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Movie Class – Week 10
Mini Script and Vocabulary List: The Bucket List (1:03:33 – 1:09:50)
So that’s true love. Must be nice.
Don’t know if I buy the whole 20,000 volunteers business.
Funeral plans tend to confuse me. Specifically buried or cremated.
In Egypt_________________________________________________________________
Take buried – I know it shouldn’t matter but I’m claustrophobic. What if I wake up
underground and nobody can hear me. Do they still make those coffins with the
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bells? Then cremated – what do you do with the ashes? Do you bury ‘em, scatter
How do we get down from this tomb?
‘em, put ‘em on a shelf, float ‘em down the Ganges on a bed of flowers? What if I feel
the flames? Maybe we should go frozen like Walt Disney.
In India_________________________________________________________________
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I don’t know if I buy: I don’t believe…
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business: matter; situation
The empress was the wife of Shah Jehan, the fifth mughal emperor. Although it was
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cremate: to burn the body of a dead person
an arranged marriage they were deeply in love and remained inseparable until she
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take buried: for example, buried
died giving birth to their 14th child.
10. claustrophobic: feeling afraid because you are in a small or crowded space
11. what if I feel the flames: Edward thinks that if he is cremated, he might be able to feel it
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inseparable: if people are inseparable it means they have a very close relationship and
spend a lot of time together
12. frozen like Walt Disney: there was a rumor after Walt Disney’s death that his body was
frozen, however the truth is he was cremated
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a shah: a king
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Mughal Empire: an empire in Asia from 1526 – 1858 ruling over most of the Indian
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subcontinent established by Muslim rulers
Cremated. Ashes put in a can and buried someplace with a view.
I never liked the sound of the word “urn”.
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Do you mind if I call you Ray? Main man Ray.
13. urn: a container for the ashes of a dead person after the body has been cremated
Absolutely. 14 kids. I’m with you.
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main man: best friend
Really? Got any special feelings about “crypt”?
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I’m with you: I am following what you are saying; I understand what you are saying
14. crypt: an underground room where the bodies of dead people are buried, usually under
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a church
It took 20,000 volunteers 22 years to complete this structure. Every square foot
designed by the Shah himself.
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No, an old Chok Full O’ Nuts can will do me just fine.
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The heavenly coffee.
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18. odds are: chances are
Better coffee even your money can’t buy, my friend.
19. reincarnation: the belief that after you die you can be born again as a different person,
animal, or thing
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20. going for her: in her favor
Don’t bet on it.
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15. Don’t bet on it: used for expressing doubt about something
Buddhists believe you keep coming back; moving up or down a level based on how
you lived your life.
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Oh right. Kopi Luwak.
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See that’s where they lose me. I mean what would a snail have to do to move up, in
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the line up? Lay down a perfect trail of slime?
Whatta you got against Kopi Luwak?
21. they lose me: I am no longer interested or believe in what they are saying
16. What have you got against…?: Why do you dislike or not approve of…?
22. slime: a thick, wet, unpleasant substance
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Thomas
Too fancy for my tastes.
Shitty news or really shitty news?
There’s a storm up there.
17. my tastes: things I like or things I am interested in
23. shitty: extremely casual meaning very bad, boring, or annoying
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Too fancy for my main man Ray.
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Well thanks for the bulletin Tom we can’t even see the goddamn thing!
The Great Wall of China___________________________________________________
Maybe your mountain is trying to tell us something.
Ok, ok you don’t have to get chippy with me.
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Next Hong Kong. Silk suits and black-walnut ice cream.
This is China for you baby!
24. bulletin: short news broadcast
The Himalayas___________________________________________________________
25. chippy: tending to become angry or upset very easily
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Hong Kong___________________________________________________________
Be a lot more majestic if we could see it.
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The Tibetans call it Chomulungma – “Goddess Mother of the Snows”.
See that old woman? Odds are we are going to be dead before her.
Of course she’s probably got reincarnation going for her however that system
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works.
“Goddess Mother of the World” actually. In the traditional Tibetan translation.
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