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Sunny123 Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

movie or film

When some students want to make an amateur educational movie for a particular school festival. Which sentence is correct for the teacher to say ....
First we should call that an amateur movie or amateur film?

Secondly which sentence is better?
1. Who wants to act in the movie?
or
2. Who is volunteer to act in the movie?
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Top answer

sunny123 1. or2. Who is volunteer to act in the movie?

— Fivejedjon

  • sunny123 1.
  • or2.
  • Who is volunteer to act in the movie?
  • The first works; the second doesn't.
  • We say 'film' in BrE, Later correction: .
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sunny1231. Who wants to act in the movie?or2. Who is volunteer to act in the movie?
The first works; the second doesn't.

We say 'film' in BrE,

Later correction: . I should have said that many of us watch films in BrE. An increasing number seem to watch movies.
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The word "movie" is more common in American English.
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That's what I would have said until two minutes ago. Then I tried this https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=film+star%2Cmovie+star&year_start=1950&year
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