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Critical Viewing

Critical Viewing. Vocabulary 9 List – Film Lingo (B). IMAX.

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Critical Viewing

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  1. Critical Viewing Vocabulary 9 List – Film Lingo (B)

  2. IMAX • a specialized, big-screen film format about ten times larger than the traditional 35mm cinema format (70mm); IMAX film produces incredible high-definition sharpness and is projected on up to eight-story high screens in theatres or domes equipped with advanced digital surround-sound systems.

  3. GREENLIGHT • the “go-ahead” for a film to be made

  4. BOX OFFICE POISON • a term of contempt for movie stars who lose popularity, typically making their subsequent films financial disasters.

  5. PAPARAZZI • an Italian term for pushy photographers who stalk celebrities in their private lives.

  6. BALLYHOO • an Irish term which denotes hype/publicity regardless of the film’s actual merit

  7. CASTING COUCH • a term that implies the trade of sexual favors to a director or producer to obtain a film role.

  8. “CHEW UP THE SCENERY” • self-indulgent hamming or overacting by a famous actor

  9. MOVIE MOGUL • an important film industry executive. Harvey Weinstein Scott Rudin Steven Spielberg Tyler Perry Jerry Bruckheimer

  10. MacGUFFIN • Alfred Hitchcock's term for an item, object, goal, event, or piece of knowledge that drives the logic or action of the plot; although it appears extremely important to the film characters, it often turns out to be insignificant.

  11. PRODUCT PLACEMENT • advertising space within a film sold to name-brand companies for their products to appear within the film as a way for a producer to fund some film production costs.

  12. STUDIO SYSTEM • the all-powerful control that monopolistic film studios had over all aspects of assembly-line filmmaking and film production from the 1920s until the late 1950s, when movie moguls such as Mayer, Selznick, andZukorruled ownership of property, control of publicity and marketing and brokered iron-clad contracts with star actors, directors, composers,cameramen, costume designers, writers, and producers.

  13. HAYS CODE • named after Will Hays, a series of rigid censorship restrictions imposed on films by theMotion Picture Production Code, beginning in mid-1934 and lasting until the lat 1960’s; enforced/administered by Joseph Breen, the Code explicitly prescribed what couldn't be shown in films, e.g. "nakedness and suggestive dances," "methods of crime," "illegal drug use," "scenes of passion," "pointed profanity," etc. Will Hays

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