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So, you got a new
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Mortal Kombat movie for me?
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Yes, sir, I do.
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Uh, you know what?
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Maybe this is gonna make people wanna go re -watch the first one to prepare.
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Eh, I wouldn't.
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What's that?
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Probably fine if they don't.
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Well, okay then.
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So anyway, we're gonna start this movie in this place called Edenia.
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I thought Cole was from Earthrealm.
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Cole?
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Cole, that guy we made up to lead the first movie, he was the main character.
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Oh, right, Cole, yeah.
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Well, it turns out people didn't love
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that we focused the movie on some guy we made up rather than all the characters
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that were already established that people liked.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, so in this one, he just, Cole gets killed quite violently in his first fight.
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He's taken care of.
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Well, I should hope so, if he's going to be compromising my bottom line.
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So we're going to meet a young Katana who's the daughter of a king.
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She's from the games.
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She sure is, sir.
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But this freaking bad guy, Shao Kahn, wants to kill her dad and unite the realms.
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Er, uniting realms is tight.
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I don't know how you managed to make that sound slightly inappropriate, but you did it.
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I did it.
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So he freaking kills this guy and Katana's upset.
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But that's tough toodles for her because now she's this guy's daughter.
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How does that work?
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He kills her dad and he says, you're my daughter now.
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That'll do it.
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That'll work.
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So fast forward 20 years.
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I don't have the ability to do that.
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That's okay.
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I did it all pretend like with words.
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Oh, that's so neat.
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So Katana's fake dad is like, well, about time to start the Mortal Kombat tournament, wouldn't you say?
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Oh yeah, Mortal Kombat is a tournament.
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Remind me, didn't we put a tournament in the first movie?
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No. Seems like a major oversight.
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Why didn't we do that?
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We were, like, really into that coal guy we made up.
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That was so weird of us.
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A little bit.
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So anyway, if Shao Kahn wins this tournament, his realm gets to take over Earthrealm.
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I have no further questions about the logistics of that kind of deal.
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Well, that's great, because I have no further answers.
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Well, this is perfect.
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So freaking Raiden is hanging out with four fighters, but they need five fighters if they want to fight in this tournament, which they do.
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Well, four plus Raiden, isn't that.. that's five.
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Raiden's not gonna fight, but he's a fighter in the games.
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It won't even be considered, and no one will mention it.
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Fair enough.
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So they find this washed -up 90s action movie star, Johnny Cage.
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He does the splits and punches people in the nuts!
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He sure does, sir.
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So frickin' Sonya from the game shows up and she's like, don't you want to realize your full potential?
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And he's like, no. More like Johnny Cage -y, classic reluctant hero behavior.
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Is he ever gonna realize his full potential?
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Yeah, at the end of the movie!
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I knew it!
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So then the Mortal Kombat tournament starts, and Katana's chosen as the first fighter for the bad guys.
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Oh, you know what?
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I bet she's secretly a good guy, what with this guy having killed her dad and then being her dad.
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Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, obviously not even trying to hide that.
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So Johnny Cage gets freaking lightning portaled to this fight.
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Uh -oh, lightning portals.
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And so the whole thing is if either side loses five times, it's over.
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And there we got like torches in the sky representing the winds.
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Excuse me?
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Ten torches floating in the sky, five blue, five red.
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Torches floating?
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They lightning portal people into death matches.
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You don't think they could figure out how to make some torches float to keep track of the score?
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I guess.
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If anyone watching wants to know the score, they just gotta look at these torches.
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You gotta think about this kind of stuff when you're organizing a death tournament.
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Okay, I was just wondering how they floated.
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Listen, sir, I've said the word realms several times already, and that means I don't need to explain a dang thing.
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That is how that word works.
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Okay, yeah, I'm all good now.
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So Katana kicks Johnny Cage's butt so bad that he's, like, wobbling in place.
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That's from the game!
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And Shao Kahn, who's watching, yells, FINISH HIM!
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That's from the game.
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But Katana takes too long, so he just falls over.
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Oh, that's from the game, but, like, in a disappointing way.
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Yeah.
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Didn't smash the right buttons in time, it sounds like.
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And then later, Kung Lao shows up at Raiden's place.
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Oh, good guy with the razor hat from the first movie.
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What's he been up to?
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He's a zombie for the bad guys now.
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It do be like that sometimes.
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Yeah, so he's here to steal Raiden's god power
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so he can put it in an amulet and make Shao Kahn immortal so he can win the Mortal Kombat tournament.
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Oh man, stealing Raiden's powers seems like it's gonna be hard to do.
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He's like a freaking god.
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Actually, it's gonna be super easy.
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Barely an inconvenience.
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Oh really?
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Yeah, just goes ahead and slashes his throat.
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Oh my god.
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And that just makes the god juice start pouring out.
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You know, just bright light juice squirting everywhere.
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That stuff stains.
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So the bad guys take Raiden's god juice and put it in the amulet.
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Ehh, stealing some guy's god juice is tight.
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Oh god, oh whoa.
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I did it again!
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Anyway, so then a bunch of people violently kill each other for a long period of time.
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And we bring back a bunch of dead people from the first movie.
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I don't, you know, like, why not?
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How?
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Realms.
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Got it.
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So Kano, who's back from the dead, explains that Sub -Zero, who's back from the dead,
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It has the amulet, and he went into the nether realm.
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Sounds like the kind of place where anything goes.
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It better be.
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Oh, it's a threatening vibe now.
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So they go find
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Sub -Zero's nemesis, Scorpion, who's chilling in his nether realm garden, just tending to it.
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Tending to the garden of your own personal nether realm is tight.
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That's what, okay, three tights is more than enough.
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I'm just seeing where the limits are, and now I know.
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So anyway, then, you know, a bunch of the good guys get together, a bunch of the bad guys turn good.
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Katana slices her fake dad's head off, and that's it.
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Fatality.
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Oh, someone should say fatality.
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No, not ever in the whole movie.
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Ah, dang it.
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So what do you think?
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Well, I mean, we're kicking off summer 2026 movie season in a crazy way.
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Everybody's going to want to see the punchy, kicky movie with floating torches.
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Amazing.
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And I checked.
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There is nothing on the slate for May 2026.
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There's nothing.
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Like, what?
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If we don't win the box office for the full month, it's because something weird happened, okay?
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Hi, this is Ryan George from The Thing You Just Watched.
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Please enjoy this slideshow from The Thing You Just Watched.

