Roger Ebert's Glossary of Movie Tropes

The Chicago Sun-Times film critic and At the Movies co-host Roger Ebert has an excellent and highly amusing glossary of movie clichés on his Web site that's a must-read for film buffs. The aptly named "Ebert's Little Movie Glossary" contains gems of familiar tropes from cinema past, present, and -- without doubt -- future. The terms are supplied by readers from around the country. Take this example of the "Human-Absorption Bus Rule," which states "Whenever one character is looking at another from across the street, if a bus or truck passes between them, it will invariably make the other one disappear, possibly into another dimension." So true in cinema. So not true in real life.

Posted by Supercore at April 14, 2006 11:48 PM