blockbusterize
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From blockbuster + -ize.
Verb[edit]
blockbusterize (third-person singular simple present blockbusterizes, present participle blockbusterizing, simple past and past participle blockbusterized)
- (transitive) To adapt (something) into the style of blockbuster movie, especially by making it excessively sensational or dramatic.
- The author agreed to adapt his story into a movie on the condition that the plot wouldn't be blockbusterized.
- 2005 June 15, Bryan Curtis, “The Bad Boy of Summer”, in Slate[1], New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-09:
- [Michael] Bay further exacerbates the problem by blockbusterizing his directorial pronouncements. For him, a characteristic boast is not, "I write all my own movies," but, "I write all my own action."
- 2011 March 15, Chris Nashawaty, “Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie: Their Big Movie”, in Entertainment Weekly[2], New York, N.Y.: Dotdash Meredith, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-03:
- Over time, a who's who of six-figure screenwriters tried to blockbusterize the story, which was now being set in Venice: Jeffrey Nachmanoff (The Day After Tomorrow), William Wheeler (The Hoax), Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park), and Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) turned in one promising draft after another.
- 2023 December 28, Karen Rosenberg, “Botticelli Beyond the Renaissance”, in The New York Times[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-29:
- Resisting the pressure to blockbusterize Botticelli, this exhibition is true to the material (which is limited in quantity; fewer than three dozen of the artist's drawings are known to survive) and to Botticelli's quirks (which are manifold).