this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2024
16 points (72.2% liked)

Movies and TV Shows

2123 readers
293 users here now

A community for entertainment industry news and general discussion about movies and TV shows.

Rules:

  1. Be civil.
  2. Please do not link to pirated content.
  3. No spoilers in the title of submissions. And please use spoiler MarkDown in the body of discussions. This is a courtesy to other users.
  4. Comments solely criticizing headlines and/or journalism will be removed for being off-topic.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Djinn@lemm.ee
16
Movie pet peeve: when the character pretends to not know a quote (lemmy.ca)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by NataliePortland@lemmy.ca to c/moviesandtv@lemm.ee
6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Sorry if this is the wrong place to gripe about tired movie tropes. This is when the movie character will say something like “what was it that Byron said? She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.”

You know what I mean? They pretend to not know before quoting lengthy poetry verbatim

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

Most of the viewers won't know the quote, so the character is telling the viewer that this is a quote from Somebody Fancy, meaning that the character is clearly Very Cultured.