 | VOCABULARY silent film star - gwiazda filmu niemego
to advise - doradzać
better known as … - lepiej znany jako…
route - droga, szlak
success - sukces
movie - film
to find - znaleźć
in his forties (o człowieku) po czterdziestce
opportunity - okazja, szansa, sposobność
to make the most - wykorzystać coś, skorzystać z czegoś
advice - rada
appearance - pojawienie się (na ekranie), rola, występ
monster - potwór
successful - pełen sukcesów, owocny
career - kariera
favourite - ulubiony
horror actor - aktor występujący w filmach grozy, w horrorach
to turn down - odrzucić
on the grounds that... - z powodu, motywując to tym, że...
to be unable - nie móc, nie być w stanie (czegoś zrobić)
to recognise - rozpoznać
beneath - pod, pod powierzchnią, poniżej
to hang - wisieć
to hang round one's neck - wisieć (kamieniem) u szyi
albatross - albatros
all the same - tu: mimo to
grateful - wdzięczny
he started me on the road to success - pokazał mi/otworzył przede mną drogę do sukcesu |
Lesson 19
Borys KarloffThe silent film star Lon Chaney once advised William Henry Pratt, better known as Boris Karloff that the route to success in the movies was to find something that other actors can't or won't do.
Karloff was in his forties before he found the opportunity to make the most of Chaney's advice but his appearance as Frankenstein's monster in the 1931 film began his long and successful career as Hollywood's favourite horror actor.
It was a role that Bela Lugosi had turned down, on the grounds that he would have nothing to say and his fans would be unable to recognise him beneath all the make-up.
Borys Karloff: Frankenstein monster - he's hung round my neck just like an albatross. All the same I am grateful to him, because he started me on the road to success and that was in Hollywood, you know, 1931 - rather a long time ago.
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