Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Hunger Games 2 is an American science fiction film which was created by Francis Lawrence. The movie went out on November 27, 2013 in cinema theatres. This movie was a big success, it counted 3 113 492 spectators. The production of this movie was very expensive 20000$ of costume, 1000000$ of decoration, 76000$ for special effects …...




Summary :




Winners of 74th Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark live in the village of the winners of District 12. They have to make a tour through all the losing districts but a day the president calls in Katniss to make her learn his disatisfaction. He has obliged Katniss to love Peeta because the capitole was angry because they think that the president has destroyed their loves because of the games. The president then organizes the games of the expiation to eliminate the teenagers without causing panic. Both teenagers have to face multiple mortal dangers during the Games.




My ideas on this movie :




I love this movie because it causes a lot of suspense and action, we can't be bored !!!

But, I don't like the beginning of the movie because I find that it has no link with the first HUNGER GAMES and the end of the movie is not well built because it gives us no suspense !

QUESTIONS :

1)Where Katniss lives ?
2)What is the name of the 75 games ?
  



written by Hugo 

LOL

Lol is a French movie directed by Lisa Azuelos, written by Lisa Azuelos too and Nans Delgado, and released the 4th February in 2009. It lasts 105 minutes and it’s a comedy. The main characters are Sophie Marceau, Christa Theret and Jérémy Kapone. The film had success because of its humour, truth, energy.
It’s the story of Lola (Christa Theret), a 16-years old young girl, her friends, her lessons, her language, her first love and her first times, her laughters and her doubts…  It’s also the story of Anne (Sophie Marceau), her mother, who sees her daughter grow up and become a woman, of her loves, her rows and her laughs, her doubts as a mother and as a woman… It’s mainly the portrait of two generations of women who search to find themselves but always are full to the brim with love.
Lola lives her young person’s life in her high school, her bestfriend, Maël (Jérémy Kapone), becomes her boyfriend, she changes of behaviour, she goes to parties, in England… And her mother falls in love with a man after her divorce, she reads Lola’s diary, Anne  had not realized life’s daughter. And when Lola knows that, she is furious and sad, so she goes to live at her father’s home. Later on, she comes back and all is well.

Lol speaks about the Parisian teens in the XXI century, internet, sexuality and love… the life today. It’s inspired of a true story. It makes reference to La Boum because there is Sophie Marceau too, and there are sometimes the same songs.
I really like this movie because it the story of young people, teenage years… Sometimes there are scenes that happen in reality, I feel emotions, I am blow off by emotions, musics… It’s really realistic. And to the other side, it’s the story of a woman, and we see life in our society today.

         Lol means Laughing Out Loud (« mort de rire ») and it’s also the nickname of Lola.
Sophie Marceau is a star of the French cinema, she’s an actress and a director. In 1983 she had a Cesar Award for Most Promising Actress in La Boum 2. Christa Theret is young and she had really well played, she had too a Cesar Award for Most Promising Actress in 2010.

- What movie does it remind you of ?
 - What does Anne read ?

Written by Léa F

Bill Gates

William Henry Gates III was born on November, the 28^th in 1955 in Seattle (USA). He is a pioneer in computing. In 1973, Gates joined Harvard University at the age of 18 but soon he stopped his studies to do only computer programming. There he met Paul Allen.

In 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen made the first personnal computer sold to hobbyists,(to the public) the Altair 8800. This creation made them known and they could create the Microcomputer Software company, which became Micro-Soft (Then the hyphen disappeared) with money they had earn with the Altair 8800.

Years after, they created the operating system Windows, which became a few months later the only operating system on computers.

Microsoft is known all around the world thanks to it ability to evolve his operating system into many utilities like word processing, spreadsheet, database and games. In 2001, the Xbox was released and it was a real success.

In 1986, on a winter day, Microsoft entered in Exchange. The same day, Bill Gates became a billionaire. From 1996 to 2009, he was the richest man in the world.

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett launched in July 2010 the "Giving Pledge" campaign ("Promise Grant") to encourage billionaires to give at least half of their wealth to charity. The group has sixty members in 2011 all living in the United States. 

