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Movie Class – Week 1 Mini Script and Vocabulary List Movie: (00:00 – 08:16) ______Main characters: Carter () and Edward () Thomas / Matthew – Edward’s assistant ______Opening Scene – Climbing Mt. Everest

Narrator - Carter Edward Perriman Cole died in May. It’s difficult to understand the sum of a person’s life1. Some people would tell you it’s measured by the ones left behind. Some believe it can be measured in faith. Some say by love. Other folks say life has no meaning at all. Me? I believe that you measure yourself by the people who measured themselves by you2. What I can tell you for sure is that by any measure3 Edward Cole lived more in his last days on earth than most people manage to wring out of a lifetime.

1. the sum of a person’s life: what a person’s life has meant 2. you measure yourself by the people who measured themselves by you: you can measure the type of person you are by the people you are associated with 3. by any measure: by any way of judging something 4. to wring out of a lifetime: to get or squeeze out of a person’s life ______At the Mechanic’s

Mechanic - Manny Name the five presidents whose last names begin with the letter “H”.

Carter Warren G. Harding, Rutherford B. Hayes, Herbert Hoover, and the two Harrisons – Benjamin and William Henry

Mechanic - Manny I’d thought I would get you5 with the double Harrisons. You’re sick6. You know that?

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Carter You think that’s sick? Can you name the wives?

Another Mechanic Carter, when do they need the Camaro (a type of car made by Chevrolet)?

Mechanic - Manny I’ve got one for you! Who invented the radio?

Carter Ah, that’s a hard one. No, it’s just that I don’t know if you want the person they think invented the radio or the person who actually invented the radio. Marconi (an Italian inventor and electrical engineer), right? Well, he’s the one they generally think invented the radio. In fact, he got a Nobel Prize for it in 1909. The truth is a guy named Nicola Tesla (a Serbian American inventor, electrical & mechanical engineer, and physicist), patented7 the basic idea for the radio in 1896, the same idea that Marconi used for his patent several years later. Telsa fought Marconi until the day he died in 1943 – (the) same year the Supreme Court ruled that Marconi’s patent was invalid8, recognizing Tesla as the inventor of radio.

Carter answers the phone Ginnie..Well good…About time9…What did he say?...Alright, what does that mean…?

5. get you: trick you or confuse you 6. you’re sick: you are extremely strange or weird 7. patent (noun): an official document that gives someone the legal right to make or sell an invention for a period of time, can also be used as a verb 8. invalid: not legally effective 9. about time: used for showing you are annoyed because something took too long

______Meeting at the hospital

Edward Kopi Luwak10. The rarest beverage in the world.

2 Here, take a whiff11. Do you you know what a Philistine12 is, Jim? That’s right Phil. Give them the schpiel13.

Richard We at the Cole Group feel that the decline of Winwood Hospital is a direct result of significant fiscal mismanagement14. Overhead costs15 are nearly double what they should be. Your lease and land costs were similarly overbid16. Donations have atrophied17 to the point that you’ve fallen far behind the curve18 in research, pediatrics, oncology, and MRI.

The Cole Group has successfully privatized fifteen public hospitals in the past seven years, each of which now provides, or is being re-designed to provide, the highest standard of medical care to their communities.

Administrator Despite being grossly understaffed19?

Edward I run hospitals not health spas. Two beds to a room. No exceptions. Look, I passed up20 a lunch with to be here. So can we desist21 from all of this inane22 posturing23?

10. : a type of coffee that is very expensive 11. take a whiff: take/have a smell, smell this 12. Philistine: an offensive word for someone who dislikes or doesn’t understand art, literature or music 13. schpiel / spiel: a talk or speech designed to attract people especially when you are selling something 14. the decline of Winwood Hospital is a direct result of significant fiscal mismanagement: the hospital has become worse because people have badly managed how money has been spent 15. overhead costs: money that you pay to operate a business such as office supplies, electricity, and rent 16. overbid: to offer more money than what something is worth 17. atrophy: become less

3 18. the hospital behind the curve: the hospital is not able to keep up with other hospitals in research, pediatrics (medical science that deals with children), oncology (the study and treatment of cancer) 19. grossly understaffed: extremely understaffed 20. pass up a situation: to not take advantage of a situation or opportunity 21. desist: stop 22. inane: stupid 23. posturing: showing off ______The Hospital Room

Edward Tell Dr. Shit-for-brains24 I want to know everything about this Bleomyacin drip25 he wants to get me on. I hear it eats your lungs26. When I address Congress next month I don’t want to do it breathing through a hole in my throat.

Thomas – Edward’s assistant In plain view27, sir.

Edward What am I, in the morgue28?

Carter (voiceover) That was the first time I laid eyes29 on Edward Cole. An inauspicious30 beginning to be sure.

24. Dr. Shit-for-brains: an extremely offensive way to describe a Dr. who you think is stupid 25. Bleomyacin: a chemotherapy drug used to treat cancer 26. It eats your lungs: it destroys and damages your lungs 27. in plain view: clearly seen, not hidden at all 28. the morgue: a building or a room where dead bodies are kept temporarily 29. lay eyes on: to see something, especially for the first time 30. inauspicious: we use this word when we think success is not likely; unpromising

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