Movie Class – 10 The Stepford Wives (1:08:18 – 1:21:36) attack ______10. there is something unspeakable going on: something is happening in the ballroom Main Characters: that is so terrible or shocking that I can’t express it in words and have to show you 1. Joanna Eberhart () is a successful reality TV producer directly so you can understand 2. Walter Kresby (Matthew Broderick) is Joanna’s husband 11. it’s an apocalypse!: all the woman are getting freed one by one, it looks like the 3. Claire Wellington () is the leading lady in Stepford world—the Stepford world—is getting destroyed!; apocalypse can be used in two 4. Mike Wellington (Christopher Walken) is a mysterious & respected man in Stepford different ways, as a strong biblical reference to say the world is really ending or just 5. Bobbie Markowitz () is a writer and Joanna’s neighbor to describe something catastrophic has happened; in this case, Claire could be 6. Roger Bannister () is Joanna’s flamboyant gay neighbor using either meaning ______12. and I realized “I can do better”: Joanna is telling Mike she is actually not a robot and Scene 1: At The Party does not find him attractive at all; she is making a reference to the title of the last 1. tonight is truly the highlight of our year: tonight is really the most special part of the reality TV show she produced when she was a TV network manager; in that show, year couples would spend a week with beautiful women or strong men and had to choose 2. the cream of the crop in couple, that proudly proclaims “Stepford, the American way whether or not they could “do better” than their partner; a disappointed man—his of love”: the best of the best as far as couples go; couples that show the world that wife had left him for a stronger man in the show—had actually shot at Joanna and 5 the Stepford community is the American way of love—a play on the expression “the other people in the beginning scenes, causing her to be fired American way of life”, best represented by 1950’s America, the model on which 13. I couldn’t do it […] because she’s not a science project, because I didn’t marry Stepford is based something from RadioShack: I couldn’t change my wife into a robot, because she is 3. join me in a glorious midsummer night’s waltz: let’s dance the waltz in this middle of not a school science project that teaches children to be curious, and because I didn’t the summer evening marry a toy or device from an electronics store (RadioShack is a famous American 4. champagne? // allow me: shall we have a glass of champagne? // of course, let me electronics chain store) go get it; normally, after this type of exchange, Walter should go get two glasses of 14. you’re a disgrace to everything this town stands for, to the future: you bring shame to champagne, but the fact Claire goes instead shows that men have a higher social everyone in this town and the Stepford symbol of perfectness; you are also making position than women in Stepford our plan to make a better future more difficult 5. initiating: starting or beginning a procedure 15. he’s a Stepford Husband?: he’s a robot who was made to act like the perfect man, 6. the town is so splendid [...] and then, there’s you // me?: the neighborhood is so just like the Stepford wives robots wonderful and impressive, but the fact you are here is even more important to me // 16. an angel, now he’s just spare parts, thanks to you: because you broke his head off, really, I’m important to you?; Mike is actually surprised about what Joanna said to the Mike robot doesn’t work anymore; it’s your fault he is now just leftover electronics destabilize him 17. I’m a lady // a real lady? // every inch: lady has a double meaning here, Claire is 7. begin nanoreversal: start the procedure to make the woman’s brain go back to saying she is a real human female and also a woman with proper manners and a normal and remove the nanochips in their heads good social position; every inch means not a single part of body was changed, she is 8. file corrupted: there are many errors in the file and it can’t be read properly anymore; 100% human corrupted is a commonly used term used to describe computer files made unusable by errors 9. restoring original personality: return the woman’s personality back to its previous state, before it was changed; restore is a verb that is also often used when returning computer files back to a previous—often functional—state, typically after a virus

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