The document provides instructions for a presentation assignment on the movie "Cruel Intentions". Students must present a 3 paragraph summary of the movie in their own words, using connectors to ensure coherence and including specific elements in each paragraph. The presentation cannot be read from a script and must last 6 minutes, with a printed copy of the paragraphs turned in for a writing grade. It also provides a brief plot summary of the movie, which is a modern adaptation of "Les Liaisons dangereuses" set among wealthy New York City teenagers involving manipulation, seduction, and love.
The document provides instructions for a presentation assignment on the movie "Cruel Intentions". Students must present a 3 paragraph summary of the movie in their own words, using connectors to ensure coherence and including specific elements in each paragraph. The presentation cannot be read from a script and must last 6 minutes, with a printed copy of the paragraphs turned in for a writing grade. It also provides a brief plot summary of the movie, which is a modern adaptation of "Les Liaisons dangereuses" set among wealthy New York City teenagers involving manipulation, seduction, and love.
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The document provides instructions for a presentation assignment on the movie "Cruel Intentions". Students must present a 3 paragraph summary of the movie in their own words, using connectors to ensure coherence and including specific elements in each paragraph. The presentation cannot be read from a script and must last 6 minutes, with a printed copy of the paragraphs turned in for a writing grade. It also provides a brief plot summary of the movie, which is a modern adaptation of "Les Liaisons dangereuses" set among wealthy New York City teenagers involving manipulation, seduction, and love.
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Evaluation 20% Own words explanation of the movie. 20% Coherence on connectors usage. 10% Content format 130 a 140 words per paragraph (title-setting-resolution-genra-conflict-opinion- character). 20% Parts of the paragraph. 20% Speaking level’s presentation no reading. 10% 6 minutes per presentation no more, and paper with the paragraph printed for writing final grade. Information Cruel Intentions is a 1999 American drama film starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe,Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair. The movie is a comedic and dramatic appropriation of the 18th-century French epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Laclos, but unlike other modern film versions of the novel set in the France of that time (such as Dangerous Liaisonsand Valmont) Cruel Intentions is set among the wealthy teenagers living in modern New York City. The plot is mainly driven by a bet held between the two main characters, and it heavily involves manipulation, seduction, and love in a rich and sophisticated socially elite youth atmosphere. The film started as an independent film with a much smaller budget, and was later picked up by Columbia Pictures. The film was released on March 5, 1999. It was later followed by two direct-to-video films: a prequel, Cruel Intentions 2, and a sequel, Cruel Intentions 3. Cruel Intentions a movie that influence my view of what is beyond life. Drama and comedy that created the movie explain the common life of rich teenagers in a big city. For instance the movie is based on a bet between the two main characters that involves seduction, manipulation but love at the end of the movie. First, the bet consist on taking the virginity of an significant girl by a guy who is always having sex just for fun. Then, Sebastian the main character tries to get the bet passing over Annet the lady who changes his life drastically. Finally, Sebastian fall in love with Annet but he realized it too late because death separates them. As a result the movie expose that it does not matter how evil a person might be, but love can control any kind of person.