Hello, I would need an audio version of this text to help my French 9th grade students listen and understand a little bit more about Hollywood. It is one part of a five-part lesson, so if you feel courageous... Please speak naturally and do enunciate as my students are lower-intermediate English learners... Thank you so much.
PART 4 : The Dream Factory
The media business, with filmmaking as its heart, generates tens of billions of dollars into the Los Angeles economy per year and directly employs several hundred thousand people. Hollywood produces about half of all the films shot in the United States.
Hollywood is not only a town and an industry but also a creator of dreams and fantasies that have tremendous cultural impact. The “dream factory”, the other name for Hollywood, is among the most global of industries, with huge overseas markets and an impact on people in practically every corner of the globe. For decades movies made in Hollywood dominated the world's screens.
As we sit in the darkened theater, watching movies, we may easily enter into a dreamlike state. We feel a sense of power and identification with the heroes and heroines , who are beautiful people showing the extremes of wealth and glamour, of violence and action. The movies’ fictional plots allow emotionally satisfying resolutions and make us happy.
The Academy Award ceremony of the Oscars broadcast from Los Angeles is said to have a TV audience exceeding one billion people each year. The industry also attracts many tourists into southern California for a visit of one of the famous studios like Universal Studios or Warner Bros Harry Potter Studio Tour.
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