Talk:Trope (cinema)
Latest comment: 5 years ago by 2602:306:CFCE:1EE0:3044:A2C3:2683:987B in topic Well La Dee Da!
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Trope edit
Do any of the pre-TV Tropes ~~examples~~"citations" actually use the word "trope" in the heavily paraphrased "quotes"? This article on what is quite obviously a neologism to be found nowhere before the advent of a single website looks ridiculously fake to me. 66.8.156.197 (talk) 05:43, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
- As the editor who compiled these sources, yes. Searching for that keyword was how I found them in the first place. TV Tropes popularized the term. Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 14:17, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
- Meriam Webster: : a common or overused theme or device : CLICHÉ
- the usual horror movie tropes
- ...Examples of trope in a Sentence: a screenplay that reads like a catalog of mystery-thriller tropes
- --2602:306:CFCE:1EE0:3044:A2C3:2683:987B (talk) 23:00, 8 November 2018 (UTC)—dOUG bASHFORD
Well La Dee Da! edit
"...defines as "a universally identified image imbued with several layers of contextual meaning creating a new visual metaphor".[1] It is an element of film semiology and connects between denotation and connotation."
Somebody needs to pull their head out and learn to communicate. Cheers!
--2602:306:CFCE:1EE0:3044:A2C3:2683:987B (talk) 23:05, 8 November 2018 (UTC)Doug Bashford