Film Basics
What is the name of the film discussed today
What is The Goddess?
The Goddess was made in this country.
What is China?
This is what you watch on a screen and usually lasts about 1 to 2 hours.
What is a movie or film?
This person takes care of her son and sacrifices everything for him.
Who is the Mother?
The film shows how people often unfairly judge others based on this.
What is their job or social status?
What year was the film released?
What is 1934?
The director of The Goddess was a pioneer of Chinese realistic cinema.
Who is Wu Yonggang?
This person acts in a movie and plays a role.
What is an actor?
This adult is kind to the boy and fights for his right to stay in school.
Who is the principal?
The movie shows how hard life was for women without this type of support.
What is social support, help, or rights?
The Goddess belongs to this genre of film that lacks synchronized recorded dialogue.
What is a silent film?
This Chinese actress played the mother in The Goddess.
Who is Ruan Lingyu?
Movies are shown on this big surface in a theater.
What is a screen?
This man abuses his power over the mother and steals her money.
Who is the thug?
This emotion is felt strongly by the mother when people try to take her son away.
What is sadness or despair?
This is the person who directs the actors and controls the artistic vision of the film.
Who is the director?
In The Goddess, this profession is euphemistically referred to by the film's title.
What is prostitution?
When something exciting, funny, or scary happens in a movie, it’s part of the _____.
What is the story or plot?
The son in the film is known for being very good at this school subject.
What are reading or studies?
The mother is arrested and sent to this place at the end of the film.
What is jail or prision?
This is a series of images shown quickly to create the illusion of movement.
What is a film or motion picture?
The movie takes place in this large Chinese city.
What is Shanghai?
This is what we call the people who make the movie, like the director, camera crew, and sound team.
What is the film crew?
The main male villain in the movie is sometimes referred to as this criminal term.
What is a gangster or criminal?
This woman-directed figure in The Goddess is never given a real name.
Who is the mother (or the goddess)?