12 Words the Movies Helped Redefine
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- čas přidán 11. 07. 2024
- Going beyond just classic catchphrases, movies have given us new definitions for words and, in several cases, brand new words. Join me as I crack open the dictionary to discover 12 words that came from the movies.
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The word "pixelated" came from "Mr Deeds Goes to Town" in a scene where two old ladies describe the hero to a courtroom as being "pixelated", but without explaining what the term means. Only decades later was "pixelated" used for a certain mainpulation of electronic images, and the term "pixel" ultimately comes from the same source.
You missed one. Bugs Bunny used to call the shotgun-toting Elmer Fudd a “nimrod,” which has come to mean an “idiot,” because of this use. But it was the name of a Biblical character. “Nimrod” was a mighty hunter. Bugs was comparing Elmer to the great hunter, sarcastically. But few in the audience knew the Biblical reference. Hence, since 1932, the completely new meaning. See these sites: dotandline.net/when-bugs-bunny-beat-the-bible/ and unrememberedhistory.com/2017/01/09/the-nimrod-effect-how-a-cartoon-bunny-changed-the-meaning-of-a-word-forever/ Maybe put it in a Part Two.
Oh how cool...
Nimrod was king, a mighty hunter, nephew of noah, and the husband of his own mother... when the bible condones incest
edit: oh, and he was the one who built babel and relative tower, so there's that aswell :)
The term "Bucket List" was definitely used in Oshawa, Ontario, during the 1980's; and it likely predates that period. I used it; and so did many others.
It's likely that the term was used that way before the movie, but it did not appear in print before then. Which is not that unusual; many terms are in common use quite a while before they show up in print, especially slang and idioms. The movie certainly didn't invent the term, but it was instrumental in it being used commonly far more often than it was before.
Bogarting, Gaslighting, Catfishing, so many of these words were tricky to understand because I did not know the reference, and could not make the connection. I am more in touch with my language now.
Ghostbusters was definitely NOT the first time the word "toast" was used in this context. This word use easily dates back to my elementary days, between 1969 and 1975, when we used it all the time to talk about how tired we were or how badly our baseball team had been beaten.
The 1944 film "Gaslight" is a remake of the 1940 film with the same title.
That’s true, and it’s not easy to find a copy of the 1940 version (I’ve only seen short clips of it myself). MGM tried to destroy all of the prints of the 1940 version so it wouldn’t be confused with or compete with their remake.
@@AMillionMovies I borrowed it from the library years ago. It was very good. I highly recommend it.
@@AMillionMovies I just found it on a you tube channel called The Smoking Hat! check it out.
@@AMillionMovies I got to see it on TCM and it's very good.
The whole movie premis was bull.
He could have just let his wife go out when ever she wanted and looked for the jewels
If it weren't for Bergman showing her left butt cheek, the while mivue wouldn't be worth watching. And she has a very sweet ass
Thanks Jeff, great video!
Thanks. Glad you liked it.
"Doodling" (drawing indiscriminately on a notepad) was supposedly coined in the movie Mr. Deeds Comes to Down.
Was that the sequel?
@@johnstrawb3521 The Gary Cooper original.
@@johnstrawb3521 The sequel was "Mr. Deeds Comes to Up."
I'm a kid of the 70's. We said " Man your toast. If Your mom finds out". Meaning You are BURNT toast or You are F%$k@D.
"Don't Bogart that Joint my Friend" is a song on the Easy Rider soundtrack.
After Humphrey died
This was nice. Wasn't aware of "bogarding" will use it now on. Thanks!
You just meshed waterboarding and bogarting, my friend!
@@lucygirl4926 So, would that be someone hogging all of the the torture?
This was a swell video. I had a gay time watching and nobody got sore.
Words that first appeared in books but fell into general use after the movie was made: Frankenstein, meaning to be hoist on one's own petard; or, something contrary to nature, a monster. Ex.: "He created a Frankenstein."
Likewise, in a monster vein, "Dracula" has come to mean vampire in general or ghoul.
"Triffid" was used in a movie, The Day of the Triffids from the book of the same name but which word came to mean an unusually large plant.
In my experience, "creating a Frankenstein" is to create something you cannot control. Also, anything called a "Frankenstein" is something that has been assembled from various pieces, for example, "The new Van Halen collection is quite a Frankenstein, with some studio tracks, some live cuts, some outtakes and some odd bootlegged material."
Catch-22 was actually a book about a man forced to fly a fighter plane. His only hope of getting out of it is insanity but true insanity would mean he would be unaware of what he is doing so he would not be legally insane-and therefore still have to fly. The term has come to mean a situation where rules or situations conflict with one another making neither possible (needing experience to get a job but needing a job to get the experience). Around Christmas the term Scrooge or Grinch have come to mean a person that hates Christmas and is very stingy and self-centered. In Greek mythology Narcissis looked into a pond and saw his reflection -- and narcissistic has come to mean someone in love with themselves. Similarly Achilles heel and even trojan horse have similar roots..
"Bogarting" refers (or also refers) to taking such a long drag off a joint it steams the joint and interferes with the ordinary practice of smoking the remainder.
Wow! Trivia and you’re learning us stuff too! 👍 since you mentioned it, love to see you do a piece on “Back to the Future”, which, as you may know, is considered one of the best written screenplays of all time! 😎
I’d love to, but not sure I’d have much to add since that one’s been covered so well by others already.
