Movie Report (Listening Assignment)

ICE PRINCESS

Ø  Genre of the movie   :  Comedy; Drama; Sports

Ø  Running Time            : 92

Ø  Director                      : Tim Fywell

Ø  Production Co(s)       : Bridget Johnson Films

Ø  Released By               : Buena Vista

Ø  Country Of Origin      : U.S.

Ø  Year                            : 2005

Ø  Characts         : 

      Joan Cusack as Joan Carlyle

She played as Casey’s mother. She is an over protector mother who don’t want to see her daughter join the skater club.

      Kim Catrall as Tina Harwood

She played as Gen’s mother who dreams to take her daughter to be as great skater as she was. She’s the owner of Harwood Skating Club.

      Michelle Trachtenberg as Casey Carlyle

She is Casey who is a smatest student in her school, she wants to be such as beautiful swan dancing on the ice. She finally got to be a runner up of the regional championship.

       Hayden Panettiere as Gen Harwood

 

Gen spends most of her time with training everyday and she got a bad mark on every subjects. She dreams to be a normal girl who really has a

    Trevor Blumas as Teddy Harwood  

 

He’s a zambony driver to help her mother and her sister, Gen. He takes care of the

      Kristen Olson as Nikki

 

She is a jumping shrimp who always win the competition. She loves skating so much! She’s one of Gen’s best friend. Unfortunately, Casey almost defeat her on

      Jocelyn Lai as Tiffany

The other Gen’s friend who doesn’t really want to be a skater. To be a skater is her

      Ben Gilbank as Brian

 

The boy that Gen called as her boyfriend. He’s a soccer player. Tina never give him a permission to meet Gen, because it’d be disturb her daughter’s time to practice.

 

Ø  Synopsis of the movie :

It’s a story that began with Casey’s physic teacher who tells her a calling to get a Harvard Physic Scholarship. Casey is an ugly duckling high school physics geek who dreams to become a graceful swan on ice. She is a very smart student in her school and got eleven times A in every subjects. She should finish physic project for this scholarship during the summer. One day, Casey watches an International figure skate competition on TV, and she thinks of an Aerodynamic Theories might be come from a skater’s movements. She goes to Harwood Skating Club to research it. She meets Tina Harwood who firstly claimed her a spy who want to research her student’s movements. Those skaters are working hard for their Regional Championship, one of those skaters is Gen- Tina Harwood’s daughter who are Casey’s schoolmate.

  Climax

Casey finished her project very well. She learned so much about skating movements and she can do a triple loop in a very short time. It’s amazed people! She decided to sell her project willing to join the competition. She helps Gen, Tiffany, and Nikky by using her ‘aerodynamic theory’.

In this movie, Casey and Gen are placed in difficult positions by their mothers' insistence that their daughters live out the mothers' dreams. The result is that the children lie for a time while they work out how to resolve their situations. Casey must make her mother understand that Harvard is her mother's dream, not Casey's. She doesn't want to hurt her mother's feelings by insisting on skating. So, she lies behind her mother's back. Much of the fault goes to Casey's mother who didn't listen to her daughter and didn't support her daughter's dream of figure skating.

In the other hand, Gen lies to her mother about going to a party to see her boyfriend. This was because her mother insisted on a rigorous training schedule so that Gen could be the champion skater. But this was her mother's dream and not Gen's. Soon after the party, Gen confronted her mother and demanded a normal teenage life.

Moral Lessons :
This movie has Moral-Ethical Emphasis, include : Trustworthiness; Respect; Fairness; Caring.

1.      Ice Princess shows mothers trying to live their lives through their daughters and daughters strong enough to choose their own decisions.

2.      Ice Princess shows women excelling in sports and gives children a peek at the tough world of competitive ice skating.

3.      A girl must be beautiful and graceful and not concerned with science or professional accomplishments (from Tina’s idea)

Ø  Expression :

  Clear ones :

·         Mr Bast : “You are very Luck!” (Kau sangat beruntung!)

·         Tina : “Who are you working for?” (Untuk siapa kau melakukannya?)

·         Tina : “I don’t really care.” (Aku tak begitu peduli)

·         Casey’s classmate : “I can’t barely understand it.” (Aku tak mengerti)

·         A Children : “You shouldn’t work here.” (Kau tak harus bekerja di sini!)

·         Nikki : “It’s all that cheese!” (Itu karena keju)

·         Gen : “Would you shout up!?” (Diam lah!)

·         Nikki : “Well you can keep it all if you just stop doing that.” (Ambil saja semuanya jika kau mau berenti melakukannya!)

·         Casey : “Earth speak please?” (Bisa dengan bahasa bumi?)

·         A children : “It’s for us, kids! You don’t have to do it!” (Ini untuk anak-anak seperti kami. Kau tak harus melakukannya!)

·         Gen : “You don’t know how lucky you are.” (Kau tak tahu betapa beruntungnya kamu)

   Confusing ones :

·         Nikki : “What’s matter with you people? Are you ‘gila’?”

·         A children : “Look, could you try not to ‘menyenggol’ me?”

·         Casey : “It sounds really rock then!”

·         Gen : “Just a little question, don’t get a ‘tersinggung’!”

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