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What if Ant -Man and the Wasp Quantumania ended on a cliffhanger, with Kang actually escaping, and Scott and Hope being stranded in the Quantum Realm?
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Additionally, what if MODOK was actually terrifying, and still used the Yellow Jacket suit as an exoskeleton?
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And what if Bill Murray's Lord Krylar played a much larger role in the movie?
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Believe it or not, all of these things almost happened.
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So to find out how we went from that to the movie we got,
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let's dive in and take a look at what could have been Quantumania.
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The first two
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Ant -Man movies had a very specific role in the MCU.
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Both were released in the aftermath of massive
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Avengers films and functioned as lighter, smaller -scale palette cleansers.
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After Age of Ultron, we got
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Ant -Man, and after
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Infinity War, we got
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Ant -Man and the Wasp.
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They were heist comedies, family stories, and a breather from the end -of -the -world stakes dominating the rest of the franchise.
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But for the third film, director Peyton Reed wanted to go bigger.
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He didn't want
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Ant -Man 3 to feel like another comedic detour between more important chapters.
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He wanted it to feel like an Avengers -level event.
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And to do that, he believed Scott Lang needed an Avengers -level villain.
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Enter Kang.
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However, for writer
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Jeff Loveness, the key was to differentiate
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Kang from Thanos, and not just repeat the same beats.
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Because Kang is a character who exists across time, Loveness didn't want to introduce him at the beginning of his rise.
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He was more interested in meeting
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Kang after everything had already gone wrong.
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He compared it to Napoleon.
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Not the victorious
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Napoleon conquering Italy, but the defeated
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Napoleon in exile.
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The man who once seemed unstoppable, now trapped, humiliated and looking for a way back.
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Loveness argued that it was more humanizing to show a Kang who had been defeated, pointing to how guys like Alexander the Great
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or Julius Caesar are defined just as much by their defeats as they are by their victories.
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Loveness also described
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Kang as the Great Gatsby of the multiverse, a man obsessed with reclaiming what he lost.
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According to Loveness, earlier drafts of Quantumania included even more of Kang's backstory.
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But as the movie developed, some of those details were cut with the idea that they would eventually be explored in Avengers The Kang Dynasty.
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This worked for Loveness since he liked the idea of having this incredible backstory for the character
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that is slowly revealed as we get to know him, pointing to Darth Vader's backstory in Star Wars being revealed over the course of three films.
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And if the leaked
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Kang Dynasty script is to be believed, that backstory would have made him a much more tragic figure, as it explored
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Kang's failure to save the woman he loved and their child.
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However, at one point, Loveness wrote
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Kang as more of a loser, and even somewhat goofy, to match the comedic tone of the previous two
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Ant -Man films.
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But once he saw
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Major's debut in the Loki finale, he decided to go full tilt with the tortured supervillain version of Kang from the Silver Age.
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However, one of the biggest criticisms of Quantumania was that
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Kang, the next
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Avengers -level threat, was easily defeated in his first big -screen appearance by whom many consider to be the weakest Avenger, Ant -Man.
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After spending the entire movie establishing that
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Kang is this terrifying multiversal threat, unlike anything that Scott Lang has ever faced, Ant -Man and the Wasp kill him although,
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spoiler alert, he's not dead, and then simply return home through a portal opened by Cassie.
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And while Scott does have a brief moment of panic where he wonders if killing
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Kang may have actually unleashed something much worse, the movie ultimately plays it as a joke, as Scott trucks it off,
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keeps smiling, and the entire family gets to walk away with a happy ending.
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However, the original ending wouldn't have done this.
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It would have left the film on a genuine cliffhanger.
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In this version, which was actually shot, Scott is still left behind in the quantum realm to face Kang alone.
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After Kang absolutely brutalizes him, Hope comes back for him.
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But instead of defeating him, Kang turns the tables and escapes, leaving Scott and Hope stranded in his place.
