The latest parlour game for movie nerds involves IMDb, guesswork and some surprising results
Next year a film called The Awakening starring Rebecca Hall will arrive in our cinemas. From the title, you'd guess that it's some kind of spooky chiller, and indeed you'd be right. If you look on IMDb, you'll discover that it's a story, set in 1921, of a professional hoax exposer who attempts to debunk rumours of a ghost child haunting a remote boarding school, only to discover that the ghost is real.
But you'll also discover something else. There are a staggering 34 films or TV shows called The Awakening, stretching back to 1909. It's not a word much used in everyday speech, yet film-makers across the decades have found it exceptionally useful and vivid in expressing their intentions. Emerging from slumber, or coming alive, is clearly an essential cinematic trope. (Ironically, The Awakening was originally titled The Buried,...
Next year a film called The Awakening starring Rebecca Hall will arrive in our cinemas. From the title, you'd guess that it's some kind of spooky chiller, and indeed you'd be right. If you look on IMDb, you'll discover that it's a story, set in 1921, of a professional hoax exposer who attempts to debunk rumours of a ghost child haunting a remote boarding school, only to discover that the ghost is real.
But you'll also discover something else. There are a staggering 34 films or TV shows called The Awakening, stretching back to 1909. It's not a word much used in everyday speech, yet film-makers across the decades have found it exceptionally useful and vivid in expressing their intentions. Emerging from slumber, or coming alive, is clearly an essential cinematic trope. (Ironically, The Awakening was originally titled The Buried,...
- 12/29/2010
- by Adam Dawtrey
- The Guardian - Film News
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