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George Gipp was a football player at Notre Dame in the late 1910s. His nickname was “The Gipper.” He died of an infection during his senior year. In the 1940 film, Knute Rockne, All-American, he was portrayed by Ronald Reagan. In his deathbed scene, Reagan implores his teammates to “…win just one…
A grip is responsible for setting up the camera equipment, especially when the camera is doing something odd, like traveling on a track or elevating. The “key grip” is – as the name would indicate – the manager of the grips. A “best boy” is the assistant to the key grip. A gaffer is responsible for…
A label for a increasingly common stock character in recent film and fiction. [Manic Pixie Dream Girls] are usually static characters who have eccentric personality quirks and are unabashedly girlish. They invariably serve as the romantic interest for a male protagonist. This is the quixotic and…
