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Question 2: Read the following passage, then choose the best answer (8ms)
Mark Adams looks back over the last ten years of his work
as a film critic for a newspaper called The Front Page
public out there preferred to associate a
Writing articles about films for The Front
reviewer with a single subject area, and so I
Page was my first proper job. Before then I
chose film. Without Tom’s initial push,
had done bits of reviewing – novels for other
though, we would hardly have come up with
newspapers, films for a magazine and
the present arrangement, by which I write an
anything I was asked to do for the radio. That
extended weekly piece, usually on one film.
was how I met Tom Seaton, the first art editor
The luxury of this way of working suits
of The Front Page, who had also written for
me
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well. I wouldn’t have been interested in
television. He hired me, but Tom was not
the more standard film critic’s role, which
primarily as a journalist, or he would
involves considering every film that comes
certainly have been more careful in choosing
out. That’s a routine that would make me
his staff.
stale in no time at all. I would soon be
At first, his idea was that a team of critics
sinking into my seat on a Monday morning
should take care of the art forms that didn’t
with the sigh, “What insulting rubbish must I
require specialised knowledge: books, TV,
sit through now?” – a style of sigh that can
theatre, film and radio. There would be a
often be heard in screening rooms around the
weekly lunch at which we would make our
world.
choices from the artistic material that Tom
The space I am given allows me to
had decided we should cover, though there
broaden my argument – or forces me, in an
would also be guests to make the atmosphere
uninteresting week, to make something out of
sociable.
nothing. But what is my role in the public
It all felt like a bit of a dream at that time:
arena? I assume that people choose what
a new newspaper, and I was one of the team.
films to go to on the basis of the stars, the
It seemed so unlikely that a paper could be
publicity or the director. There is also such a
introduced into a crowded market. It seemed
thing as loyalty to ‘type’ or its opposite. It
just as likely that a millionaire wanted to help
can only rarely happen that someone who
me personally, and was pretending to employ
hates westerns buys a ticket for one after
me. Such was my lack of self-confidence. In
reading a review, or a love story addict
fact, the first time I saw someone reading the
avoids a romantic film because of what the
newspaper on the London underground, then
papers say.
turning to a page on which one of my reviews
So if a film review isn’t really consumer
appeared, I didn’t know where to look.
guide, what is it? I certainly don’t feel I have
Tom’s original scheme for a team of
a responsibility to be ‘right’ about a movie.
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