Re: 3 - Yeah, I'm not saying the movie is for little kids, just that movie scripts are written to be comprehensible by 5th-graders. That's just a basic writing rule of thumb for audio/visual media. Keep the language as simple as possible to increase comprehension from the audience. (For example, political speakers' speech complexity -- as in the vocabulary complexity -- is at 8th grade level. Any more complex and the audience starts to zone out and cease listening.) This is one of the biggest difficulties of script writers: how do you construct dialogue that deals with adult concepts using a 5th-grader's vocab?
Edit: Just as an example, in movies, instead of saying "obfuscate", they'll change it to "hide" or "cover up". Instead of "juxtapose", it's "compared to", if it's an adult movie, it'll be upgraded to "contrast to". Instead of saying "decapitate", it'll be "chop his head off" or "off with his/her/their head(s)". Etc. That's what I meant when I said the language is targeted at 5th grade comprehension.
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Date: 2023-01-24 06:40 pm (UTC)Re: 3 - Yeah, I'm not saying the movie is for little kids, just that movie scripts are written to be comprehensible by 5th-graders. That's just a basic writing rule of thumb for audio/visual media. Keep the language as simple as possible to increase comprehension from the audience. (For example, political speakers' speech complexity -- as in the vocabulary complexity -- is at 8th grade level. Any more complex and the audience starts to zone out and cease listening.) This is one of the biggest difficulties of script writers: how do you construct dialogue that deals with adult concepts using a 5th-grader's vocab?
Edit: Just as an example, in movies, instead of saying "obfuscate", they'll change it to "hide" or "cover up". Instead of "juxtapose", it's "compared to", if it's an adult movie, it'll be upgraded to "contrast to". Instead of saying "decapitate", it'll be "chop his head off" or "off with his/her/their head(s)". Etc. That's what I meant when I said the language is targeted at 5th grade comprehension.