Can you answer these two questions?

- What does Microsoft stands for ?

- ​What's the name of the first personnal computer ?

 

Written by Nassim 

Ashley Benson

Biography :

Her complete name is «Ashley Victoria Benson», and her nickname is Benzo and Ash. She was born on December 18, 1989 in Anaheim in Orange County (California). So she is American. She has English and German origins on her father's side, Jeff Benson. She has also Irish origins on her mother's side, Shanon Harte. And her sister, Shaylene Benson, is a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers. She is an actress, a model.

Career :

At the age of 8 years, she started in modeling, posing for catalogs, she was part of the modeling agency Ford. In 1999, at the age of 10, Ashley launched her acting career as she was model for advertising. In 2004, Ashley signed a three-year contract with the producers of the soap opera «  Days of our Lives  ». She played the role of Abigail "Abby" Deveraux, the eldest child of the couple Jack Deveraux and Jennifer Horton. In 2007, she got the main role in the TV movie « American Girls 4: war blondes » with Cassie Scerbo Michael Copon and Jennifer Tisdale.

In December 2009, Ashley took the role of Hanna Marin in the new drama, mystery, thriller, Pretty Little Liars, « The lying women » adapted from the novel by Sara Shepard. On the set, Ashley met her best friend, Shay Mitchell. I find this a truly amazing and full of suspense series.

In December 2010, she played as a main character in the TV movie, The Angel Of The Snows with Christina Milian and Chad Michael Murray. In January 2012, Ashley took a leading role in the thriller, Spring Breakers, with Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Rachel Korine and James Franco. In January 2013, Ashley became the face of the Faviana brand.

Love :

Since January 2011, Ashley is in love with Ryan Good, former stylist and manager of Justin Bieber.

Written by Capucine

BEYONCE

•Her name is Beyoncé Griselle Knowles-Carter. She was born on September, the 4th in 1981 in Houston. Beyoncé is a famous singer of R&B. She has a lot of nicknames: Sasha Fierce; Queen B; Honey Bee; King B; Queen of R&B; BK; Yoncé and the last one is Third Ward Trill. My favorite is Queen B because to my eyes she is beautiful as a queen and her talent is so big... This nickname was given to her to consider her status of famous music artist.

•Her career began with the creation of a group: Destiny's Child (in 1990). This group consists of three African-American: Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. The group had a very big success and released five albums. After their last album, Beyoncé started her soloist career. But before her success in this career, she appeared with the lead role in a TV film of MTV: Carmen: A Hip Hopera. It was a very great success. Yoncé recorded her first soloist single, Work it out, in 2002, for the soundtrack of another film in which she participated. Then, she devoted herself to her soloist career in music and she produced 5 albums, until the last one which came out in 2013 (it was called “Beyoncé”).

•In 2002, she started a relationship with Jay-Z an American rapper with whom she worked several times. They got married on April, the 4th, in 2008, in New York. And after ten years living together, she gave birth to their first child: Blue Ivy. She was born on January, the 7th in 2012, in New York.

Beyonce is my favorite singer because I love her voice and all the songs that she realised. Her songs are touching and in general very energising. When she is on the stage she dance very well, she is very dynamic and she is close to her fans.

Here is Beyoncé.


          Her group: Destiny’s Child.


          There is her husband. (Jay-Z)


      Blue Ivy in the arms of her mother.






Can you answer these questions ?

•What is your favorite nickname for Beyoncé?
•Can you name the two other girls who were in the Destiny’s Child?
•What is “soundtrack” in French?

Written by Pauline

Lost

Lost ( lost missing) is an American television series with121episodes. The directors are JJ Abrams, Damon Lindelof and Jeffrey Lieber. The main actors are: Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Terry O'Quinn, Josh Holloway, Jorge Garcia and Naveen Andrews. There are 6 seasons. The series takes place almost entirely on the Hawaiianisland of Oahu. Each episode begins with a pre-scene.

summary of the story:

815 airline flight Oceanic Airlines from Sydney to Los Angeles, explodes in midair over a Pacific island not listed on the map. The cockpit, the front and the tail of the aircraft fall in different places on the island where the survivors will learn to live and survive.

