Look at the photo and the title. What is a ‘buddy’? What sort of film is a ‘buddy movie’? Read the text to check. (Nhìn vào bức ảnh và tiêu đề. ‘buddy’ là gì? ‘Phim buddy’ là thể loại phim gì? Đọc văn bản để kiểm tra.)
Buddy movies always have two male friends, often from different backgrounds or with different personalities. They usually face a challenge together during the course of the film, and the challenge (eventually) makes their friendship stronger. They’re more popular in the USA than in Europe, and can be aimed at both the old and the young. The earliest buddy movies starred Laurel and Hardy and were made in black and white around a hundred years ago. Nowadays, many are also action films, road movies or westerns - famous examples include Die Hard 3 and 22 Jump Street. In most of them, women only play a minor role, never one of the buddies. In a few films, one of the ‘buddies’ is an animal!