Definition of cinematize in US English:
cinematize
(British cinematise)
verb ˈsinəməˌtīzˈsinəməˌtīz
[with object]Adapt (a play, story, etc.) to the cinema; make a movie of.
Example sentencesExamples
- It suddenly occurs to me that Bergman cinematizes what it's like to read a good novel.
- Twenty years after cinematizing Women in Love, Ken Russell returns to the questing eroticism of D.H. Lawrence.
- Much of this journey consists of cinematized thought and self-investigation.
- The difficulty in cinematizing these books is that their plots are actually fairly thin.
- He was expert in cinematizing the plays of Neil Simon.
- In October, he'll star in the cinematized version of the story.
- Reactions to the films depend on an audience's ‘general readiness to deal with cinematized versions of a national tragedy,’ the professor said.
- Fairbanks' silent action flick, cinematizing McCulley's story with clever verve and humor, set the style and plot for most of the screenplays to follow.
- The director of Daredevil cinematizes the long-running Marvel Comics series.
- I applaud Hollywood's efforts at cinematizing the Marvel pantheon, but I must say they have, as a rule, left me cold.
- The legendary shootout at the O.K. Corral is perhaps the best-known gun battle in the highly publicized and cinematized history of the Wild West.