Sujet : Re: "Jaws" released (21-6-1975)
De : kehoea (at) *nospam* parhasard.net (Aidan Kehoe)
Groupes : sci.langDate : 22. Jun 2024, 13:40:52
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Ar an dara lá is fiche de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Ross Clark:
> Spot the language link?
>
> ...
> "the 2-note ostinato which represents the shark, a theme so simple that
> Spielberg initially thought it was a joke by the composer [John
> Williams]...a classic piece of suspense music, synonymous with approaching
> danger...highly recognisable..."
>
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws:_Original_Motion_Picture_Soundtrack
>
> and, as Crystal points out, used not only in other films (often with comic
> intent), but quoted in conversation, to signal "approaching danger"...thus
> becoming (sort of) part of language.
What a stretch!
-- ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’(C. Moore)