a quest abt l'article defini

[marrkhapptu]

Hi!

Respected members!

 

I have been taught that when talking about the cinema along with certain other structures lik , hotels, theatres, museums -  l'article defini est s'emploie, mais pourqoui pas ici? 

 

Il fait .................... cinéma, il est acteur.

I found this random exercise on the internet, where the correct anwer is "un" insstead of "le".

 

Can someone please help!

 

Thanks in advance!

 A.F.

[Erick G.]

The only thing that I can think of is that this is an expression:

Faire tout un cinéma can mean "to make a fuss" That being the case, I don't understand why they would then say, "He is an actor" because I don't think that this has a literal meaning. It could still work, though. 

[karenM]

The correct answer is : Il fait du cinéma, il est acteur

Il fait le cinéma doesn't have any sens.

Il fait un cinéma means he's making a fuss.

If you precise "he's an actor", DU is correct.