num_pages: 224
description: 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 &amp; 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 setand 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 its 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.
language: English
title: Movie Speak: How to Talk Like You Belong on a Film Set
publisher: Workman Publishing Company