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Tolkien, War and Fellowship Teacher's Notes Tolkien, war and fellowship B1+ Teacher’s Notes Shine Bright 1ère Advanced File 2 War will not tear us apart Objectifs AXE DU PROGRAMME : Rencontres OBJECTIFS LINGUISTIQUES : Grammaire : le present perfect, le prétérit, le past perfect. L’expression de la cause et de la conséquence. Lexique : cinéma, guerre, relations humaines… OBJECTIFS PRAGMATIQUES : rédiger une critique de film ou un hommage. OBJECTIFS CULTURELS : Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, World War I OBJECTIF METHODOLOGIQUE : analyser une bande annonce, décrire des images, émettre des hypothèses, faire des suggestions. Présentation du document Cette vidéo est la bande annonce du biopic Tolkien (2019) réalisé par Dome Karukoski et mettant en scène Nicholas Hoult dans le rôle de Tolkien et Lily Collins dans celui de son épouse. Elle peut être exploitée dans le cadre de l’Advanced File 2 “War will not tear us apart”, et sa problématique “How did WWI intensify human relationships in Britain and its empire?”. On pourra l’associer notamment aux pages 194-195 consacrées à l’autobiographie Testament of Youth de Vera Brittain, et son adaptation cinématographique. Elle pourrait aussi être intégrée à un travail sur le File 1 “Biopics in Hollywood”. POUR ALLER PLUS LOIN Vous trouverez plus d’informations sur le film sur : http://www.speakeasy-news.com/tolkien-the-storyteller. En guise de complément on pourra conseiller aux élèves de consulter le site de la BBC qui établit des rapprochements entre les scènes de Lords of the Rings et WWI : http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zgr9kqt. www.speakeasy-news.com - June 2019 B1+ Tolkien, war and fellowship Teacher’s Notes 1 INFORMATIONS SUR LE DOCUMENT Script brotherhood. Introduction Robert Gilson: We change the world Nicholas Hoult: I’m Nicholas Hoult. through the power of art. Lily Collins: And I’m Lily Collins. Take a look Christopher Wiseman: Music. at the new trailer for our film Tolkien, about Geoffrey Smith: Poetry the life of the legendary author. Robert Gilson: And what about Tolkien? Nicholas Hoult: We’re so grateful to be part Young Tolkien: I want to write something. of this project, and can’t wait for you to see Tolkien VO: It’s about magic beyond it on the big screen. anything anyone has ever thought before. Lily Collins: Enjoy! At a restaurant. Short street scene. Scene at a restaurant. Tolkien: What it means to love, to be loved. Tolkien: Since childhood I’ve been fascinated War breaks out. with language. I’ve invented my own. Student: War, England’s at war! Edith Bratt: You’ve invented an entire Images of war + friends. language? Geoffrey: Tolkien! Tolkien: Yes, I’ve made stories, legends. Tolkien: Geoffrey! Image of battlefield. Onscreen text: Experience the journey that Edith Bratt: Tell me a story in any language shaped the imagination of the legendary you want. author. Onscreen text: Based on the life of JRR Professor Joseph Wright: The way you Tolkien follow the rhythm of language. I have to tell Someone calling: Tolkien! you Mr Tolkien, I have never come across Children playing war games // battlefield anything like it. scenes. Onscreen text: Nicholas Hoult. Lily Collins. Tolkien VO: It’s about journeys. The Robert Gilson: This is more than just a journeys we take to prove ourselves. It’s got friendship, it’s an alliance. An invincible adventures. alliance. At school. Tolkien: A fellowship. Young Tolkien: We should form a club, a Onscreen text: Tolkien. PISTES D’EXPLOITATION a. Dans un premier temps, les élèves ne exemple, demander aux élèves ce qui fait de visionnent que l’introduction de la bande Tolkien ‘a legendary author’. Cet échange annonce par les deux acteurs principaux sera éventuellement complété par des (Nicholas Hoult et Lily Collins). Ils émettent extraits des adaptations de The Hobbit et des hypothèses quant au document qu’ils Lord of the Ring. vont découvrir. Un échange au sujet de b. Les élèves prennent connaissance de la l’œuvre de Tolkien permettra de faciliter la première scène au restaurant entre Tolkien compréhension du biopic. On pourra, par et sa future épouse Edith. Cette scène est www.speakeasy-news.com - June 2019 B1+ Tolkien, war and fellowship Teacher’s Notes 2 à utiliser pour compléter les informations peut éventuellement prendre la forme de relatives au type d’auteur que Tolkien était. réponses à des questions posées par l’autre c. Les élèves visionnent la bande annonce groupe ou d’une mini mise en scène qui dans son intégralité. L’idée est de les amener consiste en l’interview de l’un ou l’autre des à s’intéresser à la façon dont la Première acteurs quant à leur façon d’interpréter guerre mondiale est