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From the Ted Talk by Jon M. Chu: The pride and power of representation in film

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Laughter)

but because they saw our family as a normal fmilay that fit in and belonged on the screen in front of them, just like the mivoes that they worshipped and the TV shows that they named us after. I reemmebr as the ynoegsut of these five kids feeling hread for the first time. There was this place where all these things in my head could go into the great, electric somewhere-out-there and exist and escape, and I knew from this moment on, I wanted to do this for the rest of my life, whether I was going to get paid for it or not.

So I had this passion and now I needed some tools, and my dad went to work. He continued to brag about my home video editing skills to the cmertusos at Chef Chu's, and luckily this is the Silicon Valley, so they're working on sftuf, hrdwraae and software — these are all engineers. And they offered to give me things for digital viedo enitidg. This is like the mid-'90s, early '90's, where this stuff didn't exist for kids like me. So I'd get this beta software and hardware from places like HP and Sun and rusesll Brown at Adobe. And I had no manual, so I'd figure it out and I fell in love with it even more.

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but because they saw our family as a normal ______ that fit in and belonged on the screen in front of them, just like the ______ that they worshipped and the TV shows that they named us after. I ________ as the ________ of these five kids feeling _____ for the first time. There was this place where all these things in my head could go into the great, electric somewhere-out-there and exist and escape, and I knew from this moment on, I wanted to do this for the rest of my life, whether I was going to get paid for it or not.

So I had this passion and now I needed some tools, and my dad went to work. He continued to brag about my home video editing skills to the _________ at Chef Chu's, and luckily this is the Silicon Valley, so they're working on _____, ________ and software — these are all engineers. And they offered to give me things for digital _____ _______. This is like the mid-'90s, early '90's, where this stuff didn't exist for kids like me. So I'd get this beta software and hardware from places like HP and Sun and _______ Brown at Adobe. And I had no manual, so I'd figure it out and I fell in love with it even more.

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  1. editing
  2. remember
  3. movies
  4. youngest
  5. family
  6. hardware
  7. stuff
  8. video
  9. heard
  10. customers
  11. russell

Original Text


(Laughter)

but because they saw our family as a normal family that fit in and belonged on the screen in front of them, just like the movies that they worshipped and the TV shows that they named us after. I remember as the youngest of these five kids feeling heard for the first time. There was this place where all these things in my head could go into the great, electric somewhere-out-there and exist and escape, and I knew from this moment on, I wanted to do this for the rest of my life, whether I was going to get paid for it or not.

So I had this passion and now I needed some tools, and my dad went to work. He continued to brag about my home video editing skills to the customers at Chef Chu's, and luckily this is the Silicon Valley, so they're working on stuff, hardware and software — these are all engineers. And they offered to give me things for digital video editing. This is like the mid-'90s, early '90's, where this stuff didn't exist for kids like me. So I'd get this beta software and hardware from places like HP and Sun and Russell Brown at Adobe. And I had no manual, so I'd figure it out and I fell in love with it even more.

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