Film Director: It is true that certain characters and plot twists in my newly released film The Big Heist are strikingly similar to characters and plot twists in Thieves, a movie that came out last year. Based on these similarities, the film studio that produced Thieves is now accusing me of taking ideas from that film. The accusation is clearly without merit. All production work on The Big Heist was actually completed months before Thieves was released.
Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest support for the director's rejection of the accusation?
Film Director:It is true that certain characters and plot twists in my newly released film The Big Heist are strikingly similar to characters and plot twists in Thieves, a movie that came out last year.Based on these similarities, the film studio that produced Thieves is now accusing me of taking ideas from that film.The accusation is clearly without merit.All production work on The Big Heist was actually completed months before Thieves was released.
Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest support for the director's rejection of the accusation?
(A) Before Thieves began production, its script had been circulating for several years among various film studios, including the studio that produced The Big Heist. (B) The characters and plot twists that are most similar in the two films have close parallels in many earlier films of the same genre. (C) The film studio that produced Thieves seldom produces films in this genre. (D) The director of Thieves worked with the director of The Big Heist on several earlier projects (E) The time it took to produce The Big Heist was considerably shorter than the time it took to produce Thieves.
答案就是B。(A) Before Thieves began production, its script had been circulating for several years among various film studios, including the studio that produced The Big Heist. 该选项支持T的说法,错。
(B) The characters and plot twists that are most similar in the two films have close parallels in many earlier films of the same genre.该选项的意思是B和T重叠的部分在很多同类早期电影中都有出现,直接佐证了B没有抄袭T。
(C) The film studio that produced Thieves seldom produces films in this genre.其实是无关选项,因为T有produce such a film在文章中是premise,不可以被攻击
(D) The director of Thieves worked with the director of The Big Heist on several earlier projects过度脑补,从B和T的导演曾经共事这一事实要推断出两个电影之间没有抄袭关系需要多余一个推断环节,尽量避免这种选项
(E) The time it took to produce The Big Heist was considerably shorter than the time it took to produce Thieves.无关选项,用时长短跟是否抄袭并无直接关系
Focus on the conclusion which is "The accusation is clearly without merit." The time length spent on the production of a movie has no bearing on the content of the movie.