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Movie: She is the Man

Plot summary

• Viola Hastings has good reason for wanting to conceal her identity upon arriving at Illyria Prep school, and with her twin brother Sebastian skirting school in an attempt to break into the London music scene, Viola sees her sibling's well-timed absence as the perfect opportunity to assume his identity. When Viola is assigned a shared dorm room with campus cool guy Duke her fade slowly begins to crumble as she begins harboring a deep-rooted crush on her unsuspecting new roommate. The situation begins to take a turn for the worse, however, when Duke reveals his affection towards campus knockout Olivia, who in turn seems increasingly drawn toward the sensitive imposter known as Sebastian. The problem is, the real Sebastian has decided to cut his London trip short, and upon arriving on campus two days earlier than expected, Viola's elaborately executed ruse hits an unexpected hitch that sends the entire situation spiraling into chaos.

• This movie was advised from “Twelfth night” or “What you will”
• Written by William Shakespeare

Story of Twelfth night

• Viola, is shipwrecked on the shores of Illyria during the opening scenes. She loses contact with her twin brother, Sebastian, whom she believes dead. Posing as a man and masquerading as a young page under the name Cesario, she enters the service of Duke Orsino. Orsino is in love with the bereaved Lady Olivia, whose brother has recently died, and decides to use "Cesario" as an intermediary. Olivia, believing Viola to be a man, falls in love with this handsome and eloquent messenger. Viola, in turn, has fallen in love with the Duke, who also believes Viola is a man, and who regards her as his confidant.

• When Sebastian arrives on the scene, confusion ensues. Mistaking him for Viola, Olivia asks him to marry her, and they are secretly betrothed, with a promise to be married when the time is right. Finally, when the twins appear in the presence of both Olivia and the Duke, there is more wonder and awe at their similarity, at which point Viola reveals she is really a female and that Sebastian is her lost twin brother. The play ends in a declaration of marriage between the Duke and Viola, Toby and Maria, and Olivia and Sebastian, though their marriages are never actually seen

Vocabularies:

1. scene - a division of a play or of an act of a play, usually representing what passes between certain of the actors in one place.
2. shore - the land along the edge of a sea, lake, broad river, etc.
3. page - a boy servant or attendant
4. intermediary - an intermediate agent or agency; a go-between or mediator
5. handsome - having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking
6. messenger - a person who carries a message or goes on an errand for another, esp. as a matter of duty or business
7. confusion - the state of being confused
8. twins - two children brought forth at a birth
9. awe - an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful, or the like
10. declaration - the act of declaring; announcement

References to Twelfth night – Please watch carefully at the movie, see if you can find it out…

• In the trailer, when Viola walks through the school's campus outside, a billboard can be seen on the left hand side advertising the school's production of "What You Will."
• The pizza parlor where the kids hang out is called Cesario's.
• Duke Orsino says, "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them," a quote from the letter read by Malvolio in Twelfth Night.
• Various names in the film are taken from Twelfth Night, although the roles in the film bear little or no similarity to their namesakes. These character names are: Malvolio (the name of Malcolm's tarantula), Feste (Malcolm's last name), Valentine (Monique's last name), Andrew and Toby (Duke's soccer buddies), Maria (Olivia's friend) and Antonio (Paul's last name; Paul is gay, and it is speculated that Antonio has a sexual interest in Sebastian in the play).
• Stratford Country Club is a reference to Stratford-upon-Avon.
• "Illyria," the name of the school, is also the name of the country in which Twelfth Night is set.
• Sebastian is returning from London on the twelfth.

Discuss questions

• The differences between male and female
• Appearances
• Behavior
• Mental/ thinking
• Physical
• View point of love

• What is the appropriate behavior for woman?

• Will you do the same thing (soccer team) if you are Viola? Or what will you do?

• Do you have any experience in either of your life or your job that you need to prove your ability to do something to others?