This new series, beginning with this post, would focus on how the Figures of Speech of the English language have been used in Cinema to enhance its connotative expression. I would try to keep the posts of this series as brief as possible.
Zoomorphism is a Figure of Speech that applies animal characteristics to humans.
Charles Chaplin's Modern Times (1936) begins with a shot of a flock of sheep that dissolves to a shot of a crowd of working class men emerging from a subway. The connotation is obvious.
and i am one of the privileged few who have heard such illustrations directly from the great "bada shu"
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