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BBC Learning English Entertainment ‘Letters From Iwo Jima’ ‘Letters From Iwo Jima’ © BBC Learning English Page 1 of 3 bbclearningenglish.com Amber: Hello, I’m Amber, and you’re listening to bbclearningenglish.com. In Entertainment today, we listen to an interview with the legendary American actor and director, Clint Eastwood. He talks about his new film, ‘Letters From Iwo Jima’. Clint Eastwood was nominated for a Best Director Oscar for the film, which tells the story of the battle for control of the Japanese island during ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­_________________. It’s the second of two films Eastwood’s directed about the battle of Iwo Jima. The first, ‘Flags of our Fathers’, looked at ______________through the eyes of US soldiers, while ‘Letters From Iwo Jima’ shows the __________________. It shows events from the perspective of Japanese soldiers, and is filmed in Japanese. It shows how Japanese soldiers tried ____________________ to defend the island from American troops. Sacks of letters, written by the Japanese soldiers, were found decades later, _____________in caves where they died. The letters were the inspiration, the idea or stimulus, for Clint Eastwood’s film. Here is Clint Eastwood talking about why he’s made two films on the same subject. He says he’s interested in the personal stories of the people who were __________________ to fight. The films ‘personalise’ the historical story – they focus on the human details and feelings. As you listen, try to catch the two words Clint Eastwood uses to describe the way in which stories of war always end. Clint Eastwood ‘What I tried to do with these particular films is just _________________ it and tell stories about the people other than the war itself. The frustrations of war are obvious, you know, people being taken away from their families and sent off to fight for causes they’re either in sympathy with or they have little _____________________, but they’re still sent to fight __________________, and it’s fun to delve into that because it eventually winds up with the same thing – it’s going to be the tragedy and the ___________________of it all. ’

Amber: Did you catch them? Clint Eastwood says that he finds it ‘fun’ to delve into, to explore, the situations of the soldiers sent to fight because the terrible truth is that war ‘winds up’, or ends, with ‘the same thing’ – ‘tragedy’ and ‘futility’. Tragedy is a disastrous ________. Futility is uselessness or pointlessness or senselessness.

Listen again. Clint Eastwood ‘What I tried to do with these particular films is just ___________ it and tell stories about the people other than the war itself. The _______________of war are obvious, you know, people being taken away from their families and _____________________ for causes they’re either in sympathy with or they have little knowledge of, but they’re still sent to fight ___________________, and it’s fun to delve into that because it eventually winds up with the same thing – it’s going to be the tragedy and the futility of it all. ’

Amber: Next, Clint Eastwood talks about whether he found it difficult to understand the point of view of the Japanese soldiers. As you listen, try to catch what says the ______________wear to mark them out in a propaganda film – a propaganda film is made to ___________________ a particular view of events – and what _______________________ would wear in such a film. Clint Eastwood ‘It wasn’t difficult – it’s a question of just curiosity. If you’re curious about how people feel in other societies, in other cultures, then you can be curious about it – where it was a propaganda thing – where there’s the __________________with the white hat, and the black hat guys on the other side, then, if you keep it that simple, then you’re not curious about it, then you don’t give a damn. But I – at this point in life – it seemed like it was interesting to explore the feelings of other people.’

Amber: So Clint Eastwood jokes that in propaganda movies the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black – just to indicate who is who. He explains he is driven by ‘curiosity’, by a desire to know. He says the opposite of being curious, is not giving a damn – a very informal expression meaning you don’t_______________.

Listen again. Clint Eastwood ‘It wasn’t difficult – it’s a question of just curiosity. If you’re curious about how people feel in other societies, in other cultures, then you can be curious about it – and you’ll be interested in exploring it. But if you’re not curious about it, if you just think of it in terms of World War II movies where it was a propaganda thing – where there’s the good guys with the white hat, and the black hat guys on the other side, then, if you keep it that simple, then you’re not curious about it, then you don’t give a damn. But I – at this point in life – it seemed like it was interesting to explore the feelings of other people.’

Amber: Now here’s a list of the language we focussed on in the programme today. to personalise to delve into something tragedy futility curiosity .

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to personalise

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you don’t give a damn

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The American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast. Following elaborate preparatory air and naval bombardment, three U.S. marine divisions landed on the island in February 1945. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations. Despite the difficulty of the conditions, the marines wiped out the defending forces after a month of fighting, and the battle earned a place in American lore with the publication of a photograph showing the U.S. flag being raised in victory.