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How to Talk Like You Belong on a Movie Set
Workman Publishing Company
January 2009
On Sale: January 8, 2009
224 pages
ISBN: 0761143599
EAN: 9780761143598
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When is "groucho" not a comedian? A "seagull" not a bird? A
"banana" not a fruit, and a "taco cart" not a food stand?
What's the "Castle rock rule" and when should you call for a
"buff & puff"? And why expect trouble when the A.D.
(assistant director) knowingly mumbles "Gone With the
Wind in the morning, Dukes of Hazzard after
lunch"? An oral tradition gathered and passed down for more
than a hundred years, the language of moviemaking, like
other secret lexicons, is the only accepted way of
communicating on a set—and is all but unknown to the outside
world. Technical, odd, colorful, mysterious, the working
language of movies sheds light not only on the hugely
complex process of making a film, but on the invisible
hierarchies of a set, the unspoken etiquette between cast
and crew, and the evolution of a process that's endlessly
fascinating.
Movie Speak is a book about
language, but through language also a book about what it’s
really like to be a director or a producer or an actor or a
crew member. An Oscarwinning producer (The Sting),
actor (who worked with Spielberg, Coppola, and Sydney
Pollock), and director (Five Corners, Flyboys, My
Bodyguard, and more), Tony Bill has been on sets for
more than 30 years and brings a writer's love of language to
this collection of hundreds of film terms. A futz. A cowboy.
A Brodkin and a double Brodkin (a.k.a. screamer). Streaks ’n
tips, a Lewinsky, Green Acres, rhubarb, a peanut, a
Gary Coleman, snot tape, twin buttes, manmaker (and why you
can yell for one if needed for a grip, but must whisper if
it's for Tom Cruise)—these are the tricks of the trade.
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