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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “Mortal Kombat II Pitch Meeting”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: movie, realm, tournament, torches, Kombat. Deze video bevat 147 zinnen en 1219 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 5:18. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 230 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 82% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
torch zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈtɔːtʃ/toorts, fakkel
float werkwoord/fləʊt/drijven
juice zelfstandig naamwoord/d͡ʒuːs/sap
fighter zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈfaɪtɚ/vechter, strijder
steal werkwoord/stiːl/stelen, ontvreemden
lightning zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈlaɪt.nɪŋ/bliksem, weerlicht
portal zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈpɔːɹtl̩/portaal
unite werkwoord/juˈnaɪt/verenigen
violently bijwoord/ˈvaɪ(ə)ləntli/gewelddadig
establish werkwoord/ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/oprichten, stichten
wash werkwoord/wɑʃ/wassen, spoelen
remind werkwoord/ɹəˈmaɪnd/herinneren
pretend werkwoord/pɹəˈtɛnd/voorgeven
punch zelfstandig naamwoord/pʌnt͡ʃ/stomp
throat zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈθɹoʊt/keel

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordBetekenis
fall over werkwoordomvallen
figure out werkwoorduitvogelen, er achter komen
get together werkwoordsamenkomen
show up werkwoordtentoonstellen
take over werkwoordovernemen
turn out werkwoorduitvallen, resulteren
wash up werkwoordzich opfrissen, zich wassen

Zinnen om te herhalen

Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

  • I don't have the ability to do that.
  • Remind me, didn't we put a tournament in the first movie?
  • Why didn't we do that?
  • What's he been up to?
  • I don't, you know, like, why not?

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

StructuurIn de video
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog teltI've said · What's he been
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doetwere already established · be considered

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 35 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, gonna, didn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De “th”-klanken: throat /ˈθɹoʊt/, threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, nether /nɛð.ə/
  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: establish /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/, wash /wɑʃ/, smash /smæʃ/, slideshow /ˈslaɪdˌʃoʊ/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: violently /ˈvaɪ(ə)ləntli/, inappropriate /ˌɪnəˈpɹoʊpɹi.ət/, inconvenience /ɪnkənˈvinjəns/, fatality /feɪˈtælɪti/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: remind /ɹəˈmaɪnd/, pretend /pɹəˈtɛnd/, compromise /ˈkɑmpɹəˌmaɪz/, organize /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/, vibe /vaɪb/
  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: establish /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/, smash /smæʃ/, amulet /ˈæm.jə.lɪt/, fatality /feɪˈtælɪti/
  • /w/ — met ronde lippen: wash /wɑʃ/, whoa /woʊ/, squirt /skwɝt/, wobble /ˈwɑbl̩/

Zo oefen je met deze video

  1. Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
  2. Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
  3. Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als torch, float, juice.

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