2015-1 Abiturprüfung NRW – Englisch Grundkurs

Abiturprüfung NRW – Englisch Grundkurs 2015
Aufgabe 1
Aufgabentyp: Literarischer Text (Drehbuchauszug); Textaufgabe mit wahlweise
analytisch-interpretierendem Schwerpunkt oder anwendungs-/produktionsorientiertem Schwerpunkt
Unterrichtsinhalte: American and British traditions and visions – The American
Dream then and now
Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine (extract)
In the opening scenes Olive Hoover, her father Richard, her mother Sheryl and her
uncle Frank are introduced. Olive wants to take part in the children’s beauty contest
Little Miss Sunshine. Richard wants to sell his “Refuse To Lose” program.
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2 INT. BASEMENT REC ROOM – DAY
A seven-year-old girl sits watching the show intently.
This is OLIVE. She is big for her age and slightly plump.
She has frizzy hair and wears black-rimmed glasses. She studies the show very earnestly.
Then, using a remote, she FREEZES the image.
Absently, she holds up one hand and mimics the waving style of Miss America. She
REWINDS the tape and starts all over.
Again, Miss America hears her name announced, and once again breaks down in
tears – overwhelmed and triumphant.
RICHARD (V. O.) There’s two kinds of people in this world – Winners … and Losers.
3 INT. CLASSROOM – DAY
RICHARD (45) stands at the front of a generic community college classroom – cinderblock walls, industrial carpeting.
He wears pleated khaki shorts, a golf shirt, sneakers. He moves with the stocky, stifflegged gait of a former athlete.
His peppy, upbeat demeanor just barely masks a seething sense of insecurity and frustration. MUSIC continues underneath.
RICHARD If there’s one thing you take away from the nine weeks we’ve spent here,
it should be this: Winners and Losers. What’s the difference?
Richard turns and clicks through a Power Point presentation, projected behind him,
that bullet-lists his key points.
RICHARD (con’t) Winners see their dreams come true. Winners see what they want,
they go out and they get it. They don’t hesitate. They don’t complain. They don’t
make excuses. And they don’t give up. Losers don’t get what they want. They
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hesitate. They complain. They make excuses. And they give up. On themselves
and their dreams.
Richard puts down his remote for the big finale. In the dim half-light, it’s a hushed,
dramatic moment.
RICHARD (con’t) Inside each of you – at the very core of your being – is a Winner
waiting to be awakened … and unleashed upon the world. With my Nine Step
“Refuse To Lose” program, you now have the tools, the know-how, the insights
you need to put your losing habits behind you and make your dreams come true.
No hesitating! No complaining! No excuses! I want you to go out into the world …
and be Winners! Thank you!
Big smile.
REVERSE ANGLE – There are twenty STUDENTS in a classroom that could seat one
hundred. They CLAP half-heartedly.
Then there’s an awkward moment when everyone gathers their stuff. No one says
anything. Chairs SCRAPE the floor. […]
7 EXT. HOSPITAL CORRIDOR – DAY
Sheryl strides anxiously down a hospital corridor, fingering a small cross on her
necklace, checking room numbers. She finds the room she’s looking for. As she tries
to enter, a DOCTOR emerges. They nearly collide.
DOCTOR Ms. Hoover?
(Sheryl nods)
Your brother’s fine …
Sheryl exhales – hugely relieved.
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8 INT. HOSPITAL ROOM – DAY
In a wheelchair, parked against a wall, is Sheryl’s brother, FRANK, also middle-aged.
His wrists are wrapped in bandages.
With empty eyes, he listens to the muted VOICE of the Doctor coming from the hallway.
DOCTOR (O. S.) … Keep him away from sharp objects: knives, scissors … If you
have medications – depressants – in your house, keep them secured …
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Sheryl listens to the Doctor.
DOCTOR I’d prefer to keep him, but …
SHERYL I know, the insurance …
She shakes her head and sighs.
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(544 words)
Michael D. Arndt: Little Miss Sunshine. The shooting script. New York: Newmarket Press 2007,
pp. 1– 4. Copyright © 2006 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
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Annotations:
l. 1 INT.: interior
l. 1 REC ROOM: recreation room
l. 2 the show: here Miss America Contest Television Show
l. 11 V. O.: voice over
l. 13 generic community college classroom: here typical college classroom
ll. 23 /30 con’t: continued
l. 41 EXT.: exterior
l. 54 O. S.: off screen
Aufgabenstellung
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Punkte
Describe the four characters’ situations in the opening scenes of Little
Miss Sunshine. (Comprehension)
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Analyse how Richard’s situation and ways of thinking are presented.