I love this serial because there are a lot of actions and you never know what will happen

In this picture, there are the main  actors.

Written by Felix
 

 

Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer Shrader Lawrence is an actress.

She was born on 15 August 1990 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

She is American. She is best known for her role as Katniss Everdeen in Hunger Games, role as Katniss Everdeen in Hunger Games, Mystique in X-Men and Tiffany Maxwell in Happiness Therapy.

Jennifer Lawrence received an Oscar for best actress for her role in Happiness Therapy.

Her mother works with children and her father has a construction company. She has got two brothers. When she was little, she was a real boy missing. She practiced baseball and hockey.

I love this actress because she is very beautiful and I liked watching Happiness Therapy and Hunger Games.

I love Happiness Therapy because this film is very famous, comic and romantic. It is a love story. I love romantic films.

And I love Hunger Games because this film is very famous and the story is very original and funny.

 

Written by Laura

 

Vanessa Paradis

Vanessa Chantal Paradis was born December 22, 1972 in Saint-Maur-des-Fosses in the Val-de-Marne. She is a singer, actress and model. She became famous at the age of 14 with her first album "Joe le taxi". Since that time, she continued her career in music, film and model. She lived her childhood and adolescence in Villiers-sur-Marne with her parents, André and Corinne Paradis and her sister Alysson Paradis, born in 1984 and became an actress. Very young, Vanessa Paradis was interested in music, she took piano lessons and dance. Her passion her make her first television appearance on 3 May 1980 in "L'école des fans" organized by Jacques Martin, she singing the title "Emilie Jolie". In 1989, Vanessa playing the role of Mathilde teenager in "Noce blanche" film by Jean-Claude Brisseau. She playing a young girl drug addict and prostitute who lives a passion for her teacher.

In 1992, her third album, Vanessa Paradis went to the United States where she worked with Lenny Kravitz.

Lenny Kravitz has an album called Vanessa Paradis. For the first time, the artist singing in English and was a success, she first class sales.

With this success, in April 1993, Vanessa made ​​ her first tour in France and abroad. Sixty tour whose ten at the Olympia.

In 1994, Vanessa played "Elisa" in the film with Gerard Depardieu. In the film, she was play a girl in search of her father.

her songs are : "Amour Jamais", "Ardoise", "As Tears Go By" ,"Au Charme Non Plus", "Be My Baby ","Bliss", "Chat Ananas"," Chet Baker", "Commando", "Coupe Coupe", "Dans Mon Cafe", "Dis Lui Toi Que Je T'aime", "Firmaman", "Gotta Have It", "I'm Waiting For The Man", "Irresistiblement", "Jackadi"," Joe Le Taxi", "Junior Suite", "Just As Long As You Are There", "L'air Du Temps", "L'amour En Soi", "L'eau Et Le Vin", "L'incendie", "La Ballade De Lily Rose", "La Bataille", "La La La Song", "Le Bon Dieu Est Un Marin"," Le Tourbillon De La Vie"," Leforestier", "Les Acrobates", "Les Cactus", "Les Piles"," Les Revenants", "Lonely Rainbows", "Marilyn & John", "Marilyn & John" (English Version)," Maxou", "Mosquito", "Natural High","Paradis", "Pourtant", "Que Fait La Vie"a, "Scarabee", "Silver And Gold", "Soldat", "St Germain", "Sunday Mondays, Tandem", "The Future Song", "Walk On The Wild Side", "When I Say", "Your Love Has Got A Handle On My Mind"...

she played in 20 films : "Noce Blanche", "Elisa", "Un amour de sorcière", "Une chance sur deux", "Le plaisir(et ses petits tracas)", "La fille sur le pont", "Lost in la Mancha", "Pollux le manège enchanté", "Le paris de paradis", "atomik circus", "mon ange", "la clef", "l'arnacoeur", "café de Flore", "Un monstre à Paris", "Je me suis fait tout petit", "Cornouaille", "Dubaï Flamingo", "Apprenti Gigolo", "Sous les jupes des filles".

