-fi movie from (V) late 60’s, probably the most
>famous and quoted ever made. Its extraordinary plot,
>which goes as following, (Wvf set) new standards to
>the motion picture industry.
>After some minutes creating an atmosphere of suspense
>by using classical music and spatial scenes, the story
>starts in prehistory when a tribe of man-apes (Wvf and
>Wvt were struggling) for food and water while fighting
>against predators and other tribes. One morning, a
>strange black rectangular monolith appears near their
>cave, leading them to a frantic inspection of the
>mysterious object. Afterwards, a man-ape, while
>playing with some bones, discovers the first tool: (R
>a club made with a long bone from the pile), (Ww what)
>enables them to kill other animals and eat their meat,
>as well as (X to) protect themselves against predators
>and other tribes.
>The following scene displays a nuclear weapon (Ww
>laying) (Ww lonely) in space and a shuttle cruising at
>full speed towards a space station, some millions of
>years later. Subsequently, Dr. Floyd (who was the
>passenger brought to the space station by the shuttle)
>is (Ww displayed) going around the station and
>afterwards going to (V) moon to attend (X to) a
>meeting. Various predictions on how life would be in
>2001 are made in this part, for instance space travel
>becoming normal and interplanetary video calls
>becoming a reality.
>The (P/Sp 18 month) odyssey of (V) Discovery Spaceship
>from Earth to Jupiter comes next, together with the
>introduction of HAL9000 (the iconic supercomputer),
>hibernating astronauts in their sarcophagi, commander
>David Bowman, his assistant Frank Poole and their
>quotidian life on the ship. Afterwards, madness leads
>HAL9000 to kill all the crew except Commander Bowman,
>who manages to deactivate HAL and get to Jupiter,
>where a huge monolith takes him to an astounding time
>travel. This journey through time ends in a replica of
>hotel room, where, in a matter of seconds, Bowman gets
>old, dies and is reborn as the iconic and enigmatic
>Star Child: a fetus-like being, gazing at the world
>through a transparent bubble.
>
>REFERENCES
>
>KUBRICK, Stanley. 2001 – A Space Odyssey [Motion
>Picture]. Directed and Produced by Stanley Kubrick.
>United Kingdom / EUA, 1968. 1 DVD, 148 min. Color.
>
>Dear Fábio,
>I found your text very well written and organized and
>made just a few suggestions of corrections, placing
>the “problematic parts” between parentheses preceded
>by the correction symbols we are supposed to use.
>However, I felt a bit lost when trying to classify
>your essay. As your first text, “Idioms and culture”,
>in task one, seemed to me more like an argumentative
>essay, I imagine that your intention here was to write
>a classification essay. Nevertheless, I believe it
>looks more like a narrative essay, because in my
>opinion you didn’t really classify anything. I may be
>totally mistaken, but even if you feel my comment
>makes any sense I advise you to check it first with
>our professor. Anyway, I hope I’ve helped at least a
>little.
>All the best,
>Andrea

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