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Right after they realize they're trapped, Scott and Hope embrace, as Scott asks the obvious question, why did she come back?
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Hope explains that when she was pulled into the Probability Storm, she saw every other version of herself, including every life she could have lived.
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And after seeing all of them, she realized there wasn't a single version of her life she wanted if Scott wasn't in it.
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And speaking of the probability storm, originally it was a little longer and more psychological too, with a giant, Cronenberg -inspired,
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man -sized ant that would have been done practically by Stan Winston Studios and voiced by Werner Herzog.
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The ant would have tormented Scott, tearing into him over how weak and insignificant he really was.
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According to Loveness, it even had the line, All men are ants, but these ants are not men.
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The ant also would have called Scott father, giving the whole thing this bizarre island of Dr. Moreau quality,
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like some warped creature created from Scott's own fears and failures.
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Anyway, back to the original ending.
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Back on Earth, Janet, Hank, and Cassie are forced to process the horrifying reality that Scott and Hope didn't make at home.
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Hank tries to steady the family, assuring Janet and Cassie that they'll find a way to bring them back.
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But the emotional way to the ending rests with Cassie, who has now lost her father to the very realm she helped to reopen.
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Meanwhile, Scott and Hope look over the vast alien landscape of the Quantum Realm, realizing they may be trapped there indefinitely.
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Hope reassures Scott that their family will be okay, and more importantly, that they have to trust them to find a way back.
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Then she puts her faith in Cassie, telling Scott that Cassie will know what to do.
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And then came the original post -credits scene, which would have driven that idea home even harder.
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Instead of immediately cutting to the Council of Kings,
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the film reportedly ended with Cassie back on Earth desperately trying to find a way to rescue her father and hope.
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Sitting in front of a computer, she runs simulation after simulation, searching for any possible route back to the quantum realm.
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But as Cassie keeps running these simulations, something finally catches her eye.
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We don't know if it's a signal, a doorway, a Kang variant, a glitch in the multiverse, or something even stranger hiding inside the quantum realm.
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All we know is that Cassie spots something mysterious on the screen, and as her eyes go wide, the film would have cut to black.
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However, after the film's entire plot leaked onto the internet, Marvel reshot the ending one month before the film was released.
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The reasoning though may not have been because of the plot leak.
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As Loveness said that they realized that by stranding Scott yet again in the quantum realm,
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they'd just be copying the exact same ending from the second film.
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The other major villain who went through a pretty dramatic evolution was MODOK.
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Early designs for the character were far more sinister than what ended up on screen.
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The most interesting version came from concept artist Alexei Bricklot, whose take had MODOK emerging out of the yellow jacket suit itself.
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Instead of Darren Cross simply becoming a goofy floating head, the yellow jacket suit would have been repurposed into a massive, monstrous exoskeleton around him.
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That version immediately plays less like a farce
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and more like the logical nightmare of what happened to him at the end of the first Ant -Man.
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However, Loveness ultimately took the character in the opposite direction.
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As he put it, it was basically impossible for him to take a giant, dumb head seriously.
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So rather than try to make M .O .D .O .K terrifying, he leaned into the absurdity.
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Loveness based him partly on Frank Grimes from The Simpsons,
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a bitter, deeply insecure, loose canon who feels like the universe has humiliated him while everyone else keeps moving on.
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Lord Krylar was another character Loveness introduced in the film, wanting to find the most obscure character possible who happened to exist in the Quantum Realm.
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They eventually landed on Krylar.
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In the final film we learn that Janet had a romantic history with Lord Krylar, the Quantum Realm aristocrat played by Bill Murray.
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After learning this, Hank reveals that Janet wasn't the only one who moved on during their 30 years apart.
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While she was trapped inside the quantum realm hank had a
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brief fling with a woman named linda to play linda
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and what would likely have been a flashback would have been stifler's mom herself
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and white lotus star jennifer coolidge and
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while loveness did speak to coolidge about doing the cameo over
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zoom ultimately the idea was scrapped lord krylar also originally played
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a much larger role in the movie one deleted scene saw him shove an unknown alien off a cliff
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and according to actress katie o 'brien murray also shot a whole space pursuit sequence
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that ended with krylar somehow winding up with Kang and getting arrested.
