Do you have a film industry in your country?
What is your general impression of it?
If you do not have a film industry in your country, where are most of the movies that you watch made?
Do any other countries make films in your language? If so, name them.
Which country is the main producer of movies in your language?
Are you aware of the location of any major film festivals for films in your language?
Is there an independent film industry producing movies in your language? If you know about it, please describe it.
What are the names of some of the most famous directors of movies in your language?
What films have they made?
Who are some of the most famous male actors in movies in your language?
Can you name at least three?
Do you like them?
What are they famous for?
What kinds of people like them?
Does anyone not care for them?
Who are some of the most famous female actors, or actresses, in films in your language?
Can you name at least three?
Do you like them?
What are they famous for?
What kinds of people like them? Does anyone dislike them?
Please name some of the best films made in your language. Describe their plots and tell why you liked them.
Has the film industry that makes films in your language produced films that became popular around the world? If so, name some.
Are animated films being originally produced in your language?
Do you like them?
Describe some of them.
Have they become popular outside your country or culture?
Are romantic films produced in your language?
How do they differ from romantic movies made in Hollywood?
Describe some comedy films made in your language.
How are they different from Hollywood comedies?
Are horror films produced in your language?
How do they differ from scary movies made in Hollywood?
What about action films?
Are they different in some ways from Hollywood films?
Do films made in your language have the same kinds of special effects as Hollywood films?
Are there good documentaries made in your language? If so, describe some topics they deal with.
What positive effects do foreign films have on the people and culture of your country?
What possible negative effects do foreign films have on the people and culture of your country?
For example, do you feel that what is shown in foreign films conflicts with or distorts the values of your own culture?
For example, do people in your country get the wrong kind of information from foreign films?
In an ideal world, what would you like to see the future be of the film industry in your language?
What kinds of films would you like your children to watch when they are young?
When they are teenagers?
When they become adults?
Are movies originally produced in your language the most popular films in your country, or are films with subtitles or dubbing from studios in other countries, for example, from Hollywood in the United States, more popular in your country than those made in your language?
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- Why do you think the center of the movie industry in the United States began in Hollywood, southern California, next to Los Angeles?
- Have you seen many Hollywood movies?
- Give some examples of Hollywood movies you have seen and your opinion of them.
- Do you like Hollywood movies? Why or why not?
- What kind of information about the United States have you learned by watching Hollywood movies?
- Do you think that movies from different countries can teach us about other cultures?
- Give some examples to support your answer.
- What kinds of movies are popular in your country?
- What do the popular movies in your country show about your culture?
- Do you think it is right for Hollywood movies to be the movies that are seen most around the world?
- What change would you like to see, if any?
- Did you see “Harry Potter”?
- How many Harry Potter sequels did you see?
- Why do you think that Harry Potter books and movies have been so popular all around the world?
- Some Christian groups think that Harry Potter movies can be harmful to children because they show witches and wizards in a positive light.
- Do you agree that Harry Potter films can distort children’s minds? Why or why not?
- Sometimes film studios in Hollywood complain that their movies are being illegally copied and sold for lower prices in different parts of the world.
- Do you agree with them that this is a bad thing?
- Do you think it could be a good thing? Support your opinion.
- Is the movie industry in your country strong? Why or why not?
- Does the film industry in your country make good movies? Give some examples.
- Do you think that the movies from your country can be popular in other parts of the world if they have subtitles or are dubbed in different languages? Why or why not?
- What improvements in special effects have you noticed since you began watching movies?
- How do you think that movies will change in the future?
- Do you think that there are any topics that there should be more movies about?
- If you could take part in a movie project, what role would you like to play?
- Would you like to be an actor, the director, the producer, the camera operator, make-up person, musician, film editor, support crew?
- If you were a film director, what kind of movie would you like to make?
- How would your movie be different than others?