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单词 high concept
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Definition of high concept in US English:

high concept

adjective
  • (especially in a movie or television plot) emphasis on a striking and easily communicable idea.

    for mainstream media companies, the focus has shifted from high concept to hard cash
    as modifier a series of high-concept videos
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Our comedy today tends to be high-concept, slightly artsy, heavily ironical.
    • Aside from the high-concept premise, the film's plot is a throwaway, a rigidly routine story involving a Latin American drug lord and some high-powered weapons.
    • Sadly what follows is a meandering, hokey apocalyptic tale more befitting a Saturday morning of Hanna-Barbara cartoons than a high-concept, big-budget Hollywood movie.
    • Kiefer Sutherland stars in this high-concept piece of TV programming.
    • Kevin Orr admits that the Midsummer Night's Dream he has directed for this summer's Shakespeare-in-the-Park is rather high-concept.
    • Hustle begins outside a pub called The Red Herring, a none-too-subtle indication that all is not as it seems in the BBC's latest high-concept drama.
    • How many high-concept romantic comedies can one moviegoer take?
    • This production is also reaching for the top with a cutting-edge, high-concept set design.
    • To help keep the world interested, the whole thing could be filmed for an exciting high-concept reality TV show celebrating human tragedy in grand fashion.
    • It shouldn't be like this - there should be room for high ideas and art even in a high-concept movie, but it seems these days that few distributors are interested in releasing movies like this.
    • A high-concept, low-budget serial killer flick that knows it's got a hook worth hocking, and so does, relentlessly.
    • In the movie's satisfyingly high-concept plot, there is more at stake than a man's sense of self in a big city.
    • In fact, it is a full-size, extremely elegant, high-concept publication with a beautiful, clear design and impressive art and photographs.
    • The series itself was high-concept, even if its constituent videos sometimes were not.
    • He's a good filmmaker, but one thing is certain: no one will ever accuse Dowse's films of being too high-concept.
    • Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is a high-concept comedy about a wacky scientist who accidentally, well, shrinks his kids.
    • This is, as has been pointed out in the myriad good reviews the book's received, high-concept stuff.
    • Increasingly, hotels are high-concept temples to the urban lifestyle.
    • At first glance it has the hallmarks of a high-concept survivors drama but then, is it actually science-fiction?
    • Beginning with The Andromeda Strain in 1969, Hollywood has feasted for years on Crichton's best-selling novels and high-concept screenplays.
 
 

Definition of high concept in US English:

high concept

adjective
  • (especially in a movie or television plot) emphasis on a striking and easily communicable idea.

    for mainstream media companies, the focus has shifted from high concept to hard cash
    as modifier a series of high-concept videos
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Our comedy today tends to be high-concept, slightly artsy, heavily ironical.
    • Aside from the high-concept premise, the film's plot is a throwaway, a rigidly routine story involving a Latin American drug lord and some high-powered weapons.
    • Sadly what follows is a meandering, hokey apocalyptic tale more befitting a Saturday morning of Hanna-Barbara cartoons than a high-concept, big-budget Hollywood movie.
    • Kiefer Sutherland stars in this high-concept piece of TV programming.
    • Kevin Orr admits that the Midsummer Night's Dream he has directed for this summer's Shakespeare-in-the-Park is rather high-concept.
    • Hustle begins outside a pub called The Red Herring, a none-too-subtle indication that all is not as it seems in the BBC's latest high-concept drama.
    • How many high-concept romantic comedies can one moviegoer take?
    • This production is also reaching for the top with a cutting-edge, high-concept set design.
    • To help keep the world interested, the whole thing could be filmed for an exciting high-concept reality TV show celebrating human tragedy in grand fashion.
    • It shouldn't be like this - there should be room for high ideas and art even in a high-concept movie, but it seems these days that few distributors are interested in releasing movies like this.
    • A high-concept, low-budget serial killer flick that knows it's got a hook worth hocking, and so does, relentlessly.
    • In the movie's satisfyingly high-concept plot, there is more at stake than a man's sense of self in a big city.
    • In fact, it is a full-size, extremely elegant, high-concept publication with a beautiful, clear design and impressive art and photographs.
    • The series itself was high-concept, even if its constituent videos sometimes were not.
    • He's a good filmmaker, but one thing is certain: no one will ever accuse Dowse's films of being too high-concept.
    • Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is a high-concept comedy about a wacky scientist who accidentally, well, shrinks his kids.
    • This is, as has been pointed out in the myriad good reviews the book's received, high-concept stuff.
    • Increasingly, hotels are high-concept temples to the urban lifestyle.
    • At first glance it has the hallmarks of a high-concept survivors drama but then, is it actually science-fiction?
    • Beginning with The Andromeda Strain in 1969, Hollywood has feasted for years on Crichton's best-selling novels and high-concept screenplays.
 
 
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