Talk:Trope (cinema)

Trope
Do any of the pre-TV Tropes examples"citations" actually use the word "trope" in the heavily paraphrased "quotes"? This article on what is quite obviously a neologism to be found nowhere before the advent of a single website looks ridiculously fake to me. 66.8.156.197 (talk) 05:43, 14 August 2018 (UTC)


 * As the editor who compiled these sources, yes. Searching for that keyword was how I found them in the first place. TV Tropes popularized the term. Erik (talk &#124; contrib) (ping me) 14:17, 14 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Meriam Webster: : a common or overused theme or device : CLICHÉ
 * the usual horror movie tropes
 * ...Examples of trope in a Sentence: a screenplay that reads like a catalog of mystery-thriller tropes
 * --2602:306:CFCE:1EE0:3044:A2C3:2683:987B (talk) 23:00, 8 November 2018 (UTC)—dOUG bASHFORD

Well La Dee Da!
"...defines as "a universally identified image imbued with several layers of contextual meaning creating a new visual metaphor".[1] It is an element of film semiology and connects between denotation and connotation."

Somebody needs to pull their head out and learn to communicate. Cheers!  --2602:306:CFCE:1EE0:3044:A2C3:2683:987B (talk) 23:05, 8 November 2018 (UTC)Doug Bashford