LR Drill Set 5, Question 7
Yatisha: Every film may be classified as either(65 more words not shown)
Yatisha and Aileen disagree with(8 more words not shown)
- AEvery studio film(8 more words not shown)
- BNo film is(14 more words not shown)
- CNo studio film(5 more words not shown)
- DSome films that(8 more words not shown)
- EThe classification of(14 more words not shown)
Reading the argument
Are we sorting films by who paid for them or by what is on the screen? Yatisha gives us a funding rule. If a major studio supplied most of the money, the film is a studio film; otherwise, it's independent. That rule settles the category without inspecting the plot, the characters, or the camera work.
Aileen proposes a different test. For her, a studio film puts story ahead of every other aspect, while an independent film doesn't. She's treating content as what defines the category.
What we’re looking for
We don't need to decide which definition film critics actually use. For this disagreement question, I want the claim that funding alone settles the classification. Yatisha accepts that; Aileen replaces it with a content test.
Working the answers
- A
Yatisha would agree that a studio film receives funding from a major studio: her rule actually requires most of its funding to come from one. But Aileen hasn't denied that every film meeting her content test happens to receive studio funding. She disagrees about what defines a studio film, not necessarily about where every such film gets money. We lack her required “no” to A.
- B
Emphasizing story and character development equally doesn't satisfy Aileen's test, which puts story above character development. Yatisha also wouldn't classify a film as studio merely because of that content; she would examine its funding. So this does not give us opposing answers. The word “equally” matters because Aileen's rule requires a priority, not a tie.
- C
Aileen puts story above both character development and cinematography. That leaves the order of those latter two open: character development could outrank cinematography while both remain below story. Yatisha says nothing about their relative emphasis either. We cannot establish a disagreement about a ranking neither speaker supplies.
- D
Aileen rules these films out of the studio category because story isn't their top priority. Yatisha's definition could classify such a film as studio if it received the required funding. But “could” doesn't establish “some do.” Yatisha never says that any films with this particular combination exist. We therefore cannot give her a definite “yes” to D.
- ECorrect
Funding alone settles the classification on Yatisha's account: she states the funding condition and tells us what happens in both cases. Aileen says content defines a studio film instead. She would reject the claim that the source of the money alone does the job. This captures the competing rules directly, without making either speaker commit to an unstated fact about particular films.
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