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As the protagonist narrates his life story in his slang-heavy dialect, we see a series of sight gags based on literal interpretations (such as being born with a silver spoon in his mouth). The protagonist lived on the poverty line due an early failed career in foodservice. He travelled and met a girl named Mary in Chicago.
Grunge speak was a hoax series of slang words purportedly connected to the subculture of grunge in Seattle, reported as fact in The New York Times in 1992. The collection of alleged slang words were coined by a record label worker in response to a journalist asking if grunge musicians and enthusiasts had their own slang terms, seeking to write a piece on the subject.
In the 2015 movie Straight Outta Compton, Ice Cube (played by his son, O'Shea Jackson Jr.) said, "Bye, Felicia!", while throwing a girl named Felicia out of his hotel room. Naming the girl Felicia was not an intentional reference to Friday , but when Jackson ad-libbed the line as a "coincidental joke", the filmmakers decided to keep it in the film.
She also praised the film's technical accomplishment, describing it as "a triumph, superbly shot, edited and directed by Clayton Jacobson – probably surpassing most Australian movies with its command of film language, shot on HD video to boot". [5] Margaret Pomeranz from At the Movies awarded the film a score of 4.5 out of 5. In contrast ...
The film features frequent use of British slang, and in particular Sheffielder dialect. The film's title is a phrase generally used in the United Kingdom to mean "the whole lot", or "the whole hog"; in the film, the characters use it to refer to full nudity — as Horse says, "No one said anything to me about the full monty!"
For example, it may be employed by narrators of American cowboy movies and TV shows to indicate a segue from one scene to another but there is often more to this than meets the eye. The expression may have originated as a stock intertitle in the silent movies [ 1 ] and at first the reference to the ranch was literal, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] but this may be ...
[4] [5] In the column, Herman states that the word "implies all that is grand, great, glorious, splendid, superb, wonderful". [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The word was popularized in the 1964 film Mary Poppins , [ 4 ] in which it is used as the title of a song and defined as "something to say when you don't know what to say".
The use of a MacGuffin as a plot device predates the name MacGuffin. The Holy Grail of Arthurian legend has been cited as an early example of a MacGuffin. The Holy Grail is the desired object that is essential to initiate and advance the plot, but the final disposition of the Grail is never revealed, suggesting that the object is not of significance in itself. [8]