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I really enjoyed this project as listening to an interview of my favorite actor cannot be a something that I don't like. The only problem was voice. I couldn't listen from a good headspeaker so I had to listen again and again. I watch movies in native language and that helped me better understand what was spoken. I learned a few structures and new words. To sum up I'm happy with this project.
Harrison Ford
In
this project, I listened John Wilson’s interview with Holywood superstar Harrison Ford who is my favorite actor.
Harrison Ford mentioned his latest movie Extraordinary Measures and the
character he played in a very detailed way.
The
interview started with a quotation from the movie 'Star Wars' in which Harrison
Ford played one of the major characters ‘Han Solo’ as this character is one of
the most known role of Mr. Ford . John
Wilson began to indroduce Harrison Ford
by mentioning the movies Mr. Ford participated such as ‘Star Wars’, ‘Indiana
Jones Adventures’ and ‘Tom Clancy Thrillers’. After a brief explanation of new
movie and a quotation from it, the questions came.
The
first question is usually asked to every actor. John Wilson wanted to know what
was the motivation of Harrison Ford while taking on that character. Mr. Ford
said that the character contained everything in itself. There was conflict, interest, drama and humour as well,
this combination was very good for Mr.Ford. Dr.Stonehil,l Mr. Ford’s character
was a scientist who worked under pressure with a limited budget and he worked
alone also Mr.Ford compares today’s health care system and 6 years ago’s one to
make himself clear while identifying the situation of his character. John
Wilson interfered and emphasized that Dr. Stonehill was also grumpy like the
character ‘Han Solo’. Mr. Ford compared these two characters in a funny way.
Secondly,
John Wilson asked to know how Harrison Ford chose roles and if it was important
for Mr. Ford to see some personal aspects of himself on those characters. Mr.
Ford explained briefly by saying that ‘ At first, I see the character and try
to understand the ways of contriving through the character to help tell the
story and if I can’t figure out how to do it I don’t apply for the job.
Third
question was ‘Are there any roles, films that you wished you had applied but
you turned down?’ Mr. Ford said that the only reason of turning down those
roles was that he couldn’t figure out how to do it or simply he thought that
they were not good and added that he didn’t feel regretted on this issue.
Lastly
John Wilson wanted to know whether or not Mr.Ford started his profession as a
carpenter in Holywood and he said that he heard something like ‘Harrison Ford worked
as a carpenter for George Lucas’ Mr.Ford said that this was not true he started
as an actor and then became carpenter because he was not happy about the roles
that were offered to him and he needed another way to put food on his plate so
he became carpenter. By saying carpenter he actually ment ‘arc director’ and he
worked for Francis Coppola as an art director and the time when he was working,
George Lucas came in and they began talking about ‘Star Wars’ so he said that
all these junks came from this event. He also added that being a carpenter was
good as he was doing different things apart from acting and he was learning new
things so all these things made Harrison Ford happy.
The
interview ended with this question. Harrison Ford was humorous and the interview
was really good questions were like impromptu it was like a chat between John Wilson and Mr.Ford.
My personal questions
1- Will we see you in other movies like 'Star Wars' or 'Indiana Jones Adventures' in the near future ?
2- With a big body of experience what can be the suggestions that you can give to young actors ?
A very good report of the inrerview.
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