Focus on the relationship between the stage directions and the spoken
text passages as well as the relevance of the other scenes. (Analysis)
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3. Choose one of the following tasks:
3.1 Comment on the philosophy Richard teaches his students. Refer to the
situations presented in the film script and work done in class on the
American Dream. (Evaluation: comment)
3.2 You decide to tell scriptwriter Michael Arndt what you think about the
opening scenes of Little Miss Sunshine as a way of introducing a German
audience to the concept of the American Dream. Focus on your reactions
to these scenes and your expectations of a feature film on the topic.
Write a personal letter. (Evaluation: re-creation of text)
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Lösungsvorschläge
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Die gestellte Aufgabe bezieht sich auf vier verschiedene Charaktere, die einzeln
(Olive, Richard, Sheryl) oder in Paaren (Sheryl und Frank) vorgestellt werden.
Es bietet sich an, die Situationen entsprechend nacheinander zu beschreiben, am
einfachsten in der vorgegebenen Reihenfolge des Skripts:
– a little awkward girl named Olive sits in front of the TV and mimics a beauty
contest
– Richard, her father and a teacher, gives a rather unsuccessful talk about
“Winners and Losers” in a community college classroom
– her mother Sheryl nervously walks along the hospital corridor, worrying
about her brother Frank
– Frank wears bandages because he has tried to kill himself
The filmic exposition of the four major characters in the extract from Michael
Arndt’s script Little Miss Sunshine starts with Olive. The somewhat chubby little
girl is sitting in front of a television set, watching a beauty contest. When Miss
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America is announced, Olive mimics her dramatic movements and then replays
the scene. Her father Richard’s voice is heard off camera, advocating his “winner versus losers” programme, before appearing on screen in the drab classroom
in which he teaches. He is using a Power Point presentation to underline the wornout catchphrases about the American Dream that explain his view on the national
myth in a heroically optimistic manner. Apparently laid out for a much bigger
audience, the speech is received by 20 students in a lecture theatre that is almost
empty. In the next scene, Richard’s wife Sheryl is shown walking down a hospital corridor looking for a certain room, while nervously playing with her necklace and worrying about her brother Frank, who has just tried to commit suicide.
His attempt to kill himself was not successful, Sheryl is told by a doctor, but the
bandages that cover the cuts on his wrists indicate that he had seriously tried to
put an end to his life. As neither Frank nor any insurance company can pay for
further treatment, Sheryl is given the responsibility of taking him home and
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keeping him from trying to kill himself again.
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Sowohl Richards Situation als auch seine im Vortrag präsentierte Grundeinstellung wirken merkwürdig auf den Leser des Filmskripts und entsprechend auf das
Filmpublikum, was vor allem an der inhärenten Widersprüchlichkeit liegt. Es ist
empfehlenswert, diese Grunderkenntnis Ihrer Antwort voranzustellen:
– Richard’s real situation as a teacher at a community college in an almost
empty classroom and his programme on how to be a winner is paradoxical
Die Widersprüchlichkeit wird vom Skript ganz gezielt durch Kontraste aufgebaut, die sich gut anhand der Beziehung zwischen Regieanweisungen und gesprochenen Textpassagen aufzeigen lassen. Auch die Szenen der anderen Charaktere geben Aufschluss über Richards Lebenssituation. Am besten gehen Sie
bei Ihrer Analyse in der Reihenfolge des Skripts vor:
– Richard’s voice over seems to comment on Olive and makes the audience
laugh about her for the same reason they later laugh about Richard
– there is a contrast between Richard’s performance (shown in the stage directions) and the impression given by his clothes, frustrated looks and the lack of
interest and motivation displayed by his students
– the other scenes show that Richard and his family have to deal with various
obstacles if they are to achieve their different aims in life at all
Richard’s bleak situation, his attitude and his wish to sell his “refuse to lose”programme form an obvious paradox which makes him appear awkward. This is
mirrored by various filmic contrasts, particularly by those between scene directions and spoken parts, as well as the combination of Richard’s introduction to
the audience and other scenes that show his family.
Richard’s first spoken text is a voice over that comments on his rather big and
chubby daughter’s attempt to copy the performance of Miss America. Though
the statement overgeneralises, the viewer would probably agree that there are
indeed “Winners … and Losers” (l. 11) in any society. Whereas in the basement
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