Language is deliciously skewered in Lyn Elliot‘s charmingly entertaining short film Know What You Mean, embedded above. What’s a bored girl (Lila Corwin Berman) to do except zero in on her dull dinner date’s (Dan Berman) appalling mangling of popular English idioms? She’s got to keep herself occupied somehow! Perhaps this film will only appeal to any and all language nerds, but if you enjoy a good playful deconstruction on proper speech then this is a real hoot and a hambone.
Figures of speech haven’t been maimed so much since Biff Tannen uttered nonsense like “Make like a tree and get out of here” in the Back to the Future movies. In Elliot’s film above, the male dining companion drops mixed-up whoppers like “Not my piece of cake” and “Come back to bite me in the face.”
But, the real fun here is how...
Figures of speech haven’t been maimed so much since Biff Tannen uttered nonsense like “Make like a tree and get out of here” in the Back to the Future movies. In Elliot’s film above, the male dining companion drops mixed-up whoppers like “Not my piece of cake” and “Come back to bite me in the face.”
But, the real fun here is how...
- 1/27/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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