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    Vincent is a 1982 stop-motion short horror film directed by Tim Burton that tells the story of a 7-year-old boy named Vincent Malloy who pretends to be like actor Vincent Price. Vincent is obsessed with the tales of Edgar Allan Poe and believes himself to be a tortured artist. He does experiments on his dog Abercrombie and becomes detached from reality. In the end, Vincent feels terrified by the ghosts of his make-believe world and collapses to the floor believing himself to be dead while quoting "The Raven."

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    Vincent is a 1982 stop-motion short horror film directed by Tim Burton that tells the story of a 7-year-old boy named Vincent Malloy who pretends to be like actor Vincent Price. Vincent is obsessed with the tales of Edgar Allan Poe and believes himself to be a tortured artist. He does experiments on his dog Abercrombie and becomes detached from reality. In the end, Vincent feels terrified by the ghosts of his make-believe world and collapses to the floor believing himself to be dead while quoting "The Raven."

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    Vincent is a 1982 stop-motion short horror film directed by Tim Burton that tells the story of a 7-year-old boy named Vincent Malloy who pretends to be like actor Vincent Price. Vincent is obsessed with the tales of Edgar Allan Poe and believes himself to be a tortured artist. He does experiments on his dog Abercrombie and becomes detached from reality. In the end, Vincent feels terrified by the ghosts of his make-believe world and collapses to the floor believing himself to be dead while quoting "The Raven."

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    Vincent

    Vincent is a 1982 stop-motion short horror film written, designed and directed by Tim Burton
    and produced by Rick Heinrichs.

    Do you like horror stories? Have you ever seen any Tim
    Burton films (Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, Alice in
    Wonderland)? What in your opinion makes them popular?

    Vincent is the story of a 7 year old boy, Vincent Malloy, who


    pretends to be like the actor Vincent Price (he narrates the
    film). He does experiments on his dog Abercrombie. He is
    obsessed with the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and it is his
    detachment from reality when reading them that leads to
    his delusions that he is in fact a tortured artist and he misses the woman whom he loves. The
    film ends with Vincent feeling terrified of being tortured by the ghosts of his make-believe
    world, quoting "The Raven" as he falls to the floor in frailty, believing himself to be dead.

    Task 1. Watch the cartoon and do the following:

    1. How can you describe Vincent?


    a) naughty, strange, fat
    b) slender, polite, strange
    c) bad, strange, cruel
    2. Whom did Vincent like to share home with?
    a) spiders and rats
    b) sister, dog and cats
    c) spiders and bats
    3. Where did Vincent want to see his aunt?
    a) in the coffin
    b) in his wax museum
    c) in his mask museum
    4. Whom did Vincent want to create of his dog, Abercrombie?
    a) a horrible beast
    b) a horrible zombie
    c) a horrible bat
    5. Why did Vincent dig his mother’s flowerbed?
    a) He searched for treasure.
    b) He searched for his wife’s grave.
    c) He wanted to make sure his wife was dead.
    6. Why Vincent couldn’t escape the room?
    a) He dropped dead.
    b) The door was locked.
    c) The door disappeared.
    Task 2. Write true, false or don’t know.
    1. Vincent can play flute.
    2. Vincent is always polite.
    3. Vincent lives with his parents.
    4. Vincent and Abercrombie searched for victims in the London fog.
    5. Vincent didn’t read «Go, Jane, Go!»
    6. Vincent’s mother didn’t understand him.
    7. Vincent went insane.

    Task 3. Do you think Vincent had many friends? Would you like to have such a friend
    as Vincent?

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