It’s movie night, so check out this Vocabulary – Movie/TV night.
Vocabulary – meaning and examples
Set
- in a story, series, film, set refers to the time or place the action happens
- The film News of the World with Tom Hanks, is set in Texas after the Civil War.
Film set
- the scenery and props as arranged for shooting a film
- I love when films release bloopers and outtakes of the characters laughing on the film set when they are making the film.
Cast
- the actors in a film, play or show
- Django, the Quentin Tarantino film, has an amazing cast including Jaime Fox, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington and Samuel L. Jackson.
Plot
- the story of a book, film, play, etc.
- In the movie Captain Fantastic, the plot centers around a family who returns to ‘normal life’ after having been living in isolation in the wilderness for years. I read someone call it the Noam Chomsky version of Little Miss Sunshine.
Series
- a set of television or radio broadcasts on the same subject or using the same characters but in different situations.
- I loved the first two seasons of the series ‘Money Heist’, but the third season got a bit repetitive.
Episodes
- one part of a television or radio program that is given as a series.
- What I most like about the series This is Us is how they show us different parts of the characters’ lives in just one episode.
Acclaimed
- attracting public approval and recognition.
- The TV series is based on the critically acclaimed book called the Handmaid’s Tale which was written by Margaret Atwood.
Characters
- The person represented in a film, book, story, etc.
- My favorite Marvel character is Black Widow and there is a movie coming out this summer that is based on her.
Masterpiece
- some form of art that is completed with great skill.
- I thought the film Parasite was a masterpiece because of the way it displayed greed from both perspectives and how it highlighted the social discrimination.
Binge Watch
- to watch several episodes of a series one after the other.
- I got hooked on the series Ozark and binge watched two seasons in a weekend.
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