Content tagged with “film”

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Grip and Gaffer
Explanation
November 2, 2021
397

“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…”

Howard Beale
Explanation
September 8, 2021
126

“Howard Beale is a character in the 1976 film Network . He’s a news anchor who is troubled by the poor state of the world. At one point, while on the air, he is overcome with anger, and tells his watchers to open a window and scream into the night, ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it…”

Manic Pixie Dream Girl
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Explanation
September 8, 2021
305

“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 (most often brooding or depressed) male…”

Method Acting
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Explanation
August 14, 2022
424

“‘The Method’ is a style of acting that was popularized by the Russian actor Konstantin Stanislavski. It was made much more popular in the United States by Lee Strasborg. The basic idea of The Method is that the actor should believe they are the character that they’re playing. They should ‘lose…”

The Gipper
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Explanation
September 8, 2021
145

“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…”