Before living the great love with Johnny Depp, Vanessa Paradis had two other serious relations : one with Florent Pagny, and a second with Lenny Kravitz. On June 19, the agent Johnny Depp announced in the press, between the actor and Vanessa Paradis is finished. This news has shaken the public, because after fourteen years of romance, they formed one true love.

BEFORE                                                                          AFTER

Answer the two questions:

Who was his latest love ?
What was the public reaction to the separation of Johnny and Vanessa ?

Written by Léa

Sports in the mountain:

In the mountain there are many sports like ski, snowboard, snowshoes, and sled.

Ski: Ski is a means of transport.  This sport is practiced thanks to long and narrow skates fixed to the feet. We can ski in several ways as cross-country skiing or Alpine skiing. In ski we have to fold all the time our knees otherwise we fall on our back and we can get hurt.

Snowboards: Snowboard looks like ski a lot. The only difference is the board and the shoes; they are more comfortable. In snowboard we have to pay attention because we can get hurt in a knee and a coccyx.

Snowshoes: The snowshoe is an instrument which allows to work on thick coats of soft snow. We have to walk normally, we mustn’t slide. It is so funny in the night because we don’t see even the colours of the landscape.

Sled: A sled is a vehicle on which we sit to slide on the snow or on the ice. The sled is practiced as an activity of leisure. We have to sit inside and to let slide. It is amusing.

Written by Léa Y. 

Can you answer these two questions ? 

How many sports are presented?

Where can we get hurt in snowboard?

12 Angry men

12 Angry men

12 Angry men is a film directed by Sidney Lumet, produced by Reginald Rose and Henry Fonda and the film was written by Reginald Rose

The actors are Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall, Martin Balsam, Jack Warden, John Fielder, Jack Klugman, Edward Binns, Joseph Sweeney, Ed Begley, George Voskovec and Robert Webber.

The film lasts 96 minutes, it was made in the United States .

The release date is April 13, 1957

It is filmed with camera and it's in black and white.

Sidney Lumet was an American director, producer and screenwriter with over 50 films to his credit such as «Murder on the Orient express»; «Before the devil know you're dead» or «Dog day afternoon»...

Resume:

The story begins in a New York city couthouse: a boy is accused of having committed a murder, after twelve jurors have to decide whether he is guilty or not in a private room. If he is considered guilty, the sentence will be the death penalty.

All of the jurors vote “guilty,” except for the 8^th juror, who votes “not guilty”. Due to the requirement of a unanimous jury, this forces them to discuss the case…The 8^th juror describes all the details that make him doubt. Each time there is a new clue for the boy there is a flashback which shows us a scene of the murder's night.

It's really exciting because the more the film progresses, the more we feel the boy is innocent. The spectator feels like he is himself a juror. Progressively, there is an increasing number of jury having doubt on the boy's guiltiness. There is a lot of suspense and I like it.

I think this film is very interesting because 11 men could condemn to death a boy who is completely innocent because they are late somewhere or they are not very interested by the problem! In the US, many innocent people died.

Fortunately some people take the time to think... 

 

«THE VOICE»

The voice is a French musical tele talent show based on the reality competition «The voice» from the Netherlands, which was originally created by Dutch television producer Jonh De Mol. It began in France on February, the 25^th in 2012. This program is also broadcasted in Afganistan, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, China, USA, England... and many other countries.

It's broacasted in France on TF1 every Saturday at 20h50 and presented by Nikos Aliagas and Karine Ferri.

There are four coaches: Garou, Jenifer, Florent Pagny, and Louis Bertignac, who left in 2012 and was replaced by Mika this year.

Firstly, there are blind public auditions, in which the coaches listen to the talents in chairs with their back to the stage, so that they can't see them. I like it because they don't judge them according to their appearance but only their voices. Then, they press a button to rotate their chairs, only if they are interested in working with that contestant. If nobody turns round, the talent is eliminated, but if more than one coach presses their button, the contestant chooses the coach he or she wants to work with. The coaches can argue to recover talents. Each coach has to retrieve 15 persons to constitute a team.