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Ultimately he would have ended up locked away with Juntora.
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The freedom fighter Cassie later breaks out of the quantum prison and allegedly Krylar's arc may have gone even further than that.
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It's rumored that he was originally going to turn on Kang and join the rebellion,
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raising an army of humanoid aliens from the quantum realm to help fight back against the conqueror.
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However, Bill Murray was hit with a number of sexual assault allegations before the film came out, which may have been the reason why
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Marvel reduced his role in the film.
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So what went wrong?
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At the time, Marvel clearly intended this to be the true launchpad for Kang as the next major MCU villain.
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Jeff Loveness wasn't just writing Quantumania, he had also been hired to write
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Avengers The Kang Dynasty, meaning the threads introduced here were supposed to continue directly into the next major crossover film.
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But then Quantumania came out, and the reaction was not what Marvel wanted.
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The film underperformed critically and commercially, and one of the most common complaints was that
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Kang didn't come across like the next Thanos.
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Now to be fair, that was partly by design.
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Loveness was actively trying to differentiate
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Kang from Thanos by humanizing him, introducing him after a major defeat and presenting him as a fallen conqueror desperate to reclaim what he lost.
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But the risk of introducing
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Kang that way is that the MCU's first real glimpse of its new big bad didn't feel all that big or bad.
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Instead of leaving the movie feeling like
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Marvel had just unleashed its next final boss,
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audiences watched the defeated version of Kang get beat yet again in his first major big screen appearance by Ant -Man,
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the comic relief of the MCU.
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So while the idea may have been interesting on paper,
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the results seemed to deflate enthusiasm for Kang right when Marvel needed audiences to buy into him the most.
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Then came the much bigger complication, Jonathan Major's legal issues, as Disney was suddenly handed a massive public relations nightmare.
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Behind closed doors, Marvel was forced into a frantic debate.
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Do they simply recast the role and use the multiverse as a convenient excuse, or do they scrap the character entirely?
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Ultimately, the studio decided on the latter.
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Fans weren't embracing
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Kang like they did Thanos, and Major's legal troubles basically were the nail in the coffin.
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From there, Loveness and his Kang Dynasty script were shelved, while Marvel pivoted to Doctor Doom.
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All of this makes Quantumania one of the weirdest what could have been stories
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Marvel has ever produced.
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Because it's not just a movie full of deleted scenes and alternate ideas,
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it's a movie designed to launch an entire era of Marvel storytelling that the studio ultimately walked away from.
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Thanks for watching everybody and don't forget to like and subscribe for more of Hollywood's untold stories and unmade movies.
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Bu dersin kelimeleri ve konuşma notları
Bu konuşma dersi “The Original Plans for Kang in Quantumania” videosuna dayanıyor. En çok tekrarlanan kelimeler: Kang, Scott, loveness, ant, film. Bu videoda gölgeleme çalışması için 149 cümle ve 2078 kelime var. Konuşma bölümü 9:32 sürüyor. Konuşmacı hızlı konuşuyor, dakikada yaklaşık 218 kelime; bu yüzden birbirine bağlanan ve zayıflayan sesler duyacaksınız. Kelimelerin yalnızca %75’i İngilizcede en sık kullanılan 3.000 kelime arasında, bu yüzden kelime dağarcığı zorlayıcı.