représentée par le biais l’histoire d’amour ou d’amitié au cœur du de quelques images. Différents procédés film. cinématographiques peuvent être analysés e. En guise de conclusion, les élèves ici comme par exemple la mise en parallèle s’intéressent à la dimension littéraire de de certaines scènes (champ de bataille / l’œuvre de Tolkien et à la transposition de souvenirs d’enfance), certains plans (gros son expérience personnelle de la guerre plan / close-up, contre-plongée / low-angle dans ses livres. Un dernier visionnage / le shot, vue panoramique / long shot…), mise visionnage de certaines scènes de la bande en abîme (photographie en noir et blanc), annonce permettront de les faire réfléchir effets de lumière (light effects), musique, quant au pouvoir de l’écriture / de la fiction rythme… à rendre une histoire d’amour ou d’amitié d. Les élèves sont répartis en deux groupes immortelle, à rendre hommage à des et se voient attribuer un travail de relevé personnes qui nous ont quitté… et d’analyse différent. Un premier groupe Les élèves commencent, par exemple, par s’intéresse à la relation qui unit Tolkien la dernière partie (à partir de 1’42”) et et Edith, l’autre groupe se concentre sur mettent en avant le lien entre le vécu et la les liens d’amitié entre l’auteur et ses fiction (ici l’idée de ‘brotherhood’). D’autres camarades d’enfance. Chaque groupe exemples pourront être évoqués (L’histoire s’applique à retranscrire l’intensité des d’amour). Les scènes du début (0’21”-1.15”) liens mis en scène ainsi que la façon sont à utiliser afin de mettre en avant le dont l’épreuve de la guerre semble les talent de Tolkien et sa capacité à sublimer le renforcer. Une fois ces éléments relevés et vécu pour le rendre éternel dans ses livres. analysés, chaque groupe présente le type de relation qu’il a étudié. Cette restitution TÂCHES INTERMÉDIAIRES POSSIBLES Use the trailer to write a film review, insist on the importance of love and friendship in Tolkien’s life Tolkien pays a tribute to his childhood friends who died on the battlefield. (Written or in the form of a speech.) www.speakeasy-news.com - June 2019 B1+ Tolkien, war and fellowship Teacher’s Notes 3 CORRIGÉS a. Réponses possibles : I think it’s going to Tolkien writes later. We see images of the be / it must be a trailer for a film / a biopic couple smiling at each other when they are about the (English/British) author Tolkien. young teenagers, then young adults. Their He wrote The Lord of the Rings (and The love seems to have started very young. Hobbit). He wrote fantasies about wizards, Tolkien holds Edith’s hand and talks about elves and dragons, and creatures called love. We see them kissing, then a scene hobbits. In The Lord of the Rings, a hobbit/ where they seem angry. Tolkien goes to war Frodo must destroy a ring. He goes on a and we see Edith next to his hospital bed. difficult journey/quest. The books were Maybe he has been injured in battle. She adapted into very popular films by Peter seems relieved/happy when he wakes up. Jackson…. Group 2: There are lots of images of Tolkien b. Réponses attendues : We see Tolkien as and his friends talking, hugging. They seem a young man, in a restaurant with a young very enthusiastic. They talk about forming a woman (Edith Bratt).We learn that he is club, a brotherhood, and changing the world fascinated by language. He has invented a through the power of art. Later, there are language, and written/invented stories and images of the four in uniform, and of them legends. playing rugby. One of them says, “This is c. Réponses attendues : There are images more than just a friendship, it’s an invincible of soldiers in the trenches and in No Man’s alliance.” In the battle scene, Tolkien and Land, participating in an attack. There Geoffrey are shouting desperately for each is water on the ground and smoke from other. His school friends became his military bombs in the air. Tolkien, in voice-over, comrades and he feels a strong attachment talks about “journeys we take to prove to them at school and in the army. ourselves”. The music suddenly stops and e. Réponses attendues : There are images we see a young man running, shouting, in the trailer that resemble the war but “England’s at war!” Then we see Tolkien which we can see are ideas for his books — walking in front of propaganda posters there is a dragon and a character in a cape asking men to join the army. We see Tolkien similar to Frodo. The theme of friendship and his friends in uniform, and Tolkien and solidarity is important in the Lord of the looking at the photo of the four of them. Rings – the friends face difficulties together, There is another battle scene (in the mud) like in WWI.
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