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Discussion Groups / English Usage / November 2006"Chewing up the scenery"
I see this in reviews of movies all the time. The reviewer will say the actor and actresses "chew up the scenery". What are they talking about? > I see this in reviews of movies all the time. The reviewer will say the > actor and actresses "chew up the scenery". What are they talking about? Over-acting. Cheers, Sage > > I see this in reviews of movies all the time. The reviewer will say the > > actor and actresses "chew up the scenery". What are they talking about? > > Over-acting. > > Cheers, Sage I found it on Google. http://www.filmsite.org/filmterms14.html overacting poor, overly-broad, or 'over-the-top' acting by a 'ham' actor; aka "hamming it up" or 'chewing up the scenery'; sometimes considered in a positive light as 'campy'; contrast with underacting Example: Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest (1981) >> > I see this in reviews of movies all the time. The reviewer will say the >> > actor and actresses "chew up the scenery". What are they talking about? [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >positive light as 'campy'; contrast with underacting Example: Faye >Dunaway in Mommie Dearest (1981) Fay Dunaway was an example of under-acting? ************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen@cox.net) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * > >> > I see this in reviews of movies all the time. The reviewer will say the > >> > actor and actresses "chew up the scenery". What are they talking about? [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Fay Dunaway was an example of under-acting? No! "overacting: poor, overly-broad, or 'over-the-top' acting by a 'ham' actor; aka "hamming it up" or 'chewing up the scenery'; sometimes considered in a positive light as 'campy'; contrast with underacting Example: Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest (1981) UC (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message <1162490893.946419.42250@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>: > I see this in reviews of movies all the time. The reviewer will say the > actor and actresses "chew up the scenery". What are they talking about? Implication: spoiling a beautiful view by simply being there and trying to do their thing. The implied meaning is therefore being bad actors and actresses.  SignatureWarning: keel away from child for hot bulb Interchange the alphabetic letter groups to reply > I see this in reviews of movies all the time. The reviewer will say the > actor and actresses "chew up the scenery". What are they talking about? Our AUE Website indexes articles about colorful words and phrases like this. Here's what to do. l. Go to http://alt-usage-english.org/ 2. In the Quick Search box, type <scenery>. The search works best with one word. 3. The resulting list has articles by Random House, Evan Morris, and Michael Quinion, all on the origin of "chew the scenery". SignatureBest -- Donna Richoux >> I see this in reviews of movies all the time. The reviewer will say >> the actor and actresses "chew up the scenery". What are they talking [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > 3. The resulting list has articles by Random House, Evan Morris, and > Michael Quinion, all on the origin of "chew the scenery". The URL for MQ is given as http://www.worldwidewords.org/../qa/qa-che2.htm and gives a 404 but is actually http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-che2.htm SignatureJohn Dean Oxford > > Our AUE Website indexes articles about colorful words and phrases like > > this. Here's what to do. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > but is actually > http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-che2.htm That's a bit odd. It worked correctly for me, because I clicked on the underlined link, "Quinion: Chew the Scenery". It's the URL marked "Location" that has the wrong format -- I'll send this along to Mike Barnes to examine. SignatureBest - Donna Richoux |
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