By whom? It's a mildly amusing tween movie.
Now wait a minute.. I was born in 52 and in the 60's and 70's a lot of use used the term bucket list.. For things we would like to do or have.. now at 70 there are not many things left in my bucket list and the few of my friends still with us some have completed theirs... The rest of those were good stuff...
So.Title is a little misleading.
These aren't new words that came into being from the movies,but new meanings of words already in existence.
Don't want to be misleading. What would you suggest for the title?
12 words given new meaning because of movies.
You're welcome.
re Sheikh: I've read that young men who fancied themselves as something in the romance line were called Sheikhs, and their girls were Shebas, after the Queen of.
What about tweens? In JRR Tolkien's 1954 novel The Lord of the Rings. (If you watch the movies Merry mentions it when Pippin is riding away with Gandalf from Rohan.)
Hey :- REVENANT Was a new word I learned from the movies - "To come back from the dead" - It means - You would have thought it would ha been used in a zombie movies ? ...But no ! - It was used as the title for The great Leo Di Caprio movie about a guy left for dead in the good old Wild West !
3:30 I actually know this.
"Gurl I'd drink your bath water!"
I just don't remember the movie: help!😁
The Color Purple
@@AMillionMovies A similar reference you have in the movie about the live of Henry de Toulouse-Lautrec MOULIN ROUGE ( 1952 ) in the scene were the both dancers struggle with each other. " you drink the water you bath in "
@@AMillionMovies thanks!😀
I expected the word gunsel from Maltese Falcon to show up. (Google it)
Yep - 'gunsel" is an interesting one because the censors of the day thought it was merely another term for gunman when in fact it meant a (subordinate) homosexual lover.
First heard the word "ginormous" in the movie Elf.
That’s one of those words that’s older than you might think. It’s been around since WWII.
@@AMillionMovies Seriously? I had ni idea! Thx
I wonder if a famous celebrity were to put a profile up and pose as just a regular guy who happens to look like the celebrity he is making no attempt to "impersonate" in an effort to find someone who would not be over excited by meeting said celebrity, would that be the opposite of "catfishing"? Perhaps it could be called "dogfish"?
I always thought the longest word in the English Language was :- ELASTIC ???
That's a bit of a stretch.
Pneumonoultramicrosopicsiliconvolcanoconiosis
Wait, wait, wait....what's a catfish? I don't get it.
Someone who pretends to be someone or something they aren’t - particularly online. Usually done as a con, joke, or to defraud in some way.
Fun fact: the name Wendy was completely invented for the character in Peter Pan.
Wendy was used as a boy's name as early as 1615 in Britain.
@@TS-pl4tf Huh. Well maybe this was one of those facts that gets spread around which turn out to be false later. I think it was in my homework diary at school because the page for each week had a little fact at the bottom about random things.
Matinee Idol.
HOW TRUE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
An example you did not put up were the books and movies made after by Dashiell Hammett. The former police Detective an Pinkerton Man took up on writing after the scandel the Detecktive Agency produced handling the big strike in Chicago
For his books especially the first one THE THIN MAN ( german: AFFÄRE DÜNNER MANN; newly translated as DER DÜNNE MANN )
Hammett had created an artificial slang only to be found in his books. I am not so shure about the influence on the American English but in German it had created a bunsh of daily life exprsesions due to the fact that the German translaters and the public thought Americans would REALLY talk this way.
For example Americans use the word BOSS for a superior To Germans it is the word CHEF when they imagine the American English
Expressions like this even have wormed their way into the DUDEN the official German dictiionary. So we have nowdays the words DER CHEF und DIE CHEFIN ( female form ) for a high up Supervisor.
Just to ad some more meat to your BRILLIANTLY DONE !!! and INFORMATIV Video CLIP.
POSTSCRIPTUM just recently the term THE THIN MAN ( German DER DÜNNE MANN ) turnedup again in the Computer Game XCOM ENTEMY UNKNOWN and ENEMY WITHIN.
5:20 THOSE long words either did not exist in the days of Mark Twain or he did not knew about them. Because in a part of his traveling novel ( more travel authobiography ) A TRAMP ABROAD he had done a very long satirical essay about " THE AWFULL GERMAN LANGUAGE" in which he had complained about the German habit creating and using long words, other as the more reasonable English language.
On CZcams you find a complete reading of this essay as well as some clips to it.
Here in Germany I became first aware of it at the University taking courses in Comparable Semantic.
It's so funny because neither Valentino nor Harlow were good looking
Gilf? Tilf?
I tried to watch this, but repeatedly you got things wrong, backwards and just plain made up. Movies rarely create the terminology, more often they popularize the word or phrase. I know you tried, I was going to say try a little research, but realized that with so many people posting opinions and false facts that its difficult to do actual research. It took me three completely different searches to find that bogarts( boggarts both spellings are acceptable) are ancient Celtic mythological creatures.
My video isn’t about words necessarily created by movies, but by words the movies helped redefine. For example, I know that the word “toast” was used prior to Ghostbusters. Do you have a reference to “bogart” being used to define someone who selfishly keeps something that dates to before Humphrey Bogart’s time? If so, that would be a relevant correction to make.
My point was that bogarting something was around way befor the movies made it a word. The movies didnt create the meaning. It just popularized it. As with he's "toast" we said this, and bogarting, in school in the 70's. It was already there, the movies just made it accessible as a word more people could adopt.