The document summarizes information about various films and literature works:
- It discusses the Harry Potter book series by J.K. Rowling about a young wizard, the Twilight vampire romance series by Stephenie Meyer, and the Heroes TV series about people with supernatural powers.
- It also mentions the writers Andrzej Sapkowski who wrote books about the Witcher that inspired video games, as well as Raymond E. Feist who wrote the Magician fantasy novel.
- Famous films covered include Independence Day about an alien invasion, Terminator about an android assassin, and special events held by partner schools to promote the project including showings of films and performances of literary works.
1. J. K Rowling
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J.K. Rowling, in full Joanne Kathleen Rowling
(born July 31, 1965, Chipping Sodbury, near
Bristol, England), British author, creator of the
popular and critically acclaimed Harry Potter
series, about a young sorcerer in training. After
graduating from the University of Exeter in 1986,
Rowling began working for Amnesty Internation-
al in London, where she started to write the Har-
ry Potter adventures. In the early 1990s she trav-
ISSUE 4, April 2012 elled to Portugal to teach English as a foreign
language, but, after a brief marriage and the
birth of her daughter, she returned to the United
Kingdom, settling in Edinburgh. Living on public
...in this edition assistance between stints as a French teacher,
she continued to write.
mystery in films and literature
Page 1 - J.K Rowling
Page 1 - Harry Potter Stephenie Meter is an American
Page 1 - Twinlight writer. She was born in 1973.
Page 2 - The Lord of the Rings She’s famous because of her
Page 2 - Heroes books “The Host” and saga
Page 2 - Famous writer and famous director “Twilight” which includes 4
Page 3 - Independence Day books. The writer says that the
Page 3 - Magician idea for Twilight appeared in
Page 3 - Terminator 2003. She wrote her dream, which
Page 4 - Film and Literature Evenings at
now is the 13th Chapter of Twilight.
the partner schools
A seventeen-year-old Bella Swan moves from Phoenix to a
rainy town called Forks to her father. She meets new
friends in a new school, and she also meets a mysterious
boy – Edward Cullen who always sits with his brothers
and sisters and avoids the other students. They fall in love.
Bella discovers, that the boy is a vampire and he can read
Harry Potter series describes the adventures of
in minds (but not in her mind). The vampire can do every-
a young wizard in the six years of his education
in the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Ho- thing for the girl. In ‘Breaking Dawn’ Bella and Edward
gwarts and a year after its discontinuation. In get married. Suddenly, Bella becomes pregnant with.. a
the epilogue of the seventh part it describes the vampire. The “Twilight” series is famous all over the
events happening 19 years after the book share. world. There appeared 3 and half film adaptations of the
The author stubbornly guarded secrets of the books. Don’t hesitate to read the books as well as watch
series, giving only brief information on the suc- the movies.
cessive volumes of the series. Also publishers
around the world forbid the dissemination of
books before the premiere, committing revie-
wers and their employees to keep the plot of the
book secret. ’Harry Potter’ became so suc-
cessful all over the world that the books are
considered as the best series of this kind in the
history of literature.
2. HEROES
change the history and hide from
people, who want take their powers
back. One of the directors is Greg
Heroes – an American TV series Breeman, who has worked as direc-
created by Tim Kring. The serial is tor and series producer for three presenting unusual powers. There
about people, who possess unusual years. He also worked on films such are bad people who want to take
abilities, like telepathy, flying or as: Smallville, JAG and many come- heroes' powers and create the
time travelling. Heroes have to dies. In this TV series, we can see „medicine” which could give the
cope with their own weaknesses, many interesting fights and scenes powers to usual person. The series
it's worth watching!
Andrzej Sapkowski Alfonso Cauron
Andrzej Sapkowski was born on 21st June 1948 in
Lodz and he lives there till now. He is a writer of fan-
tasy books. Andrzej Sapkowski has won numerous
literary awards both Polish and foreign His books
have been translated into a total of 15 languages. Sa-
ga about Witcher is a series
of books by Andrzej Sap-
kowski which is a conti-
nuation of the earlier sto-
ries about Witcher: Last
Wish and Sword of the
Destiny.
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3. INDEPENDENCE DAY
The story is well known really annoying. President excellent special effects.
and popular. Aliens in- begs future generations for Secondly, fast paced ac-
vade the Earth. Their forgiveness for using nu- tion, with comedic ele-
huge ships hover over clear weapons, the shadow ments. Thirdly, Emmerich
major cities of America, of an alien ship covers the shows human fears, espe-
Japan and Russia. Con- American flag on the cially helpless to over-
sternation. Scientists are moon, a dog escapes from whelming threat, very
considering how to ex- the fire and the Earth will well. It's generally known
plain it. Part of humanity be saved by a Jew with a that in large doses stupidi-
panics. Some people black man. But at some ty is dangerous but in a
hope that maybe Elvis point I had the impression few cases it is called the
will come back. Soldiers that the whole idiocy of "Hollywood cinema" and it
prepare plans for mili- the movie "turns to the guarantees great fun - per-
tary protection against other side" - and I began to fect for an evening with
the attack of outsiders. watch "Independence Day" friends, the best one would
For a moment every- simply with pleasure. be of course on 4th July.
thing in this movie is What caused it? Firstly,
MAGICIAN
ok of the Riftwar Saga
and was pub;ished in
1982. It led to many
books written by Feist
in the world of Midke-
mia which was the
setting for the book. Kingdom is aswarm
At Crydee Pug, an with alien invaders,
Magitian is a fantasy orphan boy is appren- destroying the peace of
novel by Raymond E. ticed to a master ma- the kingdom.
Feist. It is the first bo- gician. Suddenly, the
TERMINATOR
rected in 1984 by Jame- order to eliminate Sara Connor
sa Cameron. It was one (Linda
of the most famous Hamilton)
movies of this kind in – mother of
the history of the cine- rebellers’
ma. The Terminator is leader who
played by Arnold fight in the
Schwarzenegger t who future with
Terminator is an Ameri- in the first part is an android cybergs to
can science fiction film di- which has been sent to the past in survive.
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4. FILM AND LITERATURE
EVENINGS
To promote the project within local communities, the partner schools organized special events. These we-
re ‘Film and Literature Evenings’. During the events, the students presented reviews of their favourite
fantastic films and fantasy books. There was a projection of the best movies, we also watched X-files mo-
vies created by the international groups. There were literary workshops during which, we read and di-
scussed parts of chosen fantasy literature. We presented our paranormal stories, too. The Polish students
prepared a performance ‘Forefathers’ Eve Part2’ by Adam Mickiewicz for parents and invited guests
which was also watched in Spain and Germany. On the 23rd April, as a part of The Book's Day Celebra-
tion, the Spanish students presented the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by the theatre writer Aurelio Javier Fer-
nández García" . One of the Spanish students- Tomás inteviwed the writer. He is a Literature teacher of
the Spanish highschool, works in Canarian Education Government as well as writes and perfoms theatre
plays with the Spanish students, helping them in the project.