Bu videodaki önemli kelimeler
Videodan öğrenmeye değer 15 kelime, telaffuzu ve anlamıyla:
| Kelime | Telaffuz | Anlam |
|---|---|---|
| quantum isim | /ˈkwɑntəm/ | kuantum, nicem |
| trap isim | /tɹæp/ | tuzak, kapan |
| introduce fiil | /ˌɪntɹəˈdus/ | tanıştırmak |
| jacket isim | /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/ | ceket |
| leak isim | /liːk/ | sızıntı |
| simulation isim | /ˌsɪm.jəˈleɪ.ʃn̩/ | simülasyon |
| villain isim | /ˈvɪl.ən/ | cani, kötü adam |
| script isim | /skɹɪpt/ | hat |
| explore fiil | /ɪkˈsploɹ/ | araştırmak |
| delete fiil | /dɪˈliːt/ | silmek |
| nightmare isim | /ˈnaɪt.mɛɚ/ | kâbus, karabasan |
| embrace fiil | /ɛmˈbɹes/ | sarılmak, kucaklamak |
| ant isim | /ænt/ | karınca, karışka |
| tone isim | /ˈtəʊn/ | ton |
| vast sıfat | /væst/ | dev, engin |
Duyacağınız deyimsel fiiller
| Kelime | Telaffuz | Anlam |
|---|---|---|
| come out fiil | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | çıkmak |
| come across fiil | karşıdan karşıya geçmek | |
| find out fiil | anlamak, ortaya çıkarmak |
Bu videodaki dil bilgisi
Konuşmacının en çok kullandığı yapılar, videodaki sözcüklerin aynısıyla:
| Yapı | Videoda |
|---|---|
| Edilgen yapı be + fiilin üçüncü hâli — kimin yaptığı değil, ne olduğu önemli | being stranded · were released · had been defeated |
| Present perfect have/has + fiilin üçüncü hâli — geçmişte olan ama şimdi de önemli olan bir eylem | has ever faced · has now lost · has humiliated |
| İlgi cümlecikleri who / which + cümle — bir kişi ya da şey hakkında ek bilgi | man who once · version, which was · one who moved |
Dikkat edilecek telaffuzlar
Konuşmacı didn't, wasn't, don't gibi kısaltılmış biçimleri 16 kez kullanıyor. Bunları duyduğunuz gibi kısa söyleyin.
- “th” sesleri: thread /ˈθɹɛd/, enthusiasm /ɪnˈθuziæzəm/, aftermath /ˈæf.tɚˌmæθ/, breather /ˈbɹiː.ðə(ɹ)/
- “sh” ve “zh” sesleri: simulation /ˌsɪm.jəˈleɪ.ʃn̩/, differentiate /dɪf.əˈɹɛn.ʃi.eɪt/, establish /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/, evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/, assure /əˈʃʊɹ/
- Uzun kelimeler — vurguyu doğru yere koyun: probability /ˌpɹɑ.bəˈbɪl.ə.ti/, differentiate /dɪf.əˈɹɛn.ʃi.eɪt/, evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/, psychological /ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.d͡ʒɪ.kl̩/, practically /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.k(ə.)li/
Türkçe konuşanların zorlandığı sesler:
- /w/ — dudaklar yuvarlak, /v/ değil: quantum /ˈkwɑntəm/, meanwhile /ˈmiːnwaɪl/, sequence /ˈsiː.kwəns/, doorway /ˈdɔɹweɪ/
- Kelime başındaki ünsüz kümesi — araya ünlü eklemeyin: quantum /ˈkwɑntəm/, trap /tɹæp/, script /skɹɪpt/, probability /ˌpɹɑ.bəˈbɪl.ə.ti/, scrap /ˈskɹæp/
- /æ/ — “e”den daha açık: trap /tɹæp/, hank /ˈhæŋk/, jacket /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/, scrap /ˈskɹæp/, ant /ænt/
Bu videoyla nasıl çalışılır
- Videonun tamamını konuşmadan bir kez dinleyin ve bilmediğiniz kelimeleri not edin.
- 0,75× hızla başlayın, cümle cümle tekrar edin ve kolaylaşınca normal hıza dönün.
- Kendinizi kaydedin ve orijinaliyle karşılaştırın; quantum, trap, introduce gibi kelimelere özellikle dikkat edin.
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