Content tagged with "movies"

American Beauty
Explanation
April 30, 2022
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“Yes, this is a type of rose. It’s deep pink in color. It was bred in France in the late 1800s then introduced (and renamed) in America. It was very popular during the Gilded Age of the early 1900s. Roses were a recurring motif in the movie American Beauty , though I feel like the color was…”

Bucket List
Explanation
October 25, 2021
313

“A ‘bucket list’ is a list of things you want to do before you die (‘kick the bucket’). It’s become an ingrained American idiom, and I’ve also heard it in other parts of the world. I became aware of the term because of the 2007 movie The Bucket List . But surely that film didn’t invent the phrase,…”

Camera Blocking
Stuff I Looked Up
Explanation
January 20, 2025
206

“This is the precise placing of actors in a film scene. It’s a rehearsal process where actors decide and plan where they will be at each point in the scene, and where they will move during the scene, in relation to the camera. It’s important because an actor has to be in frame, usually facing the…”

Colorist
Stuff I Looked Up
Explanation
October 19, 2024
324

“Broadly speaking, this is an artist who applies or manipulates the color of media. In comic books, the original drawings were done in black-and-white, and a colorist then applied color to them. So the lines of the drawing and the color were done by two separate artists. (See a good example on the…”

Diegesis
Stuff I Looked Up
Explanation
September 11, 2024
541

“In narrative story-telling, diegesis refers to things that are experienced by the characters within the story. Non-diegesis refers to things that are experienced by the audience, not the characters. Example, if watching a movie: Background music coming from a band playing in a bar as part of the…”

End Billing
Stuff I Looked Up
Explanation
April 30, 2024
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La Dolce Vita
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Explanation
May 19, 2022
205

“ It’s Italian for ‘the good life’ or ‘the sweet life.’ However, it most often refers to a 1960 Italian movie about a photographer living among high society in Rome. ”