Hello, everyone. As in the last few videos in this series, today we will be talking about vocabulary for a specific topic.
Today we are talking about films.
As you can probably expect, a lot of the words that were in the last video, would also fit in this video,
because the types have the same names.
This video will mainly focus on words like "director" or "actor" or the people and things you need in order to make a film.
The first person about whom one thinks, when one thinks about films, is the actor or actress.
One can also use the word "actor" or "actress".
For example: Robert Downey Jr. ist der Hauptdarsteller von "Iron Man". Er spielt die Hauptrolle von Tony Stark.
You probably noticed that I said the prefix "Haupt-" in front of the word "Darsteller".
The prefix "Haupt-" means that something is the most important one
and in this case, it means that he is the main character of the film "Iron Man".
If one sees a film, that was translated from the original language into another language
and the only thing that is new is the sound, one might want to know who the voice actor is.
The voice actor is the one that speaks the voice for another actor in the second language.
It is also interesting to say that the voice actor for many American actors is the same person.
For example: The voice actor for Dan Aykroyd, Sylvester Stallone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger is the same man, Thomas Danneberg.
The film producer or sometimes just called the producer, is the person who works behind the scenes from the beginning
to make sure that the film is made without any problems.
They work with the technical side. They work with the script.
And they do everything behind the scenes that one wouldn't expect from the director.
Another important person in this industry is the director.
Sometimes they just call it "Regie".
That is the person who tells the actors or actresses how they should act.
Normally, if you watch the credits of a German film, you will see the words "a film by..." and then the name of that person.
This is how you can identify the director of the film.
"Crew and cast" is "Cast and Crew" in English,
although in German one says "Stab und Besetzung" and in English it is switched. It is a little swapped.
Normally, there is a very large list of people.
Today I am only talking about the most important ones.
You should watch a German film when you are finished with this video
and watch the credits in order to learn the other words that I didn't say in this video.
In the script it says everything that one should do or say.
The production manager ist "production manager" in English. On can also call this the "production manager". (Sometimes subtitles are dumb.)
The production design is the word for "production design". That is the person, who builds the sets.
The "sound" is "sound" and one uses the word "Schnitt" in order to say "editing",
but "die Redaktion" is actually the word for the editorial office.
Obviously, as with other topics that have a lot of technical words, there are a lot of American words
that have snuck into the German language and received a gender.
That includes words like: casting, camera, costume, music, and make-up,
but one can also call that "die Maske".
I believe that should be all for today, but I also want to say something about my favorite film.
My favorite film is "Lucky Number Slevin".
It is a very cool film with Josh Hartnett, Lucy Lui, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, and Ben Kingsley.
Josh Hartnett plays the role of "Nick Fisher", but he says in this film that he isn't Nick Fisher.
Ben Kingsley and Morgan Freeman are both gangsters in this film
and they want to kill each other.
Bruce Willis is a hitman who is supposed to kill Nick Fisher
after Nick Fisher has killed either Morgan Freeman or Ben Kingsley.
I personally like this film, because it uses the English language in a way that one seldom sees.
If you want to see what I mean, there is a link down below in the description, where you can find the trailer.
If you want to see a good German film, there is a link down below for "Good-bye Lenin".
And that is a very cool German film.
Take a look at my blog in order to learn more German.
That is all for today. Thanks for watching. Until next time. Bye.