blockbusterize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
33
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To adapt (something) into the style of blockbuster movie, especially by making it excessively sensational or dramatic.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "The author agreed to adapt his story into a movie on the condition that the plot wouldn't be blockbusterized."
- "[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.""
- "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."
- "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)."
Etymology
From blockbuster + -ize.