Hollywood

     

But Hollywood is built on a long and truly wonderful story of famous actors, directors, and film studios and it is not going to stop any time soon! (p. 40)

     This week I read Hollywood, an Oxford bookworms, stage 1 book. Of course, it is about Hollywood. This book includes 11 contents, the place and the movies, the villages, the early days, the big studios, changes at the studios, new Hollywood, outside Hollywood, the Oscars, Grauman’s Chinese Theater, a visit to Hollywood, and changing Hollywood. Through this book people will learn the historical story of Hollywood and will know a lot of famous actors and actresses.

     I think the most interesting parts are chapter 5, 7, and 8. So I’d like to tell you about that. In chapter 5, some strange things are introduced. It is Hollywood stars died. Do you know Marilyn Monroe? She was the most famous face of Hollywood, but died in 1962. At that time, she was only thirty-six. She became popular actress in order to Some Like it Hot by director Billy Wilder. When she appeared the movie, she was thirty-three years old. Besides her, other Hollywood stars died young too. In this chapter, James Dean is introduced. According to this book, he was called ‘the first American teenager’. He was killed by unfortunately car accident when he was twenty-four years old. When I’d got know this, I wonder why those people were died young too, are there some kinds cause in their death. If I have a chance I want to study about it. The second interesting chapter is 7: Outside Hollywood. Do you know ‘Bollywood’? I’d heard it before reading this book, but I’d not know about it minutely. According to this book, it is the name for the film industry in India. The US film industry makes about five hundred films every year. In contrast with the US film industry, the India film industry makes more than a thousand feature films every year. It is the biggest film maker in the world. In India, Bollywood stars are more popular and famous than any other Hollywood stars. Finally, I want to tell you about chapter 8: the Oscars. I want to focus on Academy Awards Ceremony because there are many beautiful Hollywood stars worn luxury dresses. If you go to Dolby Theater on Hollywood Boulevard in late February or early March, maybe you can see lots of famous movie star at that ceremony. I want to go there and see Hollywood star in my lifetime.

     In concretion, according to this book, the number of people who go to movie theater has been decreasing. Actually I hardly go to theater to watch latest movies. The reason is that we can watch interesting film by DVD or TV at home. So I think movie theater industry should find the solution and solve the problem.