跟讀練習: Character: Stakes - 通過影片學習英語口語

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In the last few videos, we thought about obstacles a character can face, leading to choices they have to make,
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and the arc they follow.
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Each choice a character makes has potential risks, impacts and rewards involved with it and those can be called The stakes.
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- The stakes of a story are summed up in one question: Why do we care?
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Why do I care if Nemo and his dad aren't reunited?
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- You have what's at risk if the characters fail.
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And if the stakes are low, usually it's not a very entertaining film.
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But the higher the stakes are, the more attention you get, the more enjoyable it is.
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My favorite film of all time is Jurassic Park, and the stakes are pretty high.
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If you fail, the dinosaurs will eat you.
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That's pretty clear.
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You have to be, as the audience, gripped by those stakes.
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I don't know what's going to happen.
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Early on in the arc, I'd say that the stakes would be wouldn't seem as extreme maybe.
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And then as the story progresses the stakes raise.
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We have a lot of conversations about how big our stakes need to be.
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Does it need to be life and death?
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Or is it better if it's just, you know, for a comedy sometimes you want it just to be about the character's reputation or something smaller so that,
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you know, you're not bringing too much gravity to a situation.
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But the important thing is, to the character, it should feel like the world to them.
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Even if it's just a talent show, you want to show to the audience that that talent show is everything to this character.
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I think by the end of Napoleon Dynamite, we all want Napoleon Dynamite.
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to win that talent show and to be accepted by everybody.
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Anything that is happening with your character, I think it's really important to feel the emotional connection of that.
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If I don't feel it, They're not there.
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Stakes add drama and weight to any choice.
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and can be divided into three categories.
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internal stakes, external stakes, and philosophical stakes.
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Let's hear more about this from our story artists.
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The external stakes are literally what's going on in the world.
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Are they lost?
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Are they being chased by burglars?
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Physically, what will happen to them or to the world if they fail?
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a great example of external stakes is from Brave.
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by giving her mom the cake, that the witch maid, Merida, turns her mother into a bear.
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That is an immediate physical consequence of her choice that impacts both them, as well as the story itself.
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Then, if Merida doesn't decipher and solve the witch's riddle, Her mom will become a full bear and be lost forever.
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So internal stakes usually are psychological.
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What's going on for the character emotionally or mentally?
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are they potentially going to lose?
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What will they potentially gain?
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Why is it important that they gain that thing?
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Why is it sad or difficult if they lose that thing?
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Asking those questions will help you figure out what those stakes really are.
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A good example of internal stakes is from the original Toy Story.
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Throughout the film, Woody is forced to confront his own insecurity and pride, embrace Buzz as a friend, and learn to share Andy's attention.
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what's at stake for him, internally, is all of his relationships with the other toys and his very sense of self.
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- So philosophical stakes are what is impacting the world what is making the values or the belief system of this world, change.
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or not change?
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And what does it mean if it does or doesn't change?
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For philosophical stakes, I think Lord of the Rings is a great example.
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If Frodo doesn't throw the ring into the fire, then Middle Earth is gonna be ruled under evil forever.
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- When you watch movies that have this pitch battle between ideas, concepts.
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good versus evil.
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Those kinds of things are philosophical.
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Okay, let's summarize.
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External stakes.
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the possible physical impacts of a choice or action.
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internal stakes, the mental or emotional consequences of a choice.
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and philosophical stakes.
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What are the underlying ideas or values in your story?
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The distinction between internal, external, and philosophical stakes is tricky.
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So, in this last exercise, let's get some practice thinking about this using the films you love.

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常見的發音陷阱

在影片中,有些單詞和表達可能會給學習者帶來發音上的挑戰:

  • “stakes”這個詞在不同的上下文中有不同的重音,學習時要注意如何重讀。
  • “consequence”是另一個容易發音錯誤的單詞,確保您能清晰地分音節。
  • 此外,某些詞如“internal”和“external”在快速語速下可能難以分辨,建議在練習時慢慢說出來,確保準確性。

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