'Finding Dory' Movie Audience Surprised in California

AS IT IS 2016-07-02 'Finding Dory' Movie Audience Surprised in California

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The movie “Finding Dory” is one of the most popular currently¹ playing in the United States. It is the sequel to the successful film from 2003, called “Finding Nemo.”

It is an animated² movie about a fish named Dory, who is looking for her parents.

Disney made “Finding Dory” with very young children in mind. Most of the people who attend the movie are parents and young children.

Before “Finding Dory,” however, a theater in California played the trailer for a different film by mistake. It is film for grown-ups called “Sausage Party.”

“Sausage Party” is an animated movie about what happens to the food we buy in the grocery store once we get it home. Even though it is a cartoon, it has a lot of adult jokes and is not for children.

In the movie, sausages, bread, carrots and potatoes all have voices and personalities³.

The food items are friends in the grocery store. They talk about how excited they will be when a shopper⁴ buys them and brings them home. But the vegetables, peanut butter and spaghetti do not know they will later be eaten by humans.

Some of the scenes in the trailer used words that parents did not want their children to hear. Other scenes showed the “death” of food items – like a potato that screams as it is peeled before being dropped into boiling water.

The news about the theater’s mistake came out in late June. The vice⁵ president of the movie theater, located near Oakland, California, apologized. The theater has multiple screens, he said.

“Finding Dory” was so popular, the theater scheduled a last-minute showing in a theater that had been playing a movie made for adults.

The “Sausage Party” trailer was supposed to be shown before a different movie, not with “Finding Dory.”

After the news came out, the grown-up version of the “Sausage Party” trailer is up to 8.5 million views on YouTube. The version of the trailer that is safe for all ages now has almost 1 million views.

One person enjoyed hearing about the mistake. That is actor Seth Rogen, whose voice is in “Sausage Party.”

He wrote: “This made my day.”

Words in This Story

peel – v. to remove the skin from (a fruit, vegetable, etc.)

peanut butter – n. a creamy food made from ground peanuts usually spread on bread

spaghetti – n. a food made from a mixture of flour, water, and sometimes eggs that is formed into long, thin strips and boiled

cartoon – n. a film or television show made by photographing a series of drawings : an animated film or television show

animated – adj. produced by the creation⁶ of a series of drawings, pictures, etc., that are shown quickly one after another : produced through the process of animation⁷

trailer – n. a selected group of scenes that are shown to advertise a movie

sequel – n. a book, movie, etc., that continues a story begun in another book, movie, etc.

1 currently   

adv.通常地，普遍地，当前

参考例句：

• Currently it is not possible to reconcile this conflicting evidence.当前还未有可能去解释这一矛盾的例证。
• Our contracts are currently under review.我们的合同正在复查。

2 animated   

adj.生气勃勃的，活跃的，愉快的

参考例句：

• His observations gave rise to an animated and lively discussion.他的言论引起了一场气氛热烈而活跃的讨论。
• We had an animated discussion over current events last evening.昨天晚上我们热烈地讨论时事。

3 personalities   

n. 诽谤，（对某人容貌、性格等所进行的）人身攻击； 人身攻击；人格, 个性, 名人( personality的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• There seemed to be a degree of personalities in her remarks.她话里有些人身攻击的成分。
• Personalities are not in good taste in general conversation.在一般的谈话中诽谤他人是不高尚的。

4 shopper   

n.购物者，顾客

参考例句：

• Hong Kong is a shopper's paradise.香港是购物者的天堂。
• She is one shopper who takes responsibility in bagging her own goods.她是一名承担责任把食品装进袋子的顾客。

5 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

6 creation   

n.创造，创造的作品，产物，宇宙，天地万物

参考例句：

• Language is the most important mental creation of man.语言是人类头脑最重要的产物。
• The creation of new playgrounds will benefit the local children.新游戏场的建立将有益于当地的儿童。

7 animation   

n.活泼，兴奋，卡通片／动画片的制作

参考例句：

• They are full of animation as they talked about their childhood.当他们谈及童年的往事时都非常兴奋。
• The animation of China made a great progress.中国的卡通片制作取得很大发展。