The contestants who successfully pass the blind auditions proceed to the battle rounds. Then the coaches choose two or three of their own team members, they have to sing the same song together in front of a studio audience. After the vocal face-off, the coach must choose only one contestant to advance. But there is a new rule just from this year, another coach can steal the contestant who is disqualifed. But they can steal only one or two talents during the battle round.

Afterwards, there are finals where the coaches present 3 contestants, they sing and only one is saved by the public, one is saved by his coach and the third is eliminated.

Finally, each coach will have his or her best contestant left standing to compete in the finals. The winner will receive the grand cash prize of a recording contract.

The competition is opened to 16 years old participants and over. That's why many young people participate.

Every week, after the programme, there is a blooper with the backstage area and it's very funny!

The winner of the first season is Stefan Rizon coached by Florent Pagny and the one of the second season is Yoann Freget coached by Garou.

Who is the new coach?

When did it begin in France?

Written by Léna 

Beyoncé

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, best known under the name of Beyonce, is an American singer of R&B, pop, soul, hip hop. She was born on 4 September 1981. She is married to Jay-Z. They have one child, whose name is Blue Ivy Carter. To date she has sold more than 160  million disks. Before starting her solo career, she was part of a group: “Destiny’s Child”. She released her first solo album, and became the best-selling album of the year. Then she released her second solo album in 2006 and her third solo album in 2008. This has enabled her to beat the record for Grammy Award won by a female artist in a single ceremony.

 She began a career of actress in 2001. Moreover Beyoncé and her mother Tina have launched their own fashion brand online in 2004: “House of Deréon”.

She is the most powerful and  influential  person of the world of music just behind Lady Gaga.

She released a new album entitled “Eponyme”, it’s composed of fourteen songs. My favorite song is “Drunk in love”, she released this song with her husband.

My opinion:

I like this singer because she sings well and she has style.  In the album there is a good variety of different styles, the songs vary between Alt-Urban and Indie-Pop including the beautiful, futuristic, retro and contemporary sounds. We discover a quiet mature Beyonce, who seems more willing to do vocal experimentation than to demonstrate her capabilities.

Question:

What has Beyoncé created with her mother?

What is the name of her new album?

Written by Emeline

STROMAE

Paul Van Haver, better known as Stromae, was born on March 12^th ,1985 in Brussels. He was born to a Belgian mother and a Rwandan father. Stromae is a Belgian singer and songwriter but also producer of hip-hop, electronic music. The style of his music is hip-hop, electronic and new beat.

He plays the drums and musical keyboard. He worked 1 year for Quick to finance his studies at a film school. Then, he enrolled at INRACI film section, he studied to be a sound engineer.

At the age of 18, he founded a rap group called « Suspicion », along with rapper JEDI in Eichof. They produced the song and music video « Faut que t'arrête le Rap... », though later, JEDI decided to leave the rap duo.

In 2000, he appeared as a rapper called Opmaestro, though he later changed his stage name to Stromae.

In 2009, he brought out his first single named « Cheese ». This is where he made himself known to the public with the song « Alors on danse ». In 2013, he had an enormous success with these songs : Papaoutai, Formidable and Tous les mêmes which are in the album « Racine carrée ». Stromae takes up contemporary and serious subjects.

• In Papaoutai, he speaks of an absent father because his father was mostly absent during his childhood.
  Papaoutai « Papa, où es-tu ? », in English this sentence translates into « Dad, where are you ? »
• In Moules frites, he speaks of VIH (sickness).
• In Formidable and Tous les mêmes, he speaks about couple problems.
  ...

In 2013, he won, at NRJ Music Awards 2014, the Francophone Male artist award of year and the Francophone song award of year with Formidable.

In 2014, he received, at Victoires de la musique, the title of :

.victory for best male performer artist

.victory for best video clip

.victory for best album songs

I appreciate this singer because I love the style of his music. I like his quirky side for example in his clip « Tous les mêmes » where he interprets a boy and a girl at the same time. But also his voice because we don't often hear this style of voice.

Questions :

What was his first known song ? ( In his first album)

Who was his partner in his former duo ?

Written by Léa B.