The real Brad Pitt

 

by Marliana de Souza

 

William Bradley Pitt was born in Oklahoma on December 18 1963. He has his father's name, but everybody has always called him Brad.

He went to Kickapoo high School and he was interested in everything: music, sports, the teachers and the girls.

After high school, Brad's next stop was the University of Missouri. His dad gave him an old car and  he drove the 240 kilometres to university in September 1982. Brad was a good student.

He stayed in Hollywood for five years. He got a very small role in a tv programme, then he got his first important role on one of the biggest programmes in the 1980s, Dallas. Everybody watched Dallas in 1987. Brad also made a tv advertisement for Levi's Jeans in 1988.

In 1990 he made "Too young to die ", a tv film. After 1996, Brad was busy as an actor.

The real Brad remembers the lessons of  his mother and father and he enjoys every minute of his life.

 

 

"Bounce"

 

by Samara Oliveira

 

Directed by: Don Ross/ with: Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck

 

This is a composition about a really bad film, I might say.  I confess Iīve watched it, although I donīt know why. However, here is the story:

Buddy Amaral (Ben Affleck) is a successful and arrogant businessman. He is a partner in a well-known advertising agency in Los Angeles. One night he has to wait for his delayed flight and meets Greg Janello, a writer with whom he exchanges his boarding pass in order to spend the night with the beautiful woman he has met at the airport bar. As expected in all bad films, when seats are changed a horrible tragedy happens: the aircraft has a technical problem and crashes. Greg dies, so Buddy starts drinking and becomes an alcoholic. However, this is not the worse thing in the film. After a short period under treatment, Buddy goes back to work with a fresh beautiful face and a new obsession: helping Abby, Gregīs poor widow and his two children. I donīt think that at this point itīs necessary to mention what comes later, since you can imagine, but well, Iīll tell you anyway.

Buddy (rich, handsome and kind-hearted) meets Abby (Gwyneth Paltrow, more boring than ever) and helps her. As a consequence they fall in love, because in a film like this the two main characters have to fall in love as soon as they can.

Now I think everybody can guess what happens later. Buddy gets on well with her two boys. He turns out to be a father figure for the children. When they are happier than ever (after a barbecue, of course) somebody tells Abby that the man she loves was supposed to be in her husbandīs seat on the flight and then they split up. He loses his job. He isnīt that arrogant anymore. The boys miss him and... they get back together.

I would not recommend this film to any of my friends, thatīs why I wrote this composition. So be careful, the title of the film is “Bounce” and itīs too similar to a Brazilian soap opera for my liking.

 

 

 

 

PS: Message from Viv ! Everyone is going to have another vocabulary test after Easter!

 

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