Film Techniques and Language Features
The term used to refer to camera shots, angles and movement.
What is cinematography?
Yorick's job.
What is the King's Jester?
The number of films in Miller's Mad Max franchise released so far, of which Fury Road is the latest.
What is four?
Epitome
What is a word meaning "ideal, or the best example of" something?
The study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history.
What is etymology?
Music in a film that is heard by the characters.
What is diagetic music?
The name of the castle in which most of the events of Hamlet take place.
What is Elsinore?
Max's last name.
What is Rockatansky?
Loquacious
What is a word meaning "to talk a lot"?
A word that both names a small omnivorous animal native to the Americas and Europe and describes small-scale continual annoyance?
What is badger?
Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
The theme most strongly associated with Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy?
What is death (mortality, existence, etc...)?
The name of the character that tattoos Max and pulls the baby from Joe's dead bride.
What is Organic Mechanic?
Pusillanimous
What is a word meaning "cowardly"?
Latin for "strength and steadfastness".
What is "Firmiter et Fideliter"?
Placing two opposing images or elements next to each other to highlight the qualities of both.
What is juxtaposition?
The first character to see the ghost of King Hamlet.
Who is Marcellus?
A test for texts to see how gender is presented. To pass, the text must:
have at least two women in it,
who talk to each other,
about something other than a man.
What is The Bechdel Test?
(-50 points for incorrect spelling)
Guile
What is a word meaning "tricky or cunning"?
The author of A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Oliver, and Great Expectations.
Who is Charles Dickens?
The repetition of an element in a text that creates a symbolic significance.
What is motif?
The reason Claudius gives for sending Hamlet to England.
What is a diplomatic mission (but secretly plans to have him killed)?
The name of Immortan Joe's pregnant concubine (whom he accidentally runs over).
What is The Splendid Angharad?
(will accept Splendid and/or Angharad)
Supercilious
What is a word that means "to behave or look as though one thinks one is superior to others"?
The title of a significant piece of literature written by Homer (not Homer from The Simpsons).
What is "The Odyssey" and/or "The Iliad"?