Movies and Language: Catfish Movies are so influential, in fact, that a number of film titles have become part of the vocabulary even among people who havent seen the movies in question. (A) nother useful word for a kind of deception, one thats unique to the 21st century. (Interestingly, gaslight and catfish were both nouns that got turned into verbs, too.) To catfish someone is to mislead them online by pretending to be someone or something youre not. It comes from a 2010 documentary about a New York photographer who discovers that the Michigan woman hes Facebook friends with has lied about, well, nearly everything. The film made only a medium-sized splash in the documentary world, but its title came to prominence in early 2013, when Notre Dame football star Manti Teos tragically deceased Internet girlfriend turned out not to have been real in the first place—a textbook example of catfishing. In a fortuitous coincidence, a Catfish series had debuted on MTV a few weeks before the Manti Teo story broke, so the word was fresh in peoples minds. Source: 11 Movie Titles That Became Part of the Lexicon 25 July 2014
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 14:00:01 +0000
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