Q: Is a Cliche as Rose by any other Name?
In printing, a cliché was a printing plate cast from movable type. This is also called a stereotype. When letters were set one at a time, it made sense to cast a phrase used repeatedly as a single slug of metal. “Cliché” came to mean such a ready-made phrase. The French word “cliché” comes from the sound made when the matrix is dropped into molten metal to make a printing plate.
Most such phrases were originally striking, but they lost their force through overuse. In this connection, David Mason and John Frederick Nims cite the particularly harsh judgment of Salvador Dalí: “The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.”
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SXSW Film Awards
Your poster is often the first experience an audience has with your film. It can inspire and intrigue or confuse and disappoint. That’s why AIGA Austin and SXSW Film are proud to honor exceptional film poster design with the 2010 SXSW Film Design Award for Excellence in Poster Design. If your film is showing at this year’s festival, it’s eligible to win. Also, all entries will be showcased at both the Austin Museum of Art and the Austin Convention Center during the festival. Winners will be announced at the SXSW Film Awards on March 16, 2010. Your film has impressed the critics, so enter your film’s poster and see if